Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Learning from the 'Wrong Kind of Muslim'
Philly.com ^

Posted on 09/05/2014 10:25:07 AM PDT by Phillyred

IMAGINE IT IS Sunday, the day a law takes effect stripping American Catholics of their rights. Such a law disenfranchised German Jews in 1935. Fewer than 40 years after the Nazis did it, Pakistan disenfranchised its Ahmadi Muslim Community. This Sunday is the 40th anniversary of that tragedy for human rights. When it was carved from India in 1947, Pakistan was to be a safe haven for Muslims, a democracy with freedom of worship. How ironic that in 1974 it declared Ahmadis - with 30 million peaceful followers in 206 countries - to be non-Muslim, heretics. That opened the gates to state-ignored persecution, pillage, rape and murder that continues to this day. Don't blame yourself for not knowing this. Pakistani-American Qasim Rashid didn't fully understand it until he visited the land of his birth. An Ahmadi himself, he learned he is "The Wrong Kind of Muslim," the title of a book he wrote after his return, detailing and mourning Pakistan's descent into the hell of religious hatred. The 32-year-old lawyer told me that before his 2005 visit, he was aware of the persecution, but not its extent. Sunni and Shia Muslims, which both revere the Prophet Muhammad, are at each other's throats because of a split in Islam after Muhammad's death. Because the Ahmadi follow not only Muhammad but also the 19th-century teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, they are hated by both Sunni and Shia. Before interviewing Rashid, I read his book, recommended to me by Rafiyq Friend, a Philadelphia Ahmadi who "adopted" me a couple of years ago with the idea of familiarizing me with the variety and complexity of Islam. Through conversations with Friend and independent research, I believe the Ahmadi are a shining hope for a tolerant and modern Islam.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
Didn't the Christians lose their rights (Obamacare) on Christmas Eve?
1 posted on 09/05/2014 10:25:07 AM PDT by Phillyred
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Phillyred

All Muslims support the muzzies who kill and maim. They cannot distance themselves by saying “I’m a good muzzie” and believe in Mohammed and believe it is right to “Kill all the Christians and Jews”..


2 posted on 09/05/2014 10:27:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Phillyred

The fact is, all Muslims believe the same thing. If they truly believed in the same G_D the Jews and Christians believed in, they would disband and join the Church or Synagogue. But they won’t, because Muslims are at war with G_D, and are against G_D’s people.


3 posted on 09/05/2014 10:58:48 AM PDT by realcleanguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Phillyred
I believe the Ahmadi are a shining hope for a tolerant and modern Islam.

I don't. The Ahmadis are a non-Arab sect, considered heretical by most other branches of Islam. They do not have anywhere near the sort of financial backing the Saudis give to the fanatic Wahhabi strain of Islam which is busily infecting the UK and the US.
4 posted on 09/05/2014 10:58:53 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Phillyred
I recommend It'll help us old FReepers read your post.
5 posted on 09/05/2014 11:00:00 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Phillyred
I know this is long, but there's a lot of "to-the-point" and "hard-hitting" truth here.

Read this thread.
6 posted on 09/05/2014 11:04:00 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Phillyred

I don’t understand this right muslim, wrong muslim, moderate muslim, muslim...
Do they not all follow Islam? Islam is a death cult. You can call them all different names but they are all following a religion that teaches on death and destruction.


7 posted on 09/05/2014 12:19:27 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SECURE AMERICA

They all march to the same drumbeat sounding from the Koran, that clearly commands the beheading of infidels.

But somehow, our MSM and congress critters, for PC reasons, totally ignore that fact.

None of them dare to touch on the heart of the matter but they all continue to talk in circles.


8 posted on 09/05/2014 12:38:27 PM PDT by 353FMG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: SECURE AMERICA

It’s the organized religion problem. If you join any organized religion, you didn’t you’re personal responsibility for your religious position. All you have to do is point to the big book of “what we believe,” and hide behind it, take refugee in it, call it what you will. But the main idea is that obedience to it, rather that taking personal responsibility for each spiritual or religious position, becomes your focus. Deviate on even one issue, and the rest of your entire life is irrelevant - you are a “heretic.” And in any religion, once you are deemed a heretic you have lost your humanity and are subject to murder.

So Muslims can no more give up the enslaving/killing part of Islam than a Christian, Catholic, Hindu, Jew or Buddhist can decide what they will accept and not accept without begging called a heretic. The difference is that while the other faiths used to kill for heresy and now resort to social rejection and abuse, Islam will still actually hunt you down and physically kill you for it.

On the other hand, like other religions, Islam is also an entire society and way of life. So giving it up completely is equal to any other religious person having to give up their religion and social lives over a particular issue. Granted, giving it up over that mass murder thingy seems pretty damn reasonable for a Muslim. But total loss and rejection for lack of complete conformity is also heavily practiced in Christianity as well.

IMO, this dynamic is what has created the liberal backlash against Christianity in the West, too. The moment you draw a line that requires the loss of someone’s entire social, familial and religious life, you create an enemy for the rest of their lives. I’m not saying their aren’t issues that require such draconian actions. But I am saying that especially in religions based on the teachings of love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, that level of punishment has been used not only far too often, but so recklessly and abusively that it has provided a major philosophical and emotional component of the self-destructive American Left.

Now take the level of rage that dynamic creates in such a non-physical application, and apply it to a religion that openly demands death to unbelievers, slavery status and genital mutilation of women, honor killings of family members and which is literally waging war against the entire world to achieve nothing less than absolute totalitarian domination, and it is going to be pretty hard to get “peaceful” Muslims to date dump Islam. But more, it’s going to be hard to get them to see the demand they do so as anything other than sheer hypocrisy from a Christian or member of any other religion.

These are distasteful thoughts. But I believe they describe actual dynamics that need to be addressed, otherwise all parties will just simmer against each other through the smiles and, at the very least, find no common ground.


9 posted on 09/05/2014 12:44:00 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: SECURE AMERICA

Please remember. For a better understanding of the issue, read HISTORY of Mohammed ( spelled variously; Mahomet, Muhammed, Mehmet, etc. ). then watch William Federer explain it, from Jan. 25, 2012 at CC Chino Hills, CA. It's a MUST WATCH for everyone,Christians, Athiests and even Muslims!


10 posted on 09/05/2014 12:50:23 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Talisker

(I apologize for my misspellings. I am struggling against an evil auto-correct and I don’t have it tamed yet.)


11 posted on 09/05/2014 12:51:19 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: realcleanguy

+1


12 posted on 09/05/2014 12:56:13 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson