It is not that they spoke out. They did not speak at all. Thus they spoke louder than any words.
A very welcome message: silence as the strongest condemnation possible.
As follows: Some 130 Muslim religious leaders in London refused to say funeral prayers for the terrorists — the murderers — the desecraters of religion —the champions of delusion and evil — who killed innocent people in Manchester and London.
The move — the silence — was seen as unprecedented. Everybody deserves a funeral; actually, not. Muslim ritual prescribes funeral prayers for the deceased, regardless of his actions; actually, not.
So said these imams and other religious leaders.
No prayers for murderers. They don’t like it? They can take it up with the Master of Justice Himself. Good luck.
These 130 Muslim leaders urged other Muslim leaders to join them in their revolutionary silence.
Radical Islam has taken hold in the United Kingdom. It’s not poverty. These murderers were not impoverished. It’s not lack of opportunity. These murderers had opportunities. It’s not Israel; not the Palestinians. These murderers killed British citizens. It’s none of the excuses effusively offered for religiously motivated hatred.
It is the result of an idea: radical Islam, that is, the religious justification and practice of murder, which deserves no rights in a democracy or a sacred text. It is the result of fallacious tolerance — turning a blind eye to extreme self-segregation, geographically or intellectually, of some Muslim communities in the UK.
“We, as Muslim Imams and religious leaders, condemn the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London in the strongest terms possible,” said the leaders in a statement. “Coming from a range of backgrounds, and from across the UK; feeling the pain the rest of the nation feels, we have come together to express our shock and utter disgust at these cold-blood murders.”
Take note: cold-blooded murders.
Not “martyrdom.”
Not “resistance.”
Not “the will of Allah.”
“We are deeply hurt that a spate of terror attacks have been committed in our country once more by murderers who seek to gain religious legitimacy for their actions. We seek to clarify that these reprehensible actions have neither legitimacy nor our sympathy.”
The funeral prayers ask for forgiveness of the dead.
No forgiveness for radically Islamic murders: that is the sound of silence of these 130 imams and religious leaders at the funerals of the reprehensible specimens of humanity.
It is primarily statements like the words and the silence of these Muslim leaders that will chip away at the infection of Islam by radical Islam. Non-Muslims may, and should, decry the murders and the idea behind them, but in the end the most effective tool to put an end to radical Islam is the humanity of Muslims themselves.
They certainly have reason. The largest victim group of radical Islamic terrorism is Muslims. Muslim leaders worldwide should follow the example of the Islamic leaders in the UK. Do not hide your face from the evil religious adherents in your midst. More than they kill Europeans, Americans, Israelis and others, they kill Saudis, Lebanese, Iraqis, Yazidis, Kurds, Moroccans, Egyptians, Yemenites, Jordanians, Kuwaitis — and even Iranians.
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