John R. Houk
© September 12, 2017
Any [fundamentalist] view of
Islam positing the traditional norms of Islamic jurisprudence as absolute
[should] be rejected out of hand as false. State laws [should] have precedence.
- Yahya Cholil Staquf (In Interview, Top Indonesian Muslim
Scholar Says Stop Pretending That Orthodox Islam and Violence Aren't Linked;
By Marco Stahlhut; Time.com;
9/7/17)
Fellow Community member Viana posted an excerpt of the Yahya
Cholil Staquf interview at Time.com (of all the ironic Left Wing
MSM places) who is an Islamic scholar from Indonesia. The reason the
interview is significant is because the Muslim scholar proclaims the violence
perpetrated by Islamic terrorists has EVERYTHING to do with Islam!
Yahya Cholil Staquf is the General Secretary of Nahdlatul Ulama a Sunni Islam organization
in Indonesia. Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) may be located in Indonesia, but it is the
largest Islamic organization in the world. Here is a Wikipedia excerpt on NU to
give you a bit of a backgrounder:
Nahdlatul Ulama (also Nahdatul
Ulama or NU) is a traditionalist Sunni Islam movement in Indonesia following the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence.[3] NU was established
on January 31, 1926 in Surabaya as
a response to the rise of Wahabism in Saudi Arabia and Islamic modernism in Indonesia.[4][5]:59[6] The NU is the
largest independent Islamic organization in the world[7] with membership of
40 million in 2003.[1][2]NU also is a charitable
body funding schools and hospitals as well as organizing communities to help
alleviate poverty.
Nahdlatul Ulama is known as an
ardent advocate of Islam Nusantara; a distinctive
brand of Islam that has undergone interaction, contextualization,
indigenization, interpretation and vernacularization according to socio-cultural condition of
Indonesia.
[8]Islam Nusantara promotes moderation, compassion,
anti-radicalism, inclusiveness and tolerance.[9]
Take Multicultural Diversity Leftists in America and Europe.
When the leader of the largest Islamic organization in the world says Islamic
violence is directly related to the tenets of Islam, you should really pay
attention!
Now I do find it interesting that Time Mag published
an interview that is essentially anti-Multiculturalism and irritating to Muslim
Apologists. Loraine County Community College has published a guide on where
various publications lean toward politically. Fascinating to me LCCC labels Time
as centrist but with a proviso which I do concur:
Time. Similar
in content and format to the two other major U. S. newsmagazines, this
periodical covers the news from a centrist point of view. [NOTE: Others
label Time liberal or leftist.] (Bold text is Blog
Editor’s but the brackets are the proviso by LCCC - Leanings of Magazines, Newspapers;
LCCC Library - LibGuides
- Detecting Bias; Last Updated 9/7/17 1:21 PM)
Media Bias/Fact Check has this evaluation of Time:
Notes:
Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was
founded in 1923. Time has the world’s largest circulation for a weekly
news magazine. Time Magazine is factual in reporting and well sourced.
Has a left-center bias in story selection. (5/18/2016) Updated
(1/12/2017) (Time Magazine; Media
Bias/Fact Check)
Yes friends, if the word “Left”
is there, there is a promotion of the evil of Multiculturalism. This is the reason I consider it
incredulous that Time.com has such a counter-Multiculturalist interview.
Below is Viana’s
excerpt of the Time.com interview of Yahya Cholil Staquf. But if you get
a chance you should read the entire article at Time.com.
JRH 9/12/17
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Posted by Viana
Google + Community Americans against Jihad
Appropriate on this, the 16th anniversary of 9/11. More
and more Muslim leaders are making this admission. Indonesia is the world’s
most populous Islamic nation. -Viana
Yahya Cholil Staquf states: “Western politicians should stop pretending that extremism and terrorism have nothing to do with Islam. There is a clear relationship between fundamentalism, terrorism, and the basic assumptions of Islamic orthodoxy. So long as we lack consensus regarding this matter, we cannot gain victory over fundamentalist violence within Islam. … Within the classical tradition, the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims is assumed to be one of segregation and enmity. … To the extent that Muslims adhere to this view of Islam, it renders them incapable of living harmoniously and peacefully within the multi-cultural, multi-religious societies of the 21st century. … we live in a world of nation-states. Any attempt to create a unified Islamic state in the 21st century can only lead to chaos and violence.
…
Any [fundamentalist] view of Islam positing the traditional
norms of Islamic jurisprudence as absolute [should] be rejected out of hand as
false. State laws [should] have precedence.
…
Too many Muslims view civilization, and the peaceful
co-existence of people of different faiths, as something they must combat. … There’s a growing dissatisfaction
in the West with respect to Muslim minorities, a growing fear of Islam.
In this sense, some Western friends of mine are “Islamophobic.” They’re afraid
of Islam. … I
understand their fear …
The West cannot force Muslims to adopt a moderate
interpretation of Islam. …
Western politicians should stop telling us that fundamentalism and violence
have nothing to do with traditional Islam. That is simply wrong. …
Europe, and Germany in particular, are accepting massive
numbers of refugees. Don’t misunderstand me: of course you cannot close your
eyes to those in need. …
the fact remains that you’re taking in millions of refugees about whom you
know virtually nothing, except that they come from extremely problematic
regions of the world. …
there's an extreme left wing whose adherents reflexively denounce any and all
talk about the connections between traditional Islam, fundamentalism and
violence as _de
facto_ proof of
Islamophobia. This must end. A problem that is not acknowledged cannot be
solved. …”
http://time.com/4930742/islam-terrorism-islamophobia-violence/
http://time.com/4930742/islam-terrorism-islamophobia-violence/
Edited by John R. Houk
Viana’s excerpt has been arbitrarily edited for what I believe is
better readability.
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