14 Jan 15
My hometown newspaper ran a letter to the editor supporting an article written by Dr. Raza Khan, who wrote in defense of Muslims in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The letter writer was a director of the Muslim Association of Brantford, a town not far from Hamilton. The review below of the argumentation of the writer was an attempt to expose what I regard as Islamic dissimulation. Pious dissimulation that advances the cause of Islam is permitted in Islam, and there are four words which name the different kinds of pious dissimulation.
Saeed Baloch gives little comfort to those who have followed
Islamic Supremacist terrorism for a while, and are familiar with the pious dissimulation that is permitted in Islam.
In describing “those masked individuals who killed the
journalists in France” as not representing Muslims, he fails to say why they
and others like them believe that they are following Islam more closely than
fellows like Dr. Raza Khan and Saeed Baloch are. What exactly does not representing mean? To say that the killers were not representative of Muslims is clearly false in view of what goes on in ISIS, the Taliban, al Qaeda, etc. since these organizations are filled exclusively with Muslims. These men certainly were representative of a wide segment of Muslim opinion. Not representing means that no one elected them or appointed them for a particular role, and that much is true, but irrelevant.
In qualifying those masked gunmen as those ‘who killed the
journalists’, what about those self-same people who killed three police
officers and four Jewish shoppers? I would say that in killing police
officers and shoppers, the gunmen weren't acting in good Islamic faith, but in
respect of the journalists, they certainly were (see Hadith Book 38 Verse
4348). It would be more accurate and complete to describe the killers as
unchristian rather than unIslamic.
It means nothing to hear a Muslim say that he is opposed to
killing people unjustly, because what constitutes just killing in the eyes of
Islam is certainly different from what Westerners conceive. In view of
Hadith Book 38 Verse 4348, the killing of the Charlie Hebdo journalists was justified because
they insulted the prophet of Islam. Bloggers are whipped and imprisoned
in Saudi Arabia to this day for that very offense, and Saudi Arabia is
certainly Islamic. Ditto in Pakistan, another Muslim country. Ditto
in The Sudan, another Muslim country. The penalty for apostasy in these and most other Muslim countries is death. These countries are also not representing Muslims; but their laws are representative of Muslim beliefs.
Baloch's call for ‘coming generations to live in peace and
harmony’ is chilling in view of the fact that peace and harmony comes about in
Muslim eyes by submission to Allah and the acceptance of Sharia law. The
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is western through and through, and not
a particle of it would survive under a regime of Sharia law.
Westerners need to be aware of all the mental reservations
used by Muslims when they address a western audience.
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