The Silent Muslim Majority IS the Problem

I am overwhelmed with sadness over the state of the Muslim world. I am looking at the photograph of an Iranian woman about to be stoned to death in Iran, buried to her waste in dirt to keep her from running away.

A few weeks ago, I read about a 14 year-old Iranian boy who died after receiving 85 lashes for the ‘sin’ of eating in public in the month of Ramadan. Salah Uddin Choudhury has been in prison for one year in Bangladesh for the ‘crime’ of urging his nation to recognize Israel and advocating interfaith dialogue among equals as well as warning against the growing power of Islamists in Bangladesh.

What are Muslim community activists in America doing about their homegrown brutal human rights violations? They are silent.

The picture of the stoned woman has been seen by some Muslims I know in the Middle East and also fellow Americans, Christians and Jews. The first reaction by the Muslims was “what did she do?” while the first reaction by Americans was “How could this happen?”

The Muslim majority here in the US remains silent seeing the outrageous brutal medieval-style and inhumane punishments practiced in many parts of the Muslim world. Americans, who are puzzled by the silence of the so called “moderate” Arab-Americans after 9/11, do not understand that Arabs learned to be silent and indifferent to terror before even coming to America. Generations after generations of Muslims lived under dictatorships and were trained to look the other way when Muslims tortured and terrorized other Muslims. The result is a population de-sensitized to seeing brutality and horror. Too many of them see cruel punishment as normal. Their silence over the killing was not just an insult to America after 9/11, but is aiding and abetting the cruel culture of hate, terror, torture and beheadings.

Arab men, known for ‘machismo’, are doing nothing while watching such horrible injustice happen to their women and children. There is no uprising by Arab women over the inhumanity and cruelty their sisters in Islam are suffering. “She must have done something really bad!” one Muslim woman said to me after seeing the picture. By that, she of course meant having sex outside of marriage. 2000 years after Christianity abandoned stoning as a form of punishment, Islam still continues to practice it.

Even Muslim groups who live with Western freedoms are not making a strong stand to stop this cruel practice. There is a petition being circulated on the Internet by mostly non-Muslim or former Muslim groups to save the life of yet another Iranian woman from being stoned to death. On the other hand, many Muslim women in America, all the while enjoying Western freedoms, are busy covering their ankles, complaining about the French law against wearing religious symbols in French public schools or filing law suits to get their faces covered up on their drivers’ licenses in America.

These hijab-wearing Muslim women expressed no outrage over the brutal murder of Margaret Hassan in Iraq, a British woman who dedicated 30 years of her life to helping Iraqis. How many properly covered up Saudi, gulf state, Egyptian, Syrian or Jordanian women went to Iraq, Iran, Algeria or Sudan, to help their sisters and brothers in Islam as did Margaret Hassan? The answer is practically none. That job was usually left to Westerners who do it out of their Judeo-Christian inspired sense of humanity.

Most Islamic studies professors and Islamist groups in America exercise their freedom of speech given to them by America, but only when speaking against America, Judaism, Christianity, President Bush and Pat Robertson. However, they never dare to criticize their culture of origin and some even still have respect for the tyranny of the old country. They leave the job of ridding the Muslim world of terror to the victims of terror, namely America and Israel. Whenever they criticize the Muslim world it is in the context of blaming America for supporting dictatorships. However, when America attempts to bring democracy and get rid of Arab dictators they turn around and accuse America of occupation or empire building. No matter what America does, they voice criticism. That can only mean they do not seem to be serious about reformation in Muslim countries. They are, however, very serious about embarrassing, criticizing and hurting America.

Many Muslim groups and Middle East studies professors are aligning themselves with the liberal ‘hate America’ crowd in Western academia and media. Three days after the Tsunami in South Asia, I saw an Arab-American leader criticize America’s response as “slow and too little, too late” on CNN. They have the audacity to criticize America and give a free pass to the oil rich Arab countries that should be the first to respond financially to save their poor Muslim brothers and sisters in Indonesia.

Islamism and the old defeated and failed ideology of pan-Arabism is what many Islamic groups in America are advocating. They are silent in the face of Muslim poverty, corruption, neglect of human rights, oppression of women, honor killings and the brutal and unusual punishments such as cutting off limbs, flogging and stoning. They are not using American freedoms as an opportunity to change their countries of origin, but as an opportunity to influence and change America to be like the countries they came from. Their goal is also to keep Muslim-Americans under their control and the control of Muslim world mullahs, sheiks and dictators they should have left behind. How can any one take them seriously when they do not lift a finger to protect human rights in Muslim countries, but are militant in turning Arab-Americans into yet another voting block to influence American politics? They take no stand to protect the life of the Muslim woman being stoned and explain away such atrocities and beheadings while crying ‘profiling’ in America by the FBI.

Wahhabi Islamist groups in the West are dreaming of a day when Sharia Islamic laws that call for stoning women come to America and dominate the whole world. That is why Muslims in the West are not outraged over this picture.

Arab-Americans should reject Islamist groups and become part of the solution and not part of the problem in America. Let the history books say that Arab-Americans were the seed and cause of change in the Middle East. Let us stand behind President Bush in trying to bring about democracy in the Arab world. Let us form active genuine peace groups and reach out to other religions. Let us celebrate the freedoms America has given us by extending our compassion to the victims of terror left behind in our countries of origin. That should be the mission of Arab organizations in America and not the silly anti-American causes they are pursuing with the blessings from the enemies of America.

Arab-Americans should no longer stand silent before acts of terror and beheadings on our fellow brave American men and women in the US armed forces as well. America should never allow the poison of medieval-style justice and morality to penetrate its psyche under the guise of multiculturalism. It is time for America to hold Muslim countries and culture responsible for terrorism. Those countries are waging a two-faced war against the West while hiding behind their terrorists and their sacred veils.

Yes, the silent Muslim majority is the problem. Their silence is empowering not only the terrorists and brutal dictatorships, but all of the cultural, political and social pathologies behind them. Arab- Americans who speak out might be called ‘heroes’ by some. However, speaking out of love and gratitude for America is the duty of all American citizens.

"Then why are you promoting INtolerance of Muslims, and removal of freedom and liberty?

And if you deny you are doing this, again, I ask...what ARE your proposals, other than to hurl insults? You seem to want to strip Muslim citizens of their citizenship...is that tolerance, liberty, or freedom? "

If depriving the Muslims of their rights ensures that we keep OUR rights, it is more than justified.

"Then who decides the "true Muslim" or not? Some loyalty oath? Well, naturalized ones do that...but if all true Muslims lie, why don't the really dangerous ones just claim to not want to kill me?"

They have to swear to support the US over Islam, and if there is any indication they are lying, or will not live up to this oath they will be deported.

Eventually, the "good" Muslims will be "encouraged" to convert.

"Tell me how you're going to tell who to oppress and/or eject? What if a citizen says to you, "I am Muslim, but I don't think I should kill or convert Gondring"...then what?"

I would ask him who he is more loyal to? The USA or islam?

"Luckily they dreamed of unAmerican repression-apologists like you."

it seems like all YOU can do is hurl insults Gondring.

By the way, Gondring, is it true that the FBI took you in for questioning yesterday?

"... Where do Muslims who were born here get deported to ?"

An all-expense payed economy class one-way flight to the Islamic country of their choice!!

Dinner will be served approximately 1 hour after takeoff, and will include halal meat so as not to offend our Moosylem friends.

There will also be a movie shown, usually Tomb Raider or another lewd infidel film.

and to the muslims..no, the West Bank isnt an Islamic country, so we're not flying you there.

NOTICE: The government does not take responsibility for lost, stolen, or confiscated baggage, and all Muslim passengers are subject to a random strip search. For safety reasons, head veils, burkas, hijabs, and other 7th century garb is not allowed on the flight.

For their own safety, all of our Muslim passengers will be handcuffed to the seats. We also reserve the right to cover your heads with bags, but since you're Muslim and used to wearing headveils, that shouldnt bother you much.

Thank you for your attention and have a nice flight on INS Airlines.

"... and if they say they are not leaving ?"

They can say that while they're on a one way flight to Islamistan.

"Santeria orginated in Cuba as a combination of the Western African Yoruba Religion and Iberian Catholicism."

oh.

"Cheney is saying that b/c he HAS TO!"

So just how long before he dosen't HAVE to anymore ?

Oh thats right, he HAS to say it because YOU are advocating hatred for, and the deportation of all Muslims, and he dosen't want anyone to actually start listening to you.

"The president sought a conciliatory voice to cool off the country, calm it down and get it focused on the correct path: to destroy the enemy who did this and all of his allies."

It's been over three years ... are we cooled, calmed and focused yet ?
You may have a point, from your rants, some of us are not.

"Those who don't want to kill Gondring are not true Muslims."

So all they have to do is not want to kill Gondring and they can stay and live in peace...
They can dress in their Burkas, go to their Mosques, and basically do everything they have been doing as long as they don't want to kill Gondring...

Now Nesher will jump up and down and say they are not "true" muslims, since they are not following the teachings of the Iman that HE believes is true, but I think they won't care about his rantings too much and just go on with their lives.

Of course, there may be some fanatic "true" (KG) muslims who will plot to kill Gondring anyway, so we will keep our anti-terrorism going.

Problem solved...

It's been over three years ... are we cooled, calmed and focused yet ?

"You really need to start coming up w/ better arguments, Senator Kerry. "

Why use up the better ones when you can't even answer the weak ones ?

No sense throwing your fast pitch when they can't even touch your slow ones...

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