Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: These Terrorist Attacks Are Not About Religion

Time Magazine ^ | January 9, 2015 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

[2ndDivisionVet]

When the Ku Klux Klan burns a cross in a black family’s yard, Christians aren’t required to explain how these aren’t really Christian acts.

Another horrendous act of terrorism has taken place and people like myself who are on media speed-dial under “Celebrity Muslims” are thrust in the spotlight to angrily condemn, disavow, and explain—again—how these barbaric acts are in no way related to Islam.

For me, religion—no matter which one—is ultimately about people wanting to live humble, moral lives that create a harmonious community and promote tolerance and friendship with those outside the religious community. Any religious rules should be in service of this goal. The Islam I learned and practice does just that.

Violence committed in the name of religion is never about religion—it’s ultimately about money. The 1976 movie, All the President’s Men, got it right when it reduced the Daedalus maze of the Watergate scandal to the simple phrase, “Follow the money.”(continued)

[stockpirate]

The Watergate movie got it wrong, Nixon was right to bug the offices at Watergate.

[Ann Archy]

HUH??? What are you talking about?

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

[scooby321]

Grisly Deed. The Black Muslim religion strongly appealed to some blacks because of its denunciation of the evils of white society and its promise of a better life for individuals who strictly follow its commands. The Hanafis consider themselves more orthodox than the Black Muslims, now called Bilalians, whom they dismiss as political exploiters. The most famous Hanafi convert is Los Angeles Laker Basketball Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who financed the purchase of a Washington house as Hanafi headquarters.

[onyx]

Thank you for the info.
I hadn't heard about this Hanafi sect.

[Dagnabitt]

It’s not Islamic terror. It’s just 15,000 random unconnected acts of violence.

[rovenstinez]

It’s about time people be intellectually honest, they get these ideas from their so called book that came down from Heaven. They are being taught in their religious halls of indoctrination in courses that their deity is superior to anything and everyone. This leads us to a definite clash of world views. Sad people want to live in denial. Time to change directions celebrity Moslems.

[bray]

No it isn’t about religion, it is about an 8th century death cult that you belong to.

Pray America is waking

[bert]

Drivel.....

Of course it is about religion

It’s about forcing very narrow religious views on all the population

It’s a lot like being ferociously anti Mormon. Same principle

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, the rioters in Ferguson were all about racial equality, you racist, simpleminded, lying has-been!

[MrEdd]

Look up the Hanafi murders.

[VeniVidiVici]

When the Ku Klux Klan burns a cross in a black family’s yard, Christians aren’t required to explain how these aren’t really Christian acts.

Huh? What a dumbass statement.

[liberalh8ter]

Hey Kareem.....are you actually trying to tell us to ignore the fact that the followers of YOUR faith shout ‘praise be to Allah’ as they unleash their barbarity on innocent civilians? Listen to you and discard what our eyes and ears tell us? If your religion is so peaceful, unload the burdens of your American trappings and move your Mooslimb a$$ to one of the many $hithole Countries that celebrates your faith. If you're not prepared to do so, STFU and quit disrespecting the memories of the MANY brave and innocent human beings, in this generation and past, who have died at the hands of the pure evil you follow.

[elcid1970]

Basketball dribbling leftwing millionaire jerk lecturing us “infidels” about Muslim terrorism. Yeah, right.

[neocon1984]

Go back to the bong, Lewis.

[Amagi]

Yo, Allahu Akbar, Jabber.

[Old Yeller]

Well they sure ain’t about basketball.

[JayAr36]

It constantly amazes me how these people that adopt Arabic names fail to remember that IT WAS THE ARABS THAT SOLD THEIR ANCESTERS INTO SLAVERY IN THE FIRST PLACE! And Islam is still enslaving people around the world.

[SaraJohnson]

Modern day neo-Nazis hate Christians because they worship a Jew.

[Kid Shelleen]

Lew Alcinder should be more honest about tensions between different Muslim sects. Anybody remember The Hanafi Massacre" at Jabbar's home? Five of the dead were children and one was an infant.

8 Killed at Jabbar Home (Children drowned)