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U.S MUSLIM GROUP SILENT ON KEY REASON FOR ATTACK ON CHARLIE HEDBO…….

Dr.Andrew Bostom and Robert Spencer interviewed for the article.

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U.S. MUSLIM GROUP SILENT ON KEY REASON FOR ATTACK

Shariah’s blasphemy laws absent from condemnation

Published: 12 hours ago LEO HOHMANN

Police on the scene of the terrorist attack in Paris, France, Wednesday, Jan. 7.

Police on the scene of the terrorist attack in Paris, France, Wednesday, Jan. 7.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned Wednesday’s deadly terrorist attack at the offices of a Paris newspaper as “barbaric” and deserving of punishment “to the fullest extent of the law.”

CAIR immediately issued a press release offering its condemnation of the execution-style killing of 10 journalists and two police officers. CAIR’s statement also “repeated its defense of freedom of speech … even speech that mocks faiths and religious figures.”

But the Muslim apologist organization’s statement made no mention of Islamic blasphemy laws, which carry the death penalty as standard punishment for mocking Islam and its prophet, Muhammad.

WND called CAIR’s director of communications, Ibrahim Hooper, to seek clarification, but he refused to answer any questions about blasphemy or anything else related to Wednesday’s attack.

“You’re from WorldNetDaily? You’re a hate group. We don’t talk to hate groups,” Hooper said before hanging up the telephone.

CAIR, which is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, has a close relationship with the Obama administration and acts as the self-appointed voice of American Muslims.

Dr. Andrew Bostom, author of “Sharia Versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism,” said it is the blasphemy laws that inspire violent attacks like the one carried out in Paris against a newspaper known for publishing cartoons critical of Islam. He said even some of the most “moderate” Islamic clerics, such as the Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, leader of Iran’s Green movement until his death in December 2009, issued statements that the appropriate punishment for unrepentant blaspheming of Muhammad is death.

As Bostom documented in his book, Montazeri even encouraged vigilante punishment for blasphemers:

“Montazeri also adhered — quite rigorously — to the traditionalist Shiite dogma regarding the offense of ‘sabb,’ or blasphemy, even sanctioning vigilante lethal punishment. He stated, ‘In cases of sabb al-Nabi [blasphemy against a prophet, in particular Islam’s prophet, Muhammad]…if the witness does not have fear of his or her life and also there is no fear of mischief [mafsadeh] it is obligatory for him or her to kill the insulter.”

That was the inspiration behind the killers who burst into the newsroom of Charlie Hebdo Wednesday morning and killed the cartoonists, designers and the chief editor of the newspaper as they yelled “Allahu Akbar,” clearly audible on videos captured of the attack. The terrorists were also overheard saying, “We avenged the prophet Muhammad.”

“This is the Islamic blasphemy law in action,” Bostom said. “Is CAIR saying the late Ayatollah Montazeri was wrong? Was Ayatollah Khomeini wrong in issuing his fatwa against Salman Rushie (who authored ‘The Satanic Verses’)? Is the whole body of Islamic jurisprudence wrong? Are they saying Islamic law does not sanction the killing of Islamic blasphemers?”

Bostom said his research shows that death for non-Muslim blasphemers like Charlie Hebdo is condoned across the Muslim world by both Shiite and Sunni schools of jurisprudence.

“And this whole body of jurisprudence on how to deal with non-Muslims who defiantly lampoon Muhammad is now wrong in the eyes of CAIR?” Bostom asks. “They’re all wrong and CAIR is going to condemn them and the Shariah?”

So while CAIR condemned the brazen attack in Paris, the organization stops short of condemning the legal basis for the attack under Islamic law, Bostom said.

President Obama also condemned the attack and labeled it an act of terrorism in a carefully worded statement that avoided the phrase “Islamic terrorism.”

Back in 2012, White House spokesman Jay Carney criticized Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons depicting Muhammed in unflattering ways.

“[W]e have questions about the judgment of publishing something like this. We know that these images will be deeply offensive to many and have the potential to be inflammatory. But we’ve spoken repeatedly about the importance of upholding the freedom of expression that is enshrined in our Constitution,” Carney said.

“In other words, we don’t question the right of something like this to be published; we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it,” he continued.

The White House has developed warm relations with CAIR, an organization whose founders have documented links to the Muslim Brotherhood and the funding of international Islamic terrorism. CAIR, along with the Islamic Society of North America or ISNA remain unindicted co-conspirators in the largest terrorism funding trial on U.S. soil involving the Holy Land Foundation. After Obama took office the indictments against CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmed, already prepared, were dropped by Attorney General Eric Holder.

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One Response

  1. Of course CAIR, islamic Councils of all persuasions, imams, sheiks, muftis, puftis, vocal muslims etc etc living in the West are all going to be making the same noises and crying the same crocodile tears now. Simply because they are living in the West. They do so for self-preservation and wanting to have no interruptions to their activities .

    No matter what happens, they still believe islam is superior. If they don’t then why would they remain muslims? And while the taking of the lives of a few Infidels is unfortunate – anything is justified in reaching the goal of islamic domination. And it teaches the rest not to mess with islam.

    If these muslims were somehow sipped back whence they came – you’d find their newly found concern for the lives of the Infidel would evaporate very, very quickly. And they’d be saying and acting as they do currently throughout the islamic world.

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