‘Go to Hell!’ Egypt Responds to French Call to Revise Koran

‘Go to Hell!’ Egypt Responds to French Call to Revise Koran

By Raymond Ibrahim May 3, 2018:

Recently I explained how, by Muslims’ own (inadvertent) logic, various Koran verses stand to be banned on the basis that they defame and incite violence against non-Muslims. Two days later, the French newspaper Le Monde published a letter signed by some 300 French public figures across party lines, including former president Nicolas Sarkozy. In it, they “ask that the verses of the Qur’an calling for the killing and punishment of Jews, Christians and unbelievers be obsoleted by theological authorities.”

Titled “Manifesto Against the New Anti-Semitism,” the signed letter focuses especially on the rise of Muslim violence against France’s Jewish minority:

French Jews are 25 times more likely to be attacked than their fellow Muslims. 10% of the Jewish citizens of Ile-de-France — that is to say about 50,000 people — were recently forced to move because they were no longer safe in some cities and because their children could not attend the schools of the Republic anymore. This is a low-noise ethnic cleansing …

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Of course, the notion that Muslims will willingly strike out certain verses from the Koran because they upset or threaten infidels is a nonstarter.

From a Muslim perspective, because the Koran is Allah’s word, it cannot be tampered with or altered in any way. If Sarkozy, et al made these claims in certain Muslim countries, they would either be incarcerated on blasphemy charges or killed outright.

But while more forthright Muslims base their rejection of the French call on this simple fact, those more skilled in “dialoguing” with the West follow a different strategy.

Enter Al Azhar. Located in Cairo and attached to the government of Egypt, it is the Muslim world’s most prestigious “university” (that is, madrassa) and regularly hosts — and engages in “dialogue” with — the likes of Barack Obama and Pope Francis. Responding to the French letter, the deputy chief of Al Azhar, Dr. ‘Abbas Shuman, said:

The call from 300 French persons to freeze verses in the Noble Koran, which they claim urges the killing of non-Muslims, is unjustifiable and unacceptable. (emphasis added)

And if that wasn’t clear enough, he exclaimed:

No to freezing one letter from the Koran — and those calling for it can go to hell!

As usual, however, whereas entities such as the Islamic State proudly embrace the fact that the Koran does call for enmity and violence directed against non-Muslims, Al Azhar went into apologetic mode:

For we have no verses that command the killing of others, unless they commit one of the crimes that do earn the death penalty, such as murder, or raising weapons against us. Nor are we responsible for those [e.g., ISIS] who do not correctly understand the verses, who take them at face value without referring to the tafasir [exegeses] of the ulema.

Perhaps he had forgotten Koran 9:29:

Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden [i.e., embrace sharia law], and who do not embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya [extortion money] with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued.

All authoritative exegeses see this verse as enshrining Islam’s “messianic” mission of subjugating infidels by force.

Not only is Allah’s command here rather straightforward in meaning, but for a millennium, Muslims executed it — and conquered some three-quarters of the original Western world in the process (as recounted in my new book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West).

It is only now, when Muslims are militarily/economically weaker than and vulnerable to the Western world, that claims that such verses don’t really mean what they say have become popular among Muslims.

Especially those involved in “dialogue” with the West.

I have an authoritative Arabic manual called Al-Tarbiya al-Jihadiya fi Daw’ al-Kitab wa al-Sunna (“The Jihadi Upbringing in Light of the Koran and Sunna”), written by Dr. Abd al-Aziz bin Nasir al-Jalil. After providing several proofs, he concludes that “jihad is when Muslims wage war on infidels, after having called on them to embrace Islam or at least pay tribute [jizya] and live in submission, and then they refuse.” In other words, Koran 9:29, as it is.

As for Al Azhar’s reliance on the ulema and their exegeses, the book contains terse summaries of the word “jihad” as defined by the four schools of Sunni jurisprudence, which have the final say as to how Islam — or in this case, jihad — is articulated:

• According to the Hanafis — the madhhab (school) Egypt follows — jihad is “extreme and strenuous warfare in the path of Allah, with one’s life, wealth, and tongue — a call to the true religion [Islam] and war to whoever refuses to accept it.”
• According to the Malikis, jihad is “when a Muslim fights an infidel [non-Muslim] in order that Allah’s word reigns supreme.”
• According to the Shafi’is, jihad is “fiercely fighting infidels.”
• And according to the austere Hanbalis, it is “fighting infidels.”

Needless to say, fighting infidels in the name of Islam leads to killing infidels — untold millions over the centuries — in the name of Islam, which is precisely what Al Azhar denies.

During his dissembling, Al Azhar’s Shuman went so far as to insist:

Those [French] who think that there are [Koran] verses calling for their killing are unaware that those are really verses of peace. All verses that call for fighting are done in the context of self-defense … and this is a principle that even those calling for the freezing of Koran verses do not dispute. For all religions confirm the right to self-defense.

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Michael Copeland

5 years ago

Thank you for exposing the duplicity of Al-Azhar, the highest authority in Sunni Islam.

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eKane Pegg

5 years ago

” Only a Sith deals in abolutes. ” -Obi Wan Kenobi. Funny how a little boy loving , coward homosexual , retard who said the seasons were caused by hell letting out excess heat (as opposed to the earths tilt as it orbits the sun ) can inspire such barbaric hatred and sexism through the ages. A spoof of star wars is need the prohet mohammed standing before his follower s “kill the kaffirs ,apes their disbelief is worse than murder “(from the surah ) and we could have Emporor Palpatine standing , smiling ” Good , good . Let the hate flow through you. “.

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Mahou Shoujo

5 years ago

The french are very little talk and no action whatsoever.

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Dennis

5 years ago

The irony is that Islam has already gone to hell. It is mired there. There Allah, that they believe wrote the language that is contained in the Koran, has set forth satanic verses. That they believe that their God could write such violent manifestations is proof that the words of their Koran were actually created by man to further man’s need for power and control over the people. Though I have no objection to being faithful and adopting a religion, I do find it repulsive if the religion concludes that it must dominate all others, and that all others are “apes and pigs.” Since Islam is already hell, inviting others to join them is the height of hypocrisy. With Islam, life is not and can never be a ‘bowl of cherries.”

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IzlamDownpressesHumanity

5 years ago

Reply to  Dennis

Sure islum can be a bowl of cherries, but just the pits.

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joanofark06

5 years ago

Here’s an idea for the muslims. If they changed their “religion” to ANY other one (there are many to choose from), then they can throw the koran in the trash. Problem solved.

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byronmullet

5 years ago

Islam is hell. If Muslims can’t change it, then it needs to join the Dustbin of History along with the Aztecs “religion” of sacrificing people to their Gods. Islam is incompatible with human rights, dignity, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s a no-brainer. The Quran commands Muslims to be criminals. They command us to become criminals with them or they will kill us! This is simple folks this isn’t rocket science. The Civilized world needs to put their big boy pants on and just tell Muslims their 1400 year long crime spree is over, done, ended… The End

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Mickey Oberman

5 years ago

To the French fools trying to be diplomatic with its Muslim offenders.
Are you not aware that the Muslims refer to their most holy, sacred, obscene,
fiction novel as IMMUTABLE?
That means at may never be altered under any circumstance.
That means that all the revolting atrocities committed in that disgusting book are to be believed and admired and emulated and copied by the followers of Islam.
That means that Both Islam and the Koran must cease to exist. They must vanish.
That means, thanks to your cowardice and cupidity, your country and its culture and history and people may very well vanish from this earth.

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tom

5 years ago

I love to see Islam’s apologists twisting themselves into human pretzels trying to explain away all the calls to violence in their bogus holy book, but to be fair, they really have no choice. Throw out the calls to violence and there’s nothing left.

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SemurJengkolMaknyus

5 years ago

are they (who propose koran revision) islamic scholars ???

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Keith1941

5 years ago

America saved the French butts twice….they can fix it this time. And while we’re at it, no more Marshall Plans for Germany. France and Germany are two of the countries who didn’t support sanctions again Iraq and Iran. Besides that, we’re broke.

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Keith1941

5 years ago

One more point: We’ll have to deal with the muslims the same way we did the Kamikazes in WW II.

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

Can the Quran be truly revised? Islam as a religion is very hostile towards any kind of change, however small.

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