muslims condemn terror... again and again
It's a shame that for many muslims, the anniversary of 9/11 is an occasion to retreat into a defensive posture, rather than stand proudly alongside our fellow Americans with head unbowed to the threat that faces us all. One of...
Yes, but polls show that most Muslims beleive that the Israel was behind the WTC attack. This is the sort of antisemitism that originally came from Christian Europe, but it now pervades the Muslim and Arab world. Irshad Manji was thrown out of her Muslim school not because of her views on Islam, but because she didn't believe that The Protocols of the Elders of Zions were true. The Arab News printed an editorial written by David Duke. I could fill pages with examples like this.
[Dave, your comment is a slander and an attack and is not appropriate.]
[Rebecca, I appreciate what you are trying to do but this is a topic that is divisive and can lead only to further ill-will. I apologize but since I deleted Dav'e comment its only fair to remove yours as well.]
Susan, as it happens I have a post coming up about that. Its not true that most muslims worldwide blame Israel, though a significant fraction do. See here for details:
http://talkislam.info/2008/09/11/world-opinion-about-911/
(read that graph carefully)
Very nice entry.. I do feel as a Muslim living in Norway as well we are kind of put in a position that we really HAVE to prove that we condemn the attacks. And strangely enough my brother I just put up a petition just today and here I am on your entry :) http://ireallydontcareanymore.com/
It's not entirely suprising that a lot of Muslisms don't understand the reallty behind 9/11. Most of them get their news from state controlled media in dictatorial countries which, ironically we support for a variety of short sighted reasons.
Bad governments around the world love to use the media to distract from their own corruption ineptness (the US (Republicans and Democrats) included). Take the protests over the infamous cartoons. In the grand scheme, individual governments do far more aggregious things that are equally if not more offensive. Yet those events are not covered by local media since that we bring pressure against the government. Up pops a convenient controversy overseas, and hey presto, you've got yourself a nice distraction.
Anyway, back to the main point of expecting Muslims to condemn all acts of terrorism (or by ommission of condemnation, endorsement of said acts).
Do we expect all white males to condemn every act of rape committed by a white male? Should all condemn all acts committed by one (or several) members of that same minority group? It's an absurd expectation.
My two cents...
As Salaamu Alaikum Ramadan Khareem. I agree, we should make our voices heard in protest against extremist. Were as much victim as everyone else,not every muslim believes hurting innocent people does any good,in fact it contridict our faith. No war is good for anyone unless your attack and even then to defend yourself against an enemy must be done under strict code of honor and diginity. So we must defend the weak against the strong, even those who are not muslims deserve protect agains anyone who attack them. We muslims here in America native born or migrated would defend America against any enemy as America has provided us with freedom of religion and speech. So America deserves our support in defence against terrorism. Many people disguise themselves as muslims and take our faith as a means to do their will. So we are as much as victim as this good country.
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