Anjem Choudary: "Jesus Christ would have been locked up in prison"

 By Ben Goldby/Midlands News

“IF JESUS were alive today, he would be behind bars”, Muslim extremists are claiming.

Pali “freedom fighter”? Mujahid fi sabil Allah?

Robert Spencer comments:

Why would he be locked up? Because, according to Muslims, “Jesus was indeed a Muslim and like the Muslims today [such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, Mullah Omar, et. al.], called mankind to obey the law of God [sharia] as opposed to the law of man.” In other words, he would have been an Islamic terrorist, out to overthrow “man-made” governments and zealously establishing sharia courts around the world. Well, that certainly does not sound like the Jesus of the Gospels — the one who said “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s [physical world], and unto God what is God’s [spiritual world].” Ah, but Muslims don’t believe Jesus said that in the first place; such are man-made interpolations and machinations introduced to distort the Bible — hence the need for the Koran, “Allah’s uncorrupted word.” So, no, Jesus would not have been a sharia-enforcing jihadist. Isa, on the other hand — Islam’s name for “Jesus” — would.

“Muslim extremists claim Jesus Christ would have been locked up in prison,” by Ben Goldby for the Sunday Mercury,

A post on Islam4uk.com claims that the Son of God would be locked up under anti-terror laws, and would have been extradited to Palestine by the British government.

*  The danger stems from the totalitarian conception of the world…

Last night Bishop Joe Aldred, chairman of Birmingham’s Council of Black Led Churches, described the rant as “political opportunism” and urged communities to work together against extremism.

* Anjem Chaudrey demonstrates a  ‘blasphemous disregard for all that is sacred to the civilised world’- the passion for murder deeply rooted in his blood, the lack of logic, the easily inflamed brains, the boasting, an indigestible cocktail of headbanger nonsense, the obligatory hatred from the Koran, half-witted rubbish mixed with falsehood, distortion and projection. Koranimals like Anjem Chaudary can’t help themselves: but one thing you can be sure of: he is a good Muslim, hellbent on bringing you the sharia, whether you want it or not…. 

The radical website is run by Anjem Choudary, aged 41, the former UK head of banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, and is popular with young Muslims in the Midlands.

Choudary, who once called for the Pope to be assassinated, was secretly filmed at an Alum Rock youth centre in February, preaching hatred against “unbelievers” and calling for violent Sharia law to be introduced on the streets of Birmingham.

At the bottom of the rant on the website, Choudary encourages readers to get in touch with him, and even leaves his mobile phone number.

The message, posted just days before Christmas, says: “We can envisage that if alive in the UK today, Jesus would undoubtedly have supported the struggle of the indigenous people in Afghanistan and Iraq, as opposed to the capitalist driven US-led alliance.

“As such, and being a Syrian or Palestinian refugee in the UK, he would also have been subjected to a loyalty and allegiance test to ensure that he put Britain and its Prime Minister Brown before God. He would also have been, no doubt, interned under Britain’s new terrorism laws.

“Or maybe he would have been kidnapped by MI5 or Special Branch to be flown on one of their notorious rendition flights, then held hostage and tortured like so many other Muslims in Guantanamo Bay.”

Radical preacher Choudary was a central figure in al-Muhajiroun, which was established by his Islamist mentor Sheikh Omar Bakri.

Earlier this year the Sunday Mercury exposed secret footage of a speech Bakri made calling for the beheading of British servicemen, which is thought to have inspired last year’s terror plot in Birmingham.

The website goes on to claim that Jesus was a Muslim and would have been branded a radical by the British government.

“Jesus was indeed a Muslim and like the Muslims today, called mankind to obey the law of God as opposed to the law of man,” it reads.

“Just as the Muslims in the UK insist that their allegiance is to God alone, similarly Jesus asked his people to obey his Lord as opposed to weak men like Gordon Brown and George Bush, who follow nothing but their own whims and desires.”

Bishop Aldred said he believed religious groups could not be divided by radicals.

“I am immensely proud that here in Birmingham I work with colleagues who are leaders of all the major faiths present in this city,” he said. “We get along in honest friendliness, and encourage our followers to do the same.

“Simply by being people of faith, we have more in common than what divides us. And there is so much that we can achieve in cooperation with one another than we ever could in perennial antagonism.

“We must never give in to political opportunism masquerading as religious truth, from wherever it comes.”

Hugh Fitzgerald already saw this kind of thing as the worst case of projection there is, way back in December 2006:

“What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?”

— remark by a local “Palestinian” Arab in the article above

That’s easy.

Mary, Joseph, and the baby they are about to have are all, of course, Jewish. And if the Virgin Mary (presumably with Joseph) were to arrive in Bethlehem today, and arrived without the IDF around them, in a place now controlled by the kind of Palestinian Muslim Arabs who are there now, they would be killed on the spot.

Someone among the killers would think to cut the baby out of Mary, and raise him, the baby Jesus, as a Palestinian Arab and good Muslim. And come think of think of it, that is exactly what Islam does when it appropriates, and changes, the Jesus of Christianity for the Jesus of Islam, about which Karen Armstrong is such an enthusiast.

That’s what would happen if a Jewish girl, the Virgin Mary, arrived nine months pregnant, and with labor pains beginning, anywhere that “Palestinian Arabs” were free to do what they do to any Israeli who happens to wander or stumble or arrive, unprotected, in their midst today. And if you need evidence for that, start with those Israeli hitchhikers, or those two reservists who took a wrong turn into Ramallah and were lynched, or those four little girls sitting in their car, methodically shot to death, one by one, by the brave hero of the “Palestinian resistance.”

Johann Hari has it wrong. I have it right.

Posted by: Hugh  at December 24, 2006 8:43 AM

 

Have a merry jihad-enabling Christmas

The despicable cartoon above comes from a Christmas cardavailable from War On Want, a Leftist group that describes itself as fighting poverty “in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. We campaign for workers’ rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.” (Thanks to Jerusalem Posts.)

Root causes. Sure. Except for the jihad ideology, which is not on these people’s radar screen. The description of this card says:

The town of Bethlehem is effectively sealed off from the outside world by Israel’s Separation Wall and a state-of-the-art military checkpoint, exacerbating the devastation to the life and economy of its Palestinian inhabitants after years of violence.An end to violence in the Middle East means constructing bridges, not walls.

 

My colleague and friend Hugh Fitzgerald, Jihad Watch Board Vice President, said it best this morning in connection with another example of this particular stupidity:

“What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?” — remark by a local “Palestinian” Arab in the article aboveThat’s easy.

Mary, Joseph, and the baby they are about to have are all, of course, Jewish. And if the Virgin Mary (presumably with Joseph) were to arrive in Bethlehem today, and arrived without the IDF around them, in a place now controlled by the kind of Palestinian Muslim Arabs who are there now, they would be killed on the spot.

Someone among the killers would think to cut the baby out of Mary, and raise him, the baby Jesus, as a Palestinian Arab and good Muslim. And come to think of it, that is exactly what Islam does when it appropriates, and changes, the Jesus of Christianity for the Jesus of Islam, about which Karen Armstrong is such an enthusiast.

That’s what would happen if a Jewish girl, the Virgin Mary, arrived nine months pregnant, and with labor pains beginning, anywhere that “Palestinian Arabs” were free to do what they do to any Israeli who happens to wander or stumble or arrive, unprotected, in their midst today. And if you need evidence for that, start with any number of Israeli hitchhikers picked up and murdered, or those two Israeli boys beaten to death in a cave, or those two Israeli reservists who took a wrong turn into Ramallah and were lynched, as those who killed them and gouged out their eyes held up their bloody hands to a crowd below hysterical with its own happiness and hate, or those four little Jewish girls sitting in their car, methodically shot to death, one by one, by one more brave hero — hailed as a hero, held up as a model — of the “Palestinian resistance.”

Posted at December 24, 2006 5:47 PM

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