Raymond Ibrahim
Saudi Arabia—the world’s greatest hypocrite—is at it again.
On February 12, 2016, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) was held. It’s described as
“the world’s largest gathering of its kind”; “the most important independent
forum for the exchange of views by international security policy
decision-makers,” where “about 350 senior figures from more than 70 countries
around the world to engage in an intensive debate on current and future
security challenges.”
It’s apparently also where
lying about one of the “current and future security challenges”—Islamic
terrorism—goes unchallenged.
Enter Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi
Arabia’s foreign affairs minister. This representative of the one nation
that has done more than any other to spread radical Islamic ideology spun lie
after lie during his 20 minute presentation before
a captive audience.
Jubeir began by trying to kill
two birds with one stone: distancing Islam from ISIS in a way to demonize and
incite the world against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad:
Daesh [Arabic acronym for
ISIS] is a terrorist organization composed of psychopaths who have no religion
and no morals. They attract other psychopaths and it’s a cult. And it will be
defeated. But in order to defeat Daesh, we have to deal with what I call
the two elephants in the room. One of those elephants is Bashar al Assad.
We cannot defeat Daesh in Syria unless we bring about change in Bashar
al-Assad. He is the man who helped create it by releasing radicals from his
jails, by allowing Daesh to operate without attacking them, by even trading
with them. He is the man that allowed them to become what they are.
So the Saudi minister of
propaganda would have the world believe that the secular, non-Sunni, Assad is
the man who “created” and empowers ISIS—a radical Sunni jihadi group born and
bred on Saudi Islamic indoctrination and dedicated to overthrowing none other
than Assad himself.
Jubeir concluded his Assad
rant with a barely veiled threat: “unless and until there is a change in Syria,
Daesh [ISIS] will not be defeated in Syria. Period…. When Assad goes, the
fertile environment in which Daesh operates in Syria will be removed and we can
deal with them.” When one appreciates how intricately connected Saudi
Arabia and ISIS are, this sounds more like, “we will not reign in our mad
jihadi dogs until we get our way.”
But it was only during the
very brief Q&A portion following Jubeir’s act that the Saudi truly
shined. After he was asked by a brave soul in the audience if ISIS didn’t
in fact adhere to certain Islamic tenets, Jubeir responded by mouthing all the
main lies, half-truths, and discredited apologias the world has ever heard
about Islam[1]:
Every religion has perverts
and psychopaths who try to hijack it. ISIS is as much Islamic as the KKK is
Christian. Don’t they have a cross? Don’t they do everything in the name of
religion and Christ? Don’t they believe that Christ compels them to lynch and
kill people of African descent? …For anyone to argue that DAESH is Islamic is
preposterous.
Of course, the Bible does not
call on Christians to discriminate and kill black people. Not a
single verse. Christ called for love, mercy, and altruism. That’s
why the KKK represents about .00003% of American Christianity and is
vociferously denounced by the other 99.99997%. (For more read “Are Judaism, Christianity, as Violent as Islam.”)
On the other hand, the Koran does call
on Muslims to hate and fight non-Muslims; it doescall for
beheadings, mutilations, and crucifixions; it does call for
the collection of jizya or
extortion money from subjugated minorities; it does permit the
sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women and children. (See “The Islamic State and Islam” for references.)
In short, the Koran does support
the actions of ISIS—not to mention the actions of Boko Haram, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Al Shabaab, and 41 Muslim nations that make the lives of Christian minorities a living hell.
That’s why a PEW poll found that
at least 63 million and as many as 287 million Muslims in just 11 countries—and 81% of Arabic language Al Jazeera respondents—support what Jubeir dismisses as
“psychopaths who have no religion and no morals.”
The Saudi minister also
managed to invoke the one Koran verse that is forever on the lips of Islam’s
apologists:
In the Islamic faith the
Koran reveals that you have your faith and I have my faith [109:6]. You are
free to practice your faith and I am free to practice mine. What greater sign
of tolerance and acceptance do you have than this?
Jubeir didn’t bother telling
his audience that mainstream Islamic jurisprudence holds that Koran 109:6 and
the few other tolerant verses have been abrogated by more “final” verses that call for eternal violence against all who reject
Islam, such as Koran 9:5 and 9:29, the notorious “sword verses.”
Otherwise, why does the Saudi
government bant he existence of a single church, synagogue, or temple? Why does it storm the private residences of foreign Christians holding prayer meetings, arrest and torture them, and confiscate their Bibles and crosses? Why is it the 14th worst nation in the entire world to be Christian in? Why does it imprison, torture, and kill Muslims who seek to leave Islam? Why does it openly
declare that all Muslims must hate Christians, Jews, and all other non-Muslims?
Where, O Jubeir, is all this
Islamic “tolerance and acceptance” you gush about?
And this is the grandest
point, the true elephant at the Munich Security Conference that no one seemed
to notice: most atrocities committed by ISIS that provoke shock and horror in
the West, and which Jubeir claims have nothing to do with Islam, are
being committed bySaudi Arabia as a matter of state policy—and also in
the name of Islam.
The real question isn’t
whether ISIS is Islamic; only fools and clowns are still trying to figure that
one out. The real question is why a nation that behaves like ISIS is
allowed to speak at a conference dedicated to “intensive debate on current and
future security challenges,” and then given free rein to spew lie after lie?
From here, one begins to
understand that Saudi Arabia and its premiere role in exporting “extremism”
around the world is only one part of a more complex problem.
[1] He even found time to invoke the politically
correct, glorified version of Islamic history, the one that has little basis in
reality. According to Jubeir:
The Islamic religion and
Islamic civilization was the civilization that preserved the history of Greece
and Rome and passed it onto the West. Western civilization would not exist
without the Islamic Arab civilization. The Islamic civilization was the
civilization that connected China with Europe, so it was global… If Islam was
intolerant and DAESH represented Islam would Islam have preserved Aristotle and
Socrates and passed it onto the West? Would Islam have connected Eastern
civilization with Western civilization? Of course not.
Raymond Ibrahim, May 10, 2016
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