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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.
