Thursday, April 24, 2008
Imagine that.
MEMRI TV: Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid Warns: Freedom of Speech Might Lead to Freedom of Belief
The following are excerpts from an interview with Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid. The interview aired on Al-Majd TV on March 30, 2008.
..."The problem is that they want to open a debate on whether Islam is true or not, and on whether Judaism and Christianity are false or not. In other words, they want to open up everything for debate. Now they want to open up all issues for debate. That's it.
"It begins with freedom of thought, it continues with freedom of speech, and it ends up with freedom of belief. So where's the conspiracy?
"They say: Let's have freedom of thought in Islam. Well, what do they want? They say: I think, therefore I want to express my thoughts. I want to express myself, I want to talk and say, for example, that there are loopholes in Islam, or that Christianity is the truth.
"Then they will talk about freedom of belief, and say that anyone is entitled to believe in whatever he wants... If you want to become an apostate - go ahead. You like Buddhism? Leave Islam, and join Buddhism. No problem. That's what freedom of belief is all about. They want freedom of everything. What they want is very dangerous....
..."Freedom of thought, within some constraints, is blessed. Islam calls for thinking, for interpretation, and for the use of the mind. But as for freedom of heresy, which allows anyone to criticize whatever he wants in Islam, saying, for example, that he does not like the punishment for apostasy, that he doesn't like the punishment for drinking alcohol, or that he does not like the punishment of stoning adulterers - this is barbarism.
"They ask: Why should a thief have his hand chopped off? Some of them say that this is 'too much.' Two-three much on you and your rotten mind. If you abolish this punishment, you will see the rise in thefts. On the other hand, people feel their property is secure because of this punishment."
This is the big fear -- Freedom. It's related to why the Muslim states oppose a successful outcome in Iraq, as this Iraqi politician notes.
Ofcourse arab leaders wont help a shitee iranian government. those shites in 1991 after saddam lost gulf war the revolted agianst saddam with the help of iran, and they hannged saddam on the day of eid al adha, which is a sunni religous day.
They are a disgrace for an arabic country(iraq)
this iranian(ali dabbagh) is happy because iranian president came to iraq publically not secretly, unlike american officials how come secretly, which shows the iranian power in iraq
. and he is proud that iraq became part of iran.
while if arab officials go there they will be killed like the egyption ambassador.
Everytime iraq(iran) government condemnd the sunnies and calls them terrorists and that arabic borders allow terrorists to enter,
while on the other hand they call shitee terrorists armed groups and dont condemnd iran for helping those groups.
to me iraq government is part of iran.Period
Yea, those perfidious shiite Iranians! They really try to undermine sunni legitimacy and glory whenever they can! Such cheek!
"Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has blamed Iran for spreading the theory that Israel was behind the 11 September 2001 attacks.
In an audio tape posted on the internet, Zawahiri insisted al-Qaeda had carried out the attacks on the US.
He accused Iran, and its Hezbollah allies, of trying to discredit Osama Bin Laden's network."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7361414.stm