(Allahu FUBAR)
Posted on 01/15/2005 4:10:03 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
JEDDAH, 16 January 2005 — Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the Kingdom’s grand mufti, said the people who attack Islam accusing it of encouraging terrorism and extremism and denying human rights are telling lies and know very well they are spreading falsehood.
Speaking at a conference organized by the Makkah-based Muslim World League on inter-culture dialogue, Al-Asheikh said critics of Islam are driven by their enmity of the faith. He called upon Muslims to project the true face of Islam without any excesses or compromises.
“The accusations directed against Islam by those who accuse it of terrorism, extremism and disrespect for human rights and freedom come from people who know they are telling lies. They know very well that what they say (against Islam) is false and deep inside they know they are committing injustice and aggression by behaving the way they do. It is the enmity against Islam deep inside them that drives them to attack Islam,” he told the delegates from different countries.
The conference which coincides with the annual pilgrimage to Makkah aims at preparing the ground for a fruitful and sustained dialogue with non-Muslims to remove misunderstandings about Islam among non-Muslims, achieve understanding and coexistence between different cultures, unite world efforts to confront the common challenges facing humanity and ensure respect for cultural diversity and work to bridge differences between cultures and civilizations.
Secretary-General Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki said the MWL is pioneering a project for the establishment of a permanent center for inter-faith dialogue to be based in a European country and act as a bridge between Islam and other cultures.
The grand mufti said Muslims should benefit from the many available media and other information outlets to spread Islam among the intellectuals and educated of the world.
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay, which is usually repulsive and distorted information... They think that what they hear and what they are told about Islam is the truth. It is only through constructive dialogue led by people who very well understand Islam and its teachings that the enemies of Islam could be exposed and their lies refuted.”
Makkah Governor Prince Abdul Majeed told the delegates that dialogue is a “pressing human necessity” and a means for arriving at a higher degree of understanding and coexistence among peoples and countries of the world.
“Saudi Arabia firmly believes that working to serve humanity through dialogue would achieve world peace and ensure security for all by reducing the possibility of confrontation and conflict among civilizations. Dialogue would also unite the efforts to address the problems facing humanity, notably terrorism,” he said.
Prince Abdul Majeed stressed the need for internal dialogue among Muslims themselves, saying this would enable the Ummah to come together and collectively work to end dissent and prevent the seeds of extremism from taking roots.
Dr. Al-Turki said constructive and fruitful dialogue would only be possible when people “free themselves from the superiority complex and stop playing the role of guardians over others”, adding that “superiority and arrogance based on material achievements have led the world to two devastating wars and may lead it into more unjust wars launched under the pretext of defending freedom, human rights and globalization”.
I had no enmity against Islam until I bothered to learn something about it and its practitioners.
BTTT
Yep fathers getting money to have their daughters become suicide attacks isn't supporting terrorism...
Grand Mufti can kiss my pork rinds.
By their fruits you shall know them.
...and they'd better knock it off or he'll call for Jihad against them. :)
Agreed. When I started reading about their religion of death is when I became knowledgeable about their cult, and their leaders.
I can't believe they didn't mention FR? Credit where credit is due.
Islam would go very far as a religion if they stopped with the denial, embraced the evil that has coopted them and started on the road to recovery.
I am not holding my breath.
I do not wish to associate with ANY group which avocates the MURDER of my family and my friends because they are not islamics.
I have serious reservations about any country that is governed by islamics as well. Saudi Arabia and Iran top that list.
I do hope Iraq does not create an islamic government.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the Kingdom’s grand mufti, said the people who attack Islam accusing it of encouraging terrorism and extremism and denying human rights are telling lies and know very well they are spreading falsehood.
And they should be punished with death!!
| Country | Main religious groups involved | Type of conflict |
| Afghanistan | Extreme, radical Fundamentalist Muslim terrorist groups & non-Muslims | Osama bin Laden heads a terrorist group called Al Quada (The Source) whose headquarters were in Afghanistan. They were protected by, and integrated with, the Taliban dictatorship in the country. Al Quada is generally regarded as having committed many terrorist attacks on U.S. ships, embassies, and buildings. Their goal is to promote a worldwide war between Muslims and non-Muslims. The Northern Alliance of rebel Afghans, Britain and the U.S. attacked the Taliban and Al Quada, establishing a new regime in the country. |
| Bosnia | Serbian Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholic), Muslims | Fragile peace is holding, due only to the presence of peacekeepers. 2 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | Muslims, Indigenous, Christian | Following the elections in late 2000, government security forces "began targeting civilians solely and explicitly on the basis of their religion, ethnic group, or national origin. The overwhelming majority of victims come from the largely Muslim north of the country, or are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants..." 5 A military uprising continued the slaughter in 2002. |
| Cyprus | Christians & Muslims | The island is partitioned, creating enclaves for ethnic Greeks (Christians) and Turks (Muslims). A UN peace keeping force is maintaining stability. |
| East Timor | Christians & Muslims | A Roman Catholic country. About 20% of the population died by murder, starvation or disease after they were forcibly annexed by Indonesia (mainly Muslim). After voting for independence, many Christians were exterminated or exiled by the Indonesian army and army-funded militias in a carefully planned program of genocide and religious cleansing. The situation is now stable. |
| India | Animists, Hindus, Muslims & Sikhs | Various conflicts that heat up periodically. In late 2002-FEB, a Muslim-Hindu conflict broke out, killing an average of 100 people a day over the first five days. |
| Indonesia, province of Ambon | Christians & Muslims | After centuries of relative peace, conflicts between Christians and Muslims started during 1999-JUL in this province of Indonesia. The situation now appears to be stable. |
| Indonesia, province of Halmahera | Christians & Muslims | 30 people killed. 2,000 Christians driven out; homes and churches destroyed. |
| Kashmir | Hindus & Muslims | A chronically unstable region of the world, claimed by both Pakistan and India. The availability of nuclear weapons and the eagerness to use them are destabilizing the region further. More details Thirty to sixty thousand people have died since 1989. |
| Kosovo | Serbian Orthodox Christians & Muslims | Peace enforced by NATO peacekeepers. There is convincing evidence of past mass murder by Yugoslavian government (mainly Serbian Orthodox Christians) against ethnic Albanians (mostly Muslim) Full story |
| Kurdistan | Christians, Muslims | Assaults on Christians (Protestant, Chaldean Catholic, & Assyrian Orthodox). Bombing campaign underway. |
| Macedonia | Macedonian Orthodox Christians & Muslims | Muslims (often referred to as ethnic Albanians) engaged in a civil war with the rest of the country who are primarily Macedonian Orthodox Christians. A peace treaty has been signed. Disarmament by NATO is complete. |
| Middle East | Jews, Muslims, & Christians | The peace process between Israel and Palestine suffered a complete breakdown. This has resulted in the deaths of thousands, in the ratio of three dead for each Jew. Major strife broke out in 2000-SEP and is continuing. |
| Nigeria | Christians, Animists, & Muslims | Yourubas and Christians in the south of the country are battling Muslims in the north. Country is struggling towards democracy after decades of Muslim military dictatorships. More details |
| Northern Ireland | Protestants, Catholics | After 3,600 killings and assassinations over 30 years, some progress has been made in the form of a ceasefire and an independent status for the country. |
| Pakistan | Suni & Shi'ite Muslims | Low level mutual attacks. |
| Philippines | Christians & Muslims | Low level, centuries old conflict between the mainly Christian central government and Muslims in the south of the country. More details |
| Russia, Chechnya |
Russian Orthodox Christians, Muslims | The Russian army attacked the breakaway region. Muslims had allegedly blown up buildings in Moscow. Many atrocities have been alleged. |
| Serbia, province of Vojvodina | Serbian Orthodox & Roman Catholics | Serb Ethnic cleansing programs have "encouraged" 50,000 ethnic Hungarians (almost all Roman Catholics) to leave this northernmost province of Yugoslavia. Full story. |
| South Africa | Animists & "Witches" | Hundreds of persons, suspected and accused of witches practising black magic, are murdered each year. |
| Sri Lanka | Buddhists & Hindus | Tamils (a mainly Hindu 18% minority) are involved in a war for independence since 1983 with the rest of the country (70% Buddhist). An estimated 65,000 have been killed. The conflict took a sudden change for the better in 2002-SEP, when the Tamils dropped their demand for complete independence. |
| Sudan | Animists, Christians & Muslims | Complex ethnic, racial, religious conflict which victimizes both Animists and Christians in the South of the country. Slavery and near slavery practiced. There are allegations of crucifixion of Christians. 3 |
| Tibet | Buddhists & Communists | Country was annexed by Chinese Communists in late 1950's. Brutal suppression of Buddhism continues. * |
| Uganda | Animists, Christians, & Muslims | Christian rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army are conducting a civil war in the north of Uganda. Their goal is a Christian theocracy whose laws are based on the Ten Commandments. They abduct about 2,000 children a year who are enslaved and/or raped. 6 |
* We are defining "religion" rather loosely here to include Communism.
The more one learns about Islam, the more awful it is.
Islam encourages terrorism and extremism, and denies human rights.
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay, which is usually repulsive and distorted information..."
When video tapes of beheadings become hearsay, I just might listen to this idiot. (Not).
(Allahu FUBAR)
Why does no one ask him where are the Fatwas against the Sunnis' killing other muslims in Iraq (and everywhere else around the globe)?
AMEN and Amen
I am not holding my breath.
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Umm... holding your breath is not a technique mentioned in the Islamic BuyBull (the Koran).
However, slicing your throat and beheading you are indeed mentioned... many times !!! '-))
Islam....what a farce
I volunteer.
I guess all the video of beheadings is just a figment of our imaginations.
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Oak Hay... let me spread some of that falsehood from the Islamic BuyBull (the Koran)...
Sounds like the grand mufti is on grand crack!
as opposed to...
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay, which is usually repulsive and distorted information... They think that what they hear and what they are told about Islam is the truth.
So which is it mufti? Do your opponents know they are lying about islam or not?
What I find unbelievable is an arab paper can print the pronouncements of an acknowledged leader, who clearly has the intellectual sophistication of a fourth grader (logically, both his assertions can't be true), but the West is guilty of bigotry if we point out the arab culture is being driven by people who are idiots.
For all his operational sophistication, it never seemed to occur to bin Laden our people wouldn't fall into the "kill them all, let God sort them out" as his would. So he murdered several thousand people, accomplished exactly none of his goals, and muslims all over the world think he's "all that."
How can people so individually intelligent be so collectively stupid?
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay, which is usually repulsive and distorted information... They think that what they hear and what they are told about Islam is the truth. It is only through constructive dialogue led by people who very well understand Islam and its teachings that the enemies of Islam could be exposed and their lies refuted.”
Hey Muff boy that's some good clinton/lawyer talk you got going there, but you can stick your bs up your nose along with the coke your doing. We SEE the true nature of Islam.
I wish that were true...I suggest it is collective delusion.
That would be a first. It sells better among the idiots and the ignorant of the world.
And I learned everything I needed to know about Islam on September 11, 2001.
He later added "we must show the world that they are accusing us of falsehoods.... we must seek revenge on all that would call us violent by killing them and their families!"
There is no Freep but Freepers, and JimRob is their prophet!
eyeieyeieyeieyeieyeieye!
What a deja vu load of crap. I remember hundreds of such conferences devoted to the "mutual co-existence of countries with market and planned economies" and "preparing ground for fruitful and sustained dialogue between countries with different social systems". From the Western side well known fifth column of intellectuals full of good intentions played the part of straw-men in them... same pot smoking, pills popping peace marchers and sex-revolutionaries. Behind the scenes it was all the KGB operation.
Now the useful idiots are devoted to "anti-globalization" (whatever that means) and Arab a** kissing.
To put an end to all that will take another Reagan ready to define straightly who is the Empire of Evil and to formulate the strategy as simply as he did: "We gonna win, they gonna lose".
taqiyya - "According to Christian ethics lying is a sin; In Islamic jurisprudence and theology, the use of taqiyya against the unbelievers is regarded as a virtue and a religious duty."
Taqiyya and kitman: The role of Deception in Islamic terrorism
But he could maybe, just maybe, say a word or two about the terrorists who are Moslem- maybe even something disapproving.
BS ALERT!
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay
In contrast to Muslims who know very little or nothing about Christianity and just plain hate it.
"islam would go very far as a religion if they stopped with the denial, embraced the evil that has coopted them and started on the road to recovery"...
I know what you're trying to express here, but consider this.
1. islam HAS embraced evil, because it IS evil.
It's based on the lunatic musings of a seizure-plagued despot.
2. Any "religion that requires the death of any who leaves the "religion", is evil.
3.Any "religion that will let non-believers live among them if the non-belivers pay tribute, (money), is evil
4. The founder of any "religion", whose youngest wife is 9 years old, is evil.
I could go on, and on, but hopefully you'll pick up one of the excellent books about islam, written by EX-islamists and get the rest of the story.....it's gruesome.
For a great read on Islam, go to prophetofdoom.com.
I've read that.....that's all I can say...it's...
Thank you very much. I didn't make any snap judgments. I read everything I could find after 9/11 and watched as much as I could: people like Ibrahim Hooper and that Lanny Davis like Saudi spokesman, for example. Eventually, the light goes on. They are Koran driven (not a good thing) and they are liars.
How's the mirror now, Al-Abdul? Nice and bright?
Taqiyya and kitman: The role of Deception in Islamic terrorism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320513/posts
Who does he think he's kidding?
Our liberal media, our liberal court system and our liberal public education system have been bending over backwards to "be sensitive"!
And it's a known fact that "the enemies of Islam" means anyone who isn't a Muslim.
What an a$$!
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Secretary-General Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki said the MWL is pioneering a project for the establishment of a permanent center for inter-faith dialogue to be based in a European country and act as a bridgehead for Islam to infiltrate other cultures.
There, that's better.
“Saudi Arabia firmly believes that working to serve humanity through dialogue would achieve world peace and ensure security for Muslims by reducing the possibility of confrontation and conflict among civilizations. Dialogue would also unite the efforts to address the problems facing humanity, notably infidel Dhimmis,” he said.
See, it isn't so hard to understand.
Thanks for this interesting link!
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