ISLAM Demand reform - Letter to the Editor

Florida Times Union ^ | 05/17/2005 | SYEED ABDELNOOR

[pitinkie]

This is in response to the Point of View column by Parvez Ahmed. He quoted the Quran, which states that war should be purely "defensive." Islam started in the Arabian desert, expanding through North Africa very quickly.

Were the Arabs "defensively" waging a war? Another point he makes is the Quran advocates kindness to people of other faiths. Yet Saudi Arabia, in the name of Islam, forbids building any churches in that country while financing the building of thousands of mosques throughout the world. The Quran incites the Muslims not to befriend Christians and Jews, and even to smite their necks!

Ahmed states that it is a misconception and "egregious demagoguery" that Islam has spread through the forced conversion by the sword. How does that explain Islamic laws imposing the death sentence on anyone who wants to convert from Islam to any other religion?

My point here is not to debate Ahmed or to create misconceptions about Islam. My point is to shed some light on the reality of Islam today. Unlike the Catholics who have re-evaluated their past, and dared to question their excesses and institute reforms for past injustices, Islam discourages any debate even within its ranks. It imposes death on any effort to reform its excesses.

Ahmed is expecting an apology from the Catholics for the Crusades, which took place about 900 years ago. Islam needs reformers who have enough integrity to recognize its historical mistakes and to inform its followers that such unjust practices will not be accepted.

The fact that there are mosques in Rome and not one single church in Saudi Arabia tells the whole story.

[pitinkie]

Great last sentence says it all!

[kingattax]

is anyone else just about on islam-overload ?

[browardchad]

Give the Times Union credit for printing this, but if the letter writer used his real name, he'd better watch his back...and neck.

[Paul Atreides]

I am. I'm sick to death of hearing how we are supposed to jump through our rear ends to please those people.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

Great post. The reality no one speaks for what the Muslim faith teaches or means. It's even more splintered than Christianity, which has at least the Pope and other figures.

I am not convinced there are all that many who are democratic by western standards, though there will be some who try to pose as such.

[PzLdr]

When the Moslems apologize for their attacks on the (Christian) Eastern Roman Empire starting in the 600s, their invasion of Christian (Roman )North Africa and the Middle East, their invasions of Iberia, and France, culminating in the Battle of Tours in 732,the occupation of all those Christian lands, and the dhimmitude forced on the legal inhabitants of those lands, the Christian West should CONSIDER apologizing. Until then, the Arabs, so found of sayings, should try this one on: "PAYBACK'S A BIT*H!"

[auburntiger]

This article should be required reading for our congressional "leaders".

[auburntiger]

"It's even more splintered than Christianity..."

They may be splintered, but all factions have one thing in common; their deep hatred for non-Muslim religions.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

I can't argue that what you said is not true in any significant way

the trunk is splintered down to its base which is fervently and irrationally anti-Christian and anti-Jewish

[CaptainAwesome2]

Muslims can justify every evil thing they do with some silly explanation. Its pointless trying to prove them wrong. We need to recognize Islam is at war with us and we must destroy Islam.