The Mufti must go and Paris attacks weren’t the West’s fault, writes Andrew Bolt

THE Grand Mufti’s statement on why Muslims shouting “Allahu Akbar” slaughtered at least 129 people in Paris should see him sacked, writes Andrew Bolt.

Grand Mufti Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed

AUSTRALIA’S Grand Mufti explains why Muslims shouting “Allahu Akbar” slaughtered at least 129 people in Paris in the statement below.

The statement is a disgrace. Worse, it is dangerous and ominous.

According to Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed and his imams, the main “causative factors” behind the kind of terrorism visited on Paris have nothing to do with the Koran. They have nothing to do even with interpretations of the Koran.

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In fact, even the Islamic State — which claimed credit for the mass-murder — is not even mentioned as a “causative factor”. There is no mention of Muslim agency in the slaughter whatsoever. No mention even of the Muslim countries, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, which sponsor extremists and terrorists.

Part of the Grand Mufti’s statement.

There is only that lethal victimology — an accusation that the horrors unleashed in Paris and elsewhere are driven by the cruelty the West inflicts on Muslims.

And so, according to this statement, to defend ourselves we must abandon the Jews of Israel, and — it seems — stop fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. We must drop our security guard. We must stop being suspicious of the faith fallowed by the Paris terrorists and so many others. We must blame ourselves, and not them. Nowhere in the statement is any obligation imposed on Muslims to change, reform their faith, assimilate or show loyalty to their fellow citizens.

Sack the Mufti now. Sack the national council of imams. Those who hope for our Muslim leaders to take responsibility for reforming their faith are hoping in vain.

The Prime Minister must address this scandalous response.

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The Grand Mufti’s Statement in full:

The full statement.