by MEMRI
In a TV interview, Saudi author and literary critic Said Al-Suraihi said that ISIS emerged from the history books, which "link the spread of Islam to the sword, the battles, the killings, and the wars." "It does not tell us how model conduct can spread Islam among people," he said in the interview, which aired on Sky News Arabia on February 12, 2016.
The following report is from MEMRI's Counter-Radicalization
Initiative.
MEMRI TV Clip No. 5430
Following are excerpts:
Interviewer: "You said once that ISIS emerged from the history books. Please elaborate."
Said Al-Suraihi: "Sir,
let's read our history. How did Islam spread? As we know, Islam spread
to the east and to the west. It spread westward through the various
conquests: the battles, the commanders, the dead, the stormed cities,
the burnt ships. We know every detail of this history - each and every
commander and house. But tell me, do we really know how Islam spread to
the east? How did it reach India, Sri Lanka, Java, the Philippines, and
south China? We don't know how the forefathers of all these millions of
people became Muslims.
"The reason that we don't know this is
that history linked the spread of Islam to the sword, the battles, the
killings, and the wars. It does not tell us how model conduct can spread
Islam among people. Therefore, when ISIS wanted to fight in the name of
Islam, they evoked a history that links the spread of Islam with wars.
We have no history to tell us how model conduct can spread Islam. We
need to know how Islam entered the Malay Archipelago with no killings,
no battles, no commanders, and no burnt ships.
"This is
absent from the religious discourse. Yes, it is absent from the
religious discourse and from the history books. That is why ISIS draws
upon the history books, as well as upon the extremist rulings in the
books of jurisprudence. When you break ISIS down, you find extremist
jurisprudence, and history linked to battles and blood. ISIS is the sum
total of all the mistakes with which we failed to deal, until the ogre
we call ISIS emerged."
MEMRI
Source: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5430.htm
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