Posted on 12/10/2015 1:46:37 PM PST by Jyotishi
I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam. After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Mus-lim and as a human being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.
I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.
We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.
What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys"... Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate?
I have been in churches and synagogues where they were praying for Muslims, while we curse Christians and Jews, and teach our children to call them infidels and to hate them.
We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammed when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books, that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above 50 years old.
I am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.
Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathize with their cause. Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Sharia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam.
Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the Hijab (Muslim head scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders.
It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to con-tinue doing their evil acts. We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict. As a mat-ter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East.
We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jew-Free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel , women cannot be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I agree that the "Palestinians" suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel.
It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel, its 'enemy.' If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening.
We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind. Our religious leaders have to show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam.
Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: "We Muslims have to change."
- Tawfik Hamid is a former Egyptian extremist who is now an Islamic reformer fighting against Radical Islam. He is part of the Potomac Institute.
All of it is to lull us into a false sense of calm then wammo a big building gets smacked with an airplane its just a trick to further their cause
I agree. Pure BULLSHIT.
Dead man walking. And he probably knows it.
As for turning to Christ: I have no doubt the Lord is working on his heart. These things often take time.
Exactly.
I agree, however, that many Muslims who do start that process of self-examination tend to become ex-Muslims. That is a path to reform as well. I highly recommend the book Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi. As fascinating look into the worldview of devout Muslims.
He might not have much time.............
You can’t reform islam because it isn’t a real religion. Islam is hate and subjugation of “The Other”. Take the HATE out of Islam and there is nothing left.
bkmk
He can hardly be called “muslim” when he denies the core tenets of the faith that define it to most other muslims.
Perhaps he should convert.
A rare “Moderate” Muslim sighting?
I don’t know that this is taqiyya, but something I’ve noticed in the past week... all the muslims complaining about unfair treatment or even addressing realistic concerns such as this man... there doesn’t seem to be a deep remorse for the victims. That should be the first reaction to last week’s horror.
Yesterday, $100,000 was raised by muslims for the San Bernadino victims. That was good, but it also demonstrates a minority of remorseful muslims.
The only way anything can be trusted is with actual results: if they start changing minds in their own muslim communities. (I won’t be holding my breath for it)
Taquiya...Always, Taquiya...
The sheep are waking up and getting restless, and may soon unleash the sheepdogs against the Muslims...Time to trot out a “reformer”...
Time to soothe the herd and calm them down while we build numbers and strength in your midst, so we can get back to business of killing you, like when you were all asleep...
We are so gullible, and it will be our undoing...
This guy’s either a liar or a lousy Muslim.
I wish this guy well, but I don’t see it happening.
Fellow Muslims don’t speak out against killing us INFIDELS
because they fear their fellow Muslims will either blow
them up or behead them.
I’m a Christian. I don’t have to fear my fellow Christian
will either blow me up or behead me or shoot me. - Husband
once said that they may come after him and his guns; but
he’s gonna take a few of them with him to the Happy Hunting
Ground before he goes.
bkmk
Muslims will reform when the pain of their situation compels them to reform. Not until.
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