One Arab's Apology

NY Post ^ | 9-18-06 | EMILIO KARIM DABUL

[SJackson]

September 12, 2006 -- WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn't help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However, I was one of millions of Arab-Americans who did the unspeakable on 9/11: nothing. The only time I raised my voice in protest against these men who killed thousands of innocents in the name of Allah was behind closed doors, among the safety of friends and family. I did at one point write a very vitriolic essay condemning their actions, but fear of becoming another Salman Rushdie kept me from ever trying to publish it.

Well, I'm sick of saying the truth only in private - that Arabs around the world, including Arab-Americans like myself, need to start holding our own culture accountable for the insane, violent actions that our extremists have perpetrated on the world at large.

Yes, our extremists and our culture.

[Mo1]

later read

[tsmith130]

OMG...a pig just flew past my window.

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[ElisabethInCincy]

lol mine too..

[A message]

I saw it too.

[Rocket1968]

Bump for later.

[rhombus]

Shall we reject his apology and riot, burn and pillage anyway? /sarc

Nah, I guess not.

[ElisabethInCincy]

Problem is muslims who read this, will say the following, This guy is pretending to be a muslim when in fact he is jooooooooooooooish...

[Ramcat]

One down:
999,999,999 to go.

[Paloma_55]

I appreciate the sentiment but have a hard time understanding how it took 5 years to figure out.

Oh well, any progress is still progress I guess....

[Old Student]

"OMG...a pig just flew past my window."

It's been happening frequently, you've just had your attention fixed on your computer monitor and keyboard. This is not the first guy to say something like this. Not by any stretch of the imagination. If it happens enough more times, we may just win this one yet. We're still going to have to kill a lot of bad guys, but we may just have a little more help doing it.

[paudio]

EMILIO KARIM DABUL

He surely is Arab-American. But is he Muslim? There are many Arabs who are Christian.

[trimom]

True, but he is a candle in the darkness and I will take it! Let's hope he doesn't get snuffed out.

[reagan_fanatic]

OMG...a pig just flew past my window

I understand a truckload of icewater was just delivered to Hell, too.

[maggief]

Emilio Karim Dabul is a freelance writer and PR consultant living in New Jersey.

So far ...

[TomGuy]

That is the crux of the problem: Is there really a distinction? If so, then the "peaceful" Islamics should take responsibility for policing their religion and exorcise those who taint and bastardize the true Islamic religion.

However, since the "peaceful" Islamics remain relatively silent in regard to their fellow 'radical Islamic' brethren, I go with a quote from Robert Bolt attributed to Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons:

Sir Thomas More: ... The maxim is "Qui tacet consentiret": the maxim of the law is "Silence gives consent". If therefore you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.

[weegee]

I like to see them march and protest AGAINST the terrorists. They show their numbers when Allah and Mohammed have been defamed. To hear them tell it, the terrorists have hijacked their peaceful religion and ignore the teachings of Islam. To me that would me the terrorists defame Mohammed, Allah, and Islam.

Proof would be them taking to the streets to tell the terrorists they are in the wrong.

But then we are back to that "safety in privacy" thing.

[Ready4Freddy]

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[WV Mountain Mama]

So, how soon until we see a million muslim march on Washington condemning terrorists and supporting our government's War on Terror?