Leftist Muslim Activist Who Attacked “Gay” Ideologies Blames GOP for Muslim Opposition to LGBTQ
Did the GOP write the Koran?
Like a bad marriage in which both partners are cheating on each other, Leftist-Islamist alliances require hefty doses of denial from both husband and wife. Especially on certain issues. Especially sexual ones.
In the wake of some Muslim protesting the leftist push to embed sexual identity materials into schools, leftists and especially leftist Muslims had to scramble to explain this as GOP brainwashing.
What other possible explanation could there be for this reaction by Muslims other than the Koran, over a thousand years of Islamic belief and well… Islam.
So obviously it had to be the GOP.
“Finished my Friday prayer at my local mosque where the imam prayed we would be saved from “the LGBTQ in our homes.” Democrats are underestimating how pervasive GOP CRT & trans fear messaging/ propaganda has taken hold in religious communities & suburbs,” Wajahat Ali tweeted.
Wajahat Ali, a popular lefty columnist and media figure, not only seems to have forgotten the teachings of Islam, but his own words.
I wrote about Ali a decade ago when he was attacking the Freedom Center before he underwent a post-Islamist makeover.
During his college days, Wajahat Ali was on the board of the Muslim Students Association. The MSA is the original Brotherhood front group, which the NYPD called an “incubator for radicalism” and former FBI Special Agent John Guandolo described as “a recruitment tool to bring Muslims into the Brotherhood.”
After the inauguration, Ali warned that Obama; “must at the very least interact with democratically elected Muslim governments and representatives, such as Hamas and Mahmoud Ahmadinijad of Iran” and added that “a wholesale demonization and rejection of Islamic based governments and political groups is an affront to the Muslims who elected them.”
Wajahat Ali’s co-authorship of a report by a left-wing think tank is even more perverse as he also claims that “the hard ‘left’ hates you because you are part of an organized religion, have certain beliefs contradictory to radical feminist and gay ideologies.”
I asked Wajahat if he had been brainwashed by the GOP in 2011. Predictably, no reply.
Wajahat Ali seems to have reinvented himself as a crusader for gay rights. In a recent New York Times op-ed, he wrote that, “the increasing political demonization of L.G.B.T.Q. Americans is following the same script that has been used to marginalize Muslims and drum up fears about the supposed dangers of Shariah finding its way into the American legal system, all to pander to a constituency that is terrified of pluralism.”
In a Daily Beast column, he claimed that, “In this moment we can’t say ‘gay’ in “some places that rhyme with Mlorida” because saying ‘gay’ makes some people uncomfortable.”
The evil bigots are somewhere out there…. in Florida. While the conventional Muslim view of homosexuality is somehow attributed to the Republican Party.
Did the GOP write the Koran? Lies like that are what’s required for the red-green alliance to stay together.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Indonesia Wants to Export ‘Moderate Islam’
Beware the spread of Islamic da'wah from the world's largest Muslim country.
According to The Economist, Indonesia wants to export “moderate Islam.” This will certainly appeal to the Left-leaning interfaith dialogue proponents of the West in droves, most of whom know nothing about Islam or its history. The Economist says:
On Christmas Eve 22 years ago, jihadist terrorists planted bombs at churches in cities across Indonesia, killing 18 people. Every Christmas since then, members of the country’s largest Muslim group, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), have gathered outside churches in Indonesia to ensure that Christians can worship in safety. Now the powerful Islamic organisation has a more ambitious goal: to spread its moderate views across the Muslim world.
Western dialogue invariably serves the cause of Islamic expansion, while causing the West to lose more of its freedoms, all because of its naiveté.
Similar news about Indonesia exporting “moderate” Islam was circulated in 2017.
Leaders of Nahdlatul Ulama’s youth wing, known as Ansor, say that elements of Shariah, which Muslims consider divine law, are being manipulated by groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda to justify terrorist attacks around the world, invoked to rally fighters to battle in the Middle East and elsewhere, and distorted by movements that seek to turn Islam into a political weapon.
The Indonesian initiative, however, aims to directly approach governments around the world, both Muslim-majority and otherwise, as well as at the United Nations, to achieve a global consensus on reforming what it views as archaic interpretations of Islam.
Note how Nahdlatul Ulama leaders claim that the Sharia is being manipulated as they completely ignore the texts of the Qur’an and Hadith which call for violence, the texts followed by the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.
The ummah seeks expansion, however it may be accomplished. This is in accordance with the religion’s expansionist and supremacist core, which poses a global problem and is boosted by the influential Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which ascribes to the Sharia. Whatever sectarian differences of interpretations Muslims have of the Sharia is their own business. Once in the West, they should be expected to accept Western laws, and to adapt to its culture, which many cannot do since they regard the Sharia as above all “man-made laws.”
The stealth jihad is as powerful as the violent. Both work in tandem. Take for example, the Muslim Brotherhood’s founding in 1928. At some points, it presented a more palatable image of Islam to the world. It has even, in fact, been dubbed a “reform movement.” It initially renounced violence and appeared to many to be bringing Islam more into line with modern civilization. Of course, that did not prove to be true. The Muslim Brotherhood became violent in Egypt in keeping with its ruling document which declared that “Jihad is the Way.” The Brotherhood also became a proficient leader in stealth jihad, enabling its allegedly peaceful operatives to expand their operations globally. This is how the Brotherhood ended up successfully gaining a foothold in the West, using the most stealthy means.
As the world’s largest Muslim country, Indonesia and its efforts to export “moderate Islam” needs to be carefully scrutinized; except that to scrutinize Islam and Islamic entities is widely regarded as “Islamophobic,” thanks to the diligent work of Islam’s stealth operatives in the West. Deception (taqiyya) is incorporated into da’wah (proselytizing).
Nahdlatul Ulama (N.U.) aims “to promote globally the notion of Islam Nusantara (Islam of the Indonesian Archipelago),” and is backed by the Indonesian government. According to the Middle East Institute:
This initiative, which is backed by the Indonesian government, began to attract attention when the N.U. made it the theme of its 33rd Congress in August 2015. This initiative aims to spread, both locally and globally—and to the Middle East in particular—a multifaceted message of a tolerance and moderation in an effort to counter religious extremism and terror. A significant step forward was taken in May 2016, when N.U. held the International Summit of Moderate Islamic Leaders (ISOMIL), with the participation of many Sunni Muslim leaders worldwide.
The deception incorporated into da’wah is particularly significant in Indonesia, since the country is unique in not having been founded upon and Islamized by the sword. Islam was spread in a largely peaceful manner by Arab-Muslim traders in the 1800s to mid-1900s as they monopolized the East-West trade of the maritime Silk Roads. Muslim settlers, traders and missionaries were influential enough to lead many locals, predominantly Hindus and Buddhists, to convert to Islam. Once Islam grew in the region, “all infidels had to be brought under Muslim sovereignty.” Jews and Christians, however, were “allowed to exist under Muslim protection in return for paying poll-tax,” a.k.a. the jizya tax (cf. Qur’an 9:29), which signified their inferiority to Muslims and their status as dhimmis. All other infidels, however, were deemed pagans and faced getting murdered if they did not convert. They “got the choice between Islam and the sword.”
Fast forward to the last few decades, as Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi ideology transformed Indonesia. According to a Guardian article:
Today, there is official Saudi dawa in two dozen countries, and unofficial activity in many more. Its effects are not straightforward. For instance, Saudi dawa typically ends up promoting not Saudi Wahhabism, but Salafism, a linked but discrete 20th-century revivalist movement, originating in Egypt, that seeks to return to the traditions of earliest Islam.
Saudi proselytisation tends to cultivate a learned Salafi class of scholars and ideologues who then go on to shape their local religious landscapes. Another common outcome is the violent intolerance of Shia and Sufi Muslims, as well as minority sects such as the Ahmadiyya and other religions such as Christianity.
Again we see a pattern: a movement from the deceptively peaceful to the violent.
An American journalist and “private diplomat working in Southeast Asia,” Michael Vatikiotis, reported this about Indonesia only seven months ago:
A new criminal code approved by Indonesia’s parliament… will make consensual sex or cohabitation outside of marriage a criminal offence. Leaving a religion and insulting the president will also be banned. Liberal critics are worried that when the set of laws comes into force in 2025, Indonesia could become a religious state and return to authoritarian rule.…
How “moderate” does that sound?
Indonesia is merely practicing Islamic da’wah as its government works hand in hand with Nahdlatul Ulama.
Christine Williams
Christine Douglass-Williams is Associate Editor of Frontpage, regular writer for Jihad Watch, a nine-time award-winning journalist, past Canadian government appointee to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Office of Religious Freedom; author of "The Challenge of Modernizing Islam" and "Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam".
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Christine Williams Video: The Christian-Muslim Alliance against the LGBTQ++ Agenda
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Is the "alliance' unified on the cause of religious freedom for all?
July 7, 2023 by Christine Williams 5 Comments
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Frank Gaffney, host of Securing America, recently interviewed Frontpage Editor Christine Douglass-Williams about the aggressiveness of the LGBTQ++ agenda that is being opposed by Muslims and Christians, but is there more that we should be watchful of than meets the eye? Is this alliance unified on the cause of religious freedoms for all?
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As the alliance between opponents of the aggressive LGBTQ++ agenda and Muslims grows, Westerners have been quick to see that Muslim groups get the results that Christians have been unable to gain so effectively on their own. Christians are generally not confrontational and are easy targets, as we saw in Alberta, Canada, when Pastor Derek Reimer was thrown in jail for “hate” after protesting a drag show for kids at a local library. Greater awareness about the alliance with Muslim groups is prudent. While Christians and Muslims can agree about the abhorrent imposition of the trans agenda, as well as the open nudity and vulgarity of some members of the LGBTQ++ community, there are other points of divergence that should be considered.
To start with, in the coverage by mainstream media — which is notorious for its lack of knowledge about Islamic tenets and laws — some have been describing Muslims who oppose the LGBTQ++ agenda as “conservative Muslims.” The term “conservative Muslims” has nothing to do with Western notions of conservatism and/or partisanship; it has everything to do with a Muslims’ level of dedication to Islamic law (the Sharia), and is a term usually reserved for describing the likes of Iranian mullahs, the Taliban and Salafists in general. The misuse of the term “conservative Muslims” in the mainstream media creates the deceptive impression that these Muslims are supporters of Western conservatism or parties that support conservatism. Most of these activist Muslims against the LGBTQ++ agenda are more likely still Democrats or Liberals, given the long established Islamic/Left alliance. There are indeed some Muslims who are aligned with Western conservatism.
Also, aside from questions of partisanship, not all Muslims ascribe to Islam’s supremacist tenets, or support the murder or punishment of gays; however, such liberal-minded Muslims are not regarded by the mainstream as Muslims at all, but as apostates who have shunned the divine Sharia. Some Muslims, despite being shunned by the authorities of normative Islam, are indeed allied with Westerners who are fighting for the freedom of religion, as enshrined in American and Canadian constitutions.
As stated in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Under section 2of the Charter, Canadians are free to follow the religion of their choice. In addition, they are guaranteed freedom of thought, belief and expression. Since the media are an important means for communicating thoughts and ideas, the Charter protects the right of the press and other media to speak out. Our right to gather and act in peaceful groups is also protected, as is our right to belong to an association like a trade union.
But the focus of this Preamble and of the interview below is not the Muslims who stand in unity with non-Muslims for religious freedom and equal rights for all. The focus is on those Muslims who are aligned with Sharia tenets, held by those ranging in beliefs from that of the Iranian regime and the Taliban, to the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Westerners need to be aware that the LGBTQ++ woke aggression will be used and is being used as a launching pad for the expansion of the scope of the Sharia.
A new document, Navigating Differences: Clarifying Sexual and Gender Ethics in Islam, was endorsed by over 300 Islamic scholars and preachers across North America. While one may be quick to support it at first blush, it explicitly lays out the normative Islamic position on sexuality and gender ethics in Islam. It unequivocally states this about Allah:
God says, “It is not for a believing man or woman—when God and His Messenger decree a matter—to have any other choice in that matter” (Quran, al-Aḥzāb:36). By submitting to God, we declare that only He possesses absolute knowledge and wisdom. Therefore, it follows from this submission that the ultimate source and basis of morality is Divine guidance, not just reason or societal trends.
This is non-negotiable, immutable and supremacist. This new document proclaims Islam above all as a basis for confronting the LGBTQ++ agenda. It is hence not a document that fights for the freedom of religion across the board.
In this new video, Frank Gaffney interviews me about the encroachments upon religious freedom from an aggressive element within the LGBTQ++ community and how Muslim communities have joined in opposition to this agenda, but we also address the nuances, which requires diligence as we labor to protect religious freedom across the board. Normative Islam, after all, does not support the freedom of religion.
Another issue discussed (first on the recording): Sweden’s prime minister vows change in his country’s migration policy to the “EU’s strictest” amid soaring violent crime rates.
Christine Williams
Christine Douglass-Williams is Associate Editor of Frontpage, regular writer for Jihad Watch, a nine-time award-winning journalist, past Canadian government appointee to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Office of Religious Freedom; author of "The Challenge of Modernizing Islam" and "Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam".
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