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Graphic Video: Muslims Slaughter Convert to Christianity in Tunisia
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Liberal talk show host Tawfiq Okasha recently
appeared on "Egypt Today" airing a video of Muslims slicing a young
man's head off for the crime of apostasy, in this case, the crime of
converting to Christianity and refusing to renounce it. The video—be warned,
it is immensely graphic—is embedded here (the actual execution appears from
minute 1:13-4:00). For those who prefer not to view it, a summary follows:
A young man appears held down by masked men.
His head is pulled back, with a knife to his throat. He does not struggle and
appears resigned to his fate. Speaking in Arabic, the background speaker, or
"narrator," chants a number of Muslim prayers and supplications,
mostly condemning Christianity, which, because of the Trinity, is referred to
as a polytheistic faith: "Let Allah be avenged on the polytheist
apostate"; "Allah empower your religion, make it victorious against
the polytheists"; "Allah, defeat the infidels at the hands of the
Muslims"; "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his
messenger."
Then, to cries of "Allahu
Akbar!"—or, "God is great!"—the man holding the knife to the
apostate's throat begins to slice away, even as the victim appears calmly
mouthing a prayer. It takes nearly two minutes of graphic knife-carving to sever
the Christian's head, which is then held aloft to more Islamic cries and
slogans of victory.
Visibly distraught, Tawfiq Okasha, the host,
asked: "Is this Islam? Does Islam call for this? How is Islam
related to this matter?...These are the images that are disseminated throughout
the electronic media in Europe and America…. Can you imagine?" Then, in
reference to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis, whose political
influence has grown tremendously, he asked, "How are such people
supposed to govern?"
In fact, only the other day a top Egyptian
Salafi leader openly stated that no
Muslim has the right to apostatize, or leave Islam, based on the
canonical hadiths, including Muhammad's command, "Whoever leaves his
religion, kill him." Islam's most authoritative legal manuals make
crystal clear that apostasy is a capital crime, punishable by death.
The first "righteous caliph," a
paragon of Muslim piety and virtue, had tens of thousands of people
slaughtered—including by burning, beheading, and crucifixion—simply because
they tried to break away from Islam. According to the Encyclopaedia of
Islam, the most authoritative reference work on Islam in the English
language, "there is unanimity that the male apostate must be put to
death."
Finally, a word on the "prayers" or
supplications to Allah made by the Muslim executioners in the video: these
are standard and formulaic. It is not just masked, anonymous butchers who
supplicate Allah as they engage in acts of evil; rather, top-ranking Muslim
leaders openly invoke such hate-filled prayers.
See here
for examples of prominent Muslims supplicating Allah to strike infidels with
cancer and disease "till they pray for death and do not receive
it," and even formalized prayers in Mecca, blasted on megaphones as
Muslims pilgrimage and circumambulate the Ka'ba, supplicating Allah to make
the lives of Christians and Jews "hostage to misery; drape them with
endless despair, unrelenting pain and unremitting ailment; fill their lives
with sorrow and pain and end their lives in humiliation and oppression."
"Is this Islam?" You decide.
Raymond
Ibrahim is an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum and a
Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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