Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Nasr, a scholar of Islamic law and graduate of Egypt’s Al Azhar University—regularly touted as the world’s most prestigious Islamic university—recently exposed his alma mater in a televised interview.
After being asked why Al Azhar, which is in the habit of denouncing secular thinkers as un-Islamic, refuses to denounce the Islamic State as un-Islamic, Sheikh Nasr said:
It can’t [condemn the Islamic State as un-Islamic]. The Islamic State is a byproduct of Al Azhar’s programs. So can Al Azhar denounce itself as un-Islamic? Al Azhar says there must be a caliphate and that it is an obligation for the Muslim world [to establish it]. Al Azhar teaches the law of apostasy and killing the apostate. Al Azhar is hostile towards religious minorities, and teaches things like not building churches, etc. Al Azhar upholds the institution of jizya [extracting tribute from religious minorities]. Al Azhar teaches stoning people. So can Al Azhar denounce itself as un-Islamic?
Nasr joins a growing chorus of critics of Al Azhar. Last September, while discussing how the Islamic State burns some of its victims alive—most notoriously, a Jordanian pilot—Egyptian journalist Yusuf al-Husayni remarked on his satellite program that “The Islamic State is only doing what Al Azhar teaches… and the simplest example is Ibn Kathir’s Beginning and End.”
Ibn Kathir is one of Sunni Islam’s most renowned scholars; his Beginning and End is a magisterial history of Islam and a staple at Al Azhar. It is also full of Muslims, beginning with Muhammad, committing the sorts of atrocities that the Islamic State and other Islamic organizations and persons commit.
In February, Egyptian political writer Dr. Khalid al-Montaser revealed that Al Azhar was encouraging enmity for non-Muslims, specifically Coptic Christians, and even inciting for their murder. Marveled Montaser:
Is it possible at this sensitive time — when murderous terrorists rest on texts and understandings of takfir [accusing Muslims of apostasy], murder, slaughter, and beheading — that Al Azhar magazine is offering free of charge a book whose latter half and every page — indeed every few lines — ends with “whoever disbelieves [non-Muslims] strike off his head”?
The prestigious Islamic university—which co-hosted U.S. President Obama’s 2009 “A New Beginning” speech—has even issued a free booklet dedicated to proving that Christianity is a “failed religion.”
In short, the phenomenon known as “ISIS” is not a temporal aberration within Islam but rather a byproduct of what is considered normative thinking for Al Azhar—the Islamic world’s most authoritative university.
The claim that “Christianity is a failed religion” is clearly borne out of jealousy. Even after 1400 years of progroms, domination and subjugation, Christianity is still the only religion larger than Islam. Islamists are angered by this fact. In fact they are projecting onto Christianity characteristics that are solely Islamic-namely the belief that Christianity has a “political” goal, as Islam does with Sharia Law. This is of course false.
If anything, it is clear that Allah has failed, since the Qur’an in many places claims it is a “clear book”. With “muslims” not just disagreeing with other “muslims” ad infinitum over the “true meaning” of their holy book, but killing each other on a regular basis, then clearly Allah has failed, ipso facto. This is not even an opinion, but a self-evident truth.
http://answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/clarity.html
Do ALL Christians agree with each other ????
The answer is clearly “no”, and I speak as an agnostic who was born into the Christian faith. The question of whether all followers of any particular faith agree with each other is not the point. The point is the obvious differences in what Jesus and Muhammad taught. Pretty obvious, I would have thought.
Muhammad taught to kill at will, on the other hand Jesus taught to love one another, got it??
definitely!!!
Just because more people believe it doesn’t make it real. The problem most religious people miss is that their abstract beliefs effect other peoples (who might not believe) actual concrete lives. And that’s not cool. Like if I decide that I believe in the purple boogie man and he doesn’t like people to live in houses. So now I go around burning down peoples homes because the purple boogie man told me its the right thing to do. Its crazy really. I know I know the purple boogie man is not real while the Jewish zombie who is his own dad in the sky is perfectly rational to believe.
Perhaps if you ever manage to step out of your incredibly bigoted ignorance (which you no doubt are very proud of, and consider them to be an indication of your supposed superiority), and examine the Christian faith, you wouldn’t be reduced to such utterly pathetic drivel.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead. He remained on earth 40 days before going to heaven. This was witnessed by 550 people. Read Acts in the Bible. If you knew anything about the Bible and how it inspired our Constitution, you would be amazed. Christianity isn’t a lie but Islam is.
What you choose to believe is your business, What you choose to do is everybody’s business. And it matters not a whit if you are a believer in blue-boogie or the matchbook god or any of the monotheistic religions or any other or none at all. It is what you do that counts. If what you do is extortion, or bullying, or rule by threat and murder, or any imposition, then you are accursed, If what you do is peaceful and affects people to have better lives while broadening their horizons and being open to new ideas, then you are blessed.
Islam is a fake religion made up by a fake prophet. Just read “The People vs Mohammed” which compiles the evidence for what I am saying. It should be outlawed.
No, outlawing merely provokes violent strife. What is needed is reinterpretations of Muslim Holy Writ to mean peaceful instead of violent things, and no impositions at all.