Queen Rania of Jordan recently said “I would love to drop the first ‘I’ in ISIS because there’s nothing Islamic about them,". Ironically Marie Harf said almost
the same thing recently:
“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep
killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians — they’re in
this fight with us,” Harf said. “But we cannot win this war by killing them. We
cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go
after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s a
lack of opportunity for jobs.”
This makes the queen an anomaly among Arabs, both westernized
and liberal. What makes a true Muslim? The one who emulates the founder of Islam or the one who doesn't?
The Muslims that preceded Muhammad certainly believed it was the former. They conquered the middle-east in the name of Islam in short order after his death. Nothing ISIS is doing is any different
from what Muhammad and his followers did or is contrary to what the Quran teaches. The ideology of
modern Jihad merely continues this tradition of following the founder and the Quaran. The current leader
of ISIS, Abu Bakr, knows his Islam. He has a PhD in Islamic law and theology.
If there are any doubts, history speaks for itself. Islam started as a militant movement and continues to this day. As recently as the 1800's they were still occupying parts of Europe. They were taking European and American slaves on the high seas in vast numbers for centuries, right up until about 1820. The end of the Ottoman Empire in the 20th century concluded with the massacre of one million Christian Armenians. It also marked the beginning of Islamic terrorism. The tactics have changed but Islam has been at war with the rest of the civilized world for 1400 years. Queen Rania either doesn't know or ignores her own Muslim history. She's a cultural Muslim with a rose-colored view of Islam. If anyone is trying to hijack Islam it's her.
If there are any doubts, history speaks for itself. Islam started as a militant movement and continues to this day. As recently as the 1800's they were still occupying parts of Europe. They were taking European and American slaves on the high seas in vast numbers for centuries, right up until about 1820. The end of the Ottoman Empire in the 20th century concluded with the massacre of one million Christian Armenians. It also marked the beginning of Islamic terrorism. The tactics have changed but Islam has been at war with the rest of the civilized world for 1400 years. Queen Rania either doesn't know or ignores her own Muslim history. She's a cultural Muslim with a rose-colored view of Islam. If anyone is trying to hijack Islam it's her.
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