“Traditional and even mainstream Islamic teaching accepts and promotes violence”

Just when you thought it would never happen: The notoriously clueless catch on:

In “The Trouble With Islam: Sadly, mainstream Muslim teaching accepts and promotes violence” in, of all places, Opinion Journal = Wall Street Journal (which is generally among the willfully clueless derided in this piece), Tawfik Hamid speaks truth to power:

…But indeed, there is much that is clearly wrong with the Islamic world. Women are stoned to death and undergo clitorectomies. Gays hang from the gallows under the approving eyes of the proponents of Shariah, the legal code of Islam. Sunni and Shia massacre each other daily in Iraq. Palestinian mothers teach 3-year-old boys and girls the ideal of martyrdom. One would expect the orthodox Islamic establishment to evade or dismiss these complaints, but less happily, the non-Muslim priests of enlightenment in the West have come, actively and passively, to the Islamists’ defense.

It is vital to grasp that traditional and even mainstream Islamic teaching accepts and promotes violence. Shariah, for example, allows apostates to be killed, permits beating women to discipline them, seeks to subjugate non-Muslims to Islam as dhimmis and justifies declaring war to do so. It exhorts good Muslims to exterminate the Jews before the “end of days.” The near deafening silence of the Muslim majority against these barbaric practices is evidence enough that there is something fundamentally wrong.

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Tolerance does not mean toleration of atrocities under the umbrella of relativism. It is time for all of us in the free world to face the reality of Salafi Islam or the reality of radical Islam will continue to face us.

Dr. Hamid, a onetime member of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamist terrorist group, is a medical doctor and Muslim reformer living in the West.

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2 thoughts on ““Traditional and even mainstream Islamic teaching accepts and promotes violence””

  1. Islam can be reformed – ofcourse it can, but any reformation that misses out on the Jihad ie the best bits, will not be accepted by the Muslim world.

    I wish Tawfik Hamid the very best in his endeavour. The sad fact is, that many reformers of Islam have come, and then very quickly gone, disappeared or just beheaded. If a Reformation were possible it would have been done long ago.

  2. That dirty cult for morons can’t be reformed, but it can be smashed, if more people in the world wake up

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