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Islam’s greatest university clutches pearls when archbishop says Muslims are ‘people of war<\/a>‘<\/p>\n

Al Azhar, the Muslim world’s most prestigious if not authoritative Islamic university, recently blasted Jerome,\u00a0the archbishop of Athens and all Greece, for saying during a January 14\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n

“Islam, its people, is not a religion but a political party” \u2014 that Muslims are “the people of war … who seek expansion,” which is a “characteristic of Islam.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead of replying with outrage and accusations of “Islamophobia” \u2014 as Turkey and other nations did, on January 19, the Observatory, a branch of Al Azhar,\u00a0denounced<\/a>\u00a0“these irresponsible statements by the archbishop of Athens,” adding that they are “merely farcical and empty claims \u2014 trivialities unworthy of responding to or discussing.”<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0\u00a0Because, continued Al Azhar, “Islam is the final, heavenly message that Allah Almighty sent to our master Muhammad, the seal of the prophets and apostles, to bring humanity from out of the darkness and clutches of ignorance and into the light of truth and the sun of guidance.”<\/p>\n

To anyone unconvinced by this hagiographic explanation, Al Azhar continued:<\/p>\n

Accusing Muslims of being people of war and expansion is a pure lie \u2014 a fraud and falsification of Muslim history, which is replete with forgiveness and pardon[.] … The Prophet’s invasions were either in defense of Muslims or to discipline those who reneged on their pacts[.] … [Islamic history] is inconsistent with the claim that Muslims want to expand!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, the only thing consistent here is Al Azhar’s denial of the militant, expansionist history of Islam.\u00a0\u00a0For example, on April 30, 2020, during his televised program, which is watched by millions in Egypt and the Arab world, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb \u2014 Al Azhar’s grand imam and Pope Francis’s\u00a0close ally<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 declared that “Islam doesn’t seek war or bloodshed, and Muslims only fight back to defend themselves.”<\/p>\n

This somewhat surreal claim was even the grand conclusion reached at \u2014 and therefore making a mockery of \u2014 a recent\u00a0mega-conference<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to finding solutions to “extremism.”\u00a0\u00a0Hosted in Egypt by Al Azhar, and attended by leading representatives from 46 Muslim nations, al-Tayeb capped off the two-day conference by again\u00a0declaring<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Jihad in Islam is not synonymous with fighting; rather, the fighting practiced by Prophet Muhammad and his companions is one of its types; and it is to ward off the aggression of the aggressors against Muslims, as opposed to killing those who offend in [matters of] religion, as the extremists claim.\u00a0\u00a0The established sharia rule in Islam bans antagonism for those who oppose the religion.\u00a0\u00a0Fighting them is forbidden \u2014 as long as they do not fight Muslims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Needless to say, such claims fly in the face of more than a\u00a0millennium of well documented Islamic history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Beginning with Muhammad \u2014 whose later wars were hardly defensive, but rather raids meant to empower and aggrandize himself and his followers over non-Muslims \u2014 and under the first “righteous” caliphs and virtually all subsequent sultans and rulers, jihad consisted of “inviting” neighboring non-Muslims to embrace Islam or at the very least submit themselves to its political authority (as second-class dhimmis); if non-Muslims refused, as they almost always did, if they insisted on maintaining their own religious identity and freedom from Islam, then jihad was proclaimed, the non-Muslims’ lands were invaded, and the aftermath looked like an ISIS setting, with pyramids of heads, burned churches and other temples of worship, and slave markets of women and children littering the landscape.<\/p>\n

One need only look at\u00a0\u00a0a map of the Muslim world today and realize that the vast majority of it \u2014 all of the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, Central Asia, as far east as Pakistan and farther \u2014 was taken by violent conquest in the name of jihad.\u00a0\u00a0There is nothing “defensive” about that.<\/p>\n

Indeed, within the context of his interview, Archbishop Jerome’s words were especially accurate, for he was discussing the Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453.\u00a0\u00a0As with the aforementioned Muslim conquests preceding it, the only reason it was attacked and its citizens\u00a0treated in mind-boggling ways<\/a>\u00a0is because it refused to submit to Islam, preferring to remain Christian, as it had been for over a thousand years.<\/p>\n

In short, the history and subsequent expansion of Islam is almost entirely\u00a0based on violent conquest, or jihad<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Anyone who denies that \u2014 and that goes for the Muslim world’s most authoritative prestigious institution, Al Azhar \u2014 is the one making “farcical and empty claims \u2014 trivialities unworthy of responding to or discussing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islam’s greatest university clutches pearls when archbishop says Muslims are ‘people of war‘ Al Azhar, the Muslim world’s most prestigious if not authoritative Islamic university, recently blasted Jerome,\u00a0the archbishop of Athens and all Greece, for saying during a January 14\u00a0interview\u00a0that: “Islam, its people, is not a religion but a political party” \u2014 that Muslims are … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64303,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64301\/revisions\/64303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}