According to Alarabiya News,
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz has discussed the recent burning of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, during a cabinet session at the Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah. “The Cabinet [reiterates] its condemnation of the attempts to burn the holy Quran and stresses the need to consolidate the values of dialogue, tolerance, and respect and rejects everything that spreads hatred and extremism.” The Cabinet also discussed the details of telephone conversations between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and French President Emmanuel Macron, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani, and China’s President Xi Jinping. The discussions centered around relations, areas of partnership, and opportunities to strengthen cooperation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
The rebuke by Saudi Arabia of the Qur’an burning in a context of discussing regional and global partnerships is noteworthy because it signifies that these partnerships are contingent on the partners of the Saudis not offending Islam. The level of obsession in the Islamic world over Qur’an burnings should be taken by everyone in the West as a warning.
For mainstream Islamic leaders and believers and according to the Sharia, it is at very least a criminal offense or at most an act of terrorism to insult Islam. But to those same Islamic leaders, killing infidels by the droves is acceptable, as is evidenced by the lack of any outcry from Muslim countries over the genocidal murder of Christians, other minority groups, and even their own coreligionists whom the killers have deemed not Muslim enough. For instance, the targeting of Ahmadis in Pakistan and elsewhere is as brutal as the persecution of infidels and apostates, because they are considered heretics in mainstream Islam, as is every other Muslim group (and individual) that doesn’t follow normative Islamic doctrine.
We witnessed the case of Sweden. Its efforts to join NATO were blocked by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan because of one person burning the Qur’an. So in the view of Islamic leaders, it is the duty of Sweden (and other Western countries) to make sure that a single Qur’an never gets burned. This implies an expectation that Sweden must police its 10.4 million people to make sure that not one of its citizens burns the Qur’an.
Out of sheer fear, Dutch politician Rasmus Paludin was banned from entering Britain because of his plans to burn the Qur’an. Rather than focus security resources upon rabid lawbreakers who threaten national security due to offenses to Islam, Britain opted instead to trample upon the freedoms of Paludin and his supporters in order to appease Muslims. Yet Western leaders are not considering the implications of their surrender.
Western culture and the freedoms it affords are being directly challenged by Islam, not only by violent jihadists but by the leaders of Islamic countries. The foot soldiers (jihadists) execute Sharia justice for offending Islam on the ground level, while offense to Islam is also dealt with at an international level. Recall the beheading of French school teacher Samuel Paty, who was executed by a jihadist for insulting Islam after showing Muhammad cartoons to his class. In response, Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, of Egypt’s prestigious Sunni Islamic institution Al-Azhar, declared that Islam’s “teachings and its Prophet are innocent of this wicked terrorist crime,” which does not actually condemn the crime, and al-Tayeb called Paty’s insult to Muhammad “an open invitation to hatred.” This is the very reason why there is no outcry from leaders of Islamic countries about the violence against those who offend Muhammad or Islam. They condone it, while advancing the claim that the violence doesn’t represent Islam because Islam, they insist, is a “religion of peace.”
The instruction to Western leaders from Islamic countries and leaders, including Erdogan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, is that the West must not allow the burning of a Qur’an, or else Sharia justice will be executed in some form. This justice could potentially come in the form of violent foot soldiers living on Western soil or actions from Islamic governments, such as keeping Sweden out of NATO, or subtly tying international business partnerships with the Qur’an burning. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s discussion of the Qur’an burning along with opportunities to strengthen cooperation between international partners is a subtle threat to Western societies to stop the offenses to Islam, even if doing so involves defying Western laws and freedoms; otherwise, partnerships will be threatened.
How is the West to implement this Sharia edict on its populations? It is already being done. As they pursue appeasement, many Western leaders are now operating outside the boundaries of the law of their own countries. These traitors aid and abet the lie that these “offenses” to Islam constitute “hate crimes.”
After decades of appeasement and globalist open-door immigration policies which have increased the economic strain on Western countries, as well as threats to national security, the West has seen an exponential growth of Muslim populations. These populations are represented by powerful Muslim lobbies which advance Islamic agendas that include the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, and work with Leftist groups in the “anti-racism” industry to rebrand free speech that offends Islam as “hate speech.” At more extreme levels, offense is branded as “terrorism” because of the potential to stir up strife.
Alarabiya news also reported that agreements have already been made “on deals between Saudi Arabia and the UK in the field of air transport services and technical and vocational training between Saudi Arabia and China.” Furthermore, British business ministers recently met with leading Islamic banks in a quest to make the UK global hotspot of Islamic finance. This path will include upcoming working groups and round tables to achieve the goal. As I pointed out on Jihad Watch:
Managing risk in these powerful foreign partnerships will become an issue as the economically crumbling UK looks for any avenue to build back its economy. For example, the funneling of billions of dollars from Islamic banks to al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and other jihad groups are well established. In fact, Islamic finance owes much of its foundation to unsavory jihadis, most notably Sayyid Abul Ala Maudaudi, a Pakistani Muslim scholar and Islamic jurist who was founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan, and Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Every business partnership involves both sides seeking its own interests, while negotiating an acceptable outcome for both parties. Is the UK in any position to effectively negotiate its interests in partnership with the world’s leading Islamic banks, particularly given its habit of kowtowing and subservience to Islamic groups?
The West is currently deceived into believing that it still holds the same standing and exercises the same power that it once enjoyed on the global front. It is actually now sinking, and this is fully recognized and manipulated by Communist and Islamic supremacist entities on multiple levels.
