by MEMRI
The following report is from MEMRI's Counter-Radicalization Initiative.
In a recent TV show, Kuwaiti researcher Abdulazziz Al-Qattan said that the ISIS ideology existed long before the emergence of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and that it was a product of Islamic heritage. "All the books of Islamic heritage, without exception... have enough ISIS ideology to turn your hair white," said Al-Qattan, speaking on Al-Mayadeen TV on March 3, 2015.
Following are excerpts:
Abdulaziz Al-Qattan: "ISIS did not come out of nowhere. It's not an aberration.
By no means. ISIS adopts the Salafi-Wahhabi ideology of Al-Qaeda. If you look
at Durur Al-Saniyah by Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab, you will
see that ISIS is implementing the ideas of that book to the letter. They are
doing it step by step, word by word.
[…]
"The problem of us Arabs is that we are not
being honest with ourselves. We do not acknowledge our mistakes. We refuse to
break away from that heritage. Our Islamic heritage is a minefield of these
deviant ideas. Unfortunately, even some contemporary muftis, sheiks, and
Islamic scholars subscribe to this reactionary ideology and to this
backwardness. To this day, some of them consider photography to be prohibited
polytheism, and view statuses as idols that are worshipped instead of Allah.
"Even in the days of the Islamic conquests,
'Amr Ibn Al-'As did not destroy the Sphinx and did not shatter statues in
Egypt. I cannot imagine Islam, or any civilization, without art. I cannot
imagine the beauty of Islam without art. Art is sublime. Art means progress.
Art means civilization. Can you possibly imagine humanity without art?
Inconceivable! Inconceivable!
[…]
"The ISIS [ideology] existed even before
ISIS and Al-Qaeda emerged, but we turned a blind eye, and some Arab governments
still prefer not to face the plain truth. All the books of Islamic heritage,
without exception – from all Islamic sects and denominations – have enough ISIS
ideology to turn your hair white. Therefore, what we need to do is sift through
Islamic heritage. We must go back to the book of Allah, for it gives guidance
to humanity. Islam does not, under any circumstances, run counter to human
nature. Allah created Man free and gave him freedom of thought, but the problem
is that the Muslims have begun to worship people. We have begun to worship our
heritage. We have begun to worship books.
[…]
"I say "Islamic heritage," but
that is not what it is. It is the heritage of the jurisprudents, not of the
Prophet Muhammad. The books of Islamic heritage – Al-Bukhari and Muslim hadith collections,
and the other canonical hadith books, as well as the Kitab
Al-Kafi and all the other books of the Shiites... All these books need
to be sifted through by real institutions. "These stories should be sifted
through in order to filter out all their blemishes. Politics played a role in
the evolvement of this heritage. The Islamic scholars of the Sultan's court
played a role in this. The hadith narrators were not
infallible. Some of them were liars, cheats, and so on."
[…]
MEMRI
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