Posted on 01/02/2015 2:10:00 PM PST by yoe
Speaking before Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry on New Year's Day, 2015, in connection to Prophet Muhammad's upcoming birthday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a vocal supporter for a renewed vision of Islam, made what must be his most forceful and impassioned plea to date on the subject.
Among other things, Sisi said that the "corpus of [Islamic] texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years" are "antagonizing the entire world"; that it is not "possible that 1.6 billion people [reference to the world's Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world's inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live"; and that Egypt (or the Islamic world in its entirety) "is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands."
[snip]I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing—and I have, in fact, ( addressed this topic) a couple of times before. It's inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!
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Is he the new Ataturk? I hope so. We need one.
Radical Islam is about power, conquest, subjugation, and death just as every other barbaric dictatorship throughout history has been. Its just the latest example.
The Renaissance Sisi calls for cannot happen in the Islam faith. Its entire scripture is rife with acts of extreme indignity. It codified body of literature speaks singularly to the necessity of these indignities.
He is a voice in the wilderness who will be sacrificed by the denomic forces that dominate Islam. They believe in their heart of hearts that 1.5 billion Muslims must destroy and otherwise subjugate 6 billion non Muslims as their sacred duty. There is no corpus of literature opposing this view. The thinking he describes is dominant. It is unmitigated by the voices that Sisi represents.
The fundamental cultural cataclysm required to bring the average Muslim into an enlightened state is inconceivable. Sisi is correct in saying that Islam is destroying itself by its own hand.
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This is good. Finally we have a notable Muslim who can make his voice heard, who admits that we are not delusional when we see that Islam is bent on world domination. This gives the lie to the dissemblers who make deceitful claims like “jihad is about self improvement” or “Muslims only go to war in self defense”.
How can there be any doubt that is the case?
How many radical clerics have we had to imprison, deport, etc, because they were constantly inspiring and inciting terrorists?
They use the freedom of speech and freedom of religion that Western nations guarantee against us, knowing that they can recruit armies and direct them from the mosque, and we will tolerate it far longer than we should.
He may wind up like Anwar Sadat. Death fatwas aren’t proclaimed anymore, they get tweeted out.
Every turbaned headbanger with a forehead growth is now going to be howling for Al-Sisi’s blood while screaming “Allahu Akbar!!!” and waving scimitars at the cameras.
Kemal Ataturk was at war with Islam & secularized Turkey to that end. His successor Erdogan declares there is only one Islam; no ifs, ands, or moderates.
If Al-Sisi has a mostly secular military on his side he might survive as Ataturk did. But Al-Sisi is on record as favoring the return of the Caliphate. Maybe that’s protective camouflage, who knows?
Anyway, Raymond Ibrahim should be read carefully for everything he has written about the Middle East. He gets it.
When will the Saudi money dry up?
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THIS is the man OBAMA tried to foil because he, Obama, preferred that maniac Morsi.
This guy is right. Islam is alienating the entire non-Islamic world and only a religious revolution which purges it of its brutality, violence, and intolerance. THEN, it might have something worthwhile to offer Humanity.
Agreed.
Us Infidels are lucky to have a flat out Muslim Heretic like Sisi mouthing off against Islam.
We need more usefull Idiots like him, and King Abdullah of Jordan.
They are hard to come by because the penalty for apostasy in Islam is death, and fundamental Muslims take that seriously.
Iv'e said it before, the way to defeat Islam is to know it, and poison it, by freeing the women with secular enticements.
People like the King of Jordan and Egypt's Sisi are a big help also. -Tom
If I recall correctly, the last leader to try and mellow out Muslim Egypt reached out the olive branch to Israel and took multiple bullets at his assassination.
think about it...
pray about it...
BTTT!
Wow, some sanity from a prominent guy. Good to see.
“Is he the new Ataturk? I hope so. We need one.”
Almost... WE don’t need one. THEY need one. We don’t need anything associated with islam...
“”in connection to Prophet Muhammad’s upcoming birthday,””
Is this a holiday for them? If it is, we need to voice our displeasure and how offended we are.
I wonder that too if Islam can have a reformation but for the benefit of the doubt, Sisi is right on about it. If Islam wants to survive and join the world community, then it has to reform. BTW, I work at a department store and I had a couple of customers from Egypt and they are very grateful Sisi kicked out the Moslem Brotherhood, FWIW.
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