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As a Muslim, i strongly condemn the beheading of Nick Berg
Cyrus ^ | 5/12/04 | Cyrus

Posted on 05/12/2004 12:53:03 PM PDT by Cyrus the Great

As an American [applied for citizenship here from Iran since 1999], and a Muslim i would like to strongly condemn the brutal beheading of a fellow American in the hands of Barbarians.

I also, condemn Islamic terrorism across the world and join millions of others in Iran and i'm sure other places across the middle east in condemning these horrible acts.

I moved here in 2000, i was a part of the student uprisings in 1999 in Iran. The very thing that the US is fighting right now in the middle east, are what students in Iran are fighting.

There is no difference between their fight and ours, nor the fight across the middle east between the modernized - moderate form of islam and the radical form.

Unfortunately, moderates have been unwilling to take arms or act aggressively against radical islam and when we have we've been condemned for human rights abuses.

That's all.. after reading some of the posts on here i just wanted to say i'm Muslim and i condemn these acts.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freeper; iran; iranian; radicalislam; savages; whywefight
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To: Cyrus the Great
With all the "there are no moderate Muslims" threads running, your comment took guts. Thanks.
61 posted on 05/12/2004 1:14:47 PM PDT by jimt
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To: Cyrus the Great
I feel for you because you are put in the postion of having to defend your beliefs all the time because of insane people trying to relive a period centuries ago.

Do you think the people of Iran will overthrow its government anytime soon?
62 posted on 05/12/2004 1:16:14 PM PDT by Codeflier (Implement Loser Pays)
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To: Cyrus the Great
Thanks for your post. Good to hear some outrage from the Muslim community. Thanks for your courage to speak out.

Red

63 posted on 05/12/2004 1:16:58 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (EVIL.......thy name is Hillary)
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To: 68skylark
Cyrus seems like a good guy to me, too, and I appreciated his input, but I'm afraid its not representative, and it is, indeed, too late to reconcile my feelings. It is not a religion of peace.
64 posted on 05/12/2004 1:17:02 PM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: Cyrus the Great
The Koran commands that "bad" peaceful, aka "hypocrit" muslims be killed by devout, "good" muslims even before the Jews.

A long over due reformation of islam shall be costly for bad muslims and infedels alike, a war of annihilation we shall either win or lose.

Pearl and Berg were murdered in an islamic ritual favored by Mo'ham'.

Koranazis have again reignited their invasive Terror War of world conquest after 500 years of defeated shame.

Americans must read their Koran and Haddith to undestand our mortal enemies' bloodlustful hate of us.
65 posted on 05/12/2004 1:18:13 PM PDT by SevenDaysInMay (Federal judges and justices serve for periods of good behavior, not life. Article III sec. 1)
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To: CyberCowboy777; Poohbah; section9; BOBTHENAILER; veronica; Dog; Howlin; Miss Marple; PhiKapMom; ...
An excellent post.
66 posted on 05/12/2004 1:18:29 PM PDT by hchutch ("Go ahead. Leave early and beat the traffic. The Milwaukee Brewers dare you." - MLB.com 5/11/04)
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To: Cyrus the Great
Thanks. You aren't responsible for what other Muslims do but it would help if more Muslims spoke out against what these slugs are doing, not only to Americans but their fellow Muslims in the Middle East.
67 posted on 05/12/2004 1:19:57 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: RightWhale
When I think terrible thoughts about Moslems generally, I have to stop and remember that Iranians are mostly Moslem too and most Iranians simply do not fall into that generality. Most Turkish people do not, either.
68 posted on 05/12/2004 1:20:14 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Cyrus the Great
Thank you for your comments and contributing to FReeRepublic!

Your profile was fascinating! ;)

69 posted on 05/12/2004 1:20:27 PM PDT by BossLady (What do your choices cost you????)
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To: Cyrus the Great
That's all.. after reading some of the posts on here i just wanted to say i'm Muslim and i condemn these acts.

I appreciate and applaud your statement. I hope it is true that there are millions more like you. Certainly I understand that millions of Iranians oppose the fundamentalist regime in Iran, and I admire their courage.

But based on what I have seen and heard generally from the Muslim world since 9-11, I'm thinking that if you really are a devout Muslim, you must be very lonely.

70 posted on 05/12/2004 1:20:31 PM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: Cyrus the Great
Secularism is possible and desired without the Shah specially.

I just meant that was one aspect of pre '79 you don't want back. I remember my uncle telling me that after the revolution everybody was happy the Shah was gone, until they realized what he had been replaced with. I just hope you do get a free, democratic government after your throw out the theocrats. And I believe you will.

71 posted on 05/12/2004 1:20:36 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: stainlessbanner
I think the biggest blunder among so many by the collaborationist dupe, the ex-president Carter was to think that the Shah was wrong to keep the evil so-called mullahs down.

I said something about mullahs to an Iranian lady I work with and she said "Do you know what Mullah means? It means 'Prophet'. They are not prophets." I said, then how about Imam -- "same thing, it means", she said. I asked "What do YOU call them then?" She said "I call them bunch of big jerks, that what I call them."
72 posted on 05/12/2004 1:21:40 PM PDT by johnb838 (Stand Up For Rummy!)
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To: ken5050
"... i KNOW that Iranians are Persian, yett many in this country lump it all together..."

Legacy of Pan Arabism, which spreads terror and tyrrany.

73 posted on 05/12/2004 1:21:48 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: Cyrus the Great
If you speak Farsi, or any other Middle Eastern dialect, it would serve you well as a citizen, a Muslim and an Iranian ex-patriot to make it known to the FBI. There is a shortage of translators.

I wish you well. However you have a hard row to hoe to regain the trust and understanding of many Americans. Muslims have sucker-punched the US and we just don't forgive something like that. Israel and Palestine are no excuse. Quite frankly, many, not all, but many non Semitic Americans consider Jews and Arabs to merely be cousins that can't get along with each other because one calls God one name, the other another. You're both from the blood of Abraham.

(However, I admit that some Christians delight in cutting each others throats, figuratively, that is.)

74 posted on 05/12/2004 1:22:27 PM PDT by elbucko
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To: ken5050
The Iranians arre NOT arabs. In the ME they are more like Americans in their attitudes than are any of the arab groups. Modernization is simply not a fearsome thing to them.
75 posted on 05/12/2004 1:22:29 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Cyrus the Great
Thank you for that, Cyrus.
76 posted on 05/12/2004 1:22:43 PM PDT by Hanging Chad
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To: Cyrus the Great
Thank you, Cyrus.
77 posted on 05/12/2004 1:22:47 PM PDT by rintense (Screw justice. I want revenge.)
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To: Cyrus the Great
Thank you. Your words have somewhat calmed my raging emotions right now. I'm angry about the CBS' insensitivity, the general media's constant and persistent need to dwell on the Abu Ghraib while it's being investigated and has been for a long while while overlooking the atrocity done to Berg, our demoncRAT congressional leadership who were notified about the situation of Abu Ghraib and now pretend they didn't, the murderous acts by Berg's and Pearl's kidnappers who try to fake their reasons, Satyr who needs to be eliminated posthaste, 911, etc.
78 posted on 05/12/2004 1:23:40 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Cyrus the Great
Thank you sir. Some people are having a hard time not understanding that Muslims aren't of one mind...which is exactly what the terrorists wish to happen.
79 posted on 05/12/2004 1:23:46 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: Cyrus the Great; hchutch
Good to hear from you. God bless and keep you.
80 posted on 05/12/2004 1:23:52 PM PDT by Poohbah (Four thousand throats may be cut in a single night by a running man -- Kahless the Unforgettable)
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