Imam Anjem Choudary’s Rationale for Terrorism

A non-Western view of Islam

CNN’s Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker recently (10/29) interviewed Imam Anjem Choudary about attempted terrorist attacks in the United States.  Below is the interview ,

Highlights of the Parker/Spitzer Interview of Anjem Choudary about Radical Islam

• Islam is submission and the Muslim obligation of jihad

• Sharia Law is for all mankind

Islam is submission and the Muslim obligation of jihad

6:22-7:49

PARKER: Mr. Choudary, I’m Kathleen Parker, and I have a question for you. If I understood you correctly, you said a bit ago that you support any Muslim doing the work of a Muslim. Can you describe exactly what you mean by the work of a Muslim?

CHOUDARY: Yes. I believe that Islam is submission, and that applies to every aspect of our life, whether in our relationship with our families, our relationship with the society, even the way that we address people and invite them to Islam.

Jihad is not something which, you know, the Muslims are permanently engaged in. But there is jihad to liberate Muslim land, which is an obligation for the Muslims to support, verbally, financially and physically, to liberate and to defend our life and our property.

And of course, this is something, you know, the Muslims around the world I don’t think would differ with. They may say one thing to you in front of CNN, but I can assure you behind your backs, in every (inaudible), in every community center, they are standing with their Muslim brothers and sisters, saying we hope the Americans and British are pushed out of our countries and we can implement the Sharia. So this is an Islamic organization for us to support our brothers around the world. Our land is one, our war is one, our peace is one, our honor is one. But we don’t need to be in a constant state of this flux of, you know, a cycle of violence.

I think that we can have a decent relationship. You withdraw your troops, stop supporting the pirate state of Israel, and then perhaps we can have a dialogue and discussion. These warnings are there, in the statements of Sheikh Osama bin Laden, Sheikh Ayman al- Zawahiri, you know, Adam Gadahn. You know, why is the American establishment not taking heed? I think that is the real question.

7:50-8:52

Sharia Law is for all mankind

 

PARKER: But you also want to impose Sharia law where you live. Does that mean that — does the work of a Muslim mean imposing Sharia law on everyone who is not a Muslim, including Americans?

CHOUDARY: Look, the Sharia law is the divine law sent by God to the final messenger, Mohammed (speaking Arabic). It is justice for mankind. It will take mankind out of the shackles of man-made law, into the perfection and beauty of divine law. So of course I want that — I want that everywhere. I want to share that with you. Surely it’s a very noble thing to invite someone to a superior way of life. You know, if I believe the people are being oppressed, why should I not invite them to come out of their oppression?

I believe that the Americans, the British and indeed most of the world had been living in the darkness of the hegemony and the exploitation of man-made law for many, many decades. But you know, when we open the door, when we shine the light, people don’t like the light. But you know, I think you will find that when people actually have a look at Islam, when they look at the Sharia, they will see that it in fact has a solution for every single problem that’s facing America and Britain nowadays. You know, from the inflation to the credit crunch to the exploitation…

It is clear from Eliot Spitzer’s question that there is a clash of worldviews: a secular democratic view versus a “radical” Islamic view; in fact, Spitzer states to Imam Anjem Choudary,   ‘You are a violent and heinous terrorist.’

I agree with Eliot Spitzer that Choudary is a violent and heinous terrorist.  However, I’m uncomfortable with Spitzer because Spitzer is an immoral man.   Spitzer is a wicked adulterer and Choudary is a wicked murderer.

Certainly Anjem Choudary’s views on participating in attacks on the Western world is not the kind of mainstream Islam we find in the United States.  But are his other views mainstream in the Muslim world?

• Islam is submission, and that applies to every aspect of our life…
• There is jihad to liberate Muslim land, which is an obligation for the Muslims to support, verbally, financially and physically, to liberate and to defend our life and our property.
• The place of Israel in US foreign policy.
• Muslims around the world say one thing to the Western Media and another thing behind the backs of the West.

What are your thoughts?

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