Taqiyya is the requirement that a Muslim lie if feeling threatened or if his religion is to be found out. Thus Mohamed Azahaf's hiring as a moderate Muslim by the East Amsterdam district to facilitate "bridge-building" and "interfaith dialogue" was based in taqiyya, as his past statements clearly show.
First he says that women were not proper Muslims unless covered with a burqa, and his death fatwas against those who question Islam show him to be not the tolerant Muslim he presented himself to be. His claim that he doesn't feel that way now smacks of dishonesty, as you will read in the following article.
From Pajamas Media June 17 by Bary Rubin
First he says that women were not proper Muslims unless covered with a burqa, and his death fatwas against those who question Islam show him to be not the tolerant Muslim he presented himself to be. His claim that he doesn't feel that way now smacks of dishonesty, as you will read in the following article.
From Pajamas Media June 17 by Bary Rubin
Mohamed Azahaf, a 28-year-old immigrant from Morocco, was hired by the east Amsterdam district to build trust between Muslims and non-Muslims there. But a journalist did some careful research to discover he’s a supporter of Usama bin Ladin, said Muslim women who didn’t wear “proper” clothing weren’t real Muslims, and even issued death threats against those criticizing Islamic doctrine.
By Western standards, that makes him a moderate.
His response? Only after this was exposed publicly did he claim his remarks–never changed by him until that moment–didn’t represent his current views. The district council’s response? To defend him, though it’s starting to get worried.
But here’s the best part: After the murder of Theo Van Gogh, the filmmaker, by a radical Islamist, Holland’s queen met with several Muslims who supposedly represented the “real” views of the community opposing such violence. Azahaf was one of them. However, apparently she and everyone else didn’t know that Azahaf had already written that he supported the murder!
How typical is this kind of situation all over Europe and North America: honoring or even paying money to revolutionary Islamists to spread their movement on the false assumption that they are fighting against it.
And if someone points this out, at best they are ignored; at worst, he is subjected to insults and intimidation.
Among the main victims of this ridiculous situation are truly moderate Muslims who are, at best, also ignored and, at worst, are also subjected to insults and intimidation.
By Western standards, that makes him a moderate.
His response? Only after this was exposed publicly did he claim his remarks–never changed by him until that moment–didn’t represent his current views. The district council’s response? To defend him, though it’s starting to get worried.
But here’s the best part: After the murder of Theo Van Gogh, the filmmaker, by a radical Islamist, Holland’s queen met with several Muslims who supposedly represented the “real” views of the community opposing such violence. Azahaf was one of them. However, apparently she and everyone else didn’t know that Azahaf had already written that he supported the murder!
How typical is this kind of situation all over Europe and North America: honoring or even paying money to revolutionary Islamists to spread their movement on the false assumption that they are fighting against it.
And if someone points this out, at best they are ignored; at worst, he is subjected to insults and intimidation.
Among the main victims of this ridiculous situation are truly moderate Muslims who are, at best, also ignored and, at worst, are also subjected to insults and intimidation.
2 comments:
It's possible that his views really have changed. It happens.
Oooohhh sure, his views have changed. Most folks who make death threats and call for the murder of people they simply disagree with change their minds, eventually...
Especially when it becomes public knowledge that they supported the murder of the person who was killed!
It's kind of like the guy who is in prison for murdering a family of 6. As he sits on death row contemplating his impending execution, he waxes eloquently on the sanctity of human life and the Evil being perpetrated by the State in calling for his death. He writes beautiful poetry, he has 14,000 Facebook fans, he posts short but gut wrenching, meaningful messages on Twitter, he reads the Bible, and he even says that if he got out of prison he would like to work with children! The clincher comes when the convict states (and they almost always state), "If only I could go back, I would never have done this". Ah yes, our guy is repentant and truly a changed man.
It may seem a teensy bit cynical but these violent sociopaths never change BEFORE the horrific crime is committed and BEFORE they have been caught and sentenced to death. Neither do terrorists come out publicly denouncing their hateful, murderous ideology BEFORE the police or the media discover their involvement or complicity in the crime.
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