[Mo1]

later read

[tsmith130]

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

[SJackson]

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[rhombus]

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

Nah, I guess not.

[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....

[paudio]

EMILIO KARIM DABUL

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

[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.

[Ready4Freddy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700005/posts

[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?

[yldstrk]

What a relief to read this and see that at least one Arab gets it.

[DoctorMichael]

Well, that's one. Another 1,199,999,999 to go.

[...assuming 1.2 billion followers of the schizophreic pedophile that started this insane death cult]

[beckett]

This guy has guts. I applaud him for it.

[Hildy]

Dead Man Walking....

[Ready4Freddy]

I thought this letter to the editoe of the Dallas Morning News was interesting...

Stand for what is right

Re: "Cleared man cites prejudice – He says being Muslim was reason he was arrested in cell case," Sept. 8 Metro.

I've been a Muslim for 30 years, and I have never been followed, harassed or stopped by the FBI or CIA or at the airport just because I'm a Muslim.

Our scriptures say, "Be fair and just in our dealing," and "Stand up for what is right regardless of whom it is against."

For someone on the Council on American-Islamic Relations to say, "Every Muslim has been the victim of suspicion," is ignorance. Neither CAIR nor any other group speaks for all Muslims.

Some Muslims have to stop thinking that Americans are unintelligent. As an imam, I will never say that I represent all Muslims because I know we have some bad ones and some who need to be checked out.

I'm all for that. I will not stand up for bad people.

Imam Muhammad Shakoor, Irving (Texas)

[George W. Bush]

Hopefully, the other Islamists won't murder this rare, civilized Arab for speaking his opinion on 9/11.

[edsheppa]

Oh my. I fear the fellow is not long for this world.

[Jason_b]

There's enough there for someone of extreme tendencies to find their way to a global jihad. There's also enough there for someone of a different mindset to find a path to enlightenment and peace.

I tried to read the Koran once. I couldn't stomach it. Are there any scholarly freepers out there who have read the koran and can confirm the claim that there is enough to find a path to enlightenment and peace?" Or is he blowing smoke.

[nickcarraway]

Very good article. My condolences in advance for his potential demise.

[dervish]

"Five years after that awful day, it's time for all Arab-Americans, and Arabs around the world, to protest against Islamic fascism, to raise our voices - and, where necessary, our arms - against these tyrants until their plague of terror has been driven from the face of the earth forever."

Amen.