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.
Go peddle your al-Taqqiya to someone who'll buy it.....
Doesn't surprise me that this was printed in the Express-News....that rag is south Texas' version of the LA Slimes. It couldn't be any further left if it were Pravda!
If Mansour and the rest of his happy little band of thugs thinks we Americans are so anti-islime, he has a few choices:
1) Leave, and go back to whatever islime-ick Hellhole you came from in the first place. Ain't nothin' keepin' you here.
2)Convert from Mohammed's cult of death to a real religion. Try living in peace with people rather than blowing them up.
or....
3)Leave, and don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
Not tough at all. Quit blowing people up, and we quit killing muslimes before they can blow anyone else up....sounds like an equitable trade to me.
We don't need any apologies.
We just want them to pack up their Korans and get out of America.
Our ancestors didn't come to this country and lay down their lives to make a better place for their families just so a bunch of camel jockeys could come here and terrorize our women and children and make hamburger out of our families.
Apologize?
No need. Just get the hell out!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
If you don't condemn then it's clear you condone.
Mansour, do you think we are stupid? That we can't read the koran? That we can't read history and in particular life of Mohammad? Your precious "Prophet" was a mass murdering pirate, gigilo, pedophile, and all around psychopath. The deity he invented is closer to Satan than God. The religion, which is really a mental disease, is set on world domination by violence. Your taqqiya doesn't work here anymore. Our blinds are off. It's not a "religion of Peace", it's a cult of death. Islam is pure evil.
Excellent! Damned clever, too!
No one (of any import) is asking American Arabs and Muslims to apologize for terrorism. Most Americans are very anxious to hear you repudiate it though.
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.
That kind of, almost, sounds like a repudiation of terrorism. It's as close as you got anyway.
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.
Whatever lip-service you paid to sentiments of repudiation disappear like the morning dew in Arizona when you make excuses for fanatics who kill men, women and children at random.
For the same reason Jews cannot worship at the Temple Mount.
The professor is a dangerous enemy of the United States and should be deported back to Libya immediately.
Ah yeeeeesh, the ol "the infidels made us do it" excuse.
These monstrous seventh century sub-human murdering animals can never, ever, admit the plain truth.
Are you packing yet???????????
I wasn't kidding I was making a point. The same one you're making. It falls out in the last comment I made.
How about a Christian pro-life conservative in Nancy Pelosi's district?
Condem but Approve.
Islam is predicated on tribalism. Every wanabe chieftan is an iman seeking to recreate the Califate in their own image.
Lies are a virtue in islam.
Murder of the non believer is a sacrament.
The only way for Islam to be "peaceful" is for islam to abandon the Koran.
Agreed, Islam the religion of Pieces!
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