UN NOUVEAU "GRAND MUFTI"...
Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for "Destruction of All Churches in Region"
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According to several Arabic news sources,
last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi
Arabia, declared that it is "necessary to destroy all the churches of
the region."
Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti confirms Islamic hostility for churches.
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The Grand Mufti made his assertion in response to a question posed by
a delegation from Kuwait, where a parliament member recently called for
the "removal" of churches
(he later "clarified" by saying he merely meant that no churches should
be built in Kuwait): the delegation wanted to confirm Sharia's position
on churches.
Accordingly, the Grand Mufti "stressed that Kuwait was a part of the
Arabian Peninsula, and therefore it is necessary to destroy all churches
in it."
As with many grand muftis before him, the Sheikh based his
proclamation on the famous tradition, or hadith, wherein the prophet of
Islam declared on his deathbed that "There are not to be two religions
in the [Arabian] Peninsula," which has always been interpreted to mean
that only Islam can be practiced in the region.
While the facts of this account speak for themselves, consider further:
Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah is not just some random Muslim hating
on churches. He is the Grand Mufti of the nation that brought Islam to
the world. Moreover, he is the President of the Supreme Council of Ulema
[Islamic scholars] and Chairman of the Standing Committee for
Scientific Research and Issuing of Fatwas. Accordingly, when it comes to
what Islam teaches, his words are immensely authoritative.
Considering the hysteria that besets the West whenever non-authoritative individuals offend Islam—for instance, a fringe, unknown pastor—imagine
what would happen if a Christian counterpart to the Grand Mufti, say
the Pope, were to declare that all mosques in Italy must be destroyed;
imagine the nonstop Western media frenzy that would erupt, all the
shrill screams of "intolerance" and "bigot," demands for apologies if
not resignation, nonstop handwringing by sensitive politicians, and
worse.
Yet the Grand Mufti—the highest Islamic law authority of our
"friend-and-ally" Saudi Arabia—gets a free pass when he incites Muslims
to destroy churches, not that any extra incitement is needed (nary a
month goes by without several churches being bombed and destroyed
throughout the Islamic world). In fact, at the time of this writing, I
have not seen this story, already some three days old, translated on any
English news source, though "newsworthy" stories are often translated
in mere hours.
Likewise, consider the Grand Mufti's rationale for destroying
churches: it is simply based on a hadith. But when non-Muslims evoke
hadiths as authoritative—this one or the countless others that incite
violence and intolerance against the "infidel"—they are accused of being
"Islamophobes," of intentionally slandering and misrepresenting Islam,
of being obstacles on the road to "dialogue," and so forth.
Which leads to perhaps the most important point: Islam's teachings
are so easily ascertained; there is no mystery in determining what is
"right" and "wrong" in Islam. The Grand Mufti based his fatwa on a
canonical hadith, which Muslims and (informed) non-Muslims know is part
of Islam's sources of jurisprudence (or usul al-fiqh). All very
standard and expected. And yet the West—with all its institutions of
higher learning, including governmental agencies dealing with cultural
and religious questions—is still thoroughly "confused" as to what Islam
teaches.
All of this is nothing short of a scandal—a reminder of just how deep
the mainstream media, academia, and most politicians have their
collective heads thrust in the sand.
Meanwhile, here is the latest piece of evidence of just how bad
churches have it in the Muslim world, for those who care to know.
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