Posted on 01/23/2005 11:29:17 AM PST by nickcarraway
I'll believe it when the terror actually stops.
We will see just how "influential" he is.
It's nice to read about a Muslim leader who speaks ill of terrorism. I wish there were more like him.
If you don't back the Muslims who speak out for moderation, you're not going to get any moderation.
This isn't possible. We have hundreds of posters here who complain that no muslim will ever speak out against terrorism.
We can't be blamed for being skeptical, it HAS been an awful long wakeup call.
Every time they mention one of these clerics they say he is one of the most influential or powerful. Don't they have a ranking system of some kind so that they can control all the other fools running around issuing decrees of all sorts ?
Ahh, but the fundimental question is: how is terrorism defined. Most of these calls to stop terrorism are not to stop terrorism per say, but to stop terrorism against or within Muslim nations. You see, terrorism against infidels is not terrorism, that is Jihad.
I guess he himself hasn't even read Islam's own "holy" texts, a bizarre "Alice in Wonderland" meets Freddy Kreuger world, where rocks and trees call out "Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him" (Hadith Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177)
Baby steps. Speaking out against terrorism is fine. This cleric may even be putting his life in danger for doing so from inside Saudi Arabia. Remember, that's where 13 of the 911 hijackers came from.
"Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsays, which are repulsive and distorted," Al-Asheikh said.He said people who hated Islam were claiming that the religion encouraged terrorism and extremism, and appeared to be winning in some aspects because some people were starting to think that what they were being told about Islam was the truth.
Exposing Islam's enemies
"It is only through constructive dialogue, led by people who understand Islam and its teachings, that the enemies of Islam could be exposed and their lies refuted," Al-Asheik said.
Muslims need to wake up to the reality that the chief "enemies of Islam" are the radical Islamonazis (who reportedly "aren't following true Islam").
Non-Buddhists Jews and Christians are "the chief enemies of Buddhism" nor are we the "chief enemies of Hinduism". Muslims would be the chief enemies of those faiths.
"Why's everybody always picking on me?" Charlie Brown as sung by the Coasters (songwriting team of Lieber and Stoller)
For muslims, terrorism is only terrorism when it pertains towards muslims or muslim nations, not towards infidels, where it is holy Jihad.
See my posts and ask for the immam there for clarification.
Obviously a faulty translation. That should read "kill him with kindness". The full citation reads ""Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and smother him with kisses".
I'd be pretty surprised if they had rookie preachin in Mecca on a holy day.
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