[ April 19, 2024 ]
A brief article just published at Al Jazeera offered an update to a film about “Islam in America” that appeared ten years ago. That attempt by Rageh Omaar to show the amazing “diversity” of Muslim life in America, from New York and Chicago to small towns in the West, and to trace — and backdate considerably — the history of Islam in America, focused on the outward and visible signs of “diversity.” Sunnis and Shi’a, Arabs and non-Arabs, non-Arabs of a dozen different ethnicities (Persian, Uighur, Malay, Filipino, Kurd, Turk, Bengali, Hausa, Fulani, and so on), women who wear hijabs, or burqas or niqabs, or who go uncovered. And the male Muslims, too, who were shown in the film were similarly various in their countries of origin, with different clothes (an Uzbek man will not dress like a Moroccan, nor a Saudi woman like a Tunisian), different styles of facial hair, even the length of their pants reflecting the fanaticism of their faith (the pants of Salafis extend only to the ankle). And of course the film dwelt lovingly on the dozens of different Muslim cuisines, from Indonesia to North Africa. Much is made of this “diversity,” which in the film is described in rapturous terms: it supposedly proves that “Islam is not a monolith.” And if “Islam is not a monolith,” then, we are supposed to believe, the Kuffars cannot criticize “all Muslims” or hold “Islam” responsible for this outrage or for that.
But what this voyage of discovery — “Islam In America” — left out, in its eagerness to show the great variety in dress, cuisine, mosque architecture, among Muslims in America, was the ideology of Islam. We are shown Muslims in prayer, but not told that the five daily prayers contain a cursing of the kuffars that is repeated 17 times a day. We learn nothing about the 109 Jihad verses (e.g., 9:5, 9:29, 47:4) that command Muslims to make war on Unbelievers, nothing about the verses that command Muslims to “strike terror” in the hearts of the Unbelievers, no mention of Muhammad’s famous remark that “I have been made victorious through terror.” There is nothing, either, about how Muslims are instructed not to take Jews or Christians as friends, for they are friends “only with each other.” Nothing about the doctrine of al‐wala’ wal‐bara’, which means “holding fast to all that is pleasing to Allah, and withdrawing from and opposing all that is displeasing to Allah; namely the Kuffar.” Nor did the film say anything about Believers being called in the Qur’an the “best of peoples” (3:110) and the Kuffar, or non-Muslims, described as the “most vile of creatures.” (98:6).
That film “Islam in America” never sank below the surface of things, with all its the different clothes, the varied cuisine, the manifold occupations, the differing occupations and professions, the variety of homes, and communities (and “here is Dearborn”) of all these cheerful goodhearted striving Muslims, who are as thoroughly American in their way, we are supposed to believe, as anyone else. No difficult questions are asked of them as, for example, what they think of the Constitution, and its First Amendment freedoms, such as that of speech, which permits what Muslims would certainly wish to punish as “blasphemy.” No questions as to whether Muslims must accept the man-made laws of the Kuffar, even where these flatly contradict Islamic principles, as set down in the Qur’an. No questions about the misogyny in Islam, and the proper role of Muslim women, and the power of a Muslim paterfamilias over his womenfolk. No questions about the treatment to be meted out to homosexuals.
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And “Islam in America” also failed to ask Muslims about the most important details of Muhammad’s biography, including the consummation of his marriage to little Aisha when she was nine years old. They might, for example, have been asked about what age they think it proper for a girl to be married. They were not asked, either, to comment on the assassinations of Asma bint Marwan, Abu ‘Afak, and Ka’b bin al-Ashraf by his followers, hoping to please the Perfect Man, nothing about how Muhammad took part in the daylong decapitation of 600-900 bound prisoners of the Banu Qurayza, nothing about the raid on the inoffensive Jewish farmers of the Khaybar Oasis, about the torture and murder of Kinana of Khaybar, ordered by Muhammad, nothing about Muhammad’s taking of the Jewish girl Saafiyah — whose father, husband, and brother he had had killed at Khaybar — as his sex slave and then wife.
Instead, in the film there is nothing to disturb Infidels, either about Qur’anic commands or the figure of Muhammad — nothing except, of course, the insistence that Muslims in America have been mistreated by islamophobic bigots. As for Islamic theology, we learn that Muslims are, just like Christians and Jews, monotheists, that Islam is an “Abrahamic” faith just like Judaism and Christianity, that Muslims revere Jesus and Mary (we are not told, however, that the Muslim Jesus and Mary are very different from their Christian originals — Jesus in Islam is only a prophet and not the Son of God; Mary, therefore, is not the mother of the Son of God). In the film there is much mention of the Five Pillars — Shahada (Profession of Faith), Salat (Five Daily Prayers), Sawm (daytime fasting during Ramadan), Zakat (Charity — but only to fellow Muslims, or to encourage those who are close to converting), Hajj (the once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca). There are also videos of people prostrate in prayer, displaying their devotion (with the lowest and the highest side by side), and sharing an Iftar dinner with friends and family. These are designed to leave Infidels, the intended audience of the film, with nothing but warm feelings toward Muslims. The jihad of warfare against Infidels was not mentioned. But jihad as an “interior struggle” was presented, described as the “greater Jihad,” as is written in a doubtful hadith. Nor was the status of “dhimmi” mentioned, though this lapse could be excused because the film was about “Islam in America,” where Islam’s writ does not yet run, and there are no “dhimmis” in the classic, Jizyah-paying sense.
In short, “Islam in America” left much to be desired. It is not a film that explains Islamic theology, but misrepresents it, and instead offers a gallimaufry showing various kinds of Muslims, all of them sympathetic sorts, behaving, in their rich variety and smiling goodwill, just as we would want them to behave. Nothing of significance is actually imparted, and yet the unwary audience of Infidels undoubtedly feels that viewing the film has been quite an education, dispelling so much unnecessary anxiety, and that they have learned — well, they can’t quite put into words exactly what they have learned of any significance, so let’s just say, to be charitable….a lot.
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32 Comments
6 years ago
yah, um, OK
6 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
… devout Monster worshippers 40/2 -> https://quran.com/5/38-40
1:20 “… I am a ‘terror’ist” https://quran.com/8/12-17 https://sunnah.com/bukhari/56/33-35
6 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
His expression is that of someone who just had their testicles lopped off.
6 years ago
“Is(s)lam in America” is like urin in drinking water … to genocidal, https://quran.com/3/141 -> https://quran.com/4/89 https://quran.com/9/5 https://quran.com/8/17
Thanks brave Pat Condell 🙂
6 years ago
Reply to
Thorsten
That’s an extremely good comparison, I wish I’d thought of it. 🙂
Congratulations on this gem and may I use it occasionally, when the situation warrants it?
Just a slight change here! Islam is like urine in drinking water, to make it more inclusive as all of our
friends like “inclusiveness”.
6 years ago
Islam has a connection with America, but not a favourable one.
It was because of Islamic depredations of land trade that Columbus was sponsored to look for an alternative sea route to the East.
The Marines were founded to defend the young USA’s ships from Islamic piracy – sea-borne jihad. Islam’s doctrine of jihad was the cause of the Barbary Wars.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Copeland
‘… And thanks to Jefferson, a new U.S. Navy was created to fight and win this war.’ http://dttj.blogspot.ch/2010/09/thomas-jeffersons-quran.html http://schnellmann.org/state-rep-womick-calls-for-purging-military-of-muslim-americans.html
6 years ago
Did they cover the Barbary pirates and the need for the Marines to wind leather around there neck for protection against beheading, i think not.
6 years ago
Reply to
Hans
Agree. That is why the world needs Trump.
As long as the Longest running Lie “Islam has nothing to with terrorism/jihad” continue the infiltration and stealth subversion will continue.
Its upto every patriot who wants to defend their country by sharing info like this http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
Trump is also first president to call out the pakis for looting $33 Billion in aid and fooling previous admins with bundle of lies!
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
FYI: The word that describes these POLITICAL TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM composed of individuals who act and behave as wretched BARBARIANS. The word should NEVER be capitalized. It is written “islam” due to its inappropriate use.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Hans
Hans: You are correct on both points. There is a song written for the Marines about this DEFENSIVE WAR against these muslem FOREIGN TERRORISTS. When asked WHY they are attacking American shipping; their reply was “allah tells us too”. “To wind leather around their necks for protection”; This is where the term “LEATHER NECKS” comes from relating to the Marines and American Troops who fought the islamists.
6 years ago
‘… I hope we will not see more victims like the artist Vilks with his Muhammed cartoons.’ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/sharia-scandal-in-sweden-are-blasphemy-laws-being-sneaked-into-the-swedish-justice-system http://schnellmann.org/pic_counterjihad/instil_terror_8-12_c.jpg
6 years ago
islam in America, chronicles of a turd as it circles the bowl.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Who’s counting? “99 midol pills in the bottle, 99 midol pills, swallow one down and what have you got… probably cabin fever, the snow is a bit deep.
Filled with remise remorsefulness…
99 midol pills in the bottle, 99 midol pills, swallow one down, pass the bottle around, everyone have another pill then swallow and count the pills that are still in the bottle.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
There you go again!! I leave for a lil while, come back and you’ve got me onna floor again!!!
6 years ago
Reply to
Pathfinder0100
We are going to have to get you one of those slings that has a system of counterbalances that allow whatever they are supporting to be raised and lowered easily. Or a nice 20 year old female therapist to help you up.
6 years ago
Supposedly Marty Bormann was very personable — as long as you didn’t criticise Hitler, Nazism or the Third Reich.
D
6 years ago
That was the exact playbook CAIR shared with my elementary school back in 1985 or 1986, coloring book and crayons included. Abrahamic religion just like Judaism and Christianity, monotheistic, muslims are just like us and do everything we do.
We now have 4 generations of people educated on this trash as fact, no wonder we have so many leftist libtards, they have been mentally retarded with disinformation/taqiyya.
6 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
WOW! How was the coloring book received by the school board with it’s images of pisslamists decapitating infidels, stoning, and FGM?
F- pisslam.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Dagonet
CAIR gave it out, wasn’t “school curriculum”, my parents tossed it but let me keep the crayons, and had a talk with the school principal that went nowhere.
6 years ago
Muslims have their six lies that are tenets of Islam, It is perfectly reasonably not to trust Muslims based on the fact that lying is categorized for Muslim’s convenience.
Your choice:
• Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
• Kitman: deceit by omission.
• Tawriya: deceit by ambiguity.
• Taysir: deceit through facilitation
(not having to observe all the tenets of Sharia).
• Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden).
• Muruna: the temporary suspension of Sharia in order that Muslim immigrants appear “moderate”.
6 years ago
Arabs of a dozen ethnicities doesn’t mean a F-ing thing. Diversity doesn’t exist when they’re all the same, and they ARE all the same, they’re pisslamists. They will fight for their splinter sect of pisslam. They will appear to do nothing when their fellow (sect) believers act out, they will cover for them, act with them, or secretly help them. Pisslam is war.
F- pisslam.
6 years ago
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse. But where the “point of departure” for my tastes comes is cuisine. My idea of a seven course dinner is a Wendy’s Baconator and a six pack.
D
6 years ago
Islam is a CULT not a RELIGION, the same as Charles Manson, Jim Jones, et al.
WAKE UP AMERICANS
6 years ago
Muslims are not nice ??♂️
