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Arab press blasts Islamic State militants for tarnishing Muslims worldwide
[FOXNEWS] A growing chorus of top Moslem leaders and Arab pundits around the world are strongly condemning the "cancerous" actions of bully boy Islamic State hard boys, saying the ruthless group's horrific campaign of murder in Iraq does serious harm to all Islam.In the past, Moslem leaders have faced criticism from inside and outside the religion for being slow to condemn terrorism in the name of Islam. An editorial in the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi last month called on moderate Moslems to denounce the actions of the group formerly known as ISIS, which has killed thousands and left an estimated 1.5 million people displaced in northern Iraq. "All we have to do to understand the high price that Moslems pay on all levels [for such actions] is to see how Westerners snatch up [such reports on] ISIS's conquests, invasions and despicable actions, and share them on social media in order to tarnish the image of Islam," the July 24 editorial read. "We haven't heard one single voice in the camp of moderate Islam condemning taking women prisoner or expropriating peaceful citizens' property and money for ISI in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , or any who distanced themselves from the shocking fatwas that seem to be carefully formulated for [maximum] service to the enemy." The actions of the extreme murderous Moslems threatens "not only Christians or Iraq," but serves as a warning about the potential elimination of the region's ethnic and religious minorities, the editorial continued. "Therefore, an Arab position that attempts to downplay the dangers of the cancerous spread of terrorist organizations in the region � in order to serve the political agendas will actually be an accessory to the crimes against humanity, and will morally legitimize criminals who have lost any vestige of their humanity," it read. S'ad Al-Din Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activist, likened the group to "neo-Nazis" who terrorized Christians, Iraq's "smallest and weakest" community.
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... gave them two days to [either] embrace Islam, leave without any of their property, or be killed and wiped out," Ibrahim wrote in the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Yawm. "Had Islam's greatest enemies wanted to harm its [reputation] amongst all of mankind, they would not have succeeded like this savage, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has succeeded." Columnist Ahmad Al-Sarraf took a more sarcastic approach against the hard boy group in his take in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, calling on all Christians in the region to flee immediately so Moslems can "turn to killing" each other. "Get out of our hair! Go, all of you! We hate you and do not want to see you among us," Al-Sarraf wrote. "We are tired of progress, civilization, openness, tolerance, love, brotherhood, coexistence and leniency � Leave, we have nothing in common. Go!" On Friday, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... sought to build a unified front against the hard boys. Several EU nations pledged additional humanitarian aid and raised the possibility of directly arming Kurdish fighters battling Sunni holy warriors. "First of all we need to make sure that we alleviate humanitarian suffering," Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans told news hounds following an emergency meeting of the bloc's 28 foreign ministers in Brussels. "Secondly, I believe we need to make sure that IS is not in a position to overrun the Kurds or to take a stronger hold on Iraq."
"These are crises ... that are of concern to our European neighborhood, to our security and stability," said Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini. Earlier this week, Egypt's top religious authority also condemned Islamic State, characterizing it as a corrupt organization severely damaging Islam. "An bully boy and bloody group such as this poses a danger to Islam and Moslems, tarnishing its image as well as shedding blood and spreading corruption," Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam said, according to state news agency MENA. The grand mufti's view represents the opinion of Al Azhar, one of the world's oldest seats of Moslem learning, which influences the opinions of Moslems worldwide, Al Arabiya reports. The largest Moslem civil rights organization in the United States has also rebuked the murderous Moslems and repudiated those who encourage Americans and others to join bully boy groups. "American Moslems view the actions of ISIS as un-Islamic and morally repugnant," the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... said in a statement earlier this month. "No religion condones the murder of civilians, the beheading of religious scholars or the desecration of houses of worship. We condemn the actions of ISIS and reject its assertion that all Moslems are required to pay allegiance to its leader."
Posted by: Fred 2014-08-16 |
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