Posted on 07/29/2005 7:12:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Mansour El-Kikhia: Arabs shouldn't have to apologize
I am fed up with the ceaseless requests by columnists, religious personalities and other American public figures for Arabs and Muslims to apologize for terrorist acts committed by thugs and murderers in the name of Islam.
As far as I am concerned, the final straw came a couple of weeks ago when the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, paid for a national advertisement repudiating terrorism in the name of Islam.
As soon as the advertisement was broadcast on America's media, I read a column by one of the nation's most ardent Islam-phobic columnists, Cal Thomas, now also a FOX News personality, which plowed into CAIR's reconciliation efforts. Long before 9-11, Thomas' writings were full of venom for Arabs and Muslims. He represents a despicable and ignorant attitude that, unfortunately, a sizable segment of America has come to share. There is nothing American Muslims can do to satisfy this group short of packing up and leaving the United States.
I disagree with what CAIR did, and I also disagree with this groveling and begging for forgiveness, as though American Arabs and Muslims are responsible for those atrocities. CAIR knows better, and those running it know that Islam rejects all acts of violence outside self-defense. Arab and Muslim Americans are responsible for neither the twin towers nor the London subway bombings, and as Americans they should never accept responsibility for actions they did not instigate, commit or condone.
Furthermore, in spite of the fact they are constantly condemned for one thing or another, they like other Americans are victims of these murderers. Does anyone think they are pleased to have their movements and telephone conversations monitored or that coercive and freedom-depriving laws are tailored for them? Does anyone in his or her right mind really believe that being an Arab American or a Muslim is pleasant in America today?
The United States has lost 3,000 souls to terrorist thugs, but that figure is miniscule compared to the 60,000 Algerians or the 25,000 Iraqis who also have died at their hands. These thugs don't differentiate between Muslim and non-Muslim, Arab and non-Arab when they plant a bomb or enter a village at night and murder everyone.
It is rejection of U.S. and British policies in the Middle East, not Islam, that has promoted terrorism against America. And for the benefits of those who do not know, 95 percent of Middle Easterners are Muslims. Hence, it is only natural that those opposing the United States and Britain in the region would be Muslims. In India, they would have been Hindu; in Latin America or Northern Ireland, they would have been Catholic.
More important, it was the British and the United States that drew first blood. The Middle East didn't come to America or go to Britain; rather, America and Britain went to the Middle East. Both powers used and abused regimes, toppling some and keeping others in power. They never thought that the people they were helping suppress were human beings with needs, beliefs and emotions. They didn't care as long as their interests were served.
America's experience in the Middle East is no different from its Southeast Asia stint, and look at the mess it left in that region.
However, while the calamity of Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea might be rationalized by the Cold War or even a domino theory, there is nothing to rationalize the invasion of Iraq except ideological stupidity. The United States illegally invaded and decimated a country that did not threaten its security and, in the process, unleashed one of the most vile and ruthless insurgencies the region has ever seen. And as it did in Vietnam, when the going got tough, it is planning to pull out. The result will be a protracted instability and turmoil that no country in the region can escape.
Future turmoil in the region is exactly what the instigators of the Iraq invasion have planned all along. They had made their desire for strife in the Middle East known long before the invasion of Iraq. Yet they underestimated the consequences of their lunacy and set into motion processes and events that will make the United States less secure and threaten the lives of Americans for many years to come.
You are very wise as well.. ib these perilous times it is good to consider this: "What is best in life?' To crush the jihadists, to turn their strongholds into glowing craters, and to hear the lamentations of the few surviving mullahs! Allahu fubar!
What's funny is they will all be weeping and begging to apologize as they are being tossed into the ovens.
'in"..I'm huked on fonix..
Unfortunately, Arab chr*stians have historically identified with their islamic co-nationals. Perhaps their minority status led them to believe that dedicating themselves to Arab nationalism would erase the difference between the moslems and themselves.
Chr*stian Lebanon was one of the invaders of Israel in 1948, and many Arab chr*stians (like Jews in chr*stian Europe) turned to radical universalism (Communism and French Grand Orient Freemasonry) to overcome their sense of alienation and not belonging. George Habash, founder of the Communist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was from a chr*stian Arab family.
And don't forget the "Palestinian" Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, who endorses the PLO and condemns Israel at every turn while telling his flock "we drove the crusaders out." Arab chr*stians drove the crusaders out? I'm sorry, but that is such a blatant attempt to blend into the majority culture!
Before looking at the Satan angle, I always thought that Islam was Mohammed's answer to Judaism and Christianity. Many parts of the Mid-East region were in turmoil because of warlords and tribal differences. Seeing how these other religions formed cohesive units with thousands of followers, good ol' Mo decided to have a vision one night to unite his people.
He was even sly enough to import pieces of these religion into his, to not only legitimize his creation...but to make it easier for followers of the others to transition to Islam. In other words, I always thought Mohammed was just another Ron L Hubbard:)
Hmmm... Now there's an idea. Since most Muslims want nothing to do with most of us anyway, maybe they would be happier back amongst their Muslim brethren. That way they wouldn't have to worry about their children being corrupted by us infidels.
Total BS and nonsense!! Every where the religion of pieces takes root, the murder and mayhem begins. Of course its always some flavor of infidel thats blamed for all of the Muzzies problems no mater where in the world this cancerous ideology spreads. ITS THE JEEEWS! they scream. ITS THE AMERICAN CIA They rant! ITS ALL AN INFIDEL PLOT They wine. Islam is an induced mental disorder! Learn it, live it, love it because the lives of you and your family depend on it!
The Quran is more like the "Bizarro" version of the OT and NT..
No one is preventing their leaving. All I am saying is that while they are issuing Fatwahs condeming violence against innocents, why not also kick some of the known offenders out ot the faith. I believe this would be taken as a very strong step, can you imagine the press world wide if the clergy kicked Osama out. (You are no longer a Muslim.) And how about would be bombers who are convicted, (out). And bombers in Iraq who set bombs in markets (out). When this starts, there will be an upheaval that is really meaningful. As I have said before, it is easy to talk the talk, but who is going to walk the walk?
Funny, I don't seem to recall anyone from Argentina or Vietnam strapping on high explosives and setting themselves off on a bus full of school children. Likewise for Hindus, Buddhists, Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Rastafarians or Jews. Does anyone else see a pattern here?
I've heard it said that Satan would use God's words against His people, and maybe that was what Mohammed was doing, but his version of Christianity comes from heresies, and his interpretation of Judaism is not like any Judaism either of the period or today.
Basically, islime bastardizes Christian and Jewish scripture, and then combines a healthy dose of sheer hatred to create a malignant belief that enshrines tribalism, perversion, greed and any other vice you can think of, combined with an admixture of lust and worldly evil, and there you have Mohammed's cult. Pretty nasty stuff.
I think that Muslims have been taught to so many lies, that singularly each one of them just is not responsible. Muslims are worse off than if they had not ever been taught anything.
First of all, the "allah" in the Koran is not the true God.
The real God is a God of love and compassion, and he has nothing to do with evil , such as "allah" who passes out 72 virgins for every man for sex, or lust. Muslims are taught that a martyr gets his virgins, even before he gets cold from death.
Secondly, Muslims are taught that Shiatan is the evil one, and that he was simply made from fire. Muslims do not know that Lucifer(Shiatan)was a fallen angel, who rebelled against God, and that he and 1/3 of all angels were forced to leave heaven, and go to earth, where they look for bodies of men to possess. Jesus is the only name under heaven where by men can be saved.
Muslims do not realize that Jesus lived in heaven before he came down to earth, and miraculously became Man and God, as well. Lucifer wanted to be like the most High God.
Muslims believe in jinn, instead of demons, they have been taught that some jinn are good, some are evil, and some are even Muslim. According to Islam, jinn can even pro-create, but demons are fallen angels and can not.
Muslims are even taught that the dead are punished in their graves, and if you listen you can even hear them being tortured. The bible tells us that the dead "know not anything". But even in Christianity, folk lore enters into what we tend to believe.
So, I do have compassion on people who have been led astray
by a False Prophet, believing that evil is good. All of the truth is not easy to sort out. Christianity has false teachers too, making things really difficult.
As Cromwell said
Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
We're moving mud pard, moving mud. Y'all?
We all know "the dog ate" all of islam's "homework" again.
These animals believe their own BS and are confused and angry at us infidels who won't git with the program.
Well ...least NOT with their frikkin program.
So I'll not wish you "peace", it is too late now for that.
I'll wish you, and all of the non-islamic world btw, complete and final VICTORY.
What religion are they who instruct this young cannon fodder to kill? Who can best stop them?
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