Posted on 09/10/2004 3:21:36 PM PDT by Spacetrucker
Friday, September 10, 2004
We Are So Sorry for 9-11 This September 11 marks the third unforgettable anniversary of the worst mass murder in American history.
After September 11, many in the Muslim world chose denial and hallucination rather than face up to the sad fact that Muslims perpetrated the 9-11 terrorist acts and that we have an enormous problem with extremism and support for terrorism. Many Muslims, including religious leaders, and “intellectuals” blamed 9-11 on a Jewish conspiracy and went as far as fabricating a tale that 4000 Jews did not show up for work in the World Trade Center on 9-11. Yet others blamed 9-11 on an American right wing conspiracy or the U.S. Government which allegedly wanted an excuse to invade Iraq and “steal” Iraqi oil.
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As to apologizing, we will no longer wait for our religious leaders and "intellectuals" to do the right thing. Instead, we will start by apologizing for 9-11 . . . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After numerous admissions of guilt by Bin Laden and numerous corroborating admissions by captured top level Al-Qaida operatives, we wonder, does the Muslim leadership have the dignity and courage to apologize for 9-11? If not 9-11, will we apologize for the murder of school children in Russia?
If not Russia, will we apologize for the train bombings in Madrid, Spain?
If not Spain, will we apologize for suicide bombings in buses, restaurants and other public places?
If not suicide bombings, will we apologize for the barbaric beheadings of human beings?
If not beheadings, will we apologize for the rape and murder of thousands of innocent people in Darfour?
If not Darfour, will we apologize for the blowing up of two Russian planes by Muslim women?
What will we apologize for?
What will it take for Muslims to realize that those who commit mass murder in the name of Islam are not just a few fringe elements?
What will it take for Muslims to realize that we are facing a crisis that is more deadly than the Aids epidemic?
What will it take for Muslims to realize that there is a large evil movement that is turning what was a peaceful religion into a cult?
Will Muslims wake up before it is too late? Or will we continue blaming the Jews and an imaginary Jewish conspiracy? The blaming of all Muslim problems on Jews is a cancer that is destroying Muslim society from within and it must stop.
Muslims must look inward and put a stop to many of our religious leaders who spend most of their sermons teaching hatred, intolerance and violent jihad. We should not be afraid to admit that as Muslims we have a problem with violent extremism. We should not be afraid to admit that so many of our religious leaders belong behind bars and not behind a pulpit.
Only moderate Muslims can challenge and defeat extremist Muslims. We can no longer afford to be silent. If we remain silent to the extremism within our community then we should not expect anyone to listen to us when we complain of stereotyping and discrimination by non-Muslims; we should not be surprised when the world treats all of us as terrorists; we should not be surprised when we are profiled at airports.
Simply put, not only do Muslims need to join the war against terror, we need to take the lead in this war.
As to apologizing, we will no longer wait for our religious leaders and “intellectuals” to do the right thing. Instead, we will start by apologizing for 9-11.
We are so sorry that 3000 people were murdered in our name. We will never forget the sight of people jumping from two of the highest buildings in the world hoping against hope that if they moved their arms fast enough that they may fly and survive a certain death from burning.
We are sorry for blaming 9-11 on a Jewish or right wing conspiracy.
We are so sorry for the murder of more than three hundred school children and adults in Russia.
We are so sorry for the murder of train passengers in Spain.
We are so sorry for all the victims of suicide bombings. We are so sorry for the beheadings, abductions, rapes, violent Jihad and all the atrocities committed by Muslims around the world.
We are so sorry for a religious education that raised killers rather than train people to do good in the world. We are sorry that we did not take the time to teach our children tolerance and respect for other people.
We are so sorry for not rising up against the dictators who have ruled the Muslim world for decades.
We are so sorry for allowing corruption to spread so fast and so deep in the Muslim world that many of our youth lost hope.
We are so sorry for allowing our religious leaders to relegate women to the status of forth class citizens at best and sub-humans at worse.
We are so sorry.
Nope.
It's a start. Whether they will be able to wrest control of Islam from the sand Nazis is another question. I doubt it, given the long-established doctrines of Islam, the sand Nazis have their theology more correct.
Very nice.
Now, GO FIND THOSE WHO PERPETRATED THESE HEINOUS ACTS OF MURDER AND BRING THEM TO US.
Then, we'll talk.
Years too late and......................actions speak louder than words when it comes to this..........besides, the font looks screwy on their p/r!!
Many here will say it does not. However, consider how unimaginable this would have been just a short while ago. People in the Islamic world may be deceived but they are not stupid. They, like those under communist rule, they are seeing through the propaganda. Its not earth shattering but it is a beginning.
As I e-mailed them: Hopefully, this is a beginning. Time will tell.
Maybe this is the start of an Islamic Reformation. We'll see.
Sorry, you're too late for me. Drop dead.
Dear Muslims: The check is in the mail!
I am increasingly of a mind that there are only two kinds of these people - those that act and those that cheer.
Sure there are those that are on our side. But they are few and far between.
I believe your recommendation is the only solution to the Islamo-fascist problem. I have yet to see or hear of a better alternative, from anyone.
One thing that bothers me is the rejection of an apology. It's like a Liberal thing. They demand and demand an apology and then they never accept it.
Moderate Muslims, if not already, will one day be facing a terrible decision. The choice will be between their faith and their lives. This group (if legitimate) took a big risk to apologize. Do we not remember when the Afghan government condemned the attack the day of 9/11/2001? The Taliban marched in, bombed the airport and shot up everyone they could find.
I am not saying that this apology should mean the world to us, but to reject it outright and with hostility is not helping.
Now find your extremist militant leaders and turn them over to face justice!
Muslims are such pikers. If it weren't for Turkey, Pakistan, and Indonesia, they wouldn't even make the list. Heck, Mexico's almost caught up to them.
They can apologize all they want, but they've got a lot of work to do if they want to beat the socialists.
that link is dead
I agree. They have been living in fear, and have now decided to take that terrible risk. They KNOW the tactics of the fanatical Islamists - that is why they've been silent.
I just wrote recently about the 'Muslims for Bush': "These Muslims are very bold, and have stepped out of their fear, and I applaud them for that. It gives me hope that things will change. If more Muslims did that, then the change would happen faster. It's up to them."
I have also been saying for ages now, "the silence of the moderates is deafening".
Now the Muslims themselves are saying: Only moderate Muslims can challenge and defeat extremist Muslims. We can no longer afford to be silent.
They are finally starting to speak out. They are no longer silent.
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The Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism is a nonprofit organization made up of American Muslims and Arabs of all backgrounds who feel that religious violence and terrorism have not been fully rejected by the Muslim community in the post 9-11 era. For more information visit their website at: www.freemuslims.org. Contact President Kamal Nawash directly at his email: president@freemuslims.org.
I finally got in to their site. And I don't see what the gripe is about the fonts and other HTML elements. I had an idea of something some 6th grader cooked up on his mom's computer...
Anyway, do we buy it? Considering what they are doing is considered a sin punishable by death in the minds of the radicals. These Muslims are in fact considered Infidels by their brothers and sisters. So in effect, they are fighting the same battle as us.
Should we buy it? Buy it? To what extent? To say that it makes us feel absolutely totally better about 9/11? I think not, but on the other hand, to appreciate their words and risk is within my nature to do.
To say that we don't accept it and that they can go to hell is neither Christian, Jewish nor is it helpful. We don't need 1 billion of the non-terrorist muslims thinking we are all a "hard-hearted" people who are unwilling to accept peaceful Muslims into our fray.
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