Watch: CAEF presents "Medina to McGill: Tracing Antisemitism Across Time", with Elaine Ellinger

Elaine Ellinger is the Founder of Perspectives on Islam, a research and education society examining Islamic primary doctrine and its relevance today from a non-Islamic Perspective. Visit www.perspectivesonislam.info. A PDF of her powerful presentation can be downloaded from here: https://bit.ly/medina-to-mcgill-tracing-antisemitism.

Please find below a gallery of the slides from her powerful presentation, and under the gallery Elaine has answered questions that were submitted during the webinar but for which there wasn't time to respond.

Why aren’t good Muslims more vocal about/against Islamism?

1. 'Good' is a relative term. What the West considers 'good' is not what Islam considers 'good'. I wrote a short article about this some time ago, here's a link to it: https://perspectivesonislam.substack.com/p/how-does-sharia-define-good

2. The term 'Islamism' is a linguistic invention, another article: https://perspectivesonislam.substack.com/p/the-false-divide-islam-vs-islamism

3. But as mentioned in the lecture today, the doctrine demands that Muslims not criticize Islam or other Muslims and that they must conceal it's fault's - for that they will be rewarded in this life and in the hereafter. Deception in this regard is sanctioned:

   ​*​"Mohammed said ‘…whoever conceals (the faults of) a Muslim, Allah will conceal him (his faults) in this world and the Day of Resurrection” (Hadith Ibn Majah 225).

   *Concealing the faults of a fellow Muslim is rewarded both now and in ‘paradise’. It is an ‘Enormity’ to ‘show others the weak points of the Muslims (Reliance of the Traveller - sharia manual w52.1(384)

4. Because Islamic doctrine repeatedly warns Muslims not to befriend 'unbelievers' Someone the West might see as a “good Muslim” – friendly, tolerant, integrated – may be rejected by their own community, shunned at the mosque, or worse. The Charter of Medina divided the world into the 'ummah' - the Islamic community - and everyone else. Such fraternizing in direct contravention to Islamic law is considered a betrayal and now that Muslim may not be trusted in their own community. What we do find is that it is permissible for Muslims to be critical of 'radicals' or 'extremists' - because that casts no aspersions on Islamic doctrine, instead it reinforces the myth that the doctrine is peaceful and that's it's only a few very visible jihadis we need to worry about. This is absolutely false. It is the doctrine that creates the jihadis -both stealth and violent - and the doctrine is continuously cited by them, not the other way around. The doctrine is the hydra - the jihadi are the heads, cut off a head, another grows in its place very quickly and this has continued now for 14 centuries. 

5. The reason this has not been addressed before is because historically, only a very few had access to the doctrine - and the doctrine itself forbid sharing the Koran with a non-Muslim or that they should even be allowed to touch it - just as non-Muslims are not allowed to enter the cities of Mecca or Medina. But now, there are quality translations available in many languages and electronic communication along with improved literacy. For a brief window of time we have the opportunity to educate people as to what the doctrine actually says and must do this with great rapidity. Complaints about 'Islamophobia' are intended to silence criticism of the doctrine. If it was truly about caring for Muslims then every Islamic activist website would be shouting about the treatment of Muslim women in Afghanistan but they are not. 

   
   

Could you discuss the concept of 'hudnah' and permision to break a truce?

• Again, this is straight from the doctrine, therefore it is sharia and it is halal - lawful.  I will say it again, jihad according to Mohammed and Allah - not the Geneva Convention.  

  
  

  The practice of hudnah is modeled on Mohammed’s Treaty of Hudaybiyyah (628 AD) with the Quraysh tribe (Mecca) when he made a 10-year truce with them. Within two years, when his position was stronger, he broke the treaty and conquered Mecca.

  The example is seen as permissible and strategic in Islamic jurisprudence.

  This concept is explicitly endorsed in Islamic law, particularly when Muslims are weak. 

  Koran 47:35 – “So do not weaken and call for peace while you are superior.”

  Koran 9:1 'Freedom from obligation (is proclaimed) from Allah and His messenger toward those of the polytheists with whom ye made a treaty.

  
  

  Koran 8:58 "If you fear treachery from a people, throw [their treaty] back to them...“ 

  
  

  Ibn Kathir explains that treaties are honoured only until their expiration date, and if no specific term is set, they last a maximum of four months. Permanent peace agreements are not possible. The doctrine of jihad mandates that treaties serve only as temporary truces until Islam is strong enough to resume conquest.

  
  

  • Ibn Kathir on Koran 9:4: “Allah orders the believers to fulfill their peace treaties with the polytheists who remained true to their treaties, as long as their terms did not exceed four months. However, after the four months end, there remains no covenant between Muslims and idolaters.” 

    
    

  Islamic law (Reliance of the Traveller, o9:16) reinforces that truces can only last a maximum of ten years. Mohammed broke treaties when it suited him, marching on Mecca with 10,000 men just two years after agreeing to a ten-year peace.

  
  

  Article: https://perspectivesonislam.substack.com/p/islam-the-cycle-continues

There are over 80 educational articles about Islam on my Substack: https://perspectivesonislam.substack.com/

Are their a number of different versions of the koran, or has there always only been a single and definitive edition?

• This is an interesting question.  We're supposed to believe there is only one Arabic Koran (choice of words in translation varies slightly but are similar). However, this isn't the case either.  There have been numerous revisions over the years, I recommend reading 'Corrections in Early Qur'an Manuscripts - 20 Examples' by Daniel A. Brubaker.  But there's much more to be said about that as well. I've wrote an article on this some time ago that might interest you: https://perspectivesonislam.substack.com/p/sexy-houris-or-grapes-what-are-jihad

How do gentle (good) Muslims deal with this call for death of the other?

• You'd have to ask them. Quite likely, they all have their own way of handling it. Leaving Islam is an option but can be quite dangerous, many have died as a result. Five years ago I was speaking with a woman at a meeting about Islam & women - when from over my head I heard a man's voice say 'I am a Muslim'. I turned to look at him and said 'am I right?'. He said 'yes, you are'. And then told us how he had been a student of the Koran in Saudi Arabia - their school texts have long been monitored and have called for death to apostates, unbelievers, homosexuals etc. He couldn't accept it but knew that if he stayed he would eventually be found out and killed and so he emigrated to Canada.  Unfortunately, there are also people emigrating for the purpose of spreading sharia because that is what the doctrine demands and if they cannot spread sharia, they are supposed to go to someplace where they can (Koran 4:97). As Mohammed said "There is no migration [after Mecca] but jihad and good intentions, and when you are called for Jihad, you should immediately respond to the call (Bukhari 3077). 

  
  

On the increase in hate crimes versus Canadian Jews and Catholics, is there any analysis of about how many of the attacks are being perpetrated by Muslims?

1. I don't have that information. What is apparent though is that the Universities have been thoroughly infiltrated by people promoting a pro-hamas agenda - as the Muslim Brotherhood rightly predict in their Explanatory Memorandum, their work is a 'civilization-jihadist process... “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers.'  Even today, young children are being taken to mosques to pray in the direction of Mecca as a 'cultural' exercise. This is indoctrination: https://perspectivesonislam.substack.com/p/islam-and-the-children-what-the-doctrine

2. The example I gave about the deliberate misrepresentation of hate crime in Canada by the 'Islamophobia rep' is included in this short article:  https://perspectivesonislam.substack.com/p/when-is-deception-ok

Do government leaders give you time. Will they hear you?

• Very rarely. I have had some success with one province and they did take some legislative action, for the sake of confidentiality I will not reveal which one. One MEP (Minister European Parliament) met with me but said that he thought the situation was getting 'better' now because the media is starting to report on it...  As for the federal government of Canada. No luck. I have been writing to politicians for 5 years, rarely do I get an answer at all. Last January I rec'd an answer from one MP advising that I should meet with the one and only Conservative MP who supported the Islamophobia bill in 2017.  I respectfully declined for this reason and replied that I would like to meet with someone receptive to the message. I was told to connect the MP of my choice and the information would be referred to her office. I wrote to a different MP, again no reply. I sent copies of my book to all but 2 Conservative MPs and rec'd a reply, no meeting, from only one.

  
  

  I have also been writing to U.S. elected representatives with the same result - or rather lack of one. 

  
  

  If anyone knows of a politician who will meet with me, please introduce us.  I do have a concrete strategy to recommend along with the rationale and means to do it. 

Violates the charter of the UN - nobody says anything?

• It is a myth that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the U.N. - they let everyone believe it while knowing that the largest, most influential and wealthy voting block - the Organization of Islamic Cooperation - 56 members at the U.N. - refused it. Instead, they introduced their own Charter which is in direct conflict with the UDHR. For 75 years 56 member states with an opposing moral compass have voted on resolutions and chaired committees that affect us all.  No wonder the world is such a mess. There is no functioning moral compass at the U.N.  https://perspectivesonislam.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-declarations-of