Posted on 08/31/2006 1:52:32 PM PDT by kellynla
Islam teaches peace, they told anyone who would listen in news conferences, at interfaith services and, most famously, standing in a mosque with President Bush.
But five years later, the target audience for their pleas has shifted. Now the faith's American leaders are starting to warn fellow Muslims about a threat from within.
The 2005 subway attacks in London that investigators say were committed by British-born and -raised Muslims, and the relentless Muslim-engineered sectarian assaults on Iraqi civilians, are among the events that have convinced some U.S. Muslims to change focus.
"This sentiment of denial, that sort of came as a fever to the Muslim community after 9-11, is fading away," said Muqtedar Khan, a political scientist at the University of Delaware and author of "American Muslims." "They realize that there are Muslims who use terrorism, and the community is beginning to stand up to this."
Muslim leaders point to two stark examples of the new mind-set:
_A Canadian-born Muslim man worked with police for months investigating a group of Islamic men and youths accused in June of plotting terrorist attacks in Ontario. Mubin Shaikh said he feared any violence would ultimately hurt Islam and Canadian Muslims.
_In England, it's been widely reported that a tip from a British Muslim helped lead investigators to uncover what they said was a plan by homegrown extremists to use liquid explosives to destroy U.S.-bound planes.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Why do I not believe this?
Depends on whether the store owners are selling their poisons to good muslims who are tempted to do wrong or to subhuman kufir.
The "insurgents" in Iraq (we know them to be terrorists but the media doesn't call them that) are jihadists (and often times are NOT Iraqi). It doesn't suprise me that they would try to oppress the locals using religious law.
America was founded on religious freedom. We saw how WWII was fueled by religious intolerance (the seized Jewish properties meant money to the Nazis) and racial/religious supremacists (Aryan Germans, Shinto Japanese).
We may not be able to exert much influence if we let a conquored nation establish their own replacement government but tolerance of other faiths must be a concept brought to muslim nations. They war with Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and Christians and even other muslims over faith. And the laughable United Nations does nothing.
The poster I was responding to was comparing 'moderate' muslims to Christians, not democrats.
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