Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 02/06/2010 6:51:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the Friday, February 5 Cincinnati Enquirer, Momitul Talukdar, a Walnut Hills High School student, wrote “Muslim-Americans suffering in silence,” which was published along with a large photo of her on the editorial page.
There’s silence and then there’s silence.
What is she silently suffering about in 27 column inches, including her smiling photo?
An American citizen born in Bangladesh, she is upset about troops being sent to Afghanistan. Instead, “America should offer assistance.” All those fundamentalists holding up the Koran on TV do not represent Islam, no matter what they do and no matter what all their imams say. People have been rude to her and have appeared frightened of her (she wears a headscarf) after 9/11. Muslim-Americans are “forced to suffer in silence.” She is suffering even more silently about (i.e. not mentioning) these recent stories:
The massacre at Fort Hood by a Muslim American soldier, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
The attempted mass murder of jet passengers by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Muslim whose own father tried to warn officials about him.
The trial and conviction of another nice, well educated, American Muslim girl, Aafia Siddiqui, who attempted to murder American soldiers in Afghanistan.
9/11 was a turning point for Momitul Talukdar, not because she had to examine extreme and violent interpretations of Islam as a worldwide reality, not because nearly 3,000 fellow Americans were brutally murdered, but because her feelings have been hurt. She's just another American girl who likes to shop and watch TV, but after 9/11, she hasn't always received the "smiles and polite hellos" that are her due. She does acknowledge that things might not improve until the al-Qaida "campaign of terrorism subsides" — if it does. There are new stories about jihadist attacks somewhere in the world every week. What could make them subside? She thinks giving aid other than military aid will somehow pacify the Taliban. How's that? Pay them off and they'll stop their warlike customs, stop assisting Al Qaeda, stop abusing women?
The small minority of fundamentalist (fundamentally what?) Muslims adds up to a very large number of dangerous people. It's doubtful if Miss Talukdar has read the entire Koran and studied the example of Mohammed, or understands terms like jihad, abrogation, dhimmitude, or taqiyya.
In the United States, it seems the only time we hear from the silent Muslims is when their feelings have been hurt by rude people who are afraid of being killed. Muslims seldom speak out against these outrages except as a sidebar to complaints about being offended. This, by the way, is the mission of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations). CAIR isn't about reforming the extremist interpretations of the religion of peace. We don't see them working to change the reality of what Islam is for many people all over the world. That silence about the atrocities speaks louder than the periodic complaints about feeling uncomfortable.
Seemingly Miss Talukdar cannot imagine herself as an American target, though she is an American; as a Muslim target, though Muslims are frequently killed by other Muslims around the world; or even as an airline passenger.
But no one in the United States is forcing Miss Talukdar to be silent.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
In Afghanistan she would be killed for speaking out like this.
Nor is anyone forcing her to stay here. If you don’t like it here leave. You do have choices you know!
“wordy silence” ???
How loud is that ???
To all the “SILENT MUSLIMS”
AFTER 9/11/01...
you are still ALIVE
you are still allowed to walk freely in society.
you HAVE NOT been Rounded up and placed in CAMPS.
you HAVE NOT had your citizenship removed.
you HAVE NOT been DEPORTED.
I DO NOT SEE WHAT YOU HAVE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT!!
All those fundamentalists holding up the Koran on TV do not represent Islam
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Gosh yes
all good Christians hold up korans
But no one in the United States is forcing Miss Talukdar to be silent.
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And nobody is forcing her to stay...
Cry me a river. Might as well make it the Nile.
I’m fed up with these reptiles. I wish they’d go back to where ever it was they came from and stay there.
.” All those fundamentalists holding up the Koran on TV do not represent Islam, no matter what they do and no matter what all their imams say.
tell it to this poor kid.
Good on ya!!!
LLS
9/11 was a turning point for Momitul Talukdar, not because she had to examine extreme and violent interpretations of Islam as a worldwide reality, not because nearly 3,000 fellow Americans were brutally murdered, but because her feelings have been hurt.Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up, and smell the Jihad...
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