Posted on 07/29/2005 11:56:15 PM PDT by Bayou City
HOUSTON -- Houston-area Islamic groups joined a nationwide campaign to denounce terrorism, Local 2 reported Friday.
The public service announcements hit the airwaves Thursday. The campaign is called "Not in the Name of Islam."
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, released it to build understanding.
"Muslims are not only victims of the terrorists attacks but also have to deal with the stigmatization of being blamed for the heinous crimes of a minuscule minority." Said Rodwan Saleh, with the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.
Houston's Islamic leaders joined together to applaud a religious ruling against terrorism and religious extremism.
"We want to let all of Houston citizens know that we stand behind peace and justice and we are absolutely against any terrorism or any terrorism actions in this city." Saleh said.
Nearly 1 million people around the country have signed a petition supporting American Muslims.
"The terrorists actions are not in the name of Islam and Muslims do not want their religion seized by criminals, said Kaleem Siddiqui, with CAIR Houston. "They commit these acts cowardly and they call themselves Muslims. We absolutely condemn that and oppose it."
Houston was recently rated the No. 1 city in the country by the Vera Institute for police having good relationships with the Arabic and Muslim community.
There were also many germans who didnt support the nazis in 1943...............................................................................but ALOT of them did!!!!
Well DUH! It's always the Joooooooooooooooooz!!!!!
Smart move, a little late, but smart...
Texans have guns and 'nives(and other stuff).. legally(most of it).. still..
Møøselimbs and oil. A bad combination, it creates 'turm'oil...
I work with a bunch of Muslim grad students who are all excellent people, and I have no doubt that the vast majority of Muslims are this way. The guy in the article was correct when he said the violent fringe is a minority and is rejected by the Muslim mainstream.
All religions -- in fact all large groupings of people -- seem to have a violent fringe. The question, though, is the size of the fringe. Is it a few parts-per-million or is it 2 or 3 percent? A good analogy would be the acceptable level of contamination in drinking water. A few ppm of arsenic is harmless but a few percent is toxic.
So, while I think it's true that the violent part of Islam is a small minority, it might not be a small enough minority to be acceptable.
Yeah, back in the mid 80's I worked with a former Hitler Youth. He was still mad about losing the war...
Muslims can start by stopping prison outreach programs that turn Islam into a "we feed the grudges and hatreds of every criminal and thug is the US."
Muslims heard about Mutually Assured Destruction and they're waking up to the fact Americans are not all liberals who want to "understand" every bit of anger and outrage expressed by their radicals.
I was working with a US born møøselimb on 9/11. I thought he was an 'excellent people' too. But then he bitterly complained about me putting a Flag and 'God Bless America' sign in my cubicle, on 9/11...
But virtually all terrorists are muslim Arabs.
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The word "al-Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury." A one-word translation would be "Dissimulation."
The above definition must be elaborated upon before any undertaking of this topic is to ensue. Although correct, the definition suffers from an apparent generalization, and lacks some fundamental details that should be construed:
First, the CONCEALMENT of one's beliefs does NOT necessitate an ABANDONMENT of these beliefs. The distinction between "concealment" and "abandonment" MUST be noted here.
Second, there are numerous exceptions to the above definition, and they MUST be judged according to the situation that one is placed in. As such, one should NOT make a narrow-minded generalization that encompasses all situations, thereby failing to fully absorb the spirit of the definition.
Third, the word "beliefs" and/or "convictions" does NOT necessarily mean "religious" beliefs and/or convictions.
With the above in mind, it becomes evident that a better, and more accurate definition of "al-Taqiyya" is "diplomacy." The true spirit of "al- Taqiyya" is better embodied in the single word "diplomacy" because it encompasses a comprehensive spectrum of behaviors that serve to further the vested interests of all parties involved.
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Real nice. Yeah, I trust them... NOT!
Ask yourselves; What kind of religion needs this sort of deceptive doctrine built into it from it's inception? I submit that it is the kind of religion that was designed from the ground up to destroy all other belief systems.
The ones I worked with were quiet after 9-11. Then after all of us repeating over and over about how their religion was hi-jacked by extremists and that the muslims were really the victims, they got brave. The following february they let their true colors be seen!!
I agree. The muzzies are making real inroads down there. The atrocious levels of poverty and illiteracy in South America make it a prime recruiting ground for the religion of pieces.
All muzzies may not be evil, but they all subscribe to an evil doctrine concocted by sociopathic murdering swine.
What is needed during these group 'condemnations' is for REAL questions to be asked- the Koran to be opened- and the passages SUPPORTING terrorism pointed out.
Someone needs to SHOW these people that what their book says and what they say are two different things! They know it- they need to be called on it and made to explain! IN PUBLIC.
"I slept in the same room with them and listened to them rant about the Jews, how the US deserved 9-11 etc..."
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And what did you do about it? Nothing?
The fact that you lived with these people says a lot more about your character than the trustworthiness of one billion Muslims.
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I don't know nothin' about no Muslims, Miss Scarlett! I just been livin' in Bahgdad for the last year and a half!
I too have worked with muslims, and privately they are against these terrorist tactics. It is not these guys I want to see action from. I want the religious leadership who now seem to be willing to condemn terrorism openly to disenfranchise and excommunicate the terrorists one at a time when sufficient evidence exists to show they participated in or verbally supported others who did terrorist acts. I am trying to differentiate between talk and action, since I believe a terrorist mentality allows duplicitious talk as long as the actions are not affected. (Remember the talk of surrender that allowed Osama to escape?)
Now as far as an acceptible minority who continue to commit terrorism, If they have been removed from Islam, bannished if you will from their "cause", then they are acceptible in the same way that serial murderers are acceptable. They can exist until they are caught and punished. But there is no small amount of terrorism that will ever be acceptable.
Hey Mohammad, I had no choice in living with them, it was an on-call room in a hospital .I reported them to the FBI. Sorry but I was a medical student at the time and was already warned that "racism" (ie. talking bad of islam) wouldnt be allowed by a liberal faculty turd. I actually confronted them, they soon learned to fear me!!
Thanks for the links.
There's a park across the street from my mother's place in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York.
She has noted that any time a terrorist incident occurs anywhere in the world, the muslim women and children don't show up just before, during, and several days later.
She first noticed this phenomena when the FBI building was bombed. Timothy McVeigh acted alone? Hmmm.
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