Muslims need never denounce terror – we suffer from «ideology»

Following the terrorist attack in Berlin, Muslims are being asked to condemn it. Fouad Acharki is tired of ordinary Muslims being expected to prove that they have nothing to do with terrorists.

Fouad Acharki is the video editor at Romerikes Blad, my local newspaper from childhood.

Personally, I have not seen any Norwegian media write that Muslims are being asked to condemn the attack, so this appears to be a complete figment of Acharki’s imagination.

In a commentary in the local newspaper, he writes about how he feels. As though it is he who has been affected by the terror.

When an extremist Islamist terrorist drove a van into the crowd during the Pride event in Berlin, one woman was killed and 29 people were injured.

Shortly afterwards came the familiar question:

“Do you condemn it?”

Yes, of course I do.

He writes that this is self-evident, since terrorism is abhorrent.

One wonders: Are there Islamist terrorists who are not extremists? Was this terrorist particularly bad? After all, he killed only one person and is nowhere near the terrorists in Nice, the London Underground, or the Bataclan. Not to mention 9/11.

The murder of innocent people can never be justified. I have nothing whatsoever to do with this terrorist. Neither do the overwhelming majority of Muslims.

Yet Muslims are nevertheless expected to react, Acharki argues. Is it really the case that Muslims find it difficult to react to the murder of innocent people? This appears to be yet another example of how supporters of Islam always portray themselves as the victims, even when Muslims are the perpetrators.

Is it because some people do not trust us? Are they unable to distinguish between a Muslim and a terrorist? No other Norwegians are expected to prove their innocence every time someone with the same religion or background commits a crime.

This is an almost unbelievable statement one week after the commemoration of the terrorist attack of 22 July 2011, when everyone in Norway to the right of the Labour Party was accused of possessing a certain “set of ideas” (tankegods). They were regarded as complicit, almost responsible, for the murders.

But among Muslims there is apparently no such “set of ideas” (tankegods). It is as though he believes Muslims are incapable of either reading or thinking, even though that “set of ideas” is clearly described in the Qur’an, the Hadiths, and other Islamic writings that glorify Muhammad and his ideology, which is more political than religious.

While a clear majority of Europeans are now defined as “far right”, every Islamist terrorist and violent criminal is immediately declared mentally ill after committing the attack. Yet no one says they suffer from the psychological delusion called Islam.

After all, Islam does not mean “the religion of peace”, but submission.

When Muslims are repeatedly asked to condemn terrorism, the question carries an underlying suspicion. As though our loyalty cannot be taken for granted. It is an expectation that creates distance, not trust.

I do not doubt Muslims’ loyalty. But that loyalty is not directed towards Norwegian values, women’s rights, freedom of religion, and democracy. Muslims are loyal to the religious scriptures that despise us and everything we stand for.

Extremist Islamist terrorists claim to act in the name of Islam. But they do not represent Islam. They have hijacked my religion. They have distorted it, misinterpreted it, and turned it into a weapon to justify murder.

We have heard this so many times, after every single terrorist attack: This is not true Islam! Muslims are as insistent as communists, who say exactly the same thing about the perverted ideas of communism. This is not true communism.

They say this despite the fact that violence, oppression, and tyranny have flourished in absolutely every country dominated by either Islam or communism.

Islam adds to this an extreme oppression of women, which Western feminists appear to ignore completely. Several hundred million victims are our silent witnesses to these historical facts. Norwegian feminists seem more interested in supporting the rape and murder of women under the auspices of Hamas.

The fact that extremists abuse my faith does not make me responsible for their actions. After the terror attack of 22 July, no one expected ordinary Christians or ethnic Norwegians to bear collective responsibility for Anders Behring Breivik’s actions.

Where has this man been for the past 15 years? Every conservative Norwegian was declared responsible for Breivik’s murders because of their “set of ideas” (tankegods).

No one expected Christians to explain that Breivik did not represent them, even though he described himself as a crusader.

Breivik was no crusader. Crusaders are historical heroes who actually fought against an Islamic invasion. This was stated by an expert on the subject from the University of Bergen only a few days after the terrorist attack.

Historiske myter: Korstogene

I myself, as someone with an interest in history (and a degree in the subject), lost my job for posting a photograph of the cover of a book about the Knights Templar that I had just read, nine years after the terrorist attack on Utøya.

And to answer one of the questions he asks: I absolutely do not trust Muslims, because all experience suggests that they wish neither me, my family, nor my friends any good. It is, however, important to emphasise:

There is a great difference between people who, through no fault of their own, were born in Islamic countries, and those who, of their own free will, embrace this violent and misanthropic ideology.

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Muslims need never denounce terror – we suffer from «ideology»

Following the terrorist attack in Berlin, Muslims are being asked to condemn it. Fouad Acharki is tired of ordinary Muslims being expected to prove that they have nothing to do with terrorists.