Clerical Errors
Shocking quotes from Islamic clerics
A clerical error is a harmless slip: a typo, a wrong date, a misplaced decimal point. The errors collected here are of another kind. They come from imams, muftis, ayatollahs and preachers, and they call for the death of apostates, the stoning of adulterous women, the sale of captives and the killing of Jews.
These are not words from the fringe. Alongside a few small-time preachers, you will find two Grand Muftis of Saudi Arabia, a Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, the imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the head of Turkey’s state religious authority and two Supreme Leaders of Iran. Each quote comes with its source. Check them: that is what they are for.
We do not target believers, who are often the first victims of these sermons. We target the men who speak in God’s name from a pulpit, a ministry or a television studio. Most of them are not misreading their scriptures: they quote them chapter and verse. Clerical errors usually get corrected. These ones get applause. Their critics have the floor in Unforgivable Sentences.
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- Incitement to Hatred and Violence15
- Jihad and the establishment of a global caliphate14
- Violation of women's rights9
- Death penalty8
- Antisemitism7
- Superiority of Islam and Muslims6
- Prohibition of freedom of thought and expression5
- Slavery5
- Hatred of non-Muslims4
- LGBTQ+ repression4
- Obscurantism4
- Dress code for women3
- Apostasy2
- Ban on blasphemy2
- Forced conversions2
- Marriage of underage girls2
- Persecution of minority communities2
- Physical and psychological abuse of children2
- Domestic violence1
- Extramarital sexual relations1
- Flogging, Stoning and Other Corporal Punishments1
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If only we can conduct a jihadist invasion at least once a year or if possible twice or three times, then many people on earth would become Muslims. […] Such battles will fill the pockets of the Mujahid who can return home with 3 or 4 slaves, 3 or 4 women and 3 or 4 children. This can be a profitable business if you multiply each head by 300 or 400 dirham.
Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini Salafi preacher (Egypt) · Lecture from the 1990s, released in 2011 Source -
In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the (Muslim) mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.
Ibn Khaldun Historian, chief Maliki judge of Cairo (Tunisia and Egypt) · Muqaddimah, translated by Franz Rosenthal, 1377 Source
