Minnesota Imam Refuses to “Jump to Conclusions” About ISIS Beheadings

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After every Muslim terrorist attack, Obama goes on television warning us not to jump to any conclusions. This Imam has gone him one better by still refusing to jump to any conclusions about the Islamic State after over a decade of mass murder carried out under various names.

Sheikh Jamel Ben Ameur, an Islamic scholar and imam of Masjid Al-Tawba Islamic Cultural Community Center in Eden Prairie, has refused to denounce the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria for one reason, he says: because the news reports about the Islamic State are “confusing” and “complicated.”

Sure.

Some news reporters say that ISIS is beheading non-Muslims. Other news reports say it’s raping non-Muslim women. And the Sheikh just can’t decide.

It’s so complicated.

When he spoke to a crowd of about 100 Muslims at Masjid Al-Tawba earlier this fall, Ben Ameur said many people in the Muslim community ask Islamic scholars to condemn the group. And Ben Ameur has a message for those seeking his view on the ISIS issue: “We don’t need to accuse people of something we don’t know about. We don’t have to jump into judgment.”

Would the Sheikh be equally non-judgmental if non-Muslims were beheading Muslims?

Despite international media reports of the murder of these men — which U.S. and British officials as well as family members have confirmed — Ben Ameur has expressed skepticism about the authenticity of the videos and news reports. “We don’t know if [ISIS] did it or not,” he said. “This is confusing; we don’t know the news that’s coming to us. [Therefore], we don’t want to name names.”

Where am I? What year is this? Where did this money that I just wired to ISIS come from? What are all these tapes with Anwar Al-Awlaki’s name? It’s so complicated and confusing. Who can tell?

  • liz

    Yes, who is this idiot staring at me in the mirror? Who am I and what am I doing here???

  • roger

    It is complicated, I mean no one can tell whether it was really the Amish, or the Brethren that was really, really cutting peoples heads off.

  • johninohio1

    There’s only one reason why this guy is saying these things–they aren’t intended for non-Muslim Americans, they’re intended for his Muslim brethren. These are the narratives–obfuscations and denials–he intends for them to use when the need arises. He intends to control what they ‘know’ and believe.

  • http://raycaruso.com Ray Caruso

    Get these fiends out of our country.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Sheikh Jamel Ben Ameur belongs to that exclusive club of confused people, like the Truthers who claim that the WTC was brought down by bombs planted by Jeb Bush and envoys of the Vatican, that the moon landings were actually shot in MGM’s studios, that Saturn’s moon Titan is really covered with butterscotch oceans, and that Area 51 is the true capital of this country. I mean, all these news reports are so confusing and we mustn’t make hasty conclusions. Everything we see in the news is probably to the contrary notwithstanding. If Sheikh Ameur actually conceded that ISIS’s atrocities are genuine, that would reflect on Islam, wouldn’t it? And that’s out of the question. Gotta maintain that party line, even if it makes you look like an idiot. Blink, blink, it’s such a chore to think.

  • rangerrebew

    That statement sounds as if he might be a spokesman for Obama who never wants to jump to conclusions, either. However, Obama has been known to step on his tongue more than just a few times.

  • Gee

    But they are beheading Muslims as well as non-Muslims. Shi’ites and Kurds are being beheaded as well

    • Biff Henderson

      Sunni takfiris would disagree with your assessment.

  • Hard Little Machine

    I’m pretty sure it was the space lizards with the Jewluminati.

  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    Jamel Ben Ameur, You are on the List!

  • bob e

    ” is this love or is this confusion ??” purple haze all in my brain ..

  • roccolore

    Hamas-linked CAIR supports ISIS apologists.

  • Michael Sultana

    People like this jerk bank on Americans whinging and whining but doing
    nothing of consequence. It’s not like anyone is going to cut his head
    off is it ?