Are people like Jean-Claude Hollerich engaged in a massive campaign of deception, or of self-deception, or of both? In any case, the fog of willful ignorance around this man is so thick, it’s a wonder he can even breathe.
Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which Muhammad orders the murders of people who have insulted him.
These include Abu Afak, who was over one hundred years old, and the poetess Asma bint Marwan. Abu Afak was killed in his sleep, in response to Muhammad’s question, “Who will avenge me on this scoundrel?” Similarly, Muhammad on another occasion cried out, “Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?” One of his followers, Umayr ibn Adi, went to her house that night, where he found her sleeping next to her children. The youngest, a nursing babe, was in her arms. But that didn’t stop Umayr from murdering her and the baby as well. Muhammad commended him: “You have done a great service to Allah and His Messenger, Umayr!” (Ibn Ishaq, 674-676)
Then there was Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf. Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad
bin Maslama answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).” Muhammad responded: “You may say it.” Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Sahih Bukhari, volume 5, book 59, number 369)
Likewise the popular online fatwa site Islam QA called for death for blasphemers on a page it later took down. It used both Qur’an and Hadith to make its argument. “The scholars are unanimously agreed,” the site explains, “that a Muslim who insults the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) becomes a kaafir [unbeliever] and an apostate who is to be executed. This consensus was narrated by more than one of the scholars, such as Imaam Ishaaq ibn Raahawayh, Ibn al-Mundhir, al-Qaadi ‘Iyaad, al-Khattaabi and others.”
“Cardinal Acquits Islam, Migrants of Terror,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, November 10, 2020:
VIENNA (ChurchMilitant.com) – Europe’s top cardinal has rejected claims blaming Islam or immigration for jihadi terrorism, even as police revealed that the 14 suspects arrested for Monday’s Vienna massacre are all Muslim migrants.
In a Wednesday interview with SIR Agency, Cdl. Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the Commission of the Episcopates of the European Union, asserted that incriminating Islam and immigration for French schoolteacher Samuel Paty’s murder and recent jihadi attacks in Nice and Vienna “does not reflect the truth.”
“Prophet Muhammad would have been ashamed of the attack in Nice,” Hollerich said quoting the imam of Bordeaux, “recalling that Muhammad had been criticized many times during his lifetime, but he never took these criticisms seriously and was never upset.”
Defending Islam’s Blasphemy Law
The cardinal also backed Islam’s blasphemy law prohibiting cartoons of Muhammad.
“I think there cannot be absolute freedom,” he stressed, “freedom of expression must take into account other people’s views, their feelings, religious beliefs in particular.”
The attacks were intended to “divide Europe, strengthen the far-right and populist movements which foment division, and alienate Europe from its founding values,” suggested Hollerich, the archbishop of Luxembourg.
Hollerich said there was hate against Europe because it “shows the world that extremism is meaningless; because Europe is a continent where very diverse peoples succeeded in living together, sharing common values; because we pledged to work for a European citizenship and succeeded in bringing it to completion, tearing down those national walls that divided peoples.”…
Academics have pointed out the egregious errors in false claims made by Abp. Hollerich regarding Muslim migrants as well as Muhammad’s alleged non-violent response to those who mocked him.
The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest in June 2016 identified 72 jihadi terrorists who had come to the United States from Muslim countries listed in President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
The Jihad Watch website has provided a detailed listing of Muslim migrants who committed terrorist acts. All the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had recently entered Europe as refugees.
In February 2015, Islamic State (ISIS) boasted it would flood Europe with as many as 500,000 migrants. In September 2015, ISIS said that 4,000 jihadis had already entered Europe as refugees.
Islamic scholar Robert Spencer, in his latest book Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the US?, explains how Hijrah, or migration for the purpose of Islamization, has its primary model in the migration or journey of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina.
According to a 2017 report by the George Washington University Program on Extremism, “Austria unquestionably represents one of the European countries where, according to [Muslim] Brotherhood members themselves, the brothers felt they found a particularly favorable environment.” The radical Muslim Brotherhood members are mainly Egyptian and Syrian migrants….