British
Islamic supremacist Anjem Chaudary: Freedom and democracy must be destroyed and
replaced with obedience to Allah
One thing you can say about Chaudary: he is
honest, where some of his slicker coreligionists who share his goals dissemble
about them. "British Islamist Anjem Choudary: Freedom and Democracy Are
Idols That Must Be Destroyed and Replaced with Obedience to Allah," from MEMRITV, February 3 (that is the date of the clip; this was just posted
at MEMRI), with thanks to all who sent this in: Following are excerpts from an
interview with Anjem Choudary, head of Islam4UK, which aired on Press TV on
February 3, 2010. The interview was held in English. Our main objectives are to
invite the societies in which we live to think about Islam as an alternative
way of life, to command good and forbid evil wherever we are, and ultimately,
as well, to establish the shari'a on state level - which is the
caliphate system of governance - in order to be a beacon again in the world, an
example of how people should live their lives.: Let's talk about some of the
statements coming out from your Islam4UK website. They were very incendiary,
they've inflamed a big debate in the United Kingdom. One of the photos that you
released showed, for example, the Buckingham Palace - the home of the British
royal family - converted into a mosque. Is that your aim, and how did you
expect the British public to react, by releasing photos like that?Anjem
Choudary: One of our campaigns, in fact, was to invite Britain to adopt
the shari'a as a alternative. Part and parcel of that was to give them an
example of how Britain may look, had the shari'a been implemented. For example,
under the shari'a, there is no monarchy system, so Buckingham Palace certainly
would not be the home for the monarch who is in existence today, which is Queen
Elizabeth II....Muhammad said: "When you meet your enemies who are
polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one
of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite
them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist
from fighting against them....If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them
the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands.
If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim
4294)So what might be coming next, after Chaudary's invitation? I do
believe, and as Muslims, we do believe, that there is a clash between two
civilizations today. One civilization is based upon Man - that believes
that Man is sovereign, and they believe they have the right to legislate - and
one civilization that believes that sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God.
The people in the past used to worship the idols which they used to make with
their hands. Nowadays, people worship idols which are more intellectual - like
democracy, liberalism, freedom, and so on. So these need to be destroyed as
well, and replaced with worshipping and obeying Allah.... A perfect statement of what Islam inculcates.
The fact that some Muslims deliberately seek not to convey this, but rather to
confuse or distract unwary Infidels, should not be allowed to hide this. Nor
should the fact that not all Muslims take what Islam inculcates completely to
heart, and prefer not to speak of such matters because it is too disturbing for
them to contemplate themselves, be comforting, for many such people have shown
themselves, when the Muslim collective or community grows powerful, to have a
change of heart or of mind, or possibly out of fear or filial piety, to throw
in their lot with those who wish, and work for -- not necessarily through
terrorism or qitaal -- what Anjem Choudary works for. Tariq Ramadan, for
example, shares exactly the same idea, the same opposition between obedience to
God and obedience to what he, Tariq Ramadan, sees as the useless sublunar idols
of "democracy" and "freedom" and so forth. Tariq Ramadan is horrified with Anjem
Choudary speaking in this way, but not for the reasons he would like you to
think.
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