Imam at the Rotary

Mohamed Elsehmawy, the Imam of the Tri-Cities Islamic Center presented a classic example of deception when he spoke to the Prosser Rotary recently. It became public in an article to the Prosser paper written by Mary M. Phillips.

The Imam made a stretched effort to present Islam as the religion of peace and that we should all get along. He then made a forced effort to argue that ISIS is not Islamic. Then, he quoted the classic surah from the Quran (5:32) which says, “whoever kills a soul for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoever saves a life, it shall be as if he had saved all of mankind.” Taken out of context this sounds nice to us kafirs (infidels), however what most do not know is that this instruction was plagiarized from the Jewish Talmud (Babylonian Talmud, Mishnah Sanhedrin 37a). The following verse in the Quran is never quoted for obvious reasons because it says that those who are against Allah should be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides. Comparing all of the Qurans I have collected since 1988 (one endorsed by the Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia and Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca) the language is about the same.

The Imam had the nerve to ask the Rotary members to recite the sentence, "Islam is not ISIS; ISIS is not Islam.  Bin Laden is not Islam; Islam is not Bin Laden."  He ignored the fact that Bin Laden's family have been born and raised Muslims and made millions of dollars in construction of various building projects around Saudi Arabia some of which have been on religious structures in the Mecca.  The Bin Laden construction company more recently has been forbidden to work in Mecca because one of their huge cranes fell over and killed 107 people.

Notice the Rotary "Four-way test" on the wall behind him.  1.  Is it the truth?  2.  Is it fair to all concerned?  3.  Will it build goodwill and better friendship?  4.  Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

Islam benefits only Muslims.  Kafirs (unbelievers) are second class humans who are not to be befriended, and in fact in some cases need to be killed if they will not pay the dhimmi tax.

Elsehmawy suggested we read the Quran and learn for our self.  Yet when I replied to him on the Islamic Center's Facebook page what I am finding he quickly refuted my claims and stated that only he can explain the true meaning.  Apparently the commentary in the books in this photo are not to be taken literally.

My letter to the Tri-City Herald addressing this issue was rejected by the Managing Editor, Jim Van Nostrand as follows,  "Respectfully, we decline the letter.  We don't allow writers to debate the merits of their religion, or attack other religions."  So basically this is the cowardly approach regarding Islam.  We are not allowed to criticize Islam out of fear. Therefore they cave to the basic law of Islam, sharia.  We see this every day in the media when terror attacks are reported without any link to the religion of Islam even if the perpetrator is named Mohamed and was yelling Allah Akbar.  Their motive suddenly becomes an unsolvable mystery.

A statement from the Dibiq

(the ISIS magazine)