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.
"As an American but also as a Muslim"
You cannot be an American and also a muslim.
Why not? This is a free country. We are in conflict with the Islamofacists who want to destroy Israel and eventually the west. Most Muslims in this country don't fall into that category.
Tell that to our new Ambassador to the UN.
An important realization.
It is statements like that one that the rest of the world will hold up as evidence that FR is a little more than a gathering place for intolerant bigots.
Congratulations.
One other thing...try to ignore stupid remarks.
Well stated. Oh, that there were so many more of you. Particularly, in public and leadership positions such as imams saying what you said so well. Welcome to FreeRepublic...
Welcome to FR.
Well said.
Welcome to Free Republic.
"You cannot be an American and also a muslim"
I have heard people say with complete seriousness that Christians should not be allowed to vote.
"You cannot be an American and also a muslim."
I suppose then, by your logic, that I can't be a Christian and an American? You knew you were going to get slammed for this didn't you?
Well, yes! Unfortunately, AdamSmithWasRight seems to be a member of a very small group indeed. I would also love to have a transcript of the remarks made in his mosque.
Love to join you both for a freewheeling discussion at the interfaith breakfast over at Our Lady of Riyadh Parish Hall.
Wonderful essay, however, isnt it a tenet of your religion to LIE to the infidels in order to advance your brutal agenda? Sorry, but this American just doesnt trust muslims or liberals!
While I disagree with you that Muslims can't be Americans, you do bring up a good point. These are attitudes the Muslim community as a whole will need to loudly and unequivocally denounce, but I believe that was the point of the article.
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