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Abid Ullah Jan

Dear Evangelicals

Abid Ullah Jan

The New York Times reported on May 27th that you had an all-day seminar on how

to woo Muslims away from Islam in Ohio.[1] (1) With due apology from the rest

of Muslim, I dare to speak on their behalf to congratulate you for the

successes you have made in achieving your objectives.

 

Your teachers must be proud of you, who “urged a kindly approach,”

showing “Muslims love, charity and hospitality.” Even if you do not

“carry copies of the New Testament to give as gifts,” your job is

already well done.

The New York Times writes that your teacher “stressed the need to avoid

offending Muslims,” yet “he projected a snappy PowerPoint

presentation showing passages from the Koran that he said proved Islam was

regressive, fraudulent and violent.” No way dear Evangelicals! It is

kindness of Laurie Goodstein, who thinks it might be offensive to Muslims.

However, no, it is not.

We do not mind it any more, because your brothers and sisters, who you may not

consider Evangelicals, and who may not consider themselves neo-cons, are busy

promoting the same ideas in more subtle ways, days in and days out. Laurie

Goodstein came right up to your Church in Ohio to see what you were planning,

but she probably does not read the newspaper that besides employing her leaves

no stone unturned to propagate your messages, in more effective words, in its

editorials and columns through “impartial analysts” such as Thomas

L. Friedman and William Safire.

A more appropriate example is Laurie Goodstein herself. To make her report do a

real thought damage to its readers, she perfectly decorated it with a

collection of as many anti-Islam quotes from different sources as she could.

Your church meeting or proselytizing Muslims do not do as much damage as this

kind of poisoning reports do. Present yourself a moderate, scapegoat

Evangelicals and do a damage, which is far more than all Evangelicals

collective could do ­­— this is what hurts the Muslims. You or Osama is

threatening the future of humanity. It is the hypocrites, who say one thing and

mean another.

And believe me, we do not mind even what the New York Times say, because we have

our own Muslim brothers, who promote the same ideas better than everyone else.

You had “two pastors, a school secretary and college students” in

your seminar, but the Muslims who have devoted their lives to spreading the

same message — that certain passages of Qur’an are not relevant to

the present day reality, all previous interpretations are no more relevant,

Muslims believing in fundamentals of faith are “fundamentalists,”

etc. — are sitting professors in your universities and scholars of repute

at your think tanks. They are effective only because they know how to use a bit

scholarly language, with a mix of some Arabic words and even quotations from

the Qur’an to prove all that you have in your heart.

You have been insultingly labeled as neo-cons. But never mind. We consider you

neo-conquerors of the hearts of the neo-mods of Islam ­— a superlative

degree of ultra-moderates among us. Your teacher told you that Qur’an

says “slay them, slay the infidels!..[but] in the Bible there are no

words from Jesus saying we should kill innocent people." Please visit the web

sites of our neo-mod Muslim brothers and you will see they have better argument

than your teacher.

They can prove that these verses of the Qur’an are applicable no more.

Those who apply them, regardless of what the status of their suffering at the

hands of the oppressors may be, are “radical extremists.” Now it is

responsibility of the Christian world to kill them, or cage them in Guantanamo

bay. It has probably adopted the message of Islam to the core after

“literal interpretation” of our “medieval texts.”

Please write to New York Times that your teacher is not wrong. Tell its editors

that Muslims have evolved and the neo-mods among them now believe that revenge,

“rather than willingness to compromise or submit to the victors, is the

traditional response of [only] theologically inclined Muslims to the defeat of

Muslim armies.”[2] (2) So the scum among them — the rotten

“fundamentalists” — need to be starved, bombed and

exterminated to clear the mess.

Laurie Goodstein believes that Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and

Jerry Vines are “using sharp language.” Believe me it is not. It is

not because it is far sweeter than the salt our noe-mods rub into our wounds,

caused by the Americo-Israeli bullets. Their salt goes deep down from the

sounds to our soul. Your are right dear Evangelicals, because we don’t

listen to our neo-mod brothers, who repeatedly advise us: 1) “Allah,

through the Qur'an, tells Muslims to forgive injustices that Jews and

Christians commit against Muslims” [in other words accept oppression

— a formula, inapplicable to Iraqis or Afghans to let them live without

the much vaunted liberation]; 2) “the Israeli occupation of Palestine is

"perhaps central to Muslim grievance against the West." Perhaps means, it may

be not; 3) “The Israeli government treats its one million Arab citizens

"with greater respect and dignity than most Arab nations treat their

citizens."[3] (3) It means, your Evangelical leaders are not using “sharp

language” at all. It is we, the “fundamentalists” among us,

who need to be careful in our unprofessional and unethical discourse.

It is really encouraging to know that across the US you are working on

“lectures and books criticizing Islam and promoting strategies for Muslim

conversions.” And the good new of all is that the crash course on Islam by

Indianapolis group has trained 4,500 American Christians to proselytize Muslims.

The news is great because a proselytized Muslim is far better than a

moderatised Muslim.

Proselytizing does not hurt as much as listening from a non-Muslim that

“moderate Muslims” listen to “the claims of the

gospel,” and abandon “the original meaning of scriptures and the

historical heritage.” An appeal from Bob and Passantino — “We

should take advantage [of these moderates]” [4] (4)shows that you can

probably not take as much advantage from the proselytized Muslims as much as

you can from the “moderates.”

The New York Times criticized your leaders for “the basic presumption that

the world's two largest religions are headed for a confrontation, with

Christianity representing what is good, true and peaceful, and Islam what is

evil, false and violent.” Your president in the White House also believes

so. So what is the big deal if your Evangelical leaders also believe so? Your

mainstream media credits one and punishes other for the same thing any way. At

least, like your president, your religious leaders do not have guns and bombs

at their direct disposal to use against Muslims.

Perhaps Laurie Goodstein should now visit the White House to attend a far more

offensive anti-Islam meeting than she did at your church in Ohio. Or if she is

a security threat at the White House, she may consider reporting truth and

noting but the truth from an editorial board meeting from her employer’s

office.

May 29, 2003

 

1. [1] Goodstein, Laurie. (2003), “Seeing Islam as 'Evil' Faith,

Evangelicals Seek Converts,” The New York Times, May 27.

 

2. [2] Haqqani, Husain (2003), “The American Mongols,” Foreign

Policy Magazine, May/June 2003.

3. [3] M.A. Muqtedar Kahn, "A Memo to American Muslims," Column on Islamic

Affairs, at: http://www.ijtihad.org/memo.htm

 

4. [4] Bob and Passantino, Gretchen (2001), “Islam: Moderate and Peace

Loving or Radical and Violent?” Answers in Action, P.O. Box 2067, Costa

Mesa, California 92628, see

http://answers.org/cultsandreligions/islampeace.html

 

 

 

 

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