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Terrorists have smeared Islam
The Gazette (Montreal) ^ | Saturday, September 11, 2004 | Abdel Rahman al-Rashed

Posted on 09/11/2004 9:31:26 AM PDT by kcar

It is a certain fact not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that the hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims.

The hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims.

Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners in Russia were also Muslims.

Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools and buildings, across the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable "achievement." Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture?

These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing.

For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture.

Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi --the sheikh and Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric -- and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; muslim; terrorist
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1 posted on 09/11/2004 9:31:26 AM PDT by kcar
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To: kcar

Well, that's a small start.

But until the great masses of so-called moderate Muslims
begin loudly denouncing both the terrorist perps and their
deeds, the rest of the world can only assume that the
"moderates" are silently cheering on the cutthroat cultists.


2 posted on 09/11/2004 9:39:35 AM PDT by Boundless
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To: kcar

Bump and bookmark


3 posted on 09/11/2004 9:40:00 AM PDT by Valin (I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.)
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To: kcar
I think he gets it...

Too little, too late

It's justifiably smeared.

4 posted on 09/11/2004 9:40:08 AM PDT by mcar
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To: Boundless

Maybe we can help purify his hijacked religion of peace by zapping the militant sheikhs for him?


5 posted on 09/11/2004 9:42:32 AM PDT by kcar (www.TheUNsucks.com)
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To: kcar

Islam has smeared Islam.


6 posted on 09/11/2004 9:43:39 AM PDT by tkathy (There will be no world peace until all thuggocracies are gone from the earth.)
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To: tkathy
You beat me to the response.

:)

7 posted on 09/11/2004 9:47:10 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Only place Kerry has to go now is to the glue factory.)
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To: kcar
They have exposed Islam. Basically what we have now is what you naturally get when you cross Islam with 1930s military technology and a global communications and travel infrastructure. Now the people of Islam need to decide whether they're either going to go down with the ship, like Dan Rather, or that planetary Islamic domination is not worth the trouble.
8 posted on 09/11/2004 9:48:32 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("With 64 days left, John Kerry still has time to change his mind 4 or 5 more times" - Rudy Giuliani)
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To: kcar
We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture.

Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is one sane voice in the darkness that is islam.

I guess he can now look forward to a fatwa on his ass in no time flat.

9 posted on 09/11/2004 9:51:00 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit
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To: Boundless

About 32 years late (remember Montreal Olympics?), but its a start.


10 posted on 09/11/2004 9:51:57 AM PDT by keithtoo (GOP: Faith , Family, Freedom. DemonRats: Traitors, Haters and Vacillators)
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To: kcar
Terrorists have smeared Islam

That may be the prevailing thought, or should I say defense. However, I seems to me it's also possible terrorists have simply drawn the light to a plaque that doesn't like being exposed and that the rest of the world needs to confront

11 posted on 09/11/2004 9:51:59 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never Forget)
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To: keithtoo

Whoops! Munich Olympics.....sorry.


12 posted on 09/11/2004 9:52:31 AM PDT by keithtoo (GOP: Faith , Family, Freedom. DemonRats: Traitors, Haters and Vacillators)
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To: Recovering Hermit

That's what I was thinking. Look for his voice to be stifled pretty quickly by Islamic peace-mongers.


13 posted on 09/11/2004 9:53:17 AM PDT by kcar (www.TheUNsucks.com)
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It is a certain fact not all Muslims are terrorists, ...

Yeah, some are just collaborators, harborers, enablers, financiers and/or sympathizers with terrorists.

14 posted on 09/11/2004 9:53:36 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: kcar
Bullcrap!

Islam was slimed whenever the perverted Mohammed dreamed up this nightmare of a religion and then codified it with his Koran!

This religion has started a war that is greater than all wars combined and Judeo-Christians must realize that it is their lives on earth that is at stake and, unlike the muslim rats, we don't get 72 virgins for following our Ten Commandments; rather we get a share of paradise with our True God and Master.

15 posted on 09/11/2004 9:56:14 AM PDT by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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To: Boundless
moderate Muslims

Oxymoron.

16 posted on 09/11/2004 9:57:41 AM PDT by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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To: kcar

Terrorists have merely pulled the veil off Islam to let us see the dark death cult which it is.


17 posted on 09/11/2004 10:20:39 AM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (3 Purple Hearts? No blood? No Way!!)
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To: kcar
"Terrorists have smeared Islam"

Frankly, I have heard precious few Muslims claim they fear "smeared" by the terrorists. In fact, after 9-11 some Muslims were dancing in the streets of NYC, as were the Palestinians. Overall, Muslims have been deafingly silent, which amounts to a kind of empathy for the cause of their terrorist 'brethren'.

18 posted on 09/11/2004 10:30:32 AM PDT by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II (c 1097 a.d.))
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To: kcar

No.

Overwhelming silent response has shown us what Islam is.


19 posted on 09/11/2004 10:30:50 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er ({about the news media} "We'll tell you any sh** you want hear" : Howard Beale --> NETWORK)
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To: kcar

Too late, Moos. Time to start shopping for a new death cult.


20 posted on 09/11/2004 10:31:42 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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