Another Aussie Cleric Praises Jihadists

A report in from AAP this morning is disturbing because it exposes again the fact that what is being translated into English in Australian mosques is not what is actually being preached.

The most senior Muslim cleric in Canberra has praised Islamic jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan in his Friday sermons.

Mohammed Swaiti called on God to grant "victory to mujahideen (Muslim holy warriors)" worldwide, The Weekend Australian newspaper reports.

"God grant victory to the mujahideen in his name in all places," Sheik Swaiti called out twice in Arabic over a microphone at Abu Bakr mosque in Yarralumla in front of about 500 worshippers.

"God grant victory to mujahideen in Palestine, and Chechnya and Kashmir and Afghanistan and Iraq."

Now, if you read that would you take it to mean that he's talking about Muslim fighters - that's what mujahideen means, after all - or would you think he's talking about gardeners, hairdressers and journalists?

While Sheik Swaiti translated his sermon into English for non-Arabic-speaking members, the imam of Canberra's only mosque omitted the praise for Islamic jihadists in the English version.

Obviously, the report of the non-correct translation of the sermon has come from an Arabic speaker. When Australia's Muslim leaders, talking heads and Leftist supporters claim that their community is being unfairly targeted by our internal security forces or that their comments are being taken "out of context" do any of them stop to wonder whether the ongoing support of Islamist terrorists might have something to do with it?

After the sermon the Palestinian-born cleric denied he was referring to Muslim holy fighters, saying jihad referred not only to fighting but also to self-discipline.

"Jihad means no alcohol and no gambling," Sheik Swaiti told the newspaper. "If we followed the jihad of the self ... and followed the Koran, the whole world will be in peace."

Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir, Afghanistan and Iraq are exactly where Islamist terrorists are engaged in the most unspeakable atrocities in the name of their religion. If he's only referring to not gambling or drinking then why wouldn't he have mentioned any countries where people are struggling with those things such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Dubai or even a Western nation such as France?

The statement that jihad is about self-discipline is one of the great lies perpetrated by the Muslim community, including by moderates, and repeated without scrutiny by our mainstream media and the Left. Right next to me as I write this post is a copy of the 700+ page The Legacy of Jihad - Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims. It's a series of essays by leading intellectuals in the study of Islam and how poorly the subjugated populations fared under Muslim rule. Most of the authors are Muslims.

Vahakn Dadrian, author of The History of the Armenian Genocide, has a powerful review of the book:

"The Legacy of Jihad is an impressive compendium containing a vast array of definitions, descriptions, and discourses revolving around Islam. The clarion call for jihad for centuries served as an instrument of fire and sword to which huge numbers of non-Muslim populations fell victim, and in the process a host of civilizations where obliterated...Given the unsettling demographic factor favouring the Muslims in a projected future world, Professor Boston's meticulous and cogent study is but a challenge to the free world to seriously ponder the growing lethal threat implicit in militant Islam."

The book goes to great lengths to ensure the reader understands exactly what jihad is and cites source after source that clearly defines jihad as meaning holy war. The AAP report finishes with:

But Islamic Society of ACT president Sabrija Poskovic rejected the cleric's suggestion he was not referring to fighters in his sermons. He said the cleric was too radical and preached the wrong Islamic messages.

You might think that it's a good thing for a Muslim leader to be denouncing the radical messages being preached in mosques and you'd be right. However, by his name Poskovic is clearly a Bosnian Serb Muslim, a group completely disconnected from the Middle Eastern source of the world's Islamist terrorists.

I have little doubt that the world is heading for a showdown with Islam that could be so bad that it makes the two World Wars look like a walk in the park. How far away will that be? Twenty years? Fifty? Don't know the answer to that. What I do know is that while the political correctness, cultural equivalence brigade have the upper hand the threat will continue to build.