“As news reports of the shooter’s background have come out, Ashmawi said parents who usually take their children to Sunday school at the mosque are planning to keep their children home this week out of fear they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims.”
This was eminently predictable: after every jihad massacre and foiled jihad plot, the establishment media publishes handwringing stories about poor, pious Muslims fearing a “backlash.” Actual stories of that “backlash” are much rarer, since the backlash usually does not materialize.
“But sadly enough, people don’t understand that this has nothing to do with our faith. In fact, what he did is totally forbidden and against faith. Somebody that does something so horrific is not blessed. God has said if you kill one human, it’s as though you have killed all humanity.”
That’s adapted from Qur’an 5:32. This is what the Qur’an really says:
Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption in the land — it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one — it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, after that, throughout the land, were transgressors. (5:32)
First, note that this is not a general moral principle applying to everyone, as Ashmawi implied, but one only for the Children of Israel. Nor is it a general prohibition of killing: there are big exceptions for those who kill “for a soul or for corruption in the land.” And it concludes that even after this command was given, “many of them, after that … were transgressors” — so all it is really saying is that Allah gave a command to the Children of Israel and they transgressed against it. It isn’t anything more than yet another Qur’anic castigation of the Jews.
Also, it is followed in the Qur’an by 5:33, which specifies the punishment for the corruption and transgressions of the Children of Israel: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.”
Thus this passage is explaining what must be done with Jews who reject Muhammad, not dictating lofty moral principles.
But in this article, in any case, we see how the establishment media narrative works. When Muslims murder infidels, Muslims are the victims. When racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” supposedly target Muslims, Muslims are the victims. And when Muslims fake “Islamophobic hate crimes,” Muslims are the victims. Always and in every situation, Muslims are victims, to be appeased and accommodated in every possible way. Once you understand that, we can all lock arms and march together into our glorious multicultural, diverse future.
“Pensacola Muslims worried about backlash against community after NAS Pensacola shooting,” by Jim Little, Pensacola News Journal, December 7, 2019:
While the FBI is working to investigate the motive behind the shooting at NAS Pensacola that left three people dead and eight injured, Pensacola-area Muslims are worried about a potential backlash against their community….
Salma Ashmawi, a spokeswoman for the Islamic Center of Northwest Florida, told the News Journal that Friday prayers at Pensacola’s largest mosque were focused on praying for the victims of the shooting and their families at the Navy base.
“What can anybody do in a case like that except pray?” Ashmawi said, adding the mosque’s membership is also raising money to help the victims….
As news reports of the shooter’s background have come out, Ashmawi said parents who usually take their children to Sunday school at the mosque are planning to keep their children home this week out of fear they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims.
“I’m getting a lot of people telling me they’re not coming,” Ashmawi said. “Even teachers are not bringing their children. If the teacher doesn’t mind, her husband is like, ‘No absolutely not. You have no idea what people are saying out there, and I don’t want my kids to get hurt.’ ”
Ashmawi said the Sunday school service will go on.
“For the ones who come, we’ll use that time to talk about unity and standing by anybody who is injured or hurt,” Ashmawi said. “And how something like this unacceptable just like any crime. It was murder. It’s a crime. It is unacceptable. We are in a civil society. We don’t do things like that.”
‘We’re hurt and we’re in mourning’Ashmawi said the Muslim community in Pensacola was horrified by the shooting.
“We are all Pensacola residents,” Ashmawi said. “We’re hurt and we’re in mourning.”
Ashmawi said what the shooter did was an act against God and against humanity, though she added that Christians don’t have to live in fear or face calls to apologize every time someone claiming to be a Christian does something wrong.
“But sadly enough, people don’t understand that this has nothing to do with our faith,” Ashmawi said. “In fact, what he did is totally forbidden and against faith. Somebody that does something so horrific is not blessed. God has said if you kill one human, it’s as though you have killed all humanity.”