Posted on 06/24/2004 9:29:45 PM PDT by quidnunc
"At best, it's vigilantism. At worst it's anarchy. Islam is against both." That was the reaction of Daniel McBride to the recent beheadings of South Korean Kim Sun Il and Americans Paul Johnson and Nicholas Berg. Mr. McBride, a spokesman for the Islamic Center of Boca Raton, Fla., wants to make clear that "for these radicals to even imply that what they're doing is Islamically correct is wrong."
Many Muslims are disturbed that such acts of terrorism are being committed in the name of their religion. The Council on American-Islamic Relations launched a petition a few weeks ago that notes: "We, the undersigned Muslims wish to state clearly that those who commit acts of terror, murder, and cruelty in the name of Islam are not only destroying innocent lives, but also betraying the values of the faith they claim to represent."
Mohammad Tariq Sherwani, the director of the Muslim Center in Flushing, N.Y., signed the petition because he was concerned that "lots of times, Muslims don't speak up against violence." He expressed special sadness about the death of Paul Johnson. "That gentleman in Saudi Arabia. He was so honest. He lived there for years. He trusted the people. He was killed by the people he trusted."
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This is where the issue gets more difficult for some Muslim leaders in America. "Who is qualified to set themselves up as a legitimate tribunal to cast the death penalty?" asks Rashad Sharif, the imam of the Masjid Al-Mu'minun, in Memphis, Tenn. In a world where certain governments "refuse to recognize international courts," he believes that it is hard to say who is legitimate and who is not. Indeed, Imam Sharif refuses to explicitly condemn the beheadings. "When I hear about someone cut in two pieces, I think about how we [Americans] blow up people into more pieces than can be put back together."
As disturbing as Imam Sharif's message of moral equivalence seems, it points to a larger question. Why aren't Muslim leaders who denounce the beheadings willing to speak out against others who take the law into their own hands? Like the suicide bombers in Israel, for instance?
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Geez, where to start with that article.
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After reading that article at that link, I am now so completely consumed with anger with American Muslims that it is quite clear to me that we are in a genuine Holy War. We are Crusaders, whether we like it or not.
We better wise up.
Another barbarian tears bump
Allah must be having a bad day.
They have recruitment tables set up along the sidewalks at the University of Texas in Austin. I used to just think hey, it's UT and it's Austin's hippies who don't know it's not 1967 but now A&M joined in and is pouring million$ into diversity.
Grain Hell! Try a pound or two......
Try as they might, Muslims cannot escape the fundamental fact that their religion is a religion of war and death... no amount of spin changes that fact.
Islam was founded purely to unite the arab world (by force) against the Jews and Christians.... Islam still practices forced conversions to this day, and is the only major religion to still trade human lives as slaves.
I know not all that practice islam are evil, just as not everyone in Nazi germany was evil or everyone in Communist Russia was evil... but there is no doubt that Islam, like Naziism, and Communism, is EVIL. Period.
At the Pig's Blood Store. Or, go out and buy a live pig.
I new I saw that some where.
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Am very familiar with Joe Kaufman. He lives here and is on the radio from time to time.
BUMPING FOR REFERENCE
Oh please, the Koran is full of blood, and revenge. There are about 800 quotes to prove it.
"taqija" pure and simple.
bookimarking as reference, as such.
Ditto everything you said.
Bump for your link...
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