Imagine how surprised everyone who is complaining about Nashaat Ahmed will be when they find out that he is just quoting the Qur’an:
“And you know about those among you who broke the Sabbath, how we said to them, Be apes, despised and hated.” (2:65)
“Say, O people of the book, do you blame us for anything other than the fact that we believe in Allah and in what is revealed to us and what was revealed previously, and because most of you are transgressors? Shall I tell you of a worse case than theirs for retribution with Allah? He whom Allah has cursed, on whom his wrath has fallen, and of whose sort, Allah has turned some into apes and pigs, and slaves of taghut. Such people are in a worse condition and farther astray from the sound path.” (5:59-60)
“So when they took pride in what they had been forbidden, we said to them, Be apes, despised and hated.” (7:166)
The MAC claims that these are “deliberate mistranslations.” I challenge them to provide the correct translation, while demonstrating that these translations are indeed inaccurate.
“Terry Glavin: Antisemitic Egyptian sheikh was to be hosted by Ottawa-funded Muslim group,” by Terry Glavin, National Post, September 1, 2023:
Another year, another conference, another tableau of speakers associated with antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny and hatred.
The convening organization is not the grotesque Goyim Defense League, a Hitler-admiring American neo-fascist groupuscule linked to a spate of graffiti, leaflets and posters the RCMP has begun investigating in the Toronto area. It’s the federally-funded Muslim Association of Canada.
In recent years, the MAC’s conferences have come under increasing scrutiny from Muslim human rights activists and Jewish advocacy organizations. It’s the same story this year with the MAC’s annual gathering at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this weekend.
Among the speakers, one is known for justifying wife-beating and suicide bombing. Another considers unveiled women to be demonstrating “a sign of weak faith and the domination of desires and lust over a woman.” Another justifies execution for the sin of adultery: “What is the punishment for them? He is to be stoned to death.”
The MAC has responded to criticism in the same way it’s responded in the past: It’s Islamophobia. The MAC conference this weekend will be hosting respected and highly reputable international scholars and theologians who are being subjected to a smear campaign that “epitomizes the persistent Islamophobia and divisiveness” the Muslim community faces in Canada, according to the MAC’s President-Strategy Sharaf Sharafeldin.
There is a bit of a difference this year, however. After inquiries from the National Post, the MAC has “temporarily” dissociated itself with the Egyptian sheikh Nashaat Ahmed, a man who Jewish advocacy groups have accused of openly praying for the Jewish people to be destroyed, and who refers to Jews as evil beasts, the worst of the earth’s living creatures, and the descendants of apes and pigs.
Independent translations of Ahmed’s various speeches feature several statements to the effect that Jews should be eliminated along with “all others who support them in countries around the world,” and suggest support for the Islamic State, the Al Qaida successor in Iraq and Syria. Translations of Ahmed’s speeches on Islamic piety further suggest his support for prohibiting women from leaving the home unaccompanied by a male relative.
On Wednesday, the MAC explained that the organization does not endorse supplications against Jews or any other group of people. “However it is a well established Islamic theological position to invoke the help of God against oppressors.” In a prepared statement, the MAC announced that while it is commonplace for anti-Israel rhetoric to conflate Israel with the Jewish people, it is wrong to do so, and while the MAC had asked Sheikh Ahmed for clarification, an initial review indicated that statements attributed to him had been mistranslated, misrepresented or incorrectly dated.
On Thursday, the MAC sent me a statement reiterating Sharafeldin’s claim that concerns about Ahmed’s statements are evidence of “a smear campaign involving deliberate mistranslations and quotes out of context” that are part of a “harmful pattern of targeting Muslim scholars to undermine religious freedom and perpetuate a cancel culture.”
However, Ahmed would nonetheless be pulled from the weekend program….
Michael Copeland says
“For things which have been stipulated in the texts of Islam, the Muslim community possesses no power except to acknowledge and obey…”
— Dr. Salah al Sawy
abu taleb says
Quran should be banned for the same logic. Also, Quran says the non muslims are the worst creatures, so it is even lower than dogs and pigs.
Michael Copeland says
Is there a prize for the best combination of cliches and fashionable bogey concepts?
The MAC’s statement is quite a contender:
“a smear campaign involving deliberate mistranslations and quotes out of context” that are part of a “harmful pattern of targeting Muslim scholars to undermine religious freedom and perpetuate a cancel culture.”
Maybe they have a computer program that will issue them on demand.
Michael Copeland says
Are there taxpayer funded Jewish Association of Canada, Christian Association of Canada, Hindu Association of Canada, Jain Association of Canada, and so on?
No?
This looks like discrimination.
Left Coast says
Mike . . . perhaps you are not really paying attention.
Izzzlam is also a Political System & a Legal System. The “Religion” is merely a cover . . .
Ask the folks in Egypt that used to be Coptic Christian or the Indonesians that used to be Buddhist.
Don’t pay attention to Sweden today of course . . . .
Michael Copeland says
That is the point. People can have their own associations, but why should the taxpayers fund the Muslim Association (for a political and legal system that is opposed to Western democracy). They should fund themselves.
John Andela says
I dont even know why we engage with this ideotic Islamic Cult , which by all appearances was man written .And for a Government to through money towards such nonsense is beyond believe , As a Dutchman I whole heartedly support our good Jewish friends who no doubt have to endure much abuse Lets all stay strong and unite so that this Islamic cult can be subdued and such violent behavior ceases to exist soldiers for Christ Lets mobilize and support Israel
John Andela says
What nonsense is this Government funding to such an ideology cant be , as a Dutchman I whole heartedly throw my support behind Israel .
They are constantly bombarded by abuse , , never the less there are two sides to this story
This current government of Canada needs to be held accountable for their rediculous spending
Soldiers for Christ
Westman says
….unveiled women to be demonstrating “a sign of weak faith and the domination of desires and lust over a woman.”
“..domination of desires and lust over a woman” – like keeping your earthly desired posession in a black bag and making sure that it is watched wherever it goes and dreaming of your carnal reward, the virgins, waiting in Jannah? Project much?
“…harmful pattern of targeting Muslim scholars to undermine religious freedom and perpetuate a cancel culture.” This is new. An admission that liberal progressives have discovered the former Muslim “fellow travelers” don’t share their anything-goes sexual deviancy, particularly in schools.
“…Targeting Muslim scholars to undermine religious freedom…” Are scholars being shot? Are pigeons seeking them out for bombing practice? Have their indexed Qurans been stolen? What ridiculous nonsense!
Where is Trudeau, the champion of progressives, who should be insisting that Egyptian sheikh Nashaat Ahmed be immediately be given the role of featured speaker?