GATESTONE
by Michael Armanious
March 7, 2015

What made Egyptian President Sisi’s speech remarkable is that he pointed to the problem within and did not blame a Western or Jewish conspiracy for the problems facing Muslims. The sad fact, which Western leaders and peaceful Muslims do not want to know or publicly acknowledge, is that when Western and other leaders say that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, they are simply flat wrong. About a month after Sisi said “We must revolutionize our religion,” Ibrahim Eissa, an Egyptian journalist and another hero of the Middle East backed him up, saying, “when the people of ISIS perpetrate slaughter, murder, rape, immolation, and all those barbaric crimes, they say that they are relying on the sharia. They say that this is based on a certain hadith, on a certain Quranic chapter, on a certain saying of Ibn Taymiyyah, or on some historical event. To tell the truth, everything that ISIS says is correct.” READ MORE