We Muslims have work to do

Toronto Sun ^ | 2006-06-10 | Salim Mansur

[Clive]

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[Doogle]

bout time

[observer5]

The Muslims will never understand their problem.

It is simple. Whenever you put mullas and clerics in charge of state affairs, you have desaster.

Because the western cultures have discovered that a couple of hundred years ago, their societies prosper.

[TheWasteLand]

A voice crying in the wilderness, sadly heeded by none.

[OldFriend]

Rather amazing to see this in print.

It also could and should have been written by an black American here in the United States.

[Darkwolf377]

Instead of acknowledging the reality of the Arab-Muslim world as a broken civilization, we Muslims tend to indulge instead in blaming others for our ills

It's the same on the personal level and the national level: Once you decide to not accept responsibility for your situation AND getting yourself out of it, disaster follows. The Democrat party is banking on this attitude here just as Al Qaeda does, and for the same reason: To gain new members.

[rbg81]

I'm sure one of his bretheren will wack this guy for speaking out.

[ncountylee]

Too little, too late and, most importantly, too transparent.

[Valin]

Actually there have been Muslims saying this kind of thing for awhile now.

[jigsaw]

Salim Mansur

[conservativehusker]

I'm very happy at least ONE Muslim has voiced these thoughts...Unfortunately there will be a death threats on him by this evening....

[Right Wing Assault]

OK, 1 guy says the right words and seems to get it. Now for the other billion or so Muzzles who don't, how long will it take?

[Rummyfan]

Statistics and intergovernmental reports over the past several decades have documented a gap, perhaps now unbridgeable, between Muslim countries and the advanced industrial democracies in the West.

Now what could be the reason for this gap between Muslim countries and the industrialized world? Could it be, just possibly, maybe, that Islam is the cause of many of these troubles? I'm just brainstorming here but I think it warrants some consideration.....

[dawn53]

I think this is the guy that was interviewed on Glenn Beck's TV show last week. If so, he was saying the same thing, that the Muslim community needs to step up to the plate and deal with their own problems.

Glenn called him the "Bill Cosby" of the Muslims.

[AlaskaErik]

You need to leave islam. Once I realized how wrong Catholicism was, I left it. You know how wrong islam is...now leave it. Because just like Catholicism, you sure as hell can't fix it.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

He just marked himself as a dead man. The Muslim community to date has not seemed to realize that their religion has been hijacked by murdering psychopaths.

[Paladin2]

The prime issue is the culture of Jihad. Take Jihad out of Islam (arguable not possible) and it may survive. Follow in the way of Jihad and it will be a death match.

[Doogle]

We Muslims are the source of our own misery, and we are not misunderstood by others who see in our conduct a threat to their peace.

...I've never heard it said this way before....

[TheWasteLand]

Glenn called him the "Bill Cosby" of the Muslims.

And you put the Jihad puddin' pop right in yer mouth, and you pull the trigger and *boom*