Atlanta: Muslim cleric says Muslims use violence to “take over the world,” as taught by Qur’an and Muhammad
June 2, 2020 9:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER
Will Soleiman Hamed be investigated for inciting violence? Of course not. Would he be if he were anything but a Muslim, and a Muslim cleric at that? Of course. But no one is going to be so “Islamophobic” as to scrutinize what he is saying here, and no “moderate” spokesman is going to bother to explain how he is misunderstanding the Qur’an and Muhammad, either.
“Atlanta Islamic Scholar Soleiman Hamed on George Floyd Protests: Destruction and Violence are Part of a Quranic Model Applied by Muslims in Revolutions, Taking over the World,” MEMRI, May 29, 2020:
On May 29, 2020, a Friday sermon by Atlanta Islamic scholar Soleiman Hamed was uploaded to the Masjid Al-Islam Facebook page. In the sermon, Hamed reacted to the protests following the death of George Floyd and he said that he will continue talking about revolution until the Muslims “achieve having the world look like Allah would have it.” Saying that he does not “necessarily” advocate the violence in the recent riots, Hamed elaborated that Muslims are not “kumbaya” pacifists and that in revolutions, they should follow the Quranic examples of Abraham and Muhammad, who employed destruction and violence against polytheism and false worship. He added that this is the model that Muslims use when they “take over the world”. |
