Recently Jihad Watch ran a piece by ex-Muslim Saleem Smith about Mubin Shaikh, the “moderate” Muslim spokesman in Canada, entitled “The Curious Case of Mubin Shaikh, the “Undercover Jihadi.”
Longtime Jihad Watch readers may recall that I debated Mubin Shaikh in 2013 about whether or not the Qur’an teaches warfare against unbelievers. You can see that debate here.
Anyway, Mubin Shaikh was furious about Saleem Smith’s article, and took to Twitter — not, of course, to refute the points Smith made or to respond to them in any way, but to seethe and whine about how he was being attacked. I was included in his Twitter fury but ignored it until Mubin wrote “Die in your rage!” to his targets, at which point I responded: “Very moderate, Mubin!”
That was a week ago, last Wednesday, and I forgot all about it until yesterday, when I was walking through an airport and saw this email on my phone from Mubin Shaikh:
From: Mubin Shaikh
To: Robert Spencer
Subject: Lol! You reported my tweet??
Date: March 27, 2018, 2:46 PMLOL! You are such a scoundrel, seriously. You see fit to carry a hit piece on me but report my tweet Die in your rage??
Hahahahaaa … you are beyond pathetic. You even look like a slimeball, God made your face in such a way that it immediately reveals the darkness within.
Interestingly enough, just yesterday morning I had written about this phenomenon: “Leftists and Islamic supremacists are among the most hateful people I’ve ever encountered: in my interactions with people such as Reza Aslan, Nathan Lean, Qasim Rashid, Mubin Shaikh, Khaleel Mohammed and others, I’ve found them to be arrogant, rude, nasty and hate-filled to an appalling degree.” And here was Mubin coming along to prove my point. So I wrote back to tell him I had not reported his tweet:
From: Robert Spencer
To: Mubin Shaikh
Subject: Re: Lol! You reported my tweet??
Date: March 27, 2018, 2:57 PMMubin
You’re insane. I reported nothing.
Your friend (I know, I know, 5:51!)
Robert
Here is the rest of the exchange:
From: Mubin Shaikh
To: Robert Spencer
Subject: Re: Lol! You reported my tweet??
Date: March 27, 2018, 3:02 PM
Pathetic, really.
The only other time my account was ever suspended, was after clashing with you & your followers. In fact, you replied to the very tweet that was flagged. I know you guys move, so this is not surprising to me at all.
I do enjoy how it burns all your collective behinds that I am where I am and do what I do and your hit pieces have zero impact on me. 🙂
Enjoy the rage! lol!
MS
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From: Robert Spencer
To: Mubin Shaikh
Subject: Re: Lol! You reported my tweet??
Date: March 27, 2018, 3:05 PMI don’t know, Mubin, the only one here who is enraged is you. Unhinged, even. But do please calm down. Your account was suspended? I’m sorry to hear it. I think Twitter is stupid. In any case, if it was suspended, it wasn’t because I reported you. But these emails are great and publishable. Do please keep them coming.
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From: Mubin Shaikh
To: Robert Spencer
Subject: Re: Lol! You reported my tweet??
Date: March 27, 2018, 3:09 PMYou can publish whatever you like, be sure to add the fact that I called you a scoundrel and slimeball … anyone looking at your face can see that God Himself wanted everyone else to see those qualities manifested on the outside as a warning. 😉
MS
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From: Robert Spencer
To: Mubin Shaikh
Subject: Re: Lol! You reported my tweet??
Date: March 27, 2018, 3:11 PMSure, Mubin! Thanks!
CordiallyRobert
That was it. So what is it that makes even professional moderate Muslims such as Mubin Shaikh so full of hatred and vitriol? It is inculcated in their religious texts. There is no “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” in Islam. The Qur’an tells Muslims to hate and have contempt for unbelievers: “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, ruthless to unbelievers” (48:29). And “O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and let them find in you a harshness” (9:73). It calls non-Muslims “the most vile of created beings” (98:6) and says they are “like cattle, rather, they are more astray” (7:179).
Muhammad was no better. Consider these hadiths (thanks to Sam Shamoun):
Ubayy b. Ka’b told that he heard God’s messenger say, “If anyone proudly asserts his descent in the manner of the pre-Islamic people, tell him to bite his father’s penis, and do not use a euphemism.” It is transmitted in Sarah [sic] as-sunna. (Mishkat Al Masabih, English Translation With Explanatory Notes By Dr. James Robson [Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Publishers, Booksellers & Exporters, Lahore, Pakistan, Reprinted 1994], Volume II, Book XXIV — General Behaviour, Chapter XIII. Boasting and Party-Spirit, p. 1021)
And:
“Then Urwah said: “Muhammad, tell me: if you extirpate your tribesmen, have you ever heard of any of the Arabs who destroyed his own race before you? And if the contrary comes to pass, by God I see both prominent people and rabble who are likely to flee and leave you.” Abu Bakr said, “Go suck the clitoris of al-Lat!” — al-Lat was the idol of Thaqif, which they used to worship — “Would we flee and leave him?” (The History of al-Tabari — The Victory of Islam, translated by Michael Fishbein [State University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany 1997], Volume VIII (8), p. 76)
And in the words of Abu Bakr As-Sideeq to ‘Urwah: “Suck Al-Lat’s clitoris!” — there is a permissibility of speaking plainly the name of the private parts if there is some benefit to be gained thereby, just as he [Muhammad] permitted a plain response to the one who made the claims of the Jahiliyyah (i.e. claims of tribal superiority), by saying: “Bite your father’s penis!”[3] And for every situation there is a (fitting) saying. (Provisions for the Hereafter (Mukhtasar Zad Al-Ma’ad), by Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah, summarized by Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab At-Tamimi [Darussalam Publishers & Distributors, First Edition: September 2003], Chapter. Regarding the Story of Al-Hudaibiyyah, p. 383; source; words within brackets ours)
By comparison with those statements, Mubin Shaikh does come out looking “moderate” indeed.