Posted on 01/07/2005 4:22:14 AM PST by rdb3
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.
Enough with the Adolf references. Knock it off.
True...
Like watching a crime in progress and turning the other way.
The Islamo-apologists try repeatedly to reassure us about the "religion of peace" but:
Why did millions of the practitioners of the religion of peace laugh, cheer and dance in the street because 3,000 innocent men, women and children were murdered by seventeen men who supposedly “hijacked” the religion of peace? And why don’t the real practitioners of the religion of peace condemn the supposed “hijackers” of their religion? Why the deafening silence? Why the smiles? Why the cheers and high fives?
Why is the religion of peace directly responsible for 28 out of the 30 violent conflicts raging in the world today?
Why is the religion of peace responsible for the vast majority of chattel slavery in the world today?
Why is the religion of peace responsible for the vast majority of terrorism in the 20th and 21st Centuries?
Why are the practitioners of the religion of peace routinely slaughtering unarmed practitioners of every other religion wherever they can get away with it?
Why does the religion of peace call for the murder of anyone who converts from the religion of peace to another religion?
Why do so many of the believers of the religion of peace look forward to the opportunity to rape 72 virgins in heaven if they die while killing innocent women and children of other religions? Is it a god they worship, or just sex? If a god, then shouldn’t heaven have more to do with him than their libidos?
Why do the leaders of the religion of peace routinely issue fatwas (death warrants) for anybody who questions their holy book of peace and their holy prophet of peace?
Why is the religion of peace responsible for the sexual mutilation of millions of little girls and the savage oppression of women?
Perhaps I just don’t understand this whole PEACE thing. Did the definition of the word change, or is somebody just blowing a lot of smoke?
Just this. Even if Muslims are not terrorists themselves, they are either overtly complicit by their actual support of terrorism or covertly complicit by their silence. They must understand that it's their problem, not ours, that they have to do the changing. Until then, just say I'm from Missouri.
And the Abdul references to me are fine and dandy?
read later bump
The Bible says the same thing in Deuteronomy, so by your twisted logic the entire NT and all of the OT after Deuteronomy are bogus.
Give it up--get the beam out of your own eye.
The answer to all those "whys" is simple. Their scriptures require it.
What troubles me the most is America's attitude that all religions are gracious and kind. They have been spoiled by a society that was founded on the Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong and they mistakenly assume that anything that claims "religion" status is also gracious and kind.
Islam, along with other false religions, were essentially outlawed in the U.S. in 1892 by a judicial ruling on the meaning of the word "religion" in the First Ammendment.
It's too bad that we don't pay attention to it. Those of a hundred years ago did it for the good of our country, but, then, they weren't as spoiled as we are today and they were a whole lot more aware spiritually.
Broadsword:
Logic and fact are wasted on him. He excels at referring to others as Nazis, Un-American, and every other insult he can type. However, he is pretty poor at actual fact.
He refuses to answer simple questions put to him, and usually retorts with one of the above-mentioned insults.
He is an insignificant, classless louse--and undoubtedly wear out his welcome on FR if his insulting posts continue.
But look at the tears flowing from post #87. I guess the golden rule doesn't apply to some folks.
every other insult he can type
Wait 'till I get going!
"Un-American": Congress shall make no law...respecting and establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Suppressing Islam, however the bigots would care to couch it, interferes with its free exercise. Therefore, those who advocate the U.S. Government to do such suppression, are un-American.
"Nazi": Nazis blamed German'y problems on Jews. Bigots blam America's problems on the Muslims. 'Nuff said.
Care to try again? And don't forget to ping me when you attempt to insult me.
I think your post is the essence of why so many of us feel its time to take a stand against islam and expose it as the blood cult it really is. For so long, we were afraid to say it because it smacks of religious bigotry. But most of the miseries and barbarism on the planet TODAY are caused by the scourge of islam.
Why on earth should the rest of us put up with it?
Between the pi$$ running down his quaking legs and the projectile tears, his keyboard must be shorting out soon.
Oh well. Traitor is as traitor does.
I wonder why he is on the FR, except to report back to his DU fwiends.
I believe the words you are looking for regarding silence is "passive approval".
Good analysis. I thought some of the statements sounded a little close to 9/11 and predated the Iraq war. It's too little, too mild, and not heeded by the faithful.
Every howl to prayer should be accompanied by statements such as posted by CG, but more often than not they are followed by the inflammatory hate/blame America and the Jews crap we are getting soooo fed up with.
"The leader of the islamic community in Norway created a minor scandal when he stated that he supported the murder, and stated when they (muslims in Norway) become the majority they will use democracy to introduce sharia."
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That pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it?
It would have been a great PR ploy, not to mention the decent thing to do, a march by muslims against murder and terrorism, and hardly anyone shows up.
Instead we get the basic playbook of the islamicfascists--using our own freedoms to introduce the hell of shar'iah and make us slaves to a sick bloody cult. I have a young daughter, is this the future I want to bequeath to her? I pray for your country and mine, Euro.
Again I ask, why should the rest of us have to suffer the mayhem this cult wishes to inflict on us?
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