Muslim Community’s Call to Action

 

Vincent J. Curtis

 

27 Sept 2014

 

Mohamud Mohamed Mohamud was a Muslim of Somali extraction who happened to be born in Hamilton, Ontario.  This twenty-year old was in the news on account of his having been killed the previous week in northern Syria, of all places, fighting on the side of ISIS against Kurdish forces.

 

At the news of the circumstances of his death, the Muslim community in Hamilton sprang into action.  They called upon the Federal government of Canada to “proactively provide Canadian mosques with resources and tools” to support and expand programs aimed at offering youth chances for “peaceful dialog and civic engagement,” as reported by the Hamilton Spectator’s Bill Dunphy.

 

Surprisingly, the Federal government had not replied within two days of the call.  In fact, no politician at the civic or Federal level was available to explain to the Spectator why they were so tardy in their response to the call to action by the Muslim Community of Hamilton.  The guts of the Spectator story was a catalog of non-responses by politicians of all stripes at all levels of government.

 

The Muslim community seems to have contacted the Spectator in order to use the newspaper as a prod.  Worryingly, their phone calls weren’t being returned as they used to be, and (western) politicians were no longer so quick to make soothing noises protective of the Muslim community in the face of signs of Islamic radicalism.  Muslim communities throughout the western world used to be able to rely on western politicians to deny any connection between Islamic radicalism and the small Islamic community in the midst of the western community.  Those protective denials were not automatically made in the face of a Canadian-born and –raised Muslim of Somali extraction being killed in Syria while fighting for the Islamic Caliphate.  One wonders where the young man could have picked up such ideas.

 

Analysis of the ‘call to action’ by the Muslim community reveals some disturbing details.  The ‘call to action’ amounted to a demand for more money from the Federal government.  It would be unkind to call this a jizya or a tax Muslims took from Christians for the privilege of being Christian, but there is a vague similarity.  Withal, the basis of the ‘call to action’ was for somebody else to act, not the Muslim Community itself, and the act demanded was the giving of money.

 

What did not appear was what the Muslim community planned to do with the money they wanted.  Extra pay for their Imams is likely, but what are those Imams going to do for that extra pay?

 

Are they going to condemn ISIS in no uncertain terms in the mosque?  I’d like to hear the speech.  I'd like to see it on Youtube.

The Spec story contained nothing about what the Muslim community itself had done to justify additional support from the government to ward off Islamic extremism developing in Canada.

 

Because of the concepts of Taqiyya, Tawriya, Kitman, and Muruna, I don’t take as worth anything the word of a spokesman that Imam So-and-so believes such-and-such, or than he uttered a general banality like “peaceful dialog and civic engagement” as if it meant something.

 

I’d like to see the video on Youtube in which the local Imam in English and Arabic denounces the self-appointed Caliph of the Islamic State as a fraud and a heretic.

 

You won’t find such a thing because they don’t do it;  they rely on western politicians to do that.  But it is the Imam who does condemn Islamic radicals as heretics who deserves the bigger megaphone that Federal money can buy.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama cannot hold a candle to a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman when it comes to double-talk and lawyerly pettifogging.

For years it was politicians of a western persuasion that declared that successive acts of Islamic radicalism were aberrations and that Islam was a religion of peace.  Well, it is high time that western politicians shut up about it because it seems they were drowning out the voices of moderation and the real experts in the Islamic community.

It is time for western politicians shut up about Islam and the religion of peace business as these are matters they know nothing about.  They are not Islamic scholars, and so have no standing to say what Islam really means or does not mean, especially in and to the Islamic community.  Western politicians should get off the stage and allow leaders in the Muslim community, the Islamic scholars and Imams, to do the talking.

For some reason, having the western politians standing aside and giving them the public stage has the Imams feeling naked and afraid.  Anyhow, we're listening.

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