Posted on 07/02/2005 7:31:24 PM PDT by DCWatson
You call that American patriotism?
This column is in response to an Op-Ed written by Corey Saylor, “Government Affairs Director for the Council on American Islamic Relations, entitled “Islam and Independence Day.” http://www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=37094&theType=NB
Saylor, according to the content contained in the column, appears to have viewed our nation’s 229th birthday as an opportunity to throw out more Islamic nonsense at whomever might run across the piece.
The time is long past due for the Council on American Islamic Relations and others along the same thought process to cease in attempting to barge Islam into the American landscape. This is not an Islamic nation. Islamic law does not apply here. It is incompatible with democracy, not to mention century impaired.
According to Saylor’s article, Islam has made this particular Muslim a “better citizen and patriot.”
Saylor also stated the following: “the Prophet Muhammad's teachings strengthened my belief in freedom and democracy.” “When I first read the Quran, Islam's revealed text, and the traditions (hadith) of the Prophet Muhammad I expected to find something totally alien to American ideals. Instead, I found many of the same democratic principles that emerged from the Continental Congress in that summer of 1776.”
On the issue of Muhammad’s teachings, if what Saylor wrote were true, why do Islamic nations oppress their female population? (Qur’an 4:34 perhaps?) Why do Islamic nations oppress their people in general? Why do most Muslims live in poverty while their nation’s leaders dwell in palaces?
To say that freedom and democracy in the Middle East is sparse would rank among the severest of understatements, but for anyone who understands Islam and Islamic law, they know that there is no true freedom, or true democracy.
Saylor continues: “Thomas Jefferson once said, "Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism." On July 4th, we celebrate one of history's great acts of dissent: the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The men who put their signature on that document literally put their lives and property on the line to voice their disagreement with British government policies that they believed to be tyrannical.”
If Saylor has located “democratic principles" in the Qur’an or Sunnah that are comparable to our Bill of Rights, they have yet to be clearly demonstrated. However, since Islam and democracy are so similar, perhaps Saylor could stroll down the hall to Ibrahim Hooper’s office and ask him why he said: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”
Why would a government need to be Islamic if there is already a democracy in place?
Or maybe Saylor could ask Randall Royer, Bassem Khafagi, or Ghassan Elashi (former CAIR employees), why, while they lived in a democratic nation, did they support Islamic terror, or commit visa and bank fraud, which landed them in the slam, or in Khafagi's case, earned him a one way ticket back to the wonderland he came from.
Or, if there’s time, Saylor could contact Omar Ahmad, former CAIR chairman and say, “Umm, Mr. Omar, since Islam and freedom are really one in the same, how come you said this?” “Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
Without fail, the remainder of the column includes mention of “Iraq, reports of torture and desecration of the Quran in Guantanamo Bay, the rising tide of anti-Muslim rhetoric in our society, domestic and international policies that seem to create more problems than they solve, and mentions a twisting of “my faith in such an evil manner.” (9/11)
Nice try. However, Saylor needs only to read the Qur’an again to learn that there has been no twisting of Islam, and that it is Islam that promotes the behavior of those who carry out Islamic terror attacks all over the world.
Ironically, Saylor made no mention of the beheadings, car bombings, rapes, kidnappings, or honor killings associated with the "religion of peace", or the fact that the prisoners at Guantanamo are battle hardened cutthroats. They are Muslims, and their well being is all that appears to matter.
Has CAIR condemned them, Hamas, Hezbollah, al Aqsa, Islamic Jihad, the Taliban, or al Queda?
CAIR hasn’t the first clue about what it means to truly be an American, Their tactics and statements are not American. Moving to America doesn’t automatically make someone an American. It takes courage, hard work, adherence to the law of the land, and commitment to the betterment of this country that makes someone new to America an American. Some Muslims, the ones who oppose CAIR, fit this description.
Nonetheless, CAIR brings nothing to the table that can be construed as an improvement to the United States of America. For a column such as Saylor’s to be submitted near the time America’s birthday is nothing more than a shameful attempt to criticize this nation, while trying to pass on the ridiculous notion that Islam promotes freedom and democracy. Like hell it does.
Since Corey Saylor was kind enough to quote one of America’s founding fathers, here’s a quote that applies in a fitting manner:
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an ever lasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." Samuel Adams
Amen.
Well, sorry you got stuck in the bloggers section.
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