On August 20, 2014 Barack Obama gave a statement after video surfaced of American James Foley being beheaded was released by the terrorist group ISIS also known as ISIL and now just IS for Islamic State, where Obama said "ISIL speaks for no religion." The transcript of that speech can be found at the White House website.
On September second, highlighted by Allen West on September 9, 2014, a video and statement was made by a former Muslim, the son of a Moroccan imam who calls himself Brother Rachid, titled "A Message To President Obama From A Former Muslim," where this scholar with a Bachelors degree in religious studies who has studied Islam for 20 years, schools Obama on who and what ISIS is, and how wrong Obama was in his statement.
Dear Mr. President, with all due respect, sir, I must tell you that you are wrong about ISIL," he begins before listing his own credentials, then stating "I can tell you with confidence that ISIL speaks for Islam. Allow me to correct you, Mr. President. ISIL is a Muslim organization." Brother Rachid also explains that ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, holds a PhD in Islamic studies, before telling Obama "I doubt you know Islam better than he does. He was a preacher and an Islamic leader in one of the local mosques in Baghdad. ISIL’s 10,000 members are all Muslims. None of them are from any other religion. They come from different countries and have one common denominator — Islam."
Brother Rachid also reminds Obama "You think ISIL does not speak for Islam because they beheaded an American and they kill those whom they consider infidels. In the same way, Islam’s prophet Muhammad beheaded — in one day — between 600 and 900 adult males in a Jewish tribe called Bani Quraiza. In fact, beheading is commanded in the Koran, in Sura 47, 4th verse it says, ‘When you meet the unbelievers and fight, smite their necks."
The message to Obama from Brother Rachid is a little over 8:30 minutes long and is chilling in it's clarity of how ISIS is imitating the prophet Muhammad in every detail they do.
