Muslim-Americans Need to Stand Up For Their Country

September 13, 2012 By 2 Comments

MUSLIM LEADERS CONDEMNED THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. CONSULATE IN LIBYA.

I listened with interest yesterday as representatives of several leading Muslim advocacy organizations here in the United States issued statements in which they condemned the murder of our U.S. diplomats in Libya.

“We are outraged and shocked by the killings,” said Nihad Awad, National Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

His outrage and shock was echoed by representatives of the Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim American Society-Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, the Council of Muslim Organizations of the Greater Washington, D.C. Area, Libyan Emergency Task Force and Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center.

Well, I’m grateful that these Muslim organizations condemned the attack upon our Libyan consulate and its inhabitants. But I found their platitudes insufficient.

Because I believe it takes more than mere words for Muslim leaders – for the entire Muslim-American community, for that matter – to demonstrate solidarity with those of us who desire comity with Muslims, but who continue to be reminded of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against this country.

So words won’t do. America’s non-Muslim population is looking for tangible deeds that prove Muslim-Americans are truly with us.

Indeed, Imam Talal Eid, Islamic chaplain at Brandeis University criticized fellow Muslims for not doing enough against terrorism.

“The leaders of American Muslims should initiate a big demonstration,” he said, “to show that Muslims take the issue of terrorism seriously, otherwise people will ask what are those Muslims doing.”

Muslim Americans,” he said, “never initiated a big demonstration against terrorism and people of their own faith who commit these crimes.”

The American Islamic Congress, which wasn’t among the Muslim organizations that participated in yesterday’s news conference, agrees with Imam Eid.

“We could, as a community,” said Nasser Weddady, AIC’s civil rights outreach director, “take to the streets and protest” continuing Islamist attacks upon America.

How about Muslim-American protests outside the Libyan, Egyptian and Yemeni embassies in Washington?

Or how about a Million Muslim March on the mall in the Nation’s Capital, with Muslim leaders declaring their fealty to the United States and declaring that America’s enemies are their enemies – including those invoking “the prophet” and using the Koran to justify their acts of terror.

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Latest Proof Islam is No ‘Religion of Peace’

June 18, 2012 By 2 Comments

VICTIMS OF SUNDAY’S TERROR ATTACKS ON CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN NIGERIA

At least 21 people were killed Sunday in suicide bombings during worship services at three Kaduna, Nigeria churches.

They are the latest victims of Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect. Its terror attacks on Nigeria’s Christian community have taken the lives of more than 560 innocent men, women and children so far this year, according to the Associated Press.

Such unholy murder of innocents attests that Islam is not the “religion of peace” its apologists claim. For Boko Haram feels perfectly justified to kill Christians – and any other non-Muslims – in the name of Islam.

In fact, violent attacks upon Christians in Muslim-majority countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia tripled between 2003 and 2010, according to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a research fellow at American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

In just the past 30 days, Muslim terrorists have murdered more than 1000 innocents and injured another 2000.

Last week’s toll included not only the 21 Christian worshippers killed in Nigeria Sunday, but also the 26 killed the day before by a truck bomb at a crowded market in Landi Kotal, Pakistan.

There were also four persons killed by machine gunfire last week, including a 90-year-old woman, in Parang, Philipinnes; 12 people, including several Christian evangelists, beaten down last week in Cairo, Egypt; and six casualties, including three children, of a Muslim grenade attack in Pattani, Thailand.

If Muslims were victims of such attacks, we would never hear the end of it. Especially if it came at the hands of the United States (orIsrael).

It would be all over Al Jazeera. There’d be a United Nations resolution condemning the attacks. President Obama would apologize for the U.S.and order reparations to the Muslim victims.

Yet, we hardly hear anything about the genocidal crusade against Christians throughout the Muslim World; hardly anything about the 3,000 victims of Islamist terrorism – Christians and non-Christians alike – over the past 30 days.

Not from the U.N. Not from human rights organizations. Not from the international media. Not from the Arab communities in the United States and other Western nations.

That’s because, while they may not condone terror, they sympathize with the “aspirations” of those behind the terror.

Those that believe the United Statesis “the Great Satan,” the epithet first used byIran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. Those that believe Israel should be “wiped off the map,” as Hamas, the Islamist terror group, declared. Those that believe that Christian minorities living in predominantly Muslim countries are “infidels” deserving of death.

Muslim terrorism is the great evil of our time; a clear and present danger that the civilized world ignores at its own peril.

For as the carnage in Nigeria demonstrated all-too-clearly, Islamist groups like Boko Haram mean to kill all of us who do not bow in obeisance to their god.

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Latest Muslim Terror Attack on Christians

April 29, 2012 By 1 Comment

ISLAMIST GROUP VOWS TO KILL ALL OF NIGERIA'S CHRISTIANS.

At least 16 Christians were murdered today while attending church services in Kano, Nigeria, the nation’s second-largest city. As many as 22 other worshippers reportedly suffered gunshot  wounds.

The massacre took place on the campus of Kano’s Bayero University. Police report that gunmen interrupted the church service and used small explosives to chase worshippers out before shooting those who fled.

This is but the latest violent attack upon Christians in Muslim-majority nations in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Such attacks increased more than 300 percent between 2003 and 2010, according Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a research fellow at the America Enterprise Institute.

In no country do Christians face greater danger than Nigeria, where the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram (which means “Western education is sacrilege”) has publicly declared its intent to kill all Christians in the country.

And that was no idle threat.

In 2011, the terror group killed more than 500 Christians, while burning down or destroying more than 350 Christian churches. And Boko Haram continues its jihad against Nigeria’s Christian community in 2012, killing 54 in January, 38 this month at an Easter church service and, today, 16 murdered in Kano.

What particularly troubles is that the alarming increase in genocidal attacks against Christians witnessed not only in Nigeria, but throughout the Muslim World, has generated little outrage in the United States, Europeand the rest of the non-Muslim World.

Ali, who authored a recent Newsweek cover story on the Muslim “War on Christians,” attributes that unconscionable silence to the outsized influence of such well-financed lobbying groups as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Individuals and organizations that call attention to Muslim atrocities against Christians – like the attack this morning in Nigeria– are accused by those lobbying groups (and others) of being “Islamaphobic.”

Of course, that accusation is patently absurd. No less so than the claim that Islam is a religion of peace.

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Why State Legislatures Are Considering Sharia Bans

March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

NOSE REMOVAL IS AN ACCEPTABLE PUNISHMENT UNDER SHARIA LAW

Florida’s Senate is holding a hearing today to consider legislation that would ban the use of foreign laws – like Sharia – in state legal proceedings. Foes of the measure say it is a not-so-subtle attack upon the Sunshine State’s Muslim community.

“This bill is exactly what we’ve been saying it is,” Ahmed Bedier, president of United Voices of America, told the Miami Herald. “It’s intended to target and limit religious freedoms for Muslims.”

The debate over Sharia, the body of law based on the Koran and the religion of Islam,   has provoked sound and fury not only in Tallahassee, but also in another two dozen state legislatures around the country.

Sponsors of measures, like Florida’s SB 1360, acknowledge that there is no danger of state and federal law being altogether supplanted by Sharia or other foreign law, but foresee Sharia law creeping into state legal proceedings.

Indeed, inGreat Britain, five Sharia courts have been established to adjudicate disputes within that nation’s Muslim community. The British government has reluctantly gone along.

And Sharia law is being applied here in this country, in certain Muslim communities.

Perhaps the most notorious case occurred in 2008 when aNew Jerseywoman sought a temporary restraining order against her estranged husband, whom she claimed had raped her.

A state trial judge denied the restraining order, ruling that the husband had acted according to Sharia law, under which “his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to” was not prohibited, no matter state or federal law.

Defenders of Sharia – which means “Path,” in Arabic – who say that proposed bans on Sharia law are an offense to Muslim Americans, an affront to religious freedom, insist that the incident inNew Jerseyis no reflection on Sharia.

But the respected Council on Foreign Relations disagrees. Strict interpretations of Sharia, the legal code in the majority of Muslim countries “are used to justify cruel punishments such as amputation and stoning and unequal treatment of women in inheritance, dress and independence,” it attests. 

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