Posted on 07/13/2005 11:25:44 AM PDT by Pikamax
We rock the boat Today's Muslims aren't prepared to ignore injustice
Dilpazier Aslam Wednesday July 13, 2005
Guardian
If I'm asked about 7/7, I - a Yorkshire lad, born and bred - will respond first by giving an out-clause to being labelled a terrorist lover. I think what happened in London was a sad day and not the way to express your political anger. Then there's the "but". If, as police announced yesterday, four men (at least three from Yorkshire) blew themselves up in the name of Islam, then please let us do ourselves a favour and not act shocked.
Shocked would be to imply that we were unaware of the imminent danger, when in fact Sir John Stevens, the then Metropolitan police commissioner, warned us last year that an attack was inevitable.
Shocked would be to suggest we didn't appreciate that when Falluja was flattened, the people under it were dead but not forgotten - long after we had moved on to reading more interesting headlines about the Olympics. It is not the done thing to make such comparisons, but Muslims on the street do. Some 2,749 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. To discover the cost of "liberating" Iraqis you need to multiply that figure by eight, and still you will fall short of the estimated minimum of 22,787 civilian Iraqi casualties to date. But it's not cool to say this, now that London's skyline has also has plumed grey.
Shocked would also be to suggest that the bombings happened through no responsibility of our own. OK, the streets of London were filled with anti-war marchers, so why punish the average Londoner? But the argument that this was an essentially US-led war does not pass muster. In the Muslim world, the pond that divides Britain and America is a shallow one. And the same cry - why punish us? - is often heard from Iraqi mothers as the "collateral damage" increases daily.
Shocked would be to say that we don't understand how, in the green hills of Yorkshire, a group of men given all the liberties they could have wished for could do this.
The Muslim community is no monolithic whole. Yet there are some common features. Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the don't-rock-the-boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. We're much sassier with our opinions, not caring if the boat rocks or not.
Which is why the young get angry with that breed of Muslim "community leader" who remains silent while anger is seething on the streets.
Earlier this year I attended a mosque in Leeds for Friday prayers. It was in the month of Ramadan, when Islamic fervour is at its most impassioned, yet in the sermon, to a crowd of hundreds - many of whom were from Iraq - Falluja was not referred to once; not even in the cupped-hands prayers after the sermon was over.
I prayed my Eid prayer in a mosque in Sheffield and, though most there were sickened and angry about events in Iraq, the imam chose not to mention Falluja either. We "youngsters" - some now in our 40s - had seen it before. This was deliberate silence, in case the boat rocked.
Perhaps now is the time to be honest with each other and to stop labelling the enemy with simplistic terms such as "young", "underprivileged", "undereducated" and perhaps even "fringe". The don't-rock-the-boat attitude of elders doesn't mean the agitation wanes; it means it builds till it can be contained no more.
· Dilpazier Aslam is a Guardian trainee journalist
Today's Guardian gives space to Dilpazier Aslam, a "Guardian trainee journalist" who suggests that one shouldn't be shocked by Thursday's suicide bombings - such a reaction would be inappropriate because, among other reasons:
"Shocked would be to suggest that the bombings happened through no responsibility of our own."
Yes, ladies and gentlemen - we bear responsibility for the murderous actions of maniacal members of a religious cult. An apology is certainly called for - the queue forms to the right.
Needless to say, there are other reasons why shock is inappropriate. Mr. Aslam explains:
"Shocked would be to say that we don't understand how, in the green hills of Yorkshire, a group of men given all the liberties they could have wished for could do this."
Fortunately for those who still don't quite follow, Mr. Aslam provides an explanation immediately, in the very next paragraph - which reads, in its entirety:
"The Muslim community is no monolithic whole. Yet there are some common features. Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the don't-rock-the boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. We're much sassier with our opinions, not caring if the boat rocks or not."
Suicide bombing .... sassy!
Mr. Aslam makes much of pointing out that he, like the terrorists, is "a Yorkshire lad, born and bred," and is careful to preempt accusations of support for terror by saying that indiscriminate killing is "sad," and "not the way to express your political anger."
Although the Guardian article unaccountably omits the fact (presumably for reasons of space), Mr. Aslam is on record as supporting a world-dominant Islamic state, notably in his writings for London based site khilafah.com ("Khilafa" translates as "Caliphate". The site's tagline expresses its aim: "then there will be khilafah rashida [a righteous Caliphate] on the method of Prophethood [i.e., sharia]"). As he puts it, in an article he co-authored there:
"... we will have to run an Islamic state which must lead the world, economically, militarily and politically"
As the establishment of the state that he hopes to help run seems unlikely without the implementation of violent measures such as those we've seen, and also considering the fact that the Caliphate that Mr. Aslam so keenly anticipates is the stated goal of many such terrorists, readers can't help but question the sincerity of his thinly-voiced disapproval of inappropriate "sass."
In fact, his stated fear of "being labelled a terrorist-lover" seems particularly justified, in light of another of his khilafah.com articles - in which he specifically calls for violence:
"The establishment of Khilafah is our only solution, to fight fire with fire, the state of Israel versus the Khilafah State"
Incidentally, it should be pointed out that there's no question whatever about this "Yorkshire lad's" loyalty to Britain. He has made it quite clear that:
"Muslims grant their loyalty and allegiance to their deen and the Ummah, not to a football team or nation state."
Neither should there be any questions concerning the Guardian's use of columnists who advocate "fighting fire with fire" to bring about the establishment of a sharia-based Caliphate. After all, it's not the first time they've done so.
July 13, 2005 | Permalink
Screw you and your "but."
This aslam guy sure seems brave, eh? let him and his ilk do something really drastic - like repeat a beslan in the UK and thens ee the consequences. After all, anything done in the name of the 'injustices' at Fallujah and on Iraqi mothers is justified, ain't it not??
To know that the cr_phead works at the Guardian is even less surprising.
What an asshole.
This says it all: "Dilpazier Aslam is a Guardian trainee journalist."
Translation: he is both an IslamoFascist and a neo-Communist.
I'm sure there are a few young non-Muslims in the UK who are going to want to pay this fellow a "visit". They want to be sassy too.
So, this slithering reptile is a "trainee journalist?" Good work, "Manchester Guardian." Another superb hire.
God, these people are arrogant a**holes. Have they no shame?
Sometimes is best to just let your enemies make your case for you. Muslims side with muslim terror. Even educated muslims side with muslim terror... even British-born and educated muslims side with muslim terror.
If that isn't an argument for profiling, and for strict immigration controls, then you aren't paying attention.
Every article has referred to these guys as being "British". But this writer makes it clear that if you're muslim, you can't be British. You may carry a British passport, but you are not British.
What about the number of lives SAVED in that same amount of time? What about the people who were NOT massacred and dumped in mass graves? What about the children who did NOT starve because of the sanctions? I'd say that there are probably more civilians alive today than there would have been had nothing been done.
Well said. Right on the mark.
Earlier this year I attended a mosque in Leeds for Friday prayers. It was in the month of Ramadan, when Islamic fervour is at its most impassioned, yet in the sermon, to a crowd of hundreds - many of whom were from Iraq - Falluja was not referred to once; not even in the cupped-hands prayers after the sermon was over.
Yep, he's a terrorist lover and a liar.
"Dilpazier Aslam is a Guardian trainee journalist"
Obviously this guy must still be in diapers and they mistook one of his soiled diapers for a news article.
You what the Muslim community needs to do... is stand on for the principles they say they believe in.
If there is a sermon at the Mosque and it advocates violence walk out - change mosques.
If they hear a plan to hurt people, they should turn them in.
the peaceful majority should be speaking out opposing violence and promoting democracy and reform within muslum countries.
And the long it goes on and these things don't happen the harder it is to believe in the peaceful majority.
"The establishment of Khilafah is our only solution, to fight fire with fire, the state of Israel versus the Khilafah State"
Note to Scotland Yard:
Lock this maniac up.
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I wonder if Dilpazier Aslam was "shocked", ... or if he was sophisticated enough to know this would happen.
Well, it appears the Brits are going to have to lock up/execute/deport a lot more Muslims than they likely planned on.
The word "but" is actually an acronym that stands for "Behold the Ultimate Truth". Once you realize this, you can easily see that "but" is the gateway into the true thoughts of the speaker.
Uh-huh. Even if that were so - and I doubt it - what was the death rate every two years when Saddam was in power?
That's almost nirvana for a muslim.
A grievous sin of omission.......Lack of indignation for heinous acts, rather than complicity, is the sin of omission.
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