Save the Misunderstanders of Islam!

Save the Misunderstanders of Islam!
By Robert Spencer

Why don’t the leading Muslim groups in the United States care about Muslims?

It’s a serious question. Its urgency became clear yet again last week, when three more warriors of Allah got their just desserts: Tarek Mehanna, a young Muslim in Massachusetts, got seventeen and a half years in prison on Thursday for conspiring with jihadis to murder American soldiers in Iraq. The same day, Agron Hasbajrami, a Muslim who lives in Brooklyn, pled guilty to trying to aid terrorists and attempting to go to Pakistan to join them. And Jubair Ahmad, a twenty-four-year-old Muslim from Woodbridge, Virginia, was sentenced Friday to twelve years in prison for aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba, a jihad terrorist group in Pakistan. But these cases point up yet again an even larger problem: the denial and deception of Muslim spokesmen and organizations in the U.S.

Nowadays when fresh arrests, trials, guilty pleas and convictions of jihad terror plotters come down the pike, Muslim leaders and Islamic advocacy groups like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) don’t even bother to issue condemnations. They don’t have to. After over ten years of constant propaganda from the mainstream media, government and law enforcement about how Islam is religion of peace and how anyone who commits violence in its name is misunderstanding and misusing its basic tenets, most Americans take for granted, if they hear about the likes of Tarek Mehanna, Jubair Ahmad and Agron Hasbajrami at all, that they are not true Muslims.

It is immediately assumed that the major Muslim organizations in this country, and all prominent Muslim public figures, reject and abhor the actions of any Muslim who commits violence in the name of Islam. Indeed, even now, over ten years after September 11, most Americans assume that the Qur’an teaches peace, and that if it contains any violent passages at all, well, so does the Bible. It is an official U.S. Government dogma, not to be questioned on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” that any Muslim who invokes the violent passages of the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad’s battles to justify terrorism today is misinterpreting all that material, and that jihad terrorists worldwide are not really inspired by the Qur’an and Sunnah as they claim to be, but are driven to violence by poverty, racism, or “Islamophobia.”

This means that Tarek Mehanna, Agron Hasbajrami and Jubair Ahmad, and so many others like them, drastically misunderstand the religion to which they have dedicated their lives. Very well. If our present political and media elites force us to believe that Islam is a religion of peace, in the teeth of the evidence of the Qur’an and Sunnah, the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, and the statements of countless imams around the world throughout history and today, then we have every right to call upon America’s Muslim advocacy groups to act upon these beliefs as well. If Mehanna, Hasbajrami and Ahmad really misunderstand Islam, Hamas-linked CAIR, which professes to be an advocacy group protecting U.S. Muslims, should care.

CAIR would show this concern by trying to keep more young Muslims in the U.S. from misunderstanding Islam the way Ahmad, Hasbajrami and Mehanna did.

But in reality, they demonstrate with every new jihad plot that they don’t really believe that Islam is a religion of peace at all, despite their claims to do so and vilification of anyone who dares suggest otherwise. All this misunderstanding of Islam is sending young Muslims to jail, and yet Muslim leaders and groups are doing nothing to keep more young Muslims from getting locked up. One would think that they would be more proactive in teaching against the misunderstandings of Islamic doctrine to which Mehanna, Ahmad and Hasbajrami succumbed. Yet there is nary a program in any mosque in the U.S. to teach against the jihadist understanding of the Qur'an and Sunnah.

This is a fact to ponder. If Islam is a religion of peace and jihad terrorism is a misuse of its doctrine, then it is inexplicable. Why wouldn’t groups who profess to reject a doctrine that is leading so many of its young believers into crime teach against that doctrine and try to stop its spread within their communities? The fact that they don’t, however, indicates that they know, despite their public protestations, that Islam doesn’t actually teach peace at all, and that those who do violence in its name aren’t really misunderstanding its tenets.

It is long past time to call their bluff, and ask the leaders of Hamas-linked CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood groups in the U.S. why they have no compassion for poor misled Muslims like Jubair Ahmed, Agron Hasbajrami and Tarek Mehanna. Why don’t they do anything to save the Misunderstanders of Islam?

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book, Did Muhammad Exist?, will be available April 23.

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Jeff

12 years ago

The biggest mistake everyone’s been making to fight against Islam is to treat it like a religion. Its not .
What is needed is to take a public hearing/investigation into “Radicalisation
of Islam in America” to its logical end by
exposing the fact that the koran , hadiths , sunna preach hatred against all non-muslims, call for overthrow of societies by replacing it with sharia and subjugation of rights of non-muslims.
Based on these facts and given the real and historical evidences , Islam should
be declared a fasicts Idealogy and banned from USA like naZism….just like in saudi other religions are banned.
Deny citizenship , voting and social benefits to all muslims as long as they remain so. Those who want these rights must reject , denounce & leave islam in writing permanently.
Or they can leave USA.
Every musllm found indulging in violence should be deported along with their
supporters including their lawyers. If no lawyer is found they can get one from
overseas for the trial and the lawyer leaves after the trial.
When you make the cost of following Islam high enough then you’ll begin to see a reduction in this menace & better future for the society and country.
No other way.
Islam is social cancer. The early you diagnose and treat it the better the chance
of survivability of the society it infests.

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Famously Unknown

12 years ago

Reading this article, all the more REASON FOR being Islammetusic [metus**Latin for rational fear] — rationally fearful of Islam as practiced by the Islamists and their Muslim and non-Muslim fellow travelers.
What percentage of ‘Muslim moderates’ have publicly protested the murders and maimings by Islamists, and how many mosque attendess have ejected their murder-minded Imams and other leaders?

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David Howard

12 years ago

Pamela, please give Robert a spelling lesson. He seems to have difficulty with the word “piece.”
He keeps spelling it “peace” in the above article. I’m sure you can help him.

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Jamadagnii

12 years ago

IOW — put some concern for America in their American Islamic relations and institute anti-jihad programs in every mosque, as well as teaching the importance of separation of mosque and state and obeying the laws of the land.

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Peter Fogel

12 years ago

Do you really believe the so called muslim moderates want to be saved? I doubt it very seriously and their never ending compliance, submission and resignation that they are unable to or in most cases unwilling to cause any change in this medieval ideology. The few and far between muslims willing to speak out suffer retribution at the hands of the jihadis, imams and their followers.
The only option is to continue fighting and showing the true face of this so called religion. Eventually it will seep into the minds of the deaf, dumb and blind progressive liberal and politically correct multiculturalists. When the jihadis start killing them off one by one when they are are no longer useful to them they might wake up but by then it’ll be to late.

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