By: babaksmba

babaksmba — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:46:00 +0000

Thank you id-republix for your well written post. You gave a good argument, although I don't agree totally with what you say about Salafism.

I would say that sadly, many people in the west claiming to be salafi are actually forming an extremist cult of their own in some ways.
But, salafism, correctly understood is nothing bad, rather it is all good, as it means adherence to the way of the predecessors (salaf). By predecessors what is meant is the Prophet Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam and his virtuous companions and those who followed their path till the last day.

That is the straight path and I ask Allah to guide me and all Muslims to this straight path.

Salla Allahu wa sallam alaa nabiyyinaa Muhammad.

was salaamu aliakum

By: id-republix

id-republix — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:42:00 +0000

Your ignorance of the source of the Shi’a movement is astounding, and your choice of words – and references – ironic. You speak of hate against the Shi’a – yet ignore the fact that Shi’ism in and of itself is a cult that thrives on hate. Without the – very un-Islamic (to be kind) – absolute and burning hate it has fostered for those the very Prophet of Islam, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, loved, Shi’ism is nothing. This hate is the oxygen of the Shi’a cult, an oxygen without which its flame of hate cannot burn.

You speak of Saudi wariness of the Shi’a – yet fail spectacularly to mention (more so purposefully neglect) – the fact that the Shi’a routinely stand before the graves of the Sahabah and CURSE them from large, thick books. You fail to remember the fact that the only group to ever invade and hold the Haram hostage have been the Shi’a.

The Shi’a in Saudi Arabia are by and large defined by desecration of the very sites and personalities Islam holds dear. And yet you have the audacity to claim that the Shi’a are somehow part and parcel of Islam?

You speak of the persecution of the Shi’a and act as if their persecution of the Sunnis non-existent. In fact you say this outright by claiming that what the Sunni face in Iraq is nothing compared to what the Shi’a do in Saudi Arabia.

Tell me, do Shi’a families fear state death squads that rampage the streets unchecked by police, that massacre entire families? Ask Amnesty International. Do they face routine jailing, torture and murder foe the simple reason of their faith, as do the Sunni in Iraq? Ask Human Rights Watch. And leave alone Iraq – why is it you insist on neglecting the long ongoing persecution and physical state-sponsored intimidation of the Sunni population of Iran?

You parrot the lie of the US media of the supposed ‘Sunni’ domination of Iraq under Saddam, ignoring that Saddam’s most powerful minister was Christian, ignoring that Sunni ulamaa’ were routinely persecuted under him, madaaris and centers of learning closed forever, Sunni rebellions against Saddam’s secularist Ba’ath oppression cruelly crushed and burned. Yet you ignore the Alawi’Shi’a domination of Syria, whose Muslims are by and large are Sunni and live under the oppression of a – Ba’athist – Shi’ite maniac?

Perhaps worst of all, you actually quote the *United States* in a report that righteously lists nations that actively promote religious persecution – you actually give credibility to the absolute worst marauder of human rights in recent times, the *United States*.

But you style yourself a defender of what you see as an oppressed Shi’ite community; it is perhaps a good thing then that you are exposed as nothing but a blatant hypocrite when you utterly ignore Shi’ite persecution of the Sunni. Such a blatantly morally bankrupt blind eye is sickening.

And before you write this off with your narrow worldview as the rant of a ‘Salafi’, know that this writer is anything but. I support, embrace and fight for the traditional Islam as embodied by the likes of, in this day, Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al Kawthari, Abdul Hakim Murad and the like.

I oppose Salafism and its twisted arrogance with all my heart.

But to actually be so blatantly biased in favour of such a historically violent and hateful cult on your part exposes your own ramblings on ‘traditional Islam’ as nothing but a farce.

You are fraught with the desire to appear palatable to the very people who want Islam to be made their limbless, gutless cue dog, and Muslims their expandable waste.

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