It’s equal parts amusing and exasperating to witness, time and again: Western chattering classes being exposed to the reality of Islam. To the horror of virtue-signalling ‘coexist’ types, Atlantic writer Graeme Wood pointed out that, far from Nothing To Do With Islam™, Islamic State is “Islamic. Very Islamic.”
Despite the frantic denials of Western Islamophiles, Islamic State preach “coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam”. Just because deluded Western elites can’t reconcile the reality of Islamic State with the deceitful ‘Religion of Peace’ bullshit they’ve fooled themselves with, doesn’t change the reality of Islamic Scripture. Not least its fundamental incompatibility with Western liberal democracy.
Once again, the chattering elite are shocked – shocked, I tell you – when Muslims have the temerity to say exactly what their scripture teaches.
Radical preachers and extremist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir have attacked Australia’s democracy and The Muslim Vote campaign, calling it a “shirk” and an insult to Allah, at sermons in southwest Sydney, the geographical heart of a community-led Muslim political movement.
Abu Ousayd, also known as Wissam Haddad, and Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Australian branch took to pulpits in Sydney’s Canterbury-Bankstown area on Friday to call Muslims in parliament “apostates” and order their followers to boycott elections.
Just because they’re radical and extremists doesn’t mean their wrong, by the tenets of Islam.
Sayyid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, flatly rejected Western democracy as blasphemy, where “the sovereignty of man … where man has usurped the divine attribute”. He had Islamic scripture on his side. As the online Islamic Encyclopedia also points out, the Western concept of sovereignty, belonging to citizens, “is not validated in an Islamic society”.
Allah the sovereign is the primary law-giver. He delegates his authority for administering justice and peace to His agents such as the Islamic state and the khalifa. They only enjoy marginal autonomy necessary to implement and enforce the laws of their sovereign… derived from the Quran and Sunnah [i.e., Sharia].
But isn’t the Islamic Republic of Pakistan a democracy, you may ask? The Constitution of Pakistan is quite clear that is not like Western democracy: Whereas sovereignty over the entire universe belongs Almighty Allah, and the authority to be exercised by the people of Pakistan within the limits prescribed by Him as a sacred trust.
Islam, says the Islamic Encyclopedia, teaches that the sovereignty belongs to Allah alone and no human being can be the lord of other human beings.
Islamic State, whom Hizb ut-Tahrir celebrate, are simply the most fundamental exponent of orthodox Islamic concepts of government. Its goal of establishing an Islamic caliphate is not an aberration: it is very Islamic.
Prominent Hizb ut-Tahrir member Wassim Doureihi told his own audience on Friday that it was “not conspiratorial” to suggest that mainstream leaders who led counter-extremist efforts during the height of ISIS – an effort he criticised – were democracy’s biggest supporters.
At Hizb ut-Tahrir’s headquarters in the electorate of Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke, Mr Doureihi slammed politicians as “criminals in suits” and called Muslim senator Fatima Payman the “white man’s Orientalist fantasy”.
“(The senator’s) experience has shown us that engaging in the political process is not an option for (the community),” he said, claiming Muslims would be at an “inevitable loss” if they took part.
Interestingly, a full transcript of Doureihi’s lecture does not seem to be available. It would be informative to see what Doureihi actually said, where the Australian has substituted “(the community)”. It was “the ummah”, wasn’t it?
That such stuff is being openly preached in Australia exposes both the incompatibility of Islam with Western democracy, and the absolute spinelessness of the Albanese government.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is recognised as a terrorist organisation in Britain and Germany, although the Albanese government has resisted calls to do the same in Australia.
Because they’re too terrified of losing votes in Western Sydney.
It comes amid – and stands in contrast to – The Muslim Vote, a community campaign spearheaded by respected Sheik Wesam Charkawi to oust Labor ministers across southwest Sydney and elect pro-Palestine independent candidates.
So much for ‘coexist’, then.
Mr Burke said Mr Ousayd’s al-Madina Dawah and Hizb ut-Tahrir were “fringe” and most of the electorate wouldn’t know of, hear or respond to their words.
Most of the non-Arabic-speaking, non-Muslim electorate, he means. In fact, Ousayd and Hizb ut-Tahrir regularly speak to large crowds of Western Sydney Muslims and have even larger online followings.
For how long will Australia’s deluded chatterers bury their heads in the sand?
