Posted on 09/11/2004 12:25:29 PM PDT by dcwusmc
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By Kamal Nawash
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.
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.
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Succinctly put. Well said. I agree 100%.
It's the FIRST TIME I have seen such an article and I notice that FOX is my original source for it. I was stunned, STUNNED, I tell you... and all my bebers were stuned, as well... I will wait and see if others follow suit or if this outfit stands alone against the wahabi and shi'ite mooselimbs... (and I always had thought wahabi was Japanese horseradish!) If they stand alone, it will be interesting to see who comes out with a fatwa against them. Perhaps someone can check the "ask the imam" site...
now? Could it be because the non-us media has been showing the BLOODY PIECES of the children of Russia? Could it be the little girl so young, who only knew her mothers name was "mama" after the attack? Could it bee seeing children in the hospitals desperatly holding on to life due to NAILS which had ripped their bodies?
This is way not enough. Actual parts of the Quran have to be adressed. Sanctioning lying to preserve the faith, violence to spread the faith, advocating death to non believers, and all the other tidbits of blood and misery that are required in writing by their "faith".
Actions speak louder than words. Afraid or not, saying "sorry" or not, is not where the rubber meets the road. What is the author suggesting be DONE about the problems he identifies?
this is a miniscule teeny tiny minority. (less than the naderites) If anything, this is more a PR move than real.
This apology is 1095 days too late. I will never forget...and I will never forgive. There are atrocities that are unforgivable.
Too little too late!
Lots of calls here for moderate muslims to speak. When they do, we get poo-poo like this.
This is risky business for these folks, and I, for one, salute them.
Did they include any loose heads?
If I sounded a bit terse in my previous post...it's because I'm still steaming
over something I heard on radio Wednesday.
That was listening to the spokes-lady of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations)
hmm-and-haw in trying explain why a two-paragraph "condemnation" of
the Beslan event didn't get on their website until after Labor Day weekend.
This was on The Laura Ingraham radio show.
Precisely!
Hence, my lack of patience and respect for the posters who dismiss this out of hand.
Absolutely!!!!!! The real war is being fought in the bedrooms of the world. It's probably a good thing that we have been alerted by OBL. They think that they can take over the world without firing a shot. They may be right.
Don't be fooled.. Jim
So they waited three years and AFTER the children in Russia were murdered to apologize. How touching!
This may or may not be a first step. Time will tell. It took decades for this first step. We'll see how it goes.
Their list of things to be sorry for is far far shorter than it should be.
There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of attacks against Israel. There have been many attacks in Asia. I could go on for hours.
I do find it rather concerning that this group points to Hezballah and the need for a Palestinian solution. Palestinian solutions and the call for U.S. engagement is sadly generally translated accurately as a call for the U.S. to force an unjustifiable peace and unconcionable capitulations on Israel.
The Palestinians will have peace when they desire peace more than unspeackable violence. Not Israel, not the U.S., and not this supposed moderate group will force it on them.
Hell will freeze over before I give this group the sweat off my privates, let alone one red cent.
That was discussed widely, here anyway. One thread had to do with info on how the explosives were smuggled aboard the aircraft... vaginally. So it is hardly unknown to us (and to INFORMED folks) that women were the weapons.
That's one point of view, and it's one that I about half share. But another point of view is that maybe we should encourage those willing to apologize. Some of them are going to have to be against terror, and some are going to have to die because they're not. The only alternative, if we don't embrace those who want to apologize and stop this insanity, is to just kill them all. Of course, that is one point of view.
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