Jamal Miftah is a Muslim immigrant to the United States who was upset about his "peaceful religion" being used as an excuse to brutally and barbarously murder innocent people literally every day across the World.
Jamal thinks Islam is peaceful, and true Islam doesn't condone the sort of primitive butchery and savagery that people like Ayman al-Zawahri and Osama Bin Laden believe Islam is based around. So he wrote a letter to his local paper about how these violent extremists don't speak for the majority of Islam:
I am obliged to respond to Ayman al-Zawahri's recent video message, portraying himself as champion of Islam and others as liars.
My message to Ayman al-Zawahri and Muslims of the world: "Islam" means submission and is derived from a word meaning "peace." Islam, Christianity and Judaism have the same origin, the Prophet Abraham. The prophet of Islam has said that God has no mercy on someone who does not have mercy for others.
I ask that al-Zawahri look at his deeds and those of his master, Osama bin Laden, and other so-called Islamic jihadists.
Because of lack of knowledge of Islam, Muslim youth are misguided into believing by the so-called champions of the cause of Islam that the current spate of killings and barbarism, which has no equal in the recent civilized history, is jihad in the name of Islam. They are incited, in the name of Islam, to commit heinous crimes not pardonable by any religion and strictly forbidden in Islam.
Cowards like al-Zawahri and bin Laden are inciting the ignorant and innocent youths to commit suicide bombings to kill innocent civilians including children, women and the elderly, while they hide in spider holes and caves. They never send their own sons and daughters, born out of half a dozen of their wives, to get killed in the name of Islam.
Since it is only a tiny fraction of Muslims who support Osama Bin Laden and al-Zawahri, and most Muslims are looking for peaceful co-existence with their non-believer neighbors, Jamal has been celebrated as an eloquent spokesperson for true Islam by his local mosque and the Tusla Islamic community. Watch this video of him being celebrated by his communtiy:
My initial reaction was this: those members of the community that are denouncing him as anti-muslim operate under the same logic as those who claim you're unpatriotic and should leave the country if you don't support the war. That is, if you criticize, you're not loving blindly, and must somehow be anti- GREAT!
The same thing happened in christianity. Jesus, that silly no-nothing guy totally uneducated in the Catholic Church, said 'Turn the other cheek', and that got interpreted later into 'Crusade!' and 'Inquisition!'. Yeah, FUN!!!
Hell, they kicked out Galileo for looking through a telescope and saying, 'Hey, there's something not right here...'.
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Doc_Brietz
Fort Sill, OK
January 2006
FEB 16, 2007 09:17 AM
people do seem quit to bash my christianiyt, but are unsure what to think of islam, except all you see on TV is that every single terrorist is a muslim. if this guy wants peace, thats great. i wish his breathern would follow suit. there are extremists in every religion and i know they don't speak for the whole. the problem is perception of it all..
Medic_Brietz said:
people do seem quit to bash my christianiyt, but are unsure what to think of islam, except all you see on TV is that every single terrorist is a muslim. if this guy wants peace, thats great. i wish his breathern would follow suit. there are extremists in every religion and i know they don't speak for the whole. the problem is perception of it all..
His point is that those you see on TV are the exception not the rule. Anecdotally: I've meet probably hundreds of muslims and not a single one was a terrorist.
emotedcreations said:
My initial reaction was this: those members of the community that are denouncing him as anti-muslim operate under the same logic as those who claim you're unpatriotic and should leave the country if you don't support the war. That is, if you criticize, you're not loving blindly, and must somehow be anti- GREAT!
Agreed. He said a particularly interesting thing in that youtube video. He said one of the men told him, "You cannot say anything bad about Islam infront of non-believers."
It's like some sort of incestous family relationship. You can talk to each other about how you all know Uncle Bobby is a pedophile and fucks his Niece Jenny but if you tell anyone else about it you're outta the clan! (cough) I mean, family.
"So he wrote a letter to his local paper about how these violent extremists don't speak for the majority of Islam:"
the problem is that the majority of Islam refuse to speak up against these violent extremists!!!! and to not speak up... is to condone! ...and don't tell me its the media fault for not showing that side of islam....
We need a lot more Muslims who are willing to speak about what they believe in, because the media is inclined only to show the bad, and if you don't personally know any Muslims chances are all you know is what you see on TV--which is bad.
Terrorists are to Islam as the KKK is to Christianity. While both proclaim religious motivation and support for their actions they both pervert it to their desired ends.
It doesn't speak well for the local Muslim community that they have chosen to censure him.
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