Islamic Values: Islamic scholar on Muslim who beheaded french teacher: ‘We could never say that he committed a serious crime’

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Sheikh Ali Al-Yousuf of the International Union of Muslim Scholars has praised the Muslim migrant teen who beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty, stating that the teen was not guilty of a serious crime. Why? “He took it upon himself to carry out the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad,” said the Sheikh. Al-Yousuf’s only regret was that the death penalty for blasphemy should not be carried out by individuals, but “by a shari’a court in an Islamic state.”

The barbarity frequently found in Islam — from persecution and conquest to punishment for a range of “sins” — stems from specific tenets of Islamic law. This remains true despite the fact that most people adamantly refuse to see it. For fear of offending Muslims, these people abandon the victims who are savaged by Islamic law. The jihad violence that took Paty’s life in France is a common aspect of life among non-Muslims in Africa and the Middle East. In Islamic states such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, accusations of blasphemy can also lead to execution. Saudi Arabia beheaded over 180 people for various offenses in 2019; most of these offense were rooted in Islamic texts.

Many Muslims hailed the beheading of Paty. Some stated that it was “a warning to all critics of Islam.” Some Muslim students in France cheered the burning of French flags in response to the displaying of Muhammad cartoons.

 

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The link between Islam and violence and terrorism is obvious. It does nothing to keep repeating the clear fact that there are Muslims who are peaceful. Of course there are. That doesn’t change the fact that jihad-minded Muslims are a threat, or that they are motivated by texts such as these:


When your Lord inspired to the angels, “I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.” (Quran 8:12)

So when you meet those who disbelieve [in battle], strike [their] necks until, when you have inflicted slaughter upon them, then secure their bonds, and either [confer] favor afterwards or ransom [them] until the war lays down its burdens. That [is the command]. And if Allah had willed, He could have taken vengeance upon them [Himself], but [He ordered armed struggle] to test some of you by means of others. And those who are killed in the cause of Allah – never will He waste their deeds. (Quran 47:4)

 

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And Sunan Abu Dawood 4348 describes the gruesome murder of a woman who blasphemed Muhammad.

The Sharia’s teachings on the inferiority of women, its prohibition (on pain of death) of speech that is offensive to Islam, and its sanctioning of jihad violence will become increasingly clear in Western countries, despite all the efforts to shield it under the guise of multiculturalism and “tolerance.” How many Westerners feel safe to criticize Islam publicly? Case proven. This means Westerners are no longer free. Western leaders have failed to protect the public as they have worshiped at the altar of identity politics. No other religion poses such a threat.

This is what Sheikh Al-Yousuf also stated, which is echoed by the full range of Islamic supremacist groups operating throughout the West in defense of Islam”

 

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Sheikh Ali Al-Yousuf of the International Union of Muslim Scholars said in an October 18, 2020 interview on Channel 9 (Turkey) that from the perspective of Islamic law, one cannot say that the Chechen teen who recently beheaded French history teacher Samuel Paty is guilty of a serious crime. Rather, he said that the teen’s transgression was that he took it upon himself to carry out the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad, while the sentence should be carried out by a shari’a court in an Islamic state. Sheikh Al-Yousuf said that people should focus on the fact that Paty had been teaching people to “hate” the Prophet Muhammad, and he argued that France is undergoing a crisis, since “Islam is growing because of its moral values.” He added that Muslims in France should integrate into French society because French people would not hate Islam if they were familiar with its virtues. He also speculated that Samuel Paty would not have acted as he had if he had been familiar with the qualities of the Prophet Muhammad.

Sheikh Ali Al-Yousuf: “Anyone who follows what is happening in France – the attacks against Islam and Muslims, and especially what we have seen lately – will see that there is an obvious media, political, cultural, and ideological campaign against Islam, Muslims, and the Prophet Muhammad, against every Muslim individual, as well as Muslim symbols, like the hijab. All this is crystal clear – it is called Islamophobia. Now they want to scare [people] away from Islam, because it is the second [largest] religion in France, and it is the number one religion in Europe, in France [sic], and therefore it must be attacked, along with its symbols. So they do not want Islam to advance in those places.

“I would like to say that in light of all these actions, we must take a look at those who incite and distort and those who attack our Prophet Muhammad, in a country that claims to be secular and democratic, a country that claims to respect human rights, religions, opinions, and ideas. I do not know what kind of respect this is with this cursing, insulting, and attacking of Islamic symbols. This is the problem, before we talk about this act [murder of Samuel Paty] – its judgement according to the shari’a and our opinion about it… We must firmly focus on all the hostile and disgraceful actions that have been directed against Muslims for many years, actions supported by the government and extremists in France and elsewhere that were meant to distort Islam’s image in the West.”

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Interviewer: “You spoke about the shari’a ruling regarding a person who curses the Prophet. You said that such a person should be killed, and the only question is who should carry this out. No one has the right to carry out this ruling by himself. In this specific case that took place in France, according to the shari’a, a Muslim who is confronted with such a case, and gets angry – it is only natural that he would get angry because of the insult to the Prophet Muhammad… What is the ruling of the shari’a in such a case?”

Al-Yousuf: “As I told you, if it is proven that the person who did this is a Chechen Muslim, and he did this out of anger because of the violation of the Prophet Muhammad’s honor, and if he indeed was a Muslim who did this in defense of the Islamic shari’a, then we let Allah be his judge. We could never say that he committed a serious crime or something that he should be punished for according to the shari’a, because his [only] offense was that he carried out the ruling by himself, and according to our shari’a, the punishment should be carried out by the Islamic state….