The American Muslim Community Is Pushing Its Luck

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 12/09/06 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

Like many of President Bush’s supporters, I have agreed with and continue to accept the idea that most Muslims are peaceful and do not support violent jihad. I know that a very high proportion of America’s Muslims are professional people – lawyers, teachers and doctors, and that if the 1.6 billion Muslims around the world were terrorists, things would be an order of magnitude worse than they are. In this blog, I have many times referred to this in my support of the President’s attempts to keep the war on terrorists from morphing into a religious war.

Why is it then, that every time a Muslim spokesman appears on television to explain the position of America’s Muslims, my perception changes slightly for the worse?

[PghBaldy]

I believe most Muslims support jihad against Jews and Christians. All the evidence says this. Including American Muslims. Where are the Muslim anti-terror groups or rallies against hatred of Jews and Christians? I had a more open mind on 9/11, but it is basically closed now. American Muslims in particular have been astoundingly silent when CAIR and MSA and ISNA and other Muslim groups endorse terror and condemn the US.

[PghBaldy]

Good blog. Thank you for posting this.

[Man50D]

I have agreed with and continue to accept the idea that most Muslims are peaceful and do not support violent jihad.

The following article reveals Islam's concept of peace Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of 'Two-Faced' Muslims

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Yeah, good blog, excellant points. I was wondering the very same things.

[Shimmer128]

Good read.

[ClaireSolt]

Multiculturalism leads to identity politics and an endless stram of whiners. Last night I heard a NY crowd chanting Black Power for the first time in 40 years. Somehow I am supposed to believe that police who have been hit twice by a car shoot the driver when he tries again because of his race. Has everyone lost their minds?

[Tallguy]

Like many of President Bush’s supporters, I have agreed with and continue to accept the idea that most Muslims are peaceful and do not support violent jihad.

It doesn't take but a small minority of radicalized muslims to create one heckuva lot of damage. How many were actually involved in 911, for instance?

The mantra that the vast majority of muslims are peaceful & non-violent is both true & irrelevant in this type of conflict.

[Noumenon]

Read Oriana Fallaci's The Rage and the Pride and particularly, her The Force of Reason. She says what few dare to say concerning the Muslim menace. See my tagline for an example.

[Man50D]

The mantra that the vast majority of muslims are peaceful & non-violent is both true & irrelevant in this type of conflict.

Click on the link in post #4.

[shield]

bttt

[Letaka]

YOU are a good read

[Shimmer128]

Hey Waiter, can i have some more of whatever you got????? :D

[Letaka]

I have something very special which is reserved just for you, and you'll like it I can assure you.

[Lurker]

"There may be moderate muslims. But there is no moderate islam." Ibn Waqid.

L

[Noumenon]

Who was it who said, "Radical Islam wants to kill you. Moderate Islam will stand by and watch you die."

We are at war with a murderous, death cult. We just sdon't want to face it. The stakes: our entire civilization.

[Lurker]

I was using this as a tagline for a bit:

"Jesus loves you. mohamet wants you dead."

L

[arthurus]

The most apparently "moderate" Mohos from the fellow giving an interview on TV to the good Dr. Mohammed that all the patients love here in town- all of them excuse the bombers and other jihadis. All of them say things like, well Israel causes all those problems and well if America would just adopt Islam...

[SunkenCiv]

from December 8th.

I know that a very high proportion of America’s Muslims are professional people – lawyers, teachers and doctors...

...which makes me wonder A) how much oil money was used to pay for their education, and B) how much of their income they donate to support jihad?

[Fred Nerks]

The American Muslim Community Is Pushing Its Luck

It's all part of jihad!...lawyers, teachers and doctors? What about this guy...

Introduction To Islam M. Cherif Bassiouni

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Fourteen centuries ago Islam was a spiritual, social, and legal revolution. Its potential for effecting progress remains unchanged. This is essentially the belief of enlightened fundamentalist Muslims. Islamic fundamentalism is not, therefore, a regressive view of history and contemporary reality. Islam at the height of its civilization, between the seventh and eleventh centuries, was neither repressive nor regressive. It was a progressive, humanistic, and legalistic force for reform and justice.

http://www.mideasti.org/indepth/islam/law.html

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M. Cherif Bassiouni Distinguished Research Professor of Law; President, International Human Rights Law Institute

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M. Cherif Bassiouni is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law and President of the International Human Rights Law Institute. He is also President of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, Italy, as well as the Honorary President of the International Association of Penal Law (President 1989-2004), based in Paris, France.

He has served the United Nations in a number of capacities, including as: Member and then Chairman of the Security Council's Commission to Investigate War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (1992-94); Commission on Human Rights' Independent Expert on The Rights to Restitution, Compensation and Rehabilitation for Victims of Grave Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1998-2000); Vice-Chairman of the General Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (1995); and Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the 1998 Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. In 2004, he was appointed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as the Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan.

In 1999, Professor Bassiouni was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the field of international criminal justice and for his contribution to the creation of the International Criminal Court. . He has received the following medals: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Commander), Federal Republic of Germany (2003); Legion d’Honneur (Officier), Republic of France (2003); Order of Lincoln of Illinois, United States of America (2001); Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, Republic of Austria (1990); Order of Sciences (First Class), Arab Republic of Egypt (1984); Order of Merit (Grand’Ufficiale), Republic of Italy (1977), and Order of Military Valor (First Class), Arab Republic of Egypt (1956).. He has also received numerous academic and civic awards, including the Special Award of the Council of Europe (1990); the Defender of Democracy Award, Parliamentarians for Global Action (1998) The Adlai Stevenson Award of the United Nations Association (1993); and the Saint Vincent DePaul Humanitarian Award (2000).

Professor Bassiouni is the author of 27 and editor of 44 books, and the author of 217 articles on a wide range of legal issues, including international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and international human rights law. His publications have appeared in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish. Some of these publications have been cited by the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the United States Supreme Court, as well as by several United States Appellate and Federal District Courts, and also by several State Supreme Courts.

Degrees J.D., Indiana University; LL.B. University of Cairo; LL.M. (International and Maritime Law), The John Marshall Law School; S.J.D. (International Criminal Law), George Washington University; Doctor of Law, honoris causa, University of Torino (Italy), University of Pau (France), Niagara University (U.S.A.) and National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)

Courses Taught Seminar: International Criminal Law (Substantive)