I am overwhelmed with sadness over the state of the Muslim world. I am
looking at the photograph of an Iranian woman about to be stoned to death in Iran, buried to her waste in dirt to keep her from running away.
A few weeks ago, I read about a 14 year-old Iranian boy who died after
receiving 85 lashes for the `sin' of eating in public in the month of
Ramadan. Salah Uddin Choudhury has been in prison for one year in Bangladesh for the `crime' of urging his nation to recognize Israel and advocating interfaith dialogue among equals as well as warning against the growing power of Islamists in Bangladesh.
What are Muslim community activists in America doing about their homegrown brutal human rights violations? They are silent.
The picture of the stoned woman has been seen by some Muslims I know in the Middle East and also fellow Americans, Christians and Jews. The first
reaction by the Muslims was "what did she do?" while the first reaction by
Americans was "How could this happen?"
The Muslim majority here in the US remains silent seeing the outrageous
brutal medieval-style and inhumane punishments practiced in many parts of
the Muslim world. Americans, who are puzzled by the silence of the so called
"moderate" Arab-Americans after 9/11, do not understand that Arabs learned to be silent and indifferent to terror before even coming to America.
Generations after generations of Muslims lived under dictatorships and were
trained to look the other way when Muslims tortured and terrorized other
Muslims. The result is a population de-sensitized to seeing brutality and horror. Too many of them see cruel punishment as normal. Their silence over the killing was not just an insult to America after 9/11, but is aiding and
abetting the cruel culture of hate, terror, torture and beheadings.
Arab men, known for `machismo', are doing nothing while watching such
horrible injustice happen to their women and children. There is no uprising
by Arab women over the inhumanity and cruelty their sisters in Islam are
suffering. "She must have done something really bad!" one Muslim woman said to me after seeing the picture. By that, she of course meant having sex
outside of marriage. 2000 years after Christianity abandoned stoning as a
form of punishment, Islam still continues to practice it.
Even Muslim groups who live with Western freedoms are not making a strong stand to stop this cruel practice. There is a petition being circulated on the Internet by mostly non-Muslim or former Muslim groups to save the life
of yet another Iranian woman from being stoned to death. On the other hand,
many Muslim women in America, all the while enjoying Western freedoms, are busy covering their ankles, complaining about the French law against wearing religious symbols in French public schools or filing law suits to get their faces covered up on their drivers' licenses in America.
These hijab-wearing Muslim women expressed no outrage over the brutal murder of Margaret Hassan in Iraq, a British woman who dedicated 30 years of her life to helping Iraqis. How many properly covered up Saudi, gulf state,
Egyptian, Syrian or Jordanian women went to Iraq, Iran, Algeria or Sudan, to
help their sisters and brothers in Islam as did Margaret Hassan? The answer
is practically none. That job was usually left to Westerners who do it out
of their Judeo-Christian inspired sense of humanity.
Most Islamic studies professors and Islamist groups in America exercise
their freedom of speech given to them by America, but only when speaking
against America, Judaism, Christianity, President Bush and Pat Robertson.
However, they never dare to criticize their culture of origin and some even
still have respect for the tyranny of the old country. They leave the job of
ridding the Muslim world of terror to the victims of terror, namely America
and Israel. Whenever they criticize the Muslim world it is in the context of
blaming America for supporting dictatorships. However, when America attempts to bring democracy and get rid of Arab dictators they turn around and accuse America of occupation or empire building. No matter what America does, they voice criticism. That can only mean they do not seem to be serious about reformation in Muslim countries. They are, however, very serious about embarrassing, criticizing and hurting America.
Many Muslim groups and Middle East studies professors are aligning
themselves with the liberal `hate America' crowd in Western academia and
media. Three days after the Tsunami in South Asia, I saw an Arab- American leader criticize America's response as "slow and too little, too late" on CNN. They have the audacity to criticize America and give a free pass to the oil rich Arab countries that should be the first to respond financially to save their poor Muslim brothers and sisters in Indonesia.
Islamism and the old defeated and failed ideology of pan-Arabism is what
many Islamic groups in America are advocating. They are silent in the face
of Muslim poverty, corruption, neglect of human rights, oppression of women,
honor killings and the brutal and unusual punishments such as cutting off
limbs, flogging and stoning. They are not using American freedoms as an
opportunity to change their countries of origin, but as an opportunity to
influence and change America to be like the countries they came from. Their
goal is also to keep Muslim-Americans under their control and the control of
Muslim world mullahs, sheiks and dictators they should have left behind. How
can any one take them seriously when they do not lift a finger to protect
human rights in Muslim countries, but are militant in turning Arab-
Americans into yet another voting block to influence American politics?
They take no stand to protect the life of the Muslim woman being stoned and
explain away such atrocities and beheadings while crying `profiling' in
America by the FBI.
Wahhabi Islamist groups in the West are dreaming of a day when Sharia
Islamic laws that call for stoning women come to America and dominate the
whole world. That is why Muslims in the West are not outraged over this
picture.
Arab-Americans should reject Islamist groups and become part of the solution and not part of the problem in America. Let the history books say that Arab-Americans were the seed and cause of change in the Middle East. Let us stand behind President Bush in trying to bring about democracy in the Arab world. Let us form active genuine peace groups and reach out to other
religions. Let us celebrate the freedoms America has given us by extending
our compassion to the victims of terror left behind in our countries of
origin. That should be the mission of Arab organizations in America and not
the silly anti-American causes they are pursuing with the blessings from the
enemies of America.
Arab-Americans should no longer stand silent before acts of terror and
beheadings on our fellow brave American men and women in the US armed forces as well. America should never allow the poison of medieval-style justice and morality to penetrate its psyche under the guise of multiculturalism. It is time for America to hold Muslim countries and culture responsible for terrorism. Those countries are waging a two-faced war against the West while hiding behind their terrorists and their sacred veils.
Yes, the silent Muslim majority is the problem. Their silence is empowering
not only the terrorists and brutal dictatorships, but all of the cultural,
political and social pathologies behind them. Arab- Americans who speak out might be called `heroes' by some. However, speaking out of love and gratitude for America is the duty of all American citizens, and it has never been more important to those who call themselves Arab-Americans than it is right now.
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...why, after reading this, was I sent back to Germany,in the 30s...? I swear I was... Muslims have little chance to enact their Religious Laws upon US soil. What you speak of in ref. to the Women already here, the have the best of both worlds..why would they say anything negative? They're playin' it smart, and keepin' quiet.
In Deerfield Michigan there are over 55,000 Iraqui families. They are allowed to have businesses and are collecting moneyin thier stores for thier cause. Can you imagine all the rest in other states like Chicago, New York, California, etc.,etc. Man, they are fighting us within our ownboundries.
Pepole don't seem to think so, but we better watch our ground with great vigilence, or else.
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[size=-1 arial, helvetica, sans-serif]ON CAPITOL HILL
[size=+1 georgia, times new roman, times, serif]Muslims to blitz lawmakers
with plea to pass resolution[/size]
A portion of the resolution, which would express the opinion of Congress, reads: "In observance of and out of respect for the commencement of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal, the House of Representatives acknowledges the onset of Ramadan and expresses its deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world on this significant occasion."
CAIR calls the resolution "an important tool for encouraging dialogue between Muslims and their elected officials, as well as enhancing understanding of the Islamic faith.
In 2003, then-Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich took part in a Ramadan iftar "“ a meal celebrating the breaking of the fast "“ on Capitol Hill hosted by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. The event was co-sponsored by Reps. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., Kucinich, Conyers, D-Ohio, Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., and Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
At least one elected official, Meeks, had second thoughts about participating in the CAIR event. When questioned about his attendance at a CAIR dinner, he told the New York Sun: "I don't want to be associated with anyone who condones suicide bombers, anti-Semitism, or any group that condones the extremism in Islam." He added, "I'm going to do some checking into this right now. I am going to talk to some of my colleagues, particularly some of my Jewish colleagues."
CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for Hamas. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
Although CAIR signed a fatwa, or decree, condemning terrorism in general, the group repeatedly has attacked the prosecutions of Islamic terrorists arrested or convicted since 9-11 and the government's freezing of Islamic terrorist fronts, calling it a "war against Islam" by the United States.
CAIR's new resolution reads:
Pepole don't seem to think so, but we better watch our ground with great vigilence, or else.
they want they whole world to live like they do and have one religion, theirs,they don't want to come here and live like westerners, they hate us, they come here and take and take, and laugh at us the whole time[&o], while we pay for them to attend school, start businesses, and send the money to groups like CAIR[:@]
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John 3:16
things are more like right now than they've ever been
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
Muslim Law Coming to your Country Soon !
