Posted on 01/26/2007 9:16:25 AM PST by AdamSmithWasRight
As I read the news day in and day out from my perspective of being on the inside looking out, I look at my own home and couldn't be any more embarrassed than I currently am. It has been compounded from 9/11 by constant images and stories in the media about the actions of the Muslim community.
I must admit to myself if I was on the outside looking in I would probably look at myself in the same way so many others do. If all I saw were nihilistic thugs raping, robbing, murdering, and littering the streets of the world with the bodies of innocent people I wouldn't know what else to think of this group of people for religion.
As I now sit inside of the United States I find myself looking at this house in two perspectives. At times from the inside looking out and wanting to escape for this image that has haunts me day in and day out but also at times from the outside looking in. It is these proud patriotic times when religion takes the passenger seat or well I should say, isn't even in the car, that I look at that house and think, "Don't you people get it???"
At moments like this I realize and force myself to accept the reality that the real problem here is the Muslim community itself. It is no longer the fundamentalsits or Al-Qaeda alone, rather the very community itself that has failed to deliver or even show an attempt to remedy this nihilistic ideology within their ranks. As an American but also as a Muslim I would like to convey my most sincere apologies although I know to most this are just empty words in light of the death and injury of so many. For most we have reached a point where apologies and words will do nothing but further agitate the situation. Rather what is needed is action.
It is this which I do recognize and wish deliver, but I realize that I can only do this with help from others. I would hope that the American people, my brothers and sisters, would not so easily give up on the Bush doctrine of changing the face of the middle east where this dangerous threat to world civility and humanity is found. If we hope to find change I believe we can only find it in the overthrowing and or absolute destruction of the very regimes and elements that support this authoritarinism from within their midst. As long as we hold on to the Bush doctrine I honestly believe that we can one day watch the purple fingers of freedom wave from Morocco to Indonesia.
Until that day, if it comes, I apologize my friends and ask you to stick with the President and his vision for a new middle east.
I ask the question everyone else has asked - where are these moderate Muslims? If the Islamofacists are in the minority, how come the majority refuses to rise up and cast them out? How come they are not marching against the Islamofacists? How come they are not throwing out the lunatic Immans? And they just do not want to destory Israel and also the west. They want to destroy everything not Muslim. Just ask the Indians and the Asian nations.
I disagree. I think it is indeed an issue. Rabbis, Priests and Baptists can devoutly follow the teachings of their religions without coming into conflict of those not of their faith. With what I would guess are very rare exceptions, most Christian or Jewish sects do not preach lying in wait for people of other faiths and attacking them wherever you can. (Someone else here may be able to speak to that)
However, there is a segment of the muslim population, and not an insubstantial one, that believes that in an ideal world, according to the teachings of the prophet, you are either Islamic, submissive to Islamic rule, banished to somewhere else or dead.
While it is true that many devout Christians live their lives according to the teachings of the Bible, the teachings of the Bible are not considered to invasively rule the lives of its followers.
The Koran is different, at least according to a large portion of Muslims. It is considered a template or instruction manual on exactly how followers of Islam should conduct their affairs. For many, to deviate is apostasy, and as I said earlier, apostates of Christianity or Judaism have a very, very different burden (at least in this world) than apostates of Islam.
So I do think it IS an appropriate issue to consider.
I ask the question everyone else has asked - where are these moderate Muslims? If the Islamofacists are in the minority, how come the majority refuses to rise up and cast them out? How come they are not marching against the Islamofacists? How come they are not throwing out the lunatic Immans? And they just do not want to destory Israel and also the west. They want to destroy everything not Muslim. Just ask the Indians and the Asian nations.
Brigitte Gabriel is a compelling speaker and writer. I thought her story about the take over of Lebanon was bone-chilling. How about the part that the Muzzies would stop people on the road and, if they were Christians, they would kill the whole family right there.
She said the Israelis would come up there and train them to use weapons -- "All those fancy degrees were USELESS against people who wanted to kill us." THAT, to me, was a word for our country. We have the fancy degrees, we have the ordered society, we have the yearning for peace -- but these have very little to offer against blood-thirsty jihadists who want to take over.
Everyone should read her book.
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And as a fellow Christian, we work within the law in an attempt to change the sordid abortion policy within the United States. When someone acts beyond Christian beliefs by murdering abortion doctors or bombing abortion clinics, you see Christians throughout the nation rising up and stating THIS IS NOT OUR WAY AND NOT THE WAY TO CHANGE THIS POLICY. However, you do not see this from the Muslim side.
Not all mainstream Christians have moved beyond taking the Bible literally, as demonstrated by the unending arguments over evolution vs. Genesis (as though the two were mutually exclusive). Similarly, I would not presume to say that all billion or so Muslims on the planet are rigid jihadist fundamentalists.
I ask the question everyone else has asked - where are these moderate Muslims? If the Islamofacists are in the minority, how come the majority refuses to rise up and cast them out? How come they are not marching against the Islamofacists? How come they are not throwing out the lunatic Immans? And they just do not want to destory Israel and also the west. They want to destroy everything not Muslim. Just ask the Indians and the Asian nations.
Well, for starters, one started this thread. Sheesh.
Second of all, do a little research. They are everywhere, but as scared to death of the extremists as we are...thanks to the press among other things. At the moment, they are in the minority. But they have help us EVERYWHERE throughout the world because they are as worried as we are. DO NOT RELY ON THE MSM TO SPOONFEED YOU THIS STORY. Moderate Muslims need our support desperately.
If a Muslim community is made up mostly of moderates, who come lunatic leaders continue to spew at their mosques?
Are they helping the government root out any Muslim they know that want to maim and kill?
Yeah, they read some magical invisible peaceful Koran..../s
Maybe you should step off this continent and take a good look around. If there are 'peaceful Muslims, they sure hide well.
I was referring to the ones in this country. Whether the non-radicals are a minority in the Middle East is debateable. There are enough armed radicals in the Middle East to keep the more moderate ones quiet.
And to those of you who ask if I know any Muslims. No, I do not. But it got me thinking. I am going to assign myself a project. I will picj up the Koran and read it. Then I will seek out Muslims - there is a Mosque in my community - and ask them questions. Such as - which has higher precedence - Sharia law or the Constitution? Is a Jew a pig? Is a Jew descended from pigs? Am I an infidel? Are women free people or objects to own? I will get back to all of you a few months down the line, if I don't get my head chopped off first!
I am refering to the ones in this country also! Where are their protests against radical Islam?
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