Wednesday, September 15, 2021

DC Imam Teaches What the Taliban Teach About Jihad

No sooner has Joe Biden reminded us that Islam is a peaceful religion than a Washington, D.C.-area imam comes along to spoil the love fest.

Dr. Sulayman Ali Hassan preached a sermon recently at the Shahe Najaf Islamic Center in the D.C. suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, in which he makes it clear that jihad is an obligation on all Muslims and that it has a violent component.

Maybe Old Joe, being one of the world's foremost Islamic clerics, can drop by the Shahe Najaf Islamic Center sometime soon and explain to the good Dr. Hassan how he is misunderstanding Islam.

There are various types of jihad, including the jihad of the pen, that is, taking up intellectual arguments to defend Islam against detractors.

The problem is that it is the same argument that Islamic jihad groups, including al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban, make in order to justify their own violent actions.

The Taliban for years rallied Afghans to its cause by claiming that the American presence there constituted an attack upon a Muslim land, making jihad an individual obligation upon every Muslim.

Maybe Hassan would have an explanation of how his teaching is different from that of the jihad groups and be able to provide solid reassurance that his words won't inspire any jihad terrorists.
 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/09/14/as-biden-says-islam-is-peaceful-d-c-imam-calls-for-jihad-n1478681 

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