We're Muslim-Americans - kill us, too

Jerusalem Post ^ | 10-22-06 | ASLAM ABDULLAH

[SJackson]

The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, recently issued a decree to its supporters: Kill at least one American in the next two weeks "using a sniper rifle, explosive or whatever the battle may require."

Well, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, I am an American too. Count me as the one of those you have asked your supporters to kill.

I am not alone. There are thousands of Muslims with me in Las Vegas, and many more millions in America, who are proud Americans and who are ready to face your challenge. You hide in your caves and behind the faces of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. You don't show your faces and you have no guts to face Muslims. You thrive on the misery of thousands of Muslim youth and children who are victims of despotism, poverty and ignorance.

During the past two decades, you have brought nothing but shame and disaster to your religion and your world.

You said "not to drop your weapons," not to let "your enemies rest until each one of you kills at least one American within a period that does not exceed 15 days."

But I invite you to surrender, to seek forgiveness from God almighty for the senseless killing you and your supporters are involved in and repent for everything you have done.

You say that the word of God is the highest. Yes, it is. But you are not worthy of it. You have abandoned God and you have started worshipping your own satanic egos that rejoice at the killing of innocent people. You don't represent Muslims or, for that matter, any decent human being who believes in the sanctity of life.

Many among us American Muslims have differences with our administration on domestic and foreign issues, just like many other Americans do. But the plurality of opinions does not mean that we deprive ourselves of the civility that God demands from us. America is our home and will always be our home. Its interests are ours, and its people are ours. When you talk of killing Americans, you first have to kill 6 million or so Muslims who will stand for every American's right to live and enjoy the life as commanded by God.

BY GROWING a beard, shouting some religious slogans and misquoting and misusing some verses of the divine scriptures, you cannot incite Muslims to do things that are contrary to our religion. Yes, you even fail to understand the basic Islamic principles of life and living. Islam demands peace in all aspects of life. Islam demands respect for life. Islam demands justice.

What you are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, India or other parts of the world is anti-human and anti-divine. You are an enemy of Islam as much as you are an enemy of America. You must understand that God who entrusted you with life is the same God who spelled His spirit in every human being regardless of his or her religion or ethnicity or nationality or status. You are violating Him.

We feel totally disgusted with your action and we condemn you without any reservation. Don't come to our mosques to preach this hatred. Don't visit our Islamic centers to spill the blood of innocents. Don't think that just because we share the same religion, we would show some sympathy to you. You are not of us. You don't belong to the religion whose followers are trying to live a peaceful life for themselves and others serving the divine according to their understanding. In our understanding of faith. You appear as anti-divine and anti-human. We reject you now as we rejected you yesterday.

There is nothing common between you and us.

We stand for life, you want to destroy it.

We accept the divine scheme of diversity in the world and you want to impose conformity.

We respect every human being simply because he or she is a creation of the divine, and you hate people based on their religion and ethnicity.

We support freedom and liberty and justice, and you promote bigotry, murder and strangulation.

You will never be able to find a sympathetic voice among us. Our differences with others will never lead us to do things that are fundamentally wrong in our faith, i.e. taking the lives of innocent people and killing others because they are different.

Last September 11, when you were hiding in your caves, we were out in the streets paying tribute to those whom you killed because you failed to see the beauty of life. We will condemn you once again the same way we have been doing ever since 9/11 because we are Muslim Americans.

The writer is director of the Islamic Society of Nevada. Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, US Department of State.

[onyx]

Wow. I am going to have to read this a second time to believe what my eyes are seeing.

[rovenstinez]

This smacks of something phoney. Where is CAIR on this issue.

[johnny7]

About time... but I wanna' hear more like Aslam stand up.

[FMBass]

I do believe that this is the first time I have read of any Muslim condemning terrorists!

[johnny7]

hear = see

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[BipolarBob]

Whats said in Vegas should have stayed in Vegas. If he ventures far, he'll have his head removed by his "comrades".

[EGPWS]

We stand for life, you want to destroy it.

We accept the divine scheme of diversity in the world and you want to impose conformity.

We respect every human being simply because he or she is a creation of the divine, and you hate people based on their religion and ethnicity.

We support freedom and liberty and justice, and you promote bigotry, murder and strangulation.

Excellent read, it's about time muslims spoke out against terrorists.

Kudo's to both of them....

[exnavy]

This should come under the heading, "Be careful what you ask for".

[Caipirabob]

I wish I could see more of this.

[libertylover]

I think I saw this posted before but it is most welcome anyway. I suggest to them a Million Muslim March in New York or Washington with American flags. Who knows, the New York Times might cover it.

[sure_fine]

"This smacks of something phoney. Where is CAIR on this issue."





they probably wrote it

they are desperate to get out of line of fire

[blues_guitarist]

Wonderful!


More, more . .. . . Encore!

[TADSLOS]

State Department ghost writer? Reads like it.

[gotribe]

We stand for life, you want to destroy it.

Now we're getting somewhere.

[Musket]

Problem is - in a "Religion" that encoruages lying, how can we ever believe him - or others like him?

[Sangey]

The President Reagan said it best: Trust but verify

[John Valentine]

He is a muslim so therefor he is lying.

Well, if he's NOT lying, he's definitely made himself a target.

[ukie55]

I'd like to have seen him respond that he was going to buy a rifle of his own and start shooting back. Words mean nothing if they are not backed up by action.

If muslims start with it over here, they're toast.

[OldSmaj]

BY GROWING a beard, shouting some religious slogans and misquoting and misusing some verses of the divine scriptures...

Yet, he does not call those divine scriptures what they are, which of course, is the vile koran.

...you cannot incite Muslims to do things that are contrary to our religion.

If you are a true muslim, then you do not have to be "incited", all you have to do is read your vile koran.

Yes, you even fail to understand the basic Islamic principles of life and living.

Well, they are undeducated goat-herding, pedophilic perverted piss-ants...

Islam demands peace in all aspects of life.

Well, perhaps it is your misguided (intentionally presented as such, in my opinion) impression, however, again, read your vile koran. It teaches something quite different.

Islam demands respect for life.

Sure it does. As long as it is a muslim life. Read your vile koran, you idiot.

Islam demands justice.

But excludes it for the infidel, who you are taught by your very own vile koran, to slay, if they do not convert to islam.

You are full of it, Mohammed, or Abdul or Suleiman or whatever your name is.

[Musket]

Not only that,(my post 18), but most of what this person says goes against the koran, judging from the excerpts of the koran that I've read.

[asp1]

How ironic! When a muslim finally says something like this his very own religion tells us that we should not trust him as he may be lying for the "greater good." Well, if he is honest, I applaud his courage.

[sageb1]

"BY GROWING a beard, shouting some religious slogans and misquoting and misusing some verses of the divine scriptures, you cannot incite Muslims to do things that are contrary to our religion. Yes, you even fail to understand the basic Islamic principles of life and living. Islam demands peace in all aspects of life. Islam demands respect for life. Islam demands justice."

Let me know when the author reconsiders the above. Well, except for the part about demanding justice, of course. That part is always the kicker.

[JOHANNES801]

I would only beleive him if he converts to any other religion.

[Talking_Mouse]

I asked for Muslims to condemn terrorism, and here is a Muslim condemning terrorism -- and naming names. Bravo sir, bravo.

[verbal voter]

First time a muslim condemned another muslim in the US(they do it all the time in iraq). Is it for real?

[Musket]

Yes, it's quite a conundrum, isn't it? That's why I say that islam should be banned worldwide, just like nazism.

[DB]

A start, but about 5 years too late.

Your long silence has let others define you.

[johnny7]

Seeing that there's only been a handful like Aslam... I tend to believe him. Other than that... trust but verify.

[Wormwood]

I do believe that this is the first time I have read of any Muslim condemning terrorists!

Then you should read more.

Moderate muslims have been condemning radical islamists for years. But nobody ever seems to take notice since it doesn't conform to our prejudices.

I swear, every single one of these threads looks exactly the same: "I can't believe it!", "He's lying!", "one down, a billion to go!".

It's predictable and pathetic.

[yoe]

When these 'proud American Muslims' stand up for America as the North and South Koreans recently did, I will take a second look - until then, Muslims are victims of the Koran, a mostly fictitious cult, which forbids them to assimilate in other cultures or to recognize any other religions.

[MisterRepublican]

I do not believe anything any Muslim says. Their "religion" teaches them to lie to filthy infidels like us.

Just the usual taqiyya.

[asp1]

I agree with both of you. Islam is not compatible with any other culture or religion. It should either be confined to a small area or be exterminated.

[Baynative]

The rational world is well aware of exactly what 'majority' Islam is planning or silently supporting.

They march in the streets to proclaim their hate.

They advertise their plans for terror to the world.

Yet, so many seem unwilling to listen.

EVEN WHEN THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR!

And so many seem unwilling to act.

Even after they have seen the ways of Islam and what their intentions.

Muslim knives are being sharpened in Cleveland, in Seattle, in Detroit, New York and Miami too.

Muslim children are being taught to hate you from the time they can speak...

They grow up learning that your death is their glory...

The message is clear.

But, those who refuse to listen...

...do so because they are willing to sacrifice you and your loved ones for their political ambitions.

THE PLAN IS EVIDENT.

The hate is right out there for all to see...

While the letter from Las Vegas is a glimmer of hope, our democrat congress gives far more inspiration to future juhadis. Every politician who will not put aside their political agendas and personal ambitions to unite against this threat must be exposed for the dangers they present and turned away from our congress. Listening to them is pure insanity. Voting for them is inviting disaster.

[FMBass]

I posted: "I do believe that this is the first time I have read of any Muslim condemning terrorists!"

You wrote: "Then you should read more. Moderate muslims have been condemning radical islamists for years."


OK, I promise to read more and I’ll make an extra effort to look for where Muslims condemn Muslim terrorists for killing Americans. I’m sure I’ll find it somewhere.

Sorry for the delay in responding, I couldn’t stop laughing.

[Musket]

Sad but true. Unfortunatley for the civilized world, the opposite is happening. Can this cancer be stopped?

[momof9]

Absolutely

[momof9]

bump

[liberty_lvr]

The only thing predictable and pathetic is yours, and people like you, refusal to recognize the bloody obvious.

Tens of thousands of dead infidels, just from the "modern" era of islam, tend to suggest it is you who has their head buried in the sand.

Believe what you wish, but trust these animals at your own peril. It will take a whole lot more than these little pieces of flowery prose to convince me.

[Gritty]

Wow! An Episcopalian Muslim!!

...if he's being honest, I hope he will enjoy living under an assumed name someplace in northwest Kansas, or sharing an apartment with Salman Rushdie.

[Clara Lou]

Yes, of course. Every Muslim on the planet is a liar. (The profound brilliance of your statement is blinding.) /s

[liberty_lvr]

Sorry for the delay in responding, I couldn’t stop laughing

BWAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Now that's funny!

[WildBill2275]

I’m tired of hyphenated horses**t!
If you are not an American first, you are not an American!
That includes African-Americans, Muslim-Americans, Irish-Americans, etc.

Read the fine print!

Last September 11, when you were hiding in your caves, we were out in the streets paying tribute to those whom you killed because you failed to see the beauty of life. We will condemn you once again the same way we have been doing ever since 9/11 because we are Muslim Americans.

Looks like this was written about four years ago

The writer is director of the Islamic Society of Nevada. Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, US Department of State.

Our tax dollars at work?

[Charlespg]

put on your hip boots folks

[Right Wing Assault]

The koran teaches them to be very humble, peaceful, and kind when they are in the minority and to lie to achieve their ends. When they reach critical mass, the mask comes off.

How can you believe any of them since their own book teaches them it is OK to lie for the success of islam?

[Dustbunny]

Sounds good but will that dog hunt.

[JCEccles]

A refreshing letter!