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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: How to End 'Islamophobia' |
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We Muslims should publicly show our strong disapproval for the [b]growing number of attacks by Muslims against other faiths and against other Muslims. Let us not even dwell on 9/11, Madrid, London, Bali and countless other scenes of carnage. It has been estimated that of the two million refugees fleeing Islamic terror in Iraq, 40% are Christian, and many of them seek a haven in Lebanon, where the Christian population itself has declined by 60%. Even in Turkey, Islamists recently found it necessary to slit the throats of three Christians for publishing Bibles.
Of course, Islamist attacks are not limited to Christians and Jews. Why do we hear no Muslim condemnation of the ongoing slaughter of Buddhists in Thailand by Islamic groups? Why was there silence over the Mumbai train bombings which took the lives of over 200 Hindus in 2006? We must not forget that innocent Muslims, too, are suffering. Indeed, the most common murderers of Muslims are, and have always been, other Muslims. Where is the Muslim outcry over the Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq?
Islamophobia could end when masses of Muslims demonstrate in the streets against videos displaying innocent people being beheaded with the same vigor we employ against airlines, Israel and cartoons of Muhammad. It might cease when Muslims unambiguously and publicly insist that Shariah law should have no binding legal status in free, democratic societies.
It is well past time that Muslims cease using the charge of "Islamophobia" as a tool to intimidate and blackmail those who speak up against suspicious passengers and against those who rightly criticize current Islamic practices and preachings. Instead, Muslims must engage in honest and humble introspection. Muslims should--must--develop strategies to rescue our religion by combating the tyranny of Salafi Islam and its dreadful consequences. Among more important outcomes, this will also put an end to so-called Islamophobia.
Dr. Hamid, a onetime member of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamist terrorist group, is a medical doctor and Muslim reformer living in the West. |
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010123
When pigs fly... |
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postfundie
Joined: 28 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah ...How will you ever have true secular Islamic reformers....You will never see an Islamic version of a Schleiermacher, Bultman,or a Tillich as long as you have useful idiots who run around screaming about "Islamophobia"..... |
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bjonothan
Joined: 29 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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When either "we" have killed every last one of them, or they have started another war against each other that results in wiping them all out will we see "Islamophobia" stopped. There are so many people (including myself) that hate them now. Most of the problems in the world are caused by these filthy little towel headed assholes. I can only dream of the day that they are wiped out and no longer cause trouble....  |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting comment.
I'd rather we be as critical of their ideas as we are of our own. It must be said time and time and time again that criticism of islam, the idea, is not only acceptable, but that those who do not do so are morally and intellectually stunted.
Hating individual muslims is absurd. Obedient muslims are the philosophical equivalent of a three-legged dog. More pathetic than anything else. Only criticism of their childish ideas will drag them (kicking, screaming, beheading and bombing) into the 19-20th century.
But if the criticism of their B.S. "faith" becomes as unacceptable as actual racism, we are ultimately hurting them the most. We will defend ourselves, one way or the other. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a sexual component at play? Islam is definitely a male-driven ideology.
Do Imams get laid more than the average Muslim? |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| bjonothan wrote: |
| When either "we" have killed every last one of them, or they have started another war against each other that results in wiping them all out will we see "Islamophobia" stopped. There are so many people (including myself) that hate them now. Most of the problems in the world are caused by these filthy little towel headed assholes. I can only dream of the day that they are wiped out and no longer cause trouble.... |
You are a sad little man. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| samd wrote: |
| bjonothan wrote: |
| When either "we" have killed every last one of them, or they have started another war against each other that results in wiping them all out will we see "Islamophobia" stopped. There are so many people (including myself) that hate them now. Most of the problems in the world are caused by these filthy little towel headed assholes. I can only dream of the day that they are wiped out and no longer cause trouble.... |
You are a sad little man. |
Indeed. But this is our future. Their aggression will be met with ours, and so on, until something gives out. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I am "Islamaphobic." Sorry, but like Vegas, I play the odds. And those odds are vastly in favor of a terrorist being a freak Islamic fundamentalist than any other religion. Yeah, it's sad, and yes, I am pathetic, but I am saying what many think and few voice. I don't want a bunch of young male Muslims on my flight. I would really consider changing planes. What this "peaceful" religion needs to do is to start policing itself. Internally. I know that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful people and as such they need to instill this in their children. Educate their children. Provide them with opportunity and something worth living for, not something worth dying for. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| I am "Islamaphobic." Sorry, but like Vegas, I play the odds. And those odds are vastly in favor of a terrorist being a freak Islamic fundamentalist than any other religion. |
Are you also afraid of men, seeing as how the vast majority of rapists are male? |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| cangel wrote: |
| I am "Islamaphobic." Sorry, but like Vegas, I play the odds. And those odds are vastly in favor of a terrorist being a freak Islamic fundamentalist than any other religion. |
Are you also afraid of men, seeing as how the vast majority of rapists are male? |
If I were a woman, walking down a dark street at night, I would feel more nervous if I passed a man than if I passed a woman.
When I fly, I very quickly search for the grown men in PJ's and beards. I want to know where there are. I profile. Sorry dude.
I wouldn't be so darn islamosensitive if I thought muslims were busy taking care of their own problems. They aren't. The vast majority, in their silence, demonstrate their support for killing kuffar. |
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