Posted on 10/12/2010 7:51:19 PM PDT by Libloather
A warning against Islamophobia
A threat to burn the Koran by a fringe American religious denomination, controversy over a proposed mosque near the scene of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and assaults on Islamic symbols in European countries have been a major talking point for Muslim nations.
Normally strong allies of the West have spoken out at the UN against the growing religious tensions. Many were embarrassed by comments by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad linking the US government to 9/11, diplomats said.
But Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, emir of Qatar, who has launched Western-backed diplomatic initiatives to settle wars ranging from Sudan to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, condemned attempts to link Islam with terrorism. He partly blamed the US “war on terror” declared after September 11.
“We disagree with the attribution of this so-called terrorism to the Islamic religion because this -- in addition to being incorrect -- is a historical injustice that is refuted by evidence from recent history”.
He said “gratuitous violent actions” in the United States, Europe and Asia in the late 20th century were never labelled as being American, European or Asian terrorism.
“This violence was attributed to its underlying political, economic, social and even ideological causes, without attributing it to a particular religion, country or idea”.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul-Gheit condemned “regrettable and appalling incidents that have increasingly touched Muslims and Islam, repeatedly and sometimes systematically in certain cases”.
He added: “We find the West, in general, being drawn into a clash with the Muslim world. This clash will serve no one except extremists and those who hold perverted ideas on both sides. It will not be in the interest of security and stability in the world”.
“We call upon all countries and especially governments, to assume their responsibility to confront the specter of a dreadful religious and civilization clash”, Abul-Gheit said.
King Abdallah II of Jordan said it is “essential to resist forces of division that spread misunderstanding”. He called for an annual World Interfaith Harmony Week to promote tolerance.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak told the UN assembly that the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims were offended by “attempts to demonize Islam”. He added: “It intensifies the divide between the broad Muslim world and the West”.
Razak said the battle was one between moderates and extremists in all religions. “We must, and I repeat, we must urgently reclaim the center and the moral high ground that has been usurped from us”.
Spain and Turkey set up an Alliance of Civilizations in 2005 which the United Nations now sponsors and has built up into a 122-member organization to bridge religious and cultural chasms.
Highlighting attacks on Muslim tombs in France and other acts in Europe, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the 58-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, compared the phenomenon to the anti-Semitic movement of the 1930s.
The Hitler clones in the Middle East hate Americans every bit as much as they hate the Israelis. Count on it. Israel comes first and we’re next. These psychotic murderers live among us and are hiding in Mexico (along our border) biding their time. These vermin of the world have been slaughtering people for centuries, long before there was an Israel.
We have a Regime in our White House, politicians in DC and throughout this country, and Kool Aid drinkers who are accepting of this known danger to our country who are putting us all in peril.
Wake up America!
Sadly we have lost America! The Left has destroyed it and it will take generations to rebuild it if it ever can be rebuilt. The Roman’s fell and so has America.
We are now in Obummer’s world.
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