This imam cannot be dismissed as an extremist, for his calls for hate and annihilation of Kafirs (non-Muslims) are derived directly from the teachings of Allah in the Koran and the most authentic Hadiths. Kafirs are called the worst of all creatures and are to be killed wherever they are found.

There is no Golden Rule – “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” – in this pronouncement because the worldview of Islamic politics is a dualistic one, where the world is divided on into the community of Islamic believers (the umma) on one side and all other non-believing Kafirs on the other.

The Koran states many times (see doctrinal sources below for a few examples), that the community of Believers is superior to the community of Kafirs and not to befriend them. Thus, Political Islam promotes an Islamic supremacism, antipathy and violence towards Kafirs.

The imam is simply repeating the 1,400 year-old doctrine and jurisprudence of Political Islam. History strongly suggests that these doctrinal teachings and threats be taken seriously. Many Islamic youth around the world are being indoctrinated every day by imams such as Kathrada, while we insist on remaining ignorant of the peril of the politics of Islam and its consequences.

We should never accept the division of the world into Muslims and Kafirs, who are to be treated as a species less than human. We should educate ourselves about the politics of Islam, how it affects us and what we can do about it. We should not remain ignorant.

Doctrinal Sources

Koran 3:28 – “Let not believers take infidels as their friends in preference to the faithful – he that does this has nothing to hope for from God – except in self-defense.”

Koran 98:3 – “Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures.”

Koran 9:5 – “Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”

(Middle East Forum, July 28, 2023)

Some of the funding in this story was given to the imam’s organization by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. According to the doctrine of Political Islam, this funding could be interpreted as payment of the jizya, a protection tax paid by the Kafirs to reduce the possibility of violent jihad, and that is used to humiliate them and proves their submission.

Non-Islamic governments tend to submit to Political Islam rather than resist the advancement of this monocultural and totalitarian ideology into their societies. Why do we surrender our life and liberty to those who hate us?

Doctrinal Sources

Koran 8:12 – “Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): “I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.”

Koran, 9:29 – “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

Sahih Bukhari, 3:34:425 – “Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break the Cross and kill the pig and abolish the Jizya (a tax taken from the non-Muslims, who are in the protection, of the Muslim government). Then there will be abundance of money and no-body will accept charitable gifts.”

Sahih Muslim, 32:6328 – “Hisham reported on the authority of his father that Hisham b. Hakim b. Hizam happened to pass by people, the farmers of Syria, who had been made to stand in the sun. He said: What is the matter with them? They said: They have been detained for Jizya. Thereupon Hisham said: I bear testimony to the fact that I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Allah would torment those who torment people in the world.”

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The practice of Islam can sometimes be confusing or seem contradictory without the context provided in the trilogy of the foundational Islamic texts: Koran, the Hadith and the Sira.

Learn more about these texts and the doctrine of Political Islam which affects non-Muslims (Kafirs) in the video segment:

“Principle Three: Political Islam”