Posted on 09/13/2012 8:19:35 AM PDT by kristinn
Translation of statement issued Wednesday by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, condemning the anti-Islam film made and promoted by certain US Israeli and Coptic individuals with obviously abhorrent hateful agendas.
One and a half billion Muslims are subjected to humiliation and abuse in the person of their leader, Mohammed, the Messenger of God, the Prophet of Islam, of mercy and good tidings for the whole world.
With the message of God, Islam, Prophet Mohammed pulled peoples out of the abyss of backwardness and barbarism to the heights of sophistication and honorable humanity.
He lit the pathways of progress and human thought for all mankind, with pure faith in the one God, belief in all Messengers without distinction or discrimination, full respect and reverence for all Prophets.
The Messenger of God gave the world Islam, which guarantees all people freedoms of belief and worship as well as respect and protection for places of worship, freedom of opinion and expression, human equality and public justice, dignity and solidarity and cooperation among all human beings.
He gave us Islam, which recognized human rights even before anyone in the whole world knew what human rights were. Islam even recognized the sanctity of a human’s blood, honor and money, which must not be violated.
The repeated abuse of the Messenger of God indicate the presence of hatred and bigotry in those who stand behind it, with ignorance, connivance and indulgence in those who permit such persistent abuse.
Thus hurting the feelings of one and a half billion Muslims cannot be tolerated, and the people’s anger and fury for their Faith is invariably predictable, often unstoppable.
We denounce abuse of all Messengers of God, Prophets and Apostles, and condemn this heinous crime. We further call for criminalization of assaults on the sanctities of all heavenly religions.
Otherwise, such acts will continue to cause devout Muslims across the world to suspect and even loathe the West, especially the USA, for allowing their citizens to violate the sanctity of what they hold dear and holy. Hence, we demand that all those involved in such crimes be urgently brought to trial.
Certainly, such attacks against sanctities do not fall under the freedom of opinion or thought. They are crimes and assaults against Muslim sanctities, and must not be tolerated by the countries where they are produced or launched, since they are also detrimental to the interests of those countries in dealings with the peoples of the Muslim world.
The West has passed and imposed laws that punish those who deny or express dissident views on the Holocaust or question the number of Jews killed by Hitler, a topic which is purely historical, not a sacred doctrine.
The peoples and governments of the Muslim world have every right to condemn, with all peaceful and legal means, this new violation and heinous attack, and to take appropriate action to deter repeats of such acts of barbaric aggression.
While we reject and condemn the bloodshed and violent response to that abuse and the incredible tolerance certain countries show towards it, we cannot ignore the fact that these countries never made a move regarding the abuse until after the strong reaction seen across the Muslim world.
We believe those countries should take appropriate actions and lay out clear and proper procedures to deal with such crimes, especially since preparations for this abuse took place plainly, right under the noses of authorities in those countries – over several months. Prevention is always better than cure.
Finally, we call upon all Muslims to uphold and apply Quranic principles and emulate the Messenger of Allah. That is the most effective way to honor him – by setting a good example, particularly because this abuse comes at a time when peoples are trying to communicate with mutual respect.
Those who insult the sanctities wish to poison budding relations between the peoples, to disrupt the efforts to build bridges between civilizations, and to sow discord between the peoples.
The Muslim Brotherhood
Cairo - September 12, 2012
Stop hurting our feelings or we'll cut off your head.
That’s just one laffer after another!
Written by Professor Erwin Cory ?
The phrase “full of sh_t” comes to mind.
Not the USA, thank God.
The MB actually makes a good point here. Once you rule any elements of speech "criminal," you have to show a reason why speech A should be criminal, but speech B should not.
So Europeans need to show why "Holocaust denial" is criminal, but bashing Mo is not.
Much better to be a free speech absolutist.
I wish I had a printer that could print out on toilet paper. Does Kinko have that ability?
Obama will sign an Executive Order to remove free speech and fix everything
I quite agree, though I suspect we differ on which acts are crimes.
I think I just threw up in my mouth......gaaaaaaggggg!
Yep. They learned from the left to use our standards against us.
Unless the “Muslim Brotherhood” is making an announcement of mass suicide, I’m not interested in ANYTHING they have to say - and neither should any thinking American.
Islam is the abyss of backwardness and barbarism.
Th esooner its eradicated from the planet, the better.
Close all the mosques in the USA...Bomb Mecca and Medina.
To Hades with them and their “rights”. Animals don’t have rights.
The rule of narrow minded bigots like the Southern Poverty Law Center - a group that wants to criminalize groups who don't agree with them. Our own home grown “Muslim extremists”.
My suggestion to this guy is to boycott Hollywood like the rest of us do.. if he doesn't like the movie, don't watch it. Don't watch any of them. I haven't been in a movie theater in years. Don't like the way conservatives are portrayed... But like you Sherman Logan, I believe Hollywood has the right to be short sighted idiots... and I'll defend their right to that position...
With the message of God, Islam, Prophet Mohammed pulled peoples out of the abyss of backwardness and barbarism to the heights of sophistication and honorable humanity.
The author is profoundly confused.
The Egyptian President, who was quick to tell us that WE needed to do something about some nut making a glorified home movie about Muhammad, quite infamously cracked down on any semblance of independent media in Egypt.
There is a reason why this obscure movie became MUCH MORE FAMOUS in the Middle East than it would have otherwise EVER have been in America (where we at least value good production professionalism) - and that is because the governments in Egypt, Libya and Yemen (and the Muslim Brotherhood) WANTED it to be famous.
They acted as the publicity agents for this obscure home movie - then tell US that we have to do something about it.
How about if WE tell THEM to shut the hell up about what some obscure nutbag does in America?
They incite a riot on 9-11 using this obscure home movie as the flimsiest of pretexts - and our media plays along either blithely unaware of or entirely uninterested in the fact that nobody in the Middle East (or anywhere else for that matter) would have ever heard of the ‘film’ if not for the publicity given to it via full and direct approval of the governments of Egypt, Libya and Yemen and the Muslim Brotherhood (inasmuch as there is any difference).
“The Messenger of God gave the world Islam, which guarantees all people freedoms of belief and worship as well as respect and protection for places of worship, freedom of opinion and expression, human equality and public justice, dignity and solidarity and cooperation among all human beings.”
BWAhahahahahaha!!!!!!
Seriously, can anyone who has seen the 15-min trailer tell me what in it is inaccurate? I couldn’t find anything.
As long as you are not an INFIDEL(aka Jew or Christian). What a crock o' crap.
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