I volunteer.
Posted on 01/15/2005 4:10:03 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
JEDDAH, 16 January 2005 — Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the Kingdom’s grand mufti, said the people who attack Islam accusing it of encouraging terrorism and extremism and denying human rights are telling lies and know very well they are spreading falsehood.
Speaking at a conference organized by the Makkah-based Muslim World League on inter-culture dialogue, Al-Asheikh said critics of Islam are driven by their enmity of the faith. He called upon Muslims to project the true face of Islam without any excesses or compromises.
“The accusations directed against Islam by those who accuse it of terrorism, extremism and disrespect for human rights and freedom come from people who know they are telling lies. They know very well that what they say (against Islam) is false and deep inside they know they are committing injustice and aggression by behaving the way they do. It is the enmity against Islam deep inside them that drives them to attack Islam,” he told the delegates from different countries.
The conference which coincides with the annual pilgrimage to Makkah aims at preparing the ground for a fruitful and sustained dialogue with non-Muslims to remove misunderstandings about Islam among non-Muslims, achieve understanding and coexistence between different cultures, unite world efforts to confront the common challenges facing humanity and ensure respect for cultural diversity and work to bridge differences between cultures and civilizations.
Secretary-General Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki said the MWL is pioneering a project for the establishment of a permanent center for inter-faith dialogue to be based in a European country and act as a bridge between Islam and other cultures.
The grand mufti said Muslims should benefit from the many available media and other information outlets to spread Islam among the intellectuals and educated of the world.
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay, which is usually repulsive and distorted information... They think that what they hear and what they are told about Islam is the truth. It is only through constructive dialogue led by people who very well understand Islam and its teachings that the enemies of Islam could be exposed and their lies refuted.”
Makkah Governor Prince Abdul Majeed told the delegates that dialogue is a “pressing human necessity” and a means for arriving at a higher degree of understanding and coexistence among peoples and countries of the world.
“Saudi Arabia firmly believes that working to serve humanity through dialogue would achieve world peace and ensure security for all by reducing the possibility of confrontation and conflict among civilizations. Dialogue would also unite the efforts to address the problems facing humanity, notably terrorism,” he said.
Prince Abdul Majeed stressed the need for internal dialogue among Muslims themselves, saying this would enable the Ummah to come together and collectively work to end dissent and prevent the seeds of extremism from taking roots.
Dr. Al-Turki said constructive and fruitful dialogue would only be possible when people “free themselves from the superiority complex and stop playing the role of guardians over others”, adding that “superiority and arrogance based on material achievements have led the world to two devastating wars and may lead it into more unjust wars launched under the pretext of defending freedom, human rights and globalization”.
I am not holding my breath.
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Umm... holding your breath is not a technique mentioned in the Islamic BuyBull (the Koran).
However, slicing your throat and beheading you are indeed mentioned... many times !!! '-))
Islam....what a farce
I volunteer.
I guess all the video of beheadings is just a figment of our imaginations.
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Oak Hay... let me spread some of that falsehood from the Islamic BuyBull (the Koran)...
Sounds like the grand mufti is on grand crack!
as opposed to...
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay, which is usually repulsive and distorted information... They think that what they hear and what they are told about Islam is the truth.
So which is it mufti? Do your opponents know they are lying about islam or not?
What I find unbelievable is an arab paper can print the pronouncements of an acknowledged leader, who clearly has the intellectual sophistication of a fourth grader (logically, both his assertions can't be true), but the West is guilty of bigotry if we point out the arab culture is being driven by people who are idiots.
For all his operational sophistication, it never seemed to occur to bin Laden our people wouldn't fall into the "kill them all, let God sort them out" as his would. So he murdered several thousand people, accomplished exactly none of his goals, and muslims all over the world think he's "all that."
How can people so individually intelligent be so collectively stupid?
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay, which is usually repulsive and distorted information... They think that what they hear and what they are told about Islam is the truth. It is only through constructive dialogue led by people who very well understand Islam and its teachings that the enemies of Islam could be exposed and their lies refuted.”
Hey Muff boy that's some good clinton/lawyer talk you got going there, but you can stick your bs up your nose along with the coke your doing. We SEE the true nature of Islam.
I wish that were true...I suggest it is collective delusion.
That would be a first. It sells better among the idiots and the ignorant of the world.
And I learned everything I needed to know about Islam on September 11, 2001.
He later added "we must show the world that they are accusing us of falsehoods.... we must seek revenge on all that would call us violent by killing them and their families!"
There is no Freep but Freepers, and JimRob is their prophet!
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What a deja vu load of crap. I remember hundreds of such conferences devoted to the "mutual co-existence of countries with market and planned economies" and "preparing ground for fruitful and sustained dialogue between countries with different social systems". From the Western side well known fifth column of intellectuals full of good intentions played the part of straw-men in them... same pot smoking, pills popping peace marchers and sex-revolutionaries. Behind the scenes it was all the KGB operation.
Now the useful idiots are devoted to "anti-globalization" (whatever that means) and Arab a** kissing.
To put an end to all that will take another Reagan ready to define straightly who is the Empire of Evil and to formulate the strategy as simply as he did: "We gonna win, they gonna lose".
taqiyya - "According to Christian ethics lying is a sin; In Islamic jurisprudence and theology, the use of taqiyya against the unbelievers is regarded as a virtue and a religious duty."
Taqiyya and kitman: The role of Deception in Islamic terrorism
But he could maybe, just maybe, say a word or two about the terrorists who are Moslem- maybe even something disapproving.
BS ALERT!
“Many non-Muslims know very little or nothing about Islam and depend on hearsay
In contrast to Muslims who know very little or nothing about Christianity and just plain hate it.
"islam would go very far as a religion if they stopped with the denial, embraced the evil that has coopted them and started on the road to recovery"...
I know what you're trying to express here, but consider this.
1. islam HAS embraced evil, because it IS evil.
It's based on the lunatic musings of a seizure-plagued despot.
2. Any "religion that requires the death of any who leaves the "religion", is evil.
3.Any "religion that will let non-believers live among them if the non-belivers pay tribute, (money), is evil
4. The founder of any "religion", whose youngest wife is 9 years old, is evil.
I could go on, and on, but hopefully you'll pick up one of the excellent books about islam, written by EX-islamists and get the rest of the story.....it's gruesome.
For a great read on Islam, go to prophetofdoom.com.
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