Interesting questions from an american

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Interesting questions from an american

>Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:13:05 +0530

>Interesting questions from an american.

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>(This article was sent by a friend, who received it annonymously. The

>points made here are a matter for all those apologist for Islam to

>deal with.)

>

>Why can't I turn on the television or read a newspaper or magazine

>without being bombarded by some instruction from the media on how I

>should 'understand' Islam? Thanks, but no thanks. I really don't give

>a rat's explicit about Islam. I just don't like Americans being killed

>by anyone - and I like it even less when someone comes into my country

>to do the killing. I don't care to hear any reason this or excuse that

>or please understand their anger explanations. I just want to hang the

>people who did it and never let anyone think they can do it again. Not

>here. I live here.

>

>Anyway, it's been over a month since the World Trade Center and

>Pentagon attacks and there seems to be hundreds of TV talk-show hosts,

>news people, Islamic experts, roaming Imams, and Muslim clerics who

>keep telling me how I should get aquatinted with the 'real' Muslim

>world of the Koran, Hadith and the Sunna and how these terrorist guys

>who pulled off the 9/11 attacks don't really represent the actual

>Islamic faith or the teachings of the prophet.

>

>If this is true, why should I be the target audience on what 'true'

>Islam really is? I didn't crash a plane in to the WTC, and I didn't

>send my children out into the streets to cheer the deaths of thousands

>of innocent people. If I have it right, all the people who did this

>were Muslims. Correct?

>

>Shouldn't the media and talk show hosts really be instructing these

>'wayward' Muslims and their followers who have 'hijacked' Islam about

>the true meaning of the Koran and Islam? I mean I already know what

>they did was wrong as do most honest American's, so why are you

>telling me? I don't really care about their religion. Tell them about

>their religion!

>

>Yes, tell the Muslims. Now there's a thought, just tell the Muslims

>who have their Koran and the Prophet's message all wrong - that they

>have it backwards and inside out. To me, they seem to be the ones who

>need to understand the 'true' meaning of the Koran and Islam. After

>all; according to the television 'experts', Islam means peace, not

>surrender or submission as I've read in Arabic.

>

>See, at this point as an outsider, I really don't know who has the

>Koran right - the Islamic Fundamentalist or the Islamic

>Traditionalist - the Sunni or the Shii Muslims, the Wahabis and who

>ever else is involved, including an assortment of Islamic terrorists

>themselves. I've heard so much talk from the experts that even Jihad

>is beginning to sound like a cross between a personal love fest or a

>pretty violent and murderous enterprise depending on who you are

>listening to at the time.

>

>So please, to all the media types and so-called Islamic experts - stop

>giving me your line on how these guys have hijacked a religion and

>just have the guts to tell Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah,

>Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the Taliban and other Muslims who agree with

>them, that they have the Koran and the Prophet Mohammad all wrong.

>Period.

>

>Like it or not, in the big picture there seems to be no shortage of

>Muslims who agree with Bin Laden and other Terrorism Inc. members, et.

>al. But, even worse is the fact that they live all over the world and

>there are millions of them! From, China to Chechnya, to Indonesia, to

>the Philippians, back to India, into Saudi Arabia, south to Nigeria

>and about 50 other places you might not want to visit. To top it off,

>they come in a variety pack of all races and colors - brown, white,

>black, blue-eyed; black hair, beards, turbans, suits and ties. Wow!

>You've got to wonder; which Koran are these guys reading? I mean,

>someone has to have the Koran right and someone else has to have it

>wrong! Right?

>

>So many Muslims today make it sound like there are two versions of the

>Koran floating around out there. If so, what is the difference between

>the Koran that the Terrorists are reading, and the Koran that the rest

>of the Muslim world is reading? Is there an Original Koran and Revised

>Koran? If so, who is reading which version? Why is there an absence of

>direct condemnation and action targeted at millions of wayward Muslims

>who follow the terrorists? Why is there no overt and highly visible

>attempt to re-educate error-laden-believers to the 'true' message of

>Islam and the Prophet Mohhamad? I'm confused.

>

>This leads to some pretty difficult questions that I would like some

>brave souls or the members of the media to ask some Muslim leaders or

>other Islamic experts and try to get some straight answers:

>

>#1) Why is there such a huge effort to convince Christians, Jews and

>other non-Muslims that Islam is a peaceful, tolerant, kind, respectful

>religion, but there is no such direct effort to convey the same

>messages into the Mosques and the Arab Muslim world; especially to

>those Muslims in Gaza, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria,

>Tajikistan, the West Bank, etc.? In the same breath, why are Christian

>churches, Christian worship and Christian preaching banned in so many

>Islamic nations if Islam is so tolerant of all faiths?

>

>#2) Where are the Muslim world's media television, talk-show hosts',

>news people, Islamic experts' and roaming Imams' and clerics' voices

>with the message that people should not listen to Osama bin Laden,

>Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas and other Muslims who use

>terrorism. Why aren't they saying that the terrorist interpretations

>of the Koran and the Prophet's teachings are all wrong?

>

>#3) If the Terrorists and the Islamic Fundamentalists have 'hijacked'

>Islam to further their own agenda and are not following the Koran; why

>haven't the clerics and Imams issued a fatwa (religious decree) in

>full view of Muslims everywhere; as set forth in Islamic law and the

>Koran, for those who have decried the 'true' faith and edicts of

>Islam? Does anyone remember the author Salman Rushdie? They didn't

>waste anytime putting a price on his head and all he did is write a

>book that broke Islamic Law.

>

>#4) Why hasn't the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC); who

>represents nearly one-fifth of the world's population, named Bin laden

>directly and condemned him and other terrorist organizations as

>apostates to the Muslim Religion? Better yet, if in truth Islam is a

>religion that prohibits the murder and killing of the innocent, why

>haven't Muslims everywhere; including the OIC, condemned the bombing

>of Disco's, Pizzeria's, or the killing of civilians and of school

>children in Israel?

>

>#5) If Jihad, by definition does not include the concept of a violent

>'Holy War', why do so many Islamic clerics and followers of the Muslim

>religion keep using it for justification of their killing of other

>people of other faiths or nations? Can millions of readers of the

>Koran have it that wrong?

>

>#6) Pardon my ignorance of the Koran, but if a Catholic Priest did a

>'such-and-such' terrible deed, the Bishops, the Cardinals, and the

>Pope would all condemn the actions and excommunicate the offender. Why

>is there no such action against the terrorists who (according to all

>the Islamic clergy and American and Muslim experts who are 'educating'

>the American public to Islam) have violated the Koran?

>

>#7) Finally, can the Muslims have it both ways? Either the Koran is

>specific or it is not. Either the plethora of Islamic terrorists

>organizations are following the literal edicts of the Koran and the

>Sunan, or they are apostates that must be destroyed by other Muslims

>with even more vengeance - that which is extended to non-believers.

>Which way is it?

>

>I would really like some direct and specific answers. I don't want to

>hear history about the Crusades, or the U.S. foreign policy crap, or

>the rage of Muslims, or the Palestinians claims to the same lands as

>the Israelis, or comparisons to Christianity and Judaism, or stories

>of poverty or hunger, or the CIA, or other 'look-behind-you' and

>'blame-the-victim' excuses. Most of what has been said in the media

>has been either pure bull or a lesser mix of lies and rumors. At this

>point, the majority of Americans don't want to hear excuses. We want

>action. Save the excuses for a more Politically Correct time period

>and a more gullible audience.

>

>Not that it matters, but I'm still not sure if I'm considered a

>non-believer that Muslims should live in peace with or if I am an

>infidel that should be killed for my corrupt life style, or my

>religious belief of Jesus Christ and the trinity of God. I need to

>have the 'real' Islam please stand up.

>

>I suppose for the time being we are stuck and must consider that there

>are but two possibilities: in the least, either the majority of

>Muslims aquiecese to the 'hijacking' of their religion, or at worst,

>they give tacit approval to the murderous actions the Islamic

>terrorists have done in the name of Allah.

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