“Ecumenical” Turkish Islam: Billboards Feature Koranic Verse (5:51) Admonishing Muslims Not To Befriend Jews And Christians

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Billboards belonging to the traditionalist Muslim Justice and Development Party (AKP) municipality are on public display in Konya, central Turkey, featuring the verbatim text of Koran 5:51 (in accurate Turkish translation). Accompanied by the image of a blood-splattered cross, and star of David, the text simply re-states Koran 5:51:

O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya’ (friends, protectors, helpers, etc.), they are but Auliya’ to one another. And if any amongst you takes them as Auliya’, then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allah guides not those people who are the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong­doers and unjust).

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Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai was (d. 1981) a towering modern Muslim religious scholar and philosopher, dubbed a “theosopher.” Allameh [Allamah] Tabatabaei [Tabatabai] University, named in honor of this celebrated authority and “theosopher,” is the largest specialized state social sciences university in Iran and the Middle East, with 17000 students and 500 full-time faculty members. Affirming his continued lofty stature, and relevance, an Iranian national conference was held on May 3, 2012, in Qom, dedicated to “recognizing the interpretative methods and principles used by Allameh [Allamah] Tabatabaee [Tabatabai] in [his Koranic] exegesis.” Tabatabai’s al-Mizān fi tafsir al-Qurʾān “The measure of balance/justly held scales in the interpretation of the Quran,” a 21-volume Arabic opus, is regarded as the most important contemporary Shiite Koranic commentary, and one of the seminal Koranic commentaries of the contemporary era, Sunni, or Shiite.

What follows is Tabatabai’s authoritative gloss on Koran 5:51, which is entirely consistent with the corpus of classical (here; here) and modern (here) Sunni exegeses on this verse:

In a nutshell, Allah warns the believers against taking the Jews and Christians for friends, and threatens them most severely; then points in an apocalyptical way where such friendship was to take them and how it would turn into ruins the magnificent structure of (Islamic) religious character…the clause, “do not take the Jews and Christians for awliya” (friends; protectors), clearly forbids loving them or having any affection towards them; because such feelings pull the souls and spirits toward each other and it creates mutual moral effects on both sides; and if Muslims are influenced by un-Islamic behavior, their society will diverge from its religious way –which is based on the felicity of following the truth—to the way of unbelief—which is based on following low desires and of worshipping Satan

These billboards inculcating “sacralized” Islamic hatred of Jews and Christians in Turkey will likely continue to bear ugly fruit, manifest in Turkey’s ongoing brutal Christian persecution, and virulent Antisemitism, which have relegated both communities to their traditional humiliateddhimmi status.”

 

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

In Turkey Christians may not sound church bells and Jews may not publicly sound the shofar, but the adhan bleats out its death knell 5 times a day every day of the week. To repair any religious buildings (or build new ones) requires special permits in Turkey and getting such permits for synagogues and churches is usually problematic, but not for mosques.

Nessie
Nessie
4 years ago

Among the first steps of a psychopath is to isolate his victim(s), preferably with little resistance. Muhammad was wise enough to know that if Muslims would talk to and listen to and trust non-Muslims, they would become enlightened. His whole scheme would have failed. The Islamists perfected his techniques and use them to abuse those who are subservient to them, and those who are not.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  Nessie

Without the death threat of, Apostasy, islam would not exist today!

Nessie
Nessie
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Right – that and blasphemy. Right now cartoonist, previously known as Molly Norris, is in hiding due to death threats against her and taking the advice of the FBI. About ten years ago she drew a teacup, domino, etc and called them Muhammad, to exercise her free speech. When CNN reported this (still view-able), they blotted out the images of the teacup, domino, box pasta, etc. If it weren’t so dangerous and dire, it would be hilarious that we’ve submitted to not displaying a teacup that has been identified as Muhammad. I totally recommend Pamela Geller’s Cant’ We Talk About This, film.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  Nessie

islam is a mental disease.

Nessie
Nessie
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Nicolai Sennels wrote, “How Islam Created Sociopaths.” The set of laws and ritual methodology concocted by a really bad man does lead to mental problems . Islam harms those who practice and those who don’t.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

so the koran is wacist?

Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

you spoke the truth about Koran ?! OMG ! now wait for koranimals to come after you for being Anti-muslim !

They are equal opportunity killers.

They don’t even spare christian aid workers in America who help settle them http://bit.ly/2rr9tGh

No other immigrant groups are so ungrateful as Illegals/jihadis.

VTS
VTS
4 years ago

We don’t need to curse Mooslims, God has already done that, just look at their intolerant, violent and hate driven societies.

LeslieFish
LeslieFish
4 years ago

Well, that tears it. Turkey is no ally of the US, and we should stop treating it as such. Tighten up the sanctions, throw Turkey out of NATO, cut off all allegiances, and use those US military bases in Turkey the way we now use the port in Guantanamo Bay.

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