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| Muslims Should 'Sacrifice Their Blood for the Sake of Allah,' Says Imam... In Maryland |
| 2026-07-10 |
| [PJMedia] It is an unchallengeable dogma of our post-9/11 civic faith that every Moslem in the United States, from the leaders of national Moslem organizations to the rank-and-file believers in the serried ranks of worshipers at mosques around the country, is a "moderate." Everyone assumes that Moslems in the U.S. all reject terrorism and violence as a twisting and hijacking of their peaceful faith, and that only racist, bigoted "Islamophobes" would dare suggest that the gentle soul in the next cubicle at work or who runs the store down the street could possibly harbor anything but love for his non-Moslem neighbors. And so what, then, does the imam Ragab Abdelmoneim, who recently called for Moslems in the United States to be willing to sacrifice their blood for the sake of Allah, have in mind?
Ragab Abdelmoneim is not some wild-eyed fanatic screaming obscenities on a streetcorner. On the contrary, he is a prominent, respected member of the Moslem community in the U.S. today. Alabama’s 1819 News reported recently that he is "now the Imam and ’Resident Scholar’ at the Islamic Center of Maryland." An Alabama publication is reporting on him because before he moved to Maryland, he served as a holy man at the Islamic Academy in Huntsville, Ala., and was also a "part-time lecturer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)." In Huntsville, Abdelmoneim was the Islamic Academy’s "first full-time imam," and he was an excellent choice for this distinction, as he has an impeccable educational background. He "began his religious career as a holy man at the Liverpool Islamic Academy in 2009. In 2013, after teaching and graduating from Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, Abdelmoneim relocated to the academy in Huntsville." To graduate from al-Azhar is like graduating from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. It is the most respected institution in Sunni Islam. And yet Ragab Abdelmoneim does not seem to be interested in presenting a moderate face to non-Moslems in America. "In a now widely circulated video on social media," according to 1819 News, "Abdelmoneim called for Moslems to expand Sharia law by any means necessary, including through bloodshed." Abdelmoneim said: "We need to... have some people to love their religion and to sacrifice for their religion, sacrifice their money and their blood and their wealth for the sake of Allah." It’s easy to understand what Abdelmoneim meant when he said that Moslems should be willing to sacrifice their money and wealth for the sake of Allah. Every religion takes up collections, and the Qur’an exhorts Moslems to "spend your wealth for the sake of Allah" (2:195). But what does Abdelmoneim mean when he calls upon Moslems to sacrifice their blood? Is he envisioning some nightmare scenario in which "Islamophobes" are murdering Moslems wholesale? That’s fanciful to the point of being completely unbelievable. Also, Abdelmoneim most certainly knows that the Qur’an calls upon Moslems to "kill them wherever you find them" (2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5), and makes it clear that Allah favors those who fight unbelievers over those who do not do so: "Those of the believers who sit still, other than those who have an injury, are not equal with those who wage jihad in the way of Allah with their wealth and lives. Allah has conferred on those who wage jihad with their wealth and lives a rank above the sedentary. Allah has promised good to each, but he has bestowed on those who wage jihad a great reward above that of the sedentary, degrees of rank from him, and forgiveness and mercy. Allah is always forgiving, merciful." (Qur’an 4:95-6) Whatever he means, Abdelmoneim is worried about "Islamophobes" supposedly spreading falsehoods about Islam: "Corrupt and wicked politicians, leaders, and officials," he claimed, "they propagate and perpetuate this kind of hatred in their discourse, in their rhetoric, in their communication in the media, just to demonize and to put people down and to stigmatize Moslems and minorities." As a result of the spreading of this hatred, he said, many Americans were suspicious of Islam: "The [American people] developed a lot of attitudes, including hatred, animosity, against the Moslem Ummah, against the community, and against Islam itself...You can see what happened to our brothers and sisters in Dallas. They have a project, and they have a lot of challenges, legal challenges, because it will be the Sharia area." And so he exhorted Moslems to fight back: "Allah told us about how to protect yourselves from their thinking, how to expose their plans and their plotting, how to be against them and stand against those people." All right. If Abdelmoneim really wants to expose the alleged "plotting" of these "corrupt and wicked politicians, leaders, and officials," he could start by apologizing, clarifying what he meant about Moslems sacrificing their blood, and calling upon Moslems in this country to renounce — sincerely — terrorism and any effort, |
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