Saudi Arabia has sent many of its English-language Koran’s to Australia. They call for violent jihad – and they are placed in our airports.
Mark Durie has read them and reports in Quadrant:
Chief among the Saudis’ exported Qur’ans is an English language edition known as the Noble Qurʾān, which can be found in mosques, prayer rooms, and meeting places all around the world. Anyone who applies to the Saudi Embassy in Canberra will be sent a copy of this Qurʾān gratis…
As I write, the Noble Qurʾān can be found in the musallah or prayer room of Canberra’s airport. I have observed what is apparently the same edition of the Qurʾan, with ‘AIRPORT MUSALLAH’ written in black marker pen on the page ends, sitting there during past four years, ever since the new airport was built. The Noble Qurʾān is also publicly available in other ‘multi-faith’ spaces that have been springing up around institutions across Australia in recent years, in universities, hospitals and other public places…
The King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qurʾān in Medina has printed over one hundred million Qurʾans in 39 languages since it was established in 1985…
Some Muslims have proposed that the basic meaning of jihad is peaceful struggle. In contrast, the Noble Qurʾān defines jihad as waging war against non-Muslims to make Islām dominant in the world. This jihad is obligatory for all Muslims, and rejecting this obligation will lead to Hell fire.
This interpretation is made clear in the Glossary, where the entry for entry for jihad is: “Holy fighting in the Cause of Allāh or any other kind of effort to make Allāh’s Word (i.e. Islām) superior. Jihād is regarded as one of the fundamentals of Islam. See the footnote of (V.2:190) (p.873)”
The footnote referred to in the Glossary entry for jihad is a comment on Sura 2:190, ‘And fight in the Way of Allāh those who fight you…’ This footnote reads: “Al-Jihād (holy fighting) in Allāh’s Cause (with full force of numbers and weaponry) is given the utmost importance in Islām and is one of its pillars (on which it stands)… By abandoning Jihād (may Allāh protect us from that) Islām is destroyed …”
In its commentary on Sura 9:29 9p.248, fn 2) the Noble Qurʾān cites a tradition of Muhammad about the Jews, which states that ‘The Hour [i.e. the final hour] will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’” So, at the end, creation itself will cry out for Jewish blood. …
Furthermore, anyone who works to divide Muslims into different groups under different rulers should be killed, according to Muhammad, who is reported to have said, ‘When you all (Muslims) are united … and a man comes up to disintegrate you and separate you into different groups, then kill that man.’ (p.242, fn 1)…
There is not a Bible in print, anywhere in the world, Jewish or Christian, which contains such incendiary commentary as is found on page after page of the Noble Qurʾān. This is a book with which to start a war. The ideology it promotes is primed to light the fuse of violent jihad…
What should Australians make of the fact that the Saudis have been presenting an open and unashamed apology for violent jihad, even commending the practice of enslaving enemies, in our own backyard for years, and this not to show Islam in a poor light, but to glorify it?
Read it all. Durie also quotes passages in this Koran which the Islamic State cites as justification for taking sex slaves. Why is this book in our airports?
