Source: WSJ via Wasim Sr
By AYAAN HIRSI ALI
I’ve seen this before. A Muslim terrorist slays a non-Muslim citizen in the West, and representatives of the Muslim community rush to dissociate themselves and their faith from the horror. After British soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death last week in Woolwich in south London, Julie Siddiqi, representing the Islamic Society of Britain, quickly stepped before the microphones to attest that all good Muslims were “sickened” by the attack, “just like everyone else.”
This happens every time. Muslim men wearing suits and ties, or women wearing stylish headscarves, are sent out to reassure the world that these attacks have no place in real Islam, that they are aberrations and corruptions of the true faith.
But then what to make of Omar Bakri? He too claims to speak for the true faith, though he was unavailable for cameras in England last week because the Islamist group he founded, Al-Muhajiroun, was banned in Britain in 2010. Instead, he talked to the media from Tripoli in northern Lebanon, where he now lives. Michael Adebolajo—the accused Woolwich killer who was seen on a video at the scene of the murder, talking to the camera while displaying his bloody hands and a meat cleaver—was Bakri’s student a decade ago, before his group was banned. “A quiet man, very shy, asking lots of questions about Islam,” Bakri recalled last week. The teacher was impressed to see in the grisly video how far his shy disciple had come, “standing firm, courageous, brave. Not running away.”
mmmm … not sure if we should give this lady a voice on The Muslim Times …
Anyway, let’s hope that the readers of The Muslim Times by now can distinguish between the good Muslim leaders and those mentioned by Ms. Ayaan (herself included)…
But she has a point. Every where we claim such acts have nothing to do with Islamic real teachings but then constantly such acts are being committed by Muslims on the name of Islam. While so called few Muslim scholars also praising such acts. Biggest problem all good work done specially by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is also affected when such incident happens on the name of Islam. So instead closing eyes to such articles why not to find solutions.
Well, of course we hope that the readers of The Muslim Times will compare the ‘Muslim Leadership’ described in this article with the ‘Khalifa of Islam’ that we come across in this blog quite frequently. The difference, we hope, should be obvious to all by now.
Ayaan has no right to speak like that..she works for the US thinktank and is a traitor to Islam.
She left my country Holland so I know more about her ..shes evil and works for the zionists.
She aint no muslim no more..she said herself so why pay value to her words.
Once again request would be not to bother who wrote it but what has been written should be analysed and replied accordingly
I think it is very important to see who is speaking or writing.
Br Rfiq made the point. AMJ has role model of Muslim Leadership in person of Khalifa of Islam. All Muslims can follow it. Need of the time is to spread this message all over and through MT some effort is being made.