Posted on 10/04/2005 8:19:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
STRASBOURG, France - A top Islamic official on Tuesday criticized the West for what he called "demonizing" Islam following the Sept. 11 attacks, warning against attributing individual crimes to an entire religion.
Even though the attacks were condemned by Muslims, "the majority in the West ... never paused for one second to look back and ask since when an act of individuals could be the reason to condemn one fifth of humanity," said Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, chairman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the world's largest Muslim group.
Addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, Ihsanoglu said Muslims have suffered from ethnic cleansing and massacres that have largely been ignored by the Western world.
"In recent years, war in Iraq without legitimacy gave one further jolt to the faith of Muslims in the efficacy of international order," Ihsanoglu said.
Speaking several hours after the European Union agreed to open membership talks with Muslim-oriented Turkey, Ihsanoglu said he believed the decision would lead to other Islamic states' following Turkey's example in improving human rights and democracy.
He also called on European countries to give Islam the same official recognition as is given to mainstream European religions.
Precisely.
I'm sure it's been said but Islam doesn't need the West to demonize it.
>>>>>>Muslims demonize Islam.>>>>>>>
Absolutely, it is like some of the bums I have worked with who want to show up when it feels good to them and get a paycheck for merely hanging around the workplace, then they turn to anyone who actually works and ask, "why are you trying to make me look bad?".
"Islamics have something to prove to ME; not the other way around."
Well said. Concise and to the point.
You win my "BINGO!!" award for this thread.
Of course we do! Doesn't everybody? ROTFLM*O!
A.A.C.
"Let the Final Crusade commence!"
How does one demonize demons?
Bring out the garlic and wolfbane!
bit off topic, but 'if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck' applies to a duck, does it apply to the OKC Bomber, too?
What I recall after 9/11 was not a wholesale, unanimous denunciation of the terrorist attacks by Muslim leaders. Maybe it was there. But their words were drowned out by the images of the people in every Muslm nation pouring into the streets, celebrating, reveling at the deaths of 3000 innocent people, giving candy and cakes to children and shooting their idiot guns into the air. Even the law of gravity doesn't apply to them, donchano.
Their words mean nothing. Their actions speak for them.
The Great Satan wishes for clarification. (/sarcasm)
that's definitely a duck!
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