Posted on 08/03/2005 10:46:00 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
While I applaud the national ''Not in the Name of Islam'' campaign condemning terrorism, it is a sad commentary about America. Neither Christians nor Jews feel compelled to take out newspaper ads declaring their faith's innocence whenever acts of violence and extremism are carried out by individuals or groups who share their religion. And that's simply because we are enlightened enough as a nation to know that you can't condemn Christianity just because a few Christians committed the Oklahoma City bombing terrorism.
The Not in the Name of Islam campaign is being sponsored principally by Muslim Americans who immigrated to this country beginning in the '60s when Robert Kennedy declared that America's fight against racism included opening our shores to people of color. Knowing the atrocities committed against blacks in the name of Christianity, African-American Muslims feel no similar defensiveness about Islam.
But while all Muslims in America have felt the sting of stereotyping and discrimination since 9/11, the immigrant Muslim community has had to live in fear in this land where they have excelled as citizens. They have felt the full brunt of the war on terrorism: automatic suspects.
Thus, the Not in the Name of Islam campaign is really a plea. It's asking America to have the good and common sense not to judge an entire religion by the acts of a few. It's asking America in advance not to lose its cool if another terrorist attack should strike this nation -- as we shamefully did in locking down Japanese Americans in World War II. It's asking that religious prejudice not be in the name of protecting America.
M. Ali Khan, executive director, American Muslim Council, Lincoln Park
Here we go again--
Won't SOMEONE in the media say that Christians and Jews DON'T HAVE to take out ads defending their religions when a Christian or Jew commits a crime- BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO!
Neither Christianity nor Judiasm ORDERS terror and death of non-Christians or non-Jews.
NO 'religion' but Islam has the submission or destruction of all who oppose it in it's TEACHING.
Christians and Jews who murder and destroy do it in DISobedience to their religon.
Muslims who murder and destroy do so in OBEDIENCE to the Koran as it is taught and believed.
I stand corrected. McVeigh apparently was a Christian. I thought I had heard that he said religion was for the weak-minded (or some such comments).
All Muslims are moderates - right up to the moment they blow up!
If I bought you a ticket out of the country, Ali, would you please go ?
Boy oh boy , that did it for me . I just want to go out now and hug every muslim I see and tell them how sorry I am that they're misunderstood , while all the time trying to hold back the puke .
WARNING :
Remember muslims have no allegiance to this country or any other country , their allegiance is to Islam first . I doubt it is possible for a muslim to feel the same patriotic way about this country as non-muslims would .
This article is a lot of hogwash. Every minority coming to this country has had to endure the wrath that comes from the actions of some of their members, until their minority has been accepted.
Sorry, Bud, but the Muslim community of this country is now paying the price for the few thieves and scoundrels they've produced.
yup, but the left doesn't let the facts get in the way of propaganda
When they bombed OKC, what didn't happen was that Christians worldwide didn't run out in the streets in celebration and hand out candies and declare the bombers to be heroes. So OKC clearly wasn't "Christian" in any meaningful sense. (Also Christianity has this "Thou shalt not murder" command which would be awfully inconvenient for anyone trying to say the OKC bombing has a Christian theological justification.)
Contrast this to the Islamic reaction to 9/11 - dancing in the streets from Morocco to Indonesia, and yes, even in Europe. Islamic theological justifications for 9/11 are so numerous that I can't even list them all here. Muslims worldwide declared their solidarity with the perpetrators. Islamic governments funded the operation, provided assistance, training, and other support. Imams praised the attacks as the will of Allah... Islamic groups held conventions that called the perps "magnificent". Islamic families named their children "Osama" - for a time that was the most popular baby name in the Islamic world.
Can you spot the difference?
Key in "Prophet of Doom", by Craig Wynn. You can read about the islime-eck religion and other related articles.
I have studied Islam, and I base my understandings of Islam on the Quran and the Hadiths, and not on anyone person.
Yes, I do understand about Jihad and terrorism and the call to kill or to convert all who are not Muslim.
It is on this that I base my ideas that Islam is very evil and full of hatred, vengence, and death.
So do not pedal "Not in the name of Islam" to me.
Well, he did. Facing death, he MIGHT have had a different thought. I hope so. BTW, I went to the OKC memorial last week and I was moved by my tour through the museum. THIS is what the New York Museum should be like.
Well said. Although, you're preaching to the choir.
McVeigh converted to Catholicism shortly before his execution.
Muslims do not understand, "What is a Christian?" They do not understand this, because every child with a Muslim father is considered a Muslim, no matter if he likes it or not. According to the law of most Muslim countries that I know about, they can not change from Muslim to any other religion.
People in the USA may not understand that Muslims just do not have any choice in what they are to be called. I have met many Muslims who do not want to be Muslim at all. They do not believe that Muhammed is a prophet of God, or that allah of the Koran is the true God, the Creator of mankind.
I do know one Muslim man, who has a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, who was caught in a church, and he was arrested and taken to jail in a Muslim country, and kept in jail for 5 months and beaten until he would say that, "allah is god, and that Muhammed his his messenger." Finally, he could no longer stand up because of the beatings, and he knew that there was no one to support his mother and his siblings, so he did repeat those hated words, and he is out of jail now. He hopes God will forgive him.
Needs to be repeated when appropriate, so mealy-mouthed apologist articles like this one are not left unanswered.
Clearly not; he's forgetting about the involvement of Iraqi intelligence in the OKC bobmbing. They aren't exactly Christian either.
If we're willing to call McVeigh and his ilk "not true Christians," then we must be willing to accept the notion that moderate Muslims might feel the same way about al-Qaeda.
I don't think there are as many moderate Muslims, but the ones there are have every right to disassociate themselves from the nutjobs. And we ought to be encouraging all Muslims to do so.
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