Al-Qaeda: If Muslims ‘killed and stabbed those criminals’ who burned the Qur’an, no one would consider burning it

Muhammad said: “I have been made victorious through terror” (Bukhari 4:52.220).

Islam’s punishment for blasphemy is explicitly (and grossly) demonstrated in the Hadiths, such as this one.

A blind man had a slave-mother who used to abuse the Prophet (peace be upon him) and disparage him. He forbade her, but she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night she began to slander the Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) and abuse him. So he took a dagger, placed it on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came between her legs was smeared with the blood that was there. When the morning came, the Prophet (peace be upon him) was informed about it. He assembled the people and said: I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling the man stood up. He sat before the Prophet (peace be upon him) and said: Messenger of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her. but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her. Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.  Abu Dawud Book 38 no 4348.

The determination among many Muslims to protect Islam against insults at any cost  is repeatedly manifested across the Islamic world. Few in the West are willing to face mob justice and execution for insulting Islam, such as the world saw in the case of the French schoolteacher Samuel Paty. Qur’an 8:12 has come to pass:

“When your Lord inspired the angels, I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then strike the necks and strike their fingertips.”

Al-Qaeda In The Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) — the newest formal global al-Qaeda affiliate — is now calling for the beheading of anyone who insults Islam. This comes in the wake of another Qur’an burning incident in Sweden. AQIS is reportedly operating in India (including Jammu and Kashmir), Afghanistan, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.

But the call actually extends globally. The human lives of infidels mean little to nothing to those who ascribe to the Sharia. Those who insult Islam any and everywhere are at physical risk.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has also called for international “collective measures” to stop the desecration of Qur’an.

Violent jihadists serve as Islam’s foot soldiers. They have existed and succeeded in violent conquests for over 1,400 years, and today are particularly but not solely seen in Africa and the Middle East.

There are also non-Muslims who are working right along with them, aiding and abetting the expansion of adherence to the Sharia tenet against blasphemy, including the pope.

“AQ Affiliate, Supporter Call For Beheadings After Quran Burning,” MEMRI, July 3, 2023:

On June 28, 2023, the first day of the Islamic holiday of Eid Al-Adha, an Iraqi refugee, Salwan Momika, tore up a copy of the Quran and lit it on fire outside the Stockholm Central Mosque, while standing behind a police cordon. The Muslim worshippers largely ignored the incident, although a man who approached the barrier with three rocks was arrested.

The incident drew condemnation from Muslim-majority countries as well as from Salafi-jihadis and Iran-backed militias in multiple countries. Some jihadis, particularly those affiliated with Al-Qaeda, called for the killing of Momika.[1]

Al-Qaeda In The Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) Calls To Behead Those Who Insult Islam, Accuses Sweden, Europe, And U.S. Of Continuing Crusades And Waging War On Islam

Reacting to the burning of the Quran, Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) issued a statement on July 2 via its official media outlet, Al-Sahab Media Subcontinent, titled “So, Behead Them; It Is a Duty Prescribed by [the] Quran!”[2] The one-page statement, released in Urdu and English versions, begins by condemning the “heinous act” which “outraged the feelings of all then Muslims worldwide.” It asserts that “in the modern world’s ‘New World Order’,” freedom of expression has become a “farce and empty idea” whose true purpose is to legitimize a “verbal war” on Islam.

The statement further claims that the “atrocious” burning of the Quran has exposed Sweden, together with all of Europe and America, which “have masked their ugly crusader faces with secularism,” revealing that they are continuing the “centuries-old crusades to which once the Popes of Rome used to call.”  This act, according to AQIS, is part of a war between two faiths, the “only true and divine revelation, Islam,” and the “practice of deitifying [sic] all except Allah” in the name of false religions and ideologies or pursuing human lusts. The statement adds that “whether this war is waged by some American Terry Jones[3] or by some Iraqi atheist Salwan Momika, this war is actually the war of the whole infidel world against Islam.”

Calling to kill Momika and others like him, the statement declares that “it is an Islamic obligation to behead those among the infidels and atheists who directly engage in such accursed and heinous acts.” It is also obligatory to wage jihad against “the governments and the international organizations who support and cooperate in such evil acts.” Those who cannot personally wage jihad against “the secular and crusader enemy” should “inspire and call others to this end,” while those who cannot even do that must at least know that “the only way forward to stop these crimes is jihad and qital [warfare] and to behead such devils.” The “only effectual condemnation of such evil acts” is for them to pray for the downfall of those “criminals” and the success of the mujahideen.

Al-Qaeda Supporter: If Muslims Killed Those Who Insult Their Religion, No One Would Do It Again

An Al-Qaeda supporter published a one-page essay on June 30 containing similar calls to kill those who burn the Quran, titled “O People of the Quran, Adorn the Quran with Your Actions!”[4]

Noting that Allah sent the Prophet Muhammad “with the sword to all those who disbelieve in Him [Allah], mock the true religion, or defame it by word or deed,” the essay states that the “horrible crime” of burning the Quran outside a Swedish mosque on Eid Al-Adha angered all sincere Muslims. The author argues that the “vile slave of the accursed Satan,” Momika, only dared to commit this act because previous insults to Islam went unpunished, leaving their perpetrators “alive, free, and unharmed.” He claims that if Muslims “killed and stabbed those criminals,” no one would even consider burning the Quran publicly, and praises the Kouachi brothers who perpetrated the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks, thereby making Westerners think twice before insulting the Prophet Muhammad.  The author calls on Muslims to “take swift, just retribution” from Momika and others like him, and to “lie in wait for them wherever they are and wherever they stay, and kill them unawares.”…