Posted on 11/17/2002 12:46:37 AM PST by Persuasion
Lately I've been seeing a lot of anti-muslim posts on Free Republic. I think many of you who have posted ought to be ashamed and I think it ought to stop.
The total hatred and prejudice flowing out of you is overwhelming. You have reason to hate your attackers. You have reason to go to war with them. You have reason to seek justice. But you do not have any reason to act like biggoted Clymers toward people who have had nothing to do with those attacks. And there are many, many muslims in America that fit that billing. The president has recognized them. I support him whole-heartedly, as I do in the war effort. And those who are reasonable, do too.
What do you stand for? The people's rights or getting your own way?
Jesus did not come to destroy the law.
I have no problem protecting innocents. I said, islamists who support the war against us in any way, active or by omission, should be punished, expelled, jailed, or killed, if appropriate.
Here we're on the same page.
I'm just saying, that it is ABSURD, to assume the "innocence" of people who are members of a "religion", which is at war with everyone on earth who is not a member of that religion.
And I am saying that it is ABSURD to advocate killing anyone who has done nothing to suggest he might harm another human being. Perhaps if you knew any peaceful muslim personally this concept would be easier for you to understand.
When I was eighteen, I had a fifteen-year-old friend from Israel and a nineteen-year-old friend from Iran. I'm a christian, the Israeli was a jew, the Iranian a muslim. The three of us got along very well, though we disagreed on many points.
My point? I know that some muslims can be decent fellows. I know that they can and do treat jews and christians well.
You cannot assume a man is guilty just because he is a muslim.
Imam, Scholar Seeks to Clarify Image of America for Muslims Abroad
-- While many of the world's 1,200 million Muslims are being subjected to a steady barrage of distortions about America by Afghanistan's Taliban regime, Imam Yahaya Hendi of Georgetown University says Muslims should know the American people for what they are: "very warm and loving" and respectful of all religions.
Hendi, a Palestine-born Islamic scholar who has been the chaplain of the roughly 350 Muslim students at Washington's Georgetown University for the past three years, said: "From my experience living here, the American people are open-minded and very eager to talk to people not of their own cultures. This is compared to what I know about other nations -- honestly."
The Muslim cleric said: "I feel not only proud to be an American -- to carry an American passport and travel worldwide -- I feel that I can be myself, a fully practicing Muslim, particularly in America. This means I wake up in the morning without fear and come home at the end of the day without fear."
While the Taliban regime was busy oppressing a large segment of its own society -- its women -- Hendi said, America's six million Muslims were free to practice their faith without fear and unhindered by government. "It is the freedom of religion and other protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution that is what I have been enjoying, and I don't want to lose that. I urge people overseas to not hate and carry arms against America."
Referring to his "interfaith" work following the attacks, Hendi said, "I have not in my life [before] seen communities from different religious backgrounds coming together sincerely, joining hands, and praying with one another, for the healing of the nation and for peace in the world.
"You feel it, you see it, it's there. I have never before seen thousands of Christian churches calling on Muslims to go in and teach about Islam like I've seen in the last month. I have not seen Muslims inviting Christians and Jews to go into the Islamic centers to teach about who they are, like I've just seen."
When Christians or Jews come around to their religious roots, they repent from their evil ways. When Muslims read their holy book, they come to realise that they should be kill the kafir (infadels), as their holy testament and their prophet (May piss be upon him), tells them to.
We should certainly hang together, or we shall certainly hang apart.
The imporant part is not to be afraid of them. They will fold up if you have the time and patience to call them out on their outrageous lies.
Wild animals don't have ideologies.
Yes, but, sweet as he was, George was always a bit naive, wouldn't you say? I loved his music, but he did join the Hare Krishas, a religious cult, which clearly indicates a poor mind. As evidenced by his self-induced untimely departure.
Please tread a little lighter on this, will you? We saw the rejoicing in the moslem world over 9/11 and noticed how quiet the indigenous moslems were about it.
Islam was declared religion-non-grata in 1892 in America. It has been ruled that it is not to be accorded First Ammendment protection.
I know the president has a fine line to tread, due to his political endeavors, but as far as the law of the land goes, we should not be allowing any mosques in the USA at all.
I will accept your criticism of me and I will accept your defense of Muslims when I begin to see Muslims themselves turning in the terrorists in their communities. Until that happens, I can only repeat the words of the president whom you support whole-heartedly: “You’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists.”
What do you stand for?
“Truth, Justice, and the American Way…” Every kid who grew up in the ‘50s and ‘60s knows that!
Are you referring to the "innocent civilians" that were dancing in the streets following the September 11th attacks? Or are you talking about the "innocent civilians" that support terrorism through donations to Muslim "charities?" Are talking about the "innocent civilians" that have vowed to wage a jihad against American citizens? The fact is these "innocent civilians" aren't so innocent.
You are either ignoring the actions of these "innocent civilians," or you are one ignorant and uninformed individual!
If muslims were really peacefull, this crap wouldn't be happening. The "good" muslims have put a stop to long ago. They didn't. They have quietly sanctioned it and supported it everywhere they go--in country after after country. They have declared war on the rest of the world, and war is what they will get. Side with them if you choose, but be prepared to reap their reward.
No they're not. They are few and far between! Muslims are violent, hateful, intolerant people. Very few are actually peaceful.
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