Egyptian Journalist Calls Out ‘Terroristic, Hypocritical’ Muslims for Defaming Islam and Muhammed
- Posted on February 10, 2012 at 6:57am by
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Since last month’s Muslim Brotherhood-Salafi sweep of Egyptian parliamentary elections, serious questions have arisen about Egypt’s long-term commitment to the peace treaty with Israel and its warm relations with the terror group Hamas. The words of outspoken religious figures who have inspired the Muslim Brotherhood and who have in the past preached to violence makes that concern seem well-placed.
Now, one voice in Egypt is turning the tables on radical Islamists who encourage jihad, accusing them of defaming Islam and the prophet Muhammed.
Journalist Ahmed El Aswany, an Egyptian Muslim, wrote on the popular news site El Bashayer that it’s not cartoons, books or free speech that defame Islam, rather Muslims “for imposing a terroristic, hypocritical, and life-hating Islamic model that feeds on killing others in the name of jihad and fighting freedom of expression…”
Among those he criticizes: Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi – the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader – who has in the past called suicide bombings “heroic martyrdom operations.”
Middle East expert Raymond Ibrahim found the column, originally published in December, and translated it from Arabic this week. This is what El Aswany wrote:
Those who defame the Prophet are they who slaughter and bomb innocent people all over the world—in New York, Madrid, London, Bali, Riyadh, Cairo, Kabul and Baghdad—while citing the name of Allah and his Prophet and under the banner of Islamic jihad. Ongoing demonstrations follow in support of their acts, while Internet sites sing praises of the “knight” Osama bin Laden, the “hero of the two raids on New York and Washington [i.e., the strikes of 9/11].”
Those who defame the Prophet include men like [Yusif] Qaradawi [the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader], who incite killing Jewish babies in their mothers’ wombs (his lecture at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate in 1996), and who incite and support suicide bombings and declared jihad in Iraq, in the name of religion and the Prophet, leading to the killing of innocent people.
El Aswany criticized bizarre fatwas that are little-known in the West:
Those who defame the Prophet are they who issue fatwas sanctioning “adult breastfeeding,” who claim that drinking the Prophet’s urine is a blessing, and allow such hadiths to be taught in schools and religious universities—including the hadith of the fly and other hadiths advocating humiliating the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] and treating them with contempt; the hadith of “paradise is under the shades of swords,” and thousands of other hadiths, the mere existence of which defame the Prophet and Islam.
Those who defame the Prophet are they who teach children in Islamic schools to hate Christians, that befriending them is forbidden (“your enemy is the enemy of your religion”)—as one niqab-wearing teacher taught my friend’s ten-year-old daughter at Al Fateh Islamic Schools in Maadi; and when the parents complained they were told “This is Islam.”
He also defended the rights of women, threatened by the religious edicts:
Those who defame the Prophet are they who deem women defective, equating them with dogs and donkeys in that they invalidate prayer, as per the famous Sahih Muslim hadith. They believe that women are brainless and impious—forgetting that women are mothers, sisters, sweethearts, daughters, and wives, and are on an equal par with men. What is even sadder is that the majority of Muslim women believe in the authenticity of such hadiths that disparage them.
His harshest critique comes at the end of his editorial:
Those who defame the Prophet are the rulers and sheikhs of the Arab world who have transformed their countries into the last strongholds of tyranny and dictatorship in the world and who manipulate religious texts to justify their crimes.
Those who defame the Prophet are not in the West, but rather we Muslims, for imposing a terroristic, hypocritical, and life-hating model of Islam that feeds on killing others in the name of jihad and fighting freedom of expression on the pretext of defending the Umma’s [Islamic world's] precepts, which mean only regression and ossification. They [Western people] only defame and combat the model that we—and no one else—created.
Criticizing armed terrorists and their supporters seems like a pretty brave venture, but according to Raymond Ibrahim who found and translated the article, finding Muslim voices willing to criticize Muslims they consider radical is less rare than it used to be, especially among those cloaking their views in the anonymity of the internet.
Recent examples include Gaza human rights worker Mahmoud Abu Rahma who survived a stabbing attack after publishing an op-ed criticizing Hamas for using Palestinian civilians as human shields and Egyptian secular writer Khaled Montaser who portrayed the Muslim world as having an “inferiority complex.”
On the other hand, outspoken critics of Islam face severe retribution, as seen in the calls for the execution of one Saudi blogger who posted Tweets about the prophet Muhammed.
The Blaze asked Raymond Ibrahim if he had further information about El Aswany. He explained El Aswany’s own website provides few details. Ibrahim says:
“It states that he is a secularist who sees the ‘religious movement,’ i.e., Islamist movement, as the source of the world’s woes, and calling it the ‘new Nazi’ movement, which poses a great threat to the entire world.
The dearth of information concerning him is of course not surprising: considering the sort of articles he writes and his stated position, he likely does not want to reveal his identity.”
An American whose parents were raised in Egypt, Raymond Ibrahim is a fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum. He is also author of the book The Al Qaeda Reader, a collection of translations of al-Qaeda documents, and has written extensively about the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, including the publication of a monthly report on the subject.






















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suz
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:13pmthe journalist should be protected by those who could afford it.
Report Post »charleyrocks
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 6:04pmIn Canada there are Muslims now condemning the actions of jihad and speaking out clearly and loud bravo to them. Oh and I said mr Harper was a no nonsense prime minister, he now has approached china, on the oil deal, so now 60 thousand jobs are lost in the USA. Thank you Obama
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 6:37pm“In Canada there are Muslims now condemning the actions of jihad and speaking out clearly and loud bravo to them.”
Sorry but it doesn’t mean a thing. They are in Canada, if they were in any country with a dominant Muslim population they would just be killed and they would disappear from the face of the earth. And since Islam allows, even requires, deception of the infidels in the furtherance of Jihad, there is NO WAY of knowing if those people are just putting on an act to fool infidels into allowing Islam to continue to spread in Canada and the West. And finally, once enough Muslims are in Canada, assuming it is not stopped, then Canada will be no different than any other land with a large number of Muslims and the people speaking out as you suggest would merely be killed a disappear from the face of the earth. So they can take their little **** chat and stuff it, they can go to h*ll frankly, or better yet, they can leave Canada, leave the West, unless they renounce Islam altogether.
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 12:51amIf you think muslims are your friends … you have not read their book, or you are a muslim.
They can speak out … and they should … because it’s their mission to do so. The only peace they seek is among muslims. For the rest of us, they reserve no better result than death or humiliation.
Not my words, their words.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:21pmMURDERING MUSLUMS.. they care NOT whom they KILL but that they KILL.. theyll even KILL thier own kind make NO difference to them they are in a man made cult of hate n death… thier god a FALSE STONE IDOL.. thier so called prophet FAKE no heaven only HELL awaits murdering muslums….
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:20pmWhatever leads to more killin’ of Muslims by Muslims leading to a more perfect Islam. Islam should be purged of all that is imperfect within Islam before Islam can pass judgement on infidels.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:40pmIt took a great deal of courage to write that article. This man is DEAD! The Islamic radicals will kill him because of this!
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 3:19pmSoyanara
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:02pmFrom what I see here, he only mentions “hadith” (not from the Koran), not “Sourate” (from the Koran).
Report Post »His criticism of violent Islamists is brave. Problem is, any Muslim knows that the Koran itself justifies, even encourages, the deception and killing of infidels. Are there ANY Muslims who do not see the Koran as the basis if their beliefs?
krispy01
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:25amDead man walking.
Report Post »rot_soldier
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:50amWhat we “Christians” seem to overlook is our examples of the same behavior of wanting to wage wars. A CIA official comes out and says that Iran is planning on attacks within the US and everyone instantly starts calling for war with Iran and turning their country to glass. Where‘s the proof and it doesn’t get any better when Glenn Beck has a show about Hamas in Mexico. Granted, I agree that Hamas is in Mexico, but I don’t agree on the real threat from Iran. If they wanted to attack us they could have done it at any time by just hitting a few Walmarts, departments stores or gas stations, but there hasn’t been anything except these lone failed attempts. Put yourselves in the shoes of your average Iranian citizen. They’re government is telling their people that the Americans are bringing their navals fleets to their shores to attack them and this just so happens to be true. There is no disputing the facts that we have parked air craft carriers outside Iran. Would you as a citizen of Iran not only be terrified, but now more than ever willing to attack the US first? Anyone recall the Gulf of Tonkin, Lusithania, Japanese oil embargo? As this journalist shows, there are many muslims that see the real problem and it’s our leaders whether they are political or religious leaders. We have the same problem here in the US and Beck has stated this. Stop wanting to wage a Christian jihad and begin thinking for yourselfs.
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:30pmChristianity it appears, may be a trifle more tolerant than Islam. Christians don’t, or haven’t lately dedicated themselves to purging by fire all the variations of Christianity. More Muslims are killed by Muslims as directed by theKoran to kill the heretics in preference to the infidels?
Wouldn’t it be more perfect to isolate the most perfect version of Islam if all the heretics would be killed? I understand that the argument has been going on for some time now and will continue for some time again.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:42pm1. the “small potato” attacks are decoys. A major attack would be on a scale of 9/11 or greater. Takes a lot of preps.
2. Alphabet agencies have a reason not to talk much, as it would hamper ongoing investigations.
3. The potential attack on Iran won’t be to turn Iran into a glowing glassy parking lot. The goal would be to shred the nuke production capability–e.g. pinpoint targeting of these facilities, nothing more. Iranian population has nothing to fret about.
Had an online convo going with one student on Tehran Uni at the time when Iraq war started. She sent me an email saying: “That was a mistake. I wish you attacked us!” (She managed to leave Iran a year later and settled in Canada).
Report Post »Mrs. Bowers
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:34amCourageous yes? Wise? I don’t think so….. God be with him.
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 12:57amBoth wise and courageous. This should be clear to all.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:29am.
Run Ahmed Run!!! OoooooWeeeeee! Boy are dey gonna put dat Jihad on you……
Well it’s been nice knowing you Ahmed……
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:16amSomeone has stood up among the Islamist. Someone has finally spoken truth and criticized the stupidity they have followed for the last 30 years. May he live and prosper so he can be a voice of reason for many.
Report Post »MarsBarsTru7
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:00pmThe last 30 years? Try the last 1400 years. No harm though. The main stream media would have you believe that they’ve only been naughty for the last 10 years or so.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:47pmMossad’s been pretty busy for 30 years.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 4:30pmMossad = Terror and Deception
Report Post »LogicalMetaphysician
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:16amDurka durka, Mohammad jihad.
Report Post »One of the Senior Goat Lovers is going to put a jihad on this brave fellow.
marthasusan40
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:47amMay God Bless this man and keep him safe. What courage he has to speak out. May we as Americans be reminded what an amazing country we live in …We should appreciate our freedom of speech and protect it. We might take for granted that women are equals here and have a voice.. The world is a strange place. I agree with earlier post about knowing your enemy. This evil is our enemy. As a woman and a Christian, I will stay armed with my spirituality and my willingness to pay very close attention.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:43amYow. A ‘religion’ of piss-drinkin’, baby killin’ homicidal maniacs. Kinda makes you wanna convert to ‘pisslam’, doesn’t it?
Report Post »dumbgrunt33
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:06amYea, guess who is Ba’al……..
Report Post »dumbgrunt33
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:14amI should say….. guess who is serving Ba’al
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:06pmMay Michael and all the Angels protect Ahmed Al Aswani from harm. That took great courage to do what he did, being a Muslim right in the midst of the madness.
Report Post »MarsBarsTru7
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:10pmDon’t forget raping, pillaging, pedophilia, theft, lying, enslaving, murdering, fly juice drinking, stoning, beheading, torturing, advocates of self immolation.
I’m sure there are things I forgot. But yeah… it’s a religion of peace and enlightenment.
People that call themselves Muslims aren’t necessarily bad people, but the religion itself is perverse.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:22amReveal his Identity and he would not last long enough to take another breath….brave man and if millions more were to do this they’d have a movement!! Not going to happen because of the overwhelming lack of education outside the quran!! A shame but it will take LARGE quantities of blood to remove this stain on human hostory!
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:09amMaybe this will bring the pigs of Hamas some pasifistic enlightenment.If it doesn’t, I say we glitter bomb them with glitter and the Obama Admin. team. After all Barak Hussain Obama single handedly took down Bin Laden, Eygpt, the American dream and the US. economy. Go little Berry!!!
Report Post »Tandem2011
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:03amSomeone once posed the telling question: Why would any intelligent woman want to become or stay a Muslim given a choice? Muhammad is quoted in the Koran (Surah on Women): “Men are superior to women” [because of the way God has made them different from men]. It further states that disobedient wives should be “scourged” (confined, flogged or beaten…or however the husband so interprets it). Islam is strictly a man‘s religion designed in a man’s favor. If Muhammad was a true seer or prophet, why did he not foresee how this verse would condone the prolonged suffering and abuse of women and girls in Islamic cultures? Women represent, more or less, half of our species.
It’s a big deal.
By the same token, I have read traditions (hadith) of Muhammad (his sayings that were not included in the Koran) that clearly suggest that by our time his religion would become “an empty word on the tongues” of his own followers and that “fire” would “rain down” upon them…suggesting that Islam would become both obsolete and self-destructive. If the sayings are authentic, Muhammad got it right about what’s going on today.
Everyone should study the Koran and the history of Islam (in contrast to what the apologetic Western academic left teaches) to truly understand how the unsuspecting are being played day-in and day-out by the liberal media, our schools and the “Progressive” Democrats in power.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:03amDone already:
http://prophetofdoom.net/Prophet_of_Doom_Islams_Terrorist_Dogma_in_Muhammads_Own_Words.Islam
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:53amIt takes a very brave Muslim to speak out against the evilness of Islam. I pray that millions of them hear his words and listen.
Report Post »All of us who pray for good to triumph over evil should be praying for this man’s safety. The world needs more like him.
cemerius
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:20amNot going to happen because very few are actually educated enough to think for themselves outside a mosque!!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:07amCEMERIUS………I actually agree with you. I believe Islam is the greatest evil that the world has ever confronted but I do pray that words like these from this man will open the eyes of some people, somewhere.
Report Post »Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:48amWho wonders why would handing over Egypt’s national government to pious Muslims result in war? There are religions of peace, sure, but Islam isn’t one of those. Look to India and you see a true religion of peace called Jan. Extremist Jans sweep the path in front of them to be sure they don’t accidentally crush an insect while walking. Meanwhile, Muslims have a well-deserved bad rap for the death cult’s long history of hateful words and blood-soaked violence. Certainly, you can’t claim Islam is innocent of the concentrated crimes committed calling out Allah’s name. It often seems Muslims happen to all live in violent hellholes where perpetual war is right as rain and reading of the Koran’s passages celebrating war and jihad and martyrdom and killing infidels. People say Osama bin Laden hijacked Islam for terrorism but they can’t say what, if anything, bin Laden did that violated Islam’s core doctrine. Back in the day, President Jimmy Carter was surprised Iran descended into religious horror show after he installed Islamists over the innocent Iranians. Since then, the Islamic Republic has hanged an endless parade of poor people for being religiously incorrect. Every week good Muslims rulers pull some fresh barbaric outrage against human rights and modernity. Now, who is really shocked that this shiny new Islamist government taking control in Egypt is proving to be lousy with the furry-faced frothing of the self-righteous, self-pitying, bloody-minded bigots typical o
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:00amislam is ,was and always will be a violent religion. read the quran the hadiths. those who do not embrace the enslaving or killing of infidels (non believers) are not considered true muslims. while there are several sects in islam, together they all believe the same thing about we infidels.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:13amXcept western sufis and Ahmadiyya. Both considered by salafis and takfiris as certified kafirs (infidels).
Report Post »Takfiris actually consider anyone else but them infidels.
expatinontariocanada
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:31amDead man talking, I’m sorry to think. If it is God’s will please protect him for all praise, glory and honour be His.
Report Post »Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:05amIsn‘t the core problem here that there’s too much praising of the gods and it has made everyone stupid? If we removed the human desire to honor and humor a particular god over someone else’s god there is no doubt religiously-inspired mass murder would decrease. And why can’t these three Middle Eastern religions mutually made up by the benighted Bronze Age dusty desert dwellers of that dirty, dry region get along? The Jews got their religion from ancient Egypt, the Christians cribbed their doctrine from the Hebrew and then Mohammad came along and copied badly from both of them. How did that turn into something to fight about forever? Mostly, it only religious people are this violently intolerant and — if history is any judge — that sort is not good for the fate of humanity.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:26amMiyegombo-
Report Post »People are violent. Some just use religion to justify their violence, but it is truly inherent in human behavior. It is a myth that more wars were fought over religion than other causes. The vast majority of wars were over territory and resources. Even the crusades were about property. They only used religion as a recruiting tool.
Twobyfour
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:17amHidden Lion, unless the territory and resources are a part and parcel of the religion. Two come to mind — Thuggee (nearly extinct) and Islam.
Report Post »MarsBarsTru7
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:59am@MIYEGOMBO
Report Post »Jew didn’t get their religion from Egypt. There isn’t a vetted scholar on the subject that would make such a ridiculous claim.
@HIDDEN LION
The Crusades had nothing to do with property initially, and for their duration had little to do with property. They also had nothing to do with conversion by force as they are popularly portrayed now. If you want to know more about the Crusades, just ask. I doubt you’ll find more than a handful of people on the planet more informed about the Crusades than me. Or, pick up a book. But don’t rely on movies or the “History” Channel to inform you about such matters.
TxSon
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:29amThank you Blaze for bringing this ray of hope to us. It is only from people like this, not wars and bombs that we can ever hope that terrorism will be controlled.
Report Post »democritusoilder267
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:18amFinally someone in the Muslim world who is standing to radical Muslims.
Report Post »Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:13amYou don’t see this much because the penalty to speaking truth to Islam is often death. Muslims tend to be extremely intolerant and self-pitying and have a history of murdering anyone who dares defame their squalid death cult. Merely drawing cartoons of the prophet Mohammad in a Denmark newspaper can get people killed across the planet in Pakistan. This guy won’t last long.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:16amBrave man, I fear his bold stand will be rewarded with a fatwa against him.
Report Post »Link8on
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:58pmHe may become one of the many forgotten truthful infidel martyrs .
The leadership will usually only elevate martyrs who can advance their particular agenda.
The mullahs/imams/ahyatolahs who interpret their scripture obviously do not respect the truth. They have a McCarthyist agenda to push and anyone out of alignment from that agenda is infidel targeted by fatwa .
McCarthyism also existed after Jesus ascended , yet the Lord reached out to the zealot Saul and converted him to the apostle Paul.
I will pray for the scales to fall off of their eyes.
let me quote Glenn Beck:
Report Post »“The Truth has No Agenda”
Twobyfour
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:19pmWhat on earth are you blathering about? McCarthy’s agenda was to get a rid of commies entrenched in different positions or endeavors. As simple as that. He was right, there were commies hiding behind many trees. The state of our indoctrination centers (mislabeled as educational institutions) attests to that fact. The cultural marxists are wherever you look. How it did come about, the sheer quantity of them, what do you think?
McCarthy was right.
Mullahs/Imams agenda is to follow Koran/Hadiths to the letter and spread Islam all over the world and extinguish everything else.
Report Post »infidelsaplenty
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:08amWow! I hope Ahmed El Aswany knows how to hide!
Report Post »quicker
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:27amHe`ll end up like that Iranian woman that was speaking out for womens rights at Houston.Sad ,but true.People that speek out are targeted.But yet they say Islum is a religion of peace,and they`ll kill you if you say differant.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 7:08amWow, finally a muslim who has some guts to call his nutbag bretheren out….. He will soon have his head removed from his body… But he is still a brave man, too bad he is a lone voice among them….
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