Re: I fear for my children (A Fundamentalist Muslims reply)

Submitted by Abdullah (United States), Dec 14, 2003 at 16:41

You asked for a moderate Muslim to reply, but I am sorry I dont fill that category. I am a fundamentalist. I believe in the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad.

"Where is the outcry by "peace loving" Muslims around the world against the wrong thinking Muslims who misinterpret "jihad"? "

We have stood against it and do stand against it. We do not support your crusade (Bush used that word on septermber 16th 2001 , so it does apply here), against us therefore we cannot condemn only actions attributed to Muslims but we also condemn actions done by your nations.

When will we condem 911? When there is a formal inquiry. When there is proof. When we know for SURE that it was Muslims that did it. I am not a conspricy theorist, but in reality DUE PROCESS is absent. We will not condmen somene just because CNN, FOX and the White House say he is the bad guy. Kennedy's assassination had an inquiry, actually it had two, where is the inqurity for 911?

Also the Taliban suggested that proof be given to them and they will hand over OBL. No proof was given, therefore as per Islamic law, they gave their life to protect their guests.

"Why is there not an outpouring of sympathy among them for its victims?"

You will see sympathy for the 3000, that muslims may or may not have killed, when we see sympathy for the Iraqis who were bombed with urinium depleted shells, causing radation levels in baghdad to be 1000 times over normal for the next 4.5 billion years, when we see outcry for the murder of 5000 taliban soilders boiled to death by Northren Alliance milita under the watchful eyes of US soilders near Sherbagan. (Read Sherbagan Massacre documentires have been shown in europe about this incident, but they are banned on US TV). When we see outcry for the thousands killed in the twin nuking of Japan. When we see out cry for the thousands killed in Latin america. When we see outcry for supporting dictators and tyrants in the third world by the US. You ask for sympathy? Show some to your fellow man. Think, why is America hated? We are not irrational people. We are not insane. Turn off your TV. Pick up a book, read history, read current events. WAKE UP. A white dead man is not worth more than a black or brown dead man. Life is life.

"Should we not be seeing a movement among these "peaceful Muslims" to transform their religion vis a vis a Muslim "New Testament" or "Reformation"?

I see no outpouring, no calls for reform among the Muslim community. "

There is no need to reform Islam. Islam is fine as it is. If you actually think about it, we are less violent than the west. How many wars has the west fought amongst it's self since the secularization of its lands? WWI WWII and many other brutal wars. Stalin Marx and Hitler are western products, you dont see this in our land. Saddam was evil, and now that he is captured, I hope Allah wills that justice be done on this earth and the next world, but he is the exception and was proped up by the west. Facism and Communism and rule by clergy are all western ideas, not ours. We dont even have a clergy class, and Islamic state has no rule by clergy.

If you want us to give up Jihad, by Allah this will not happen. We stand agianst injustice and oppression everywhere from kashmir to checnya to Algeria and elsewhere. We are not a type of people you can kill, ignore, mass indoctrinate your own populace to hate (for example by ignoring the fact that the west has killed many more muslims than vis a versa) and expect us to lie down and die. God commands justice. We are a people who wish to uphold justice. I will say here that if indeed anyone has been killed in injustice by my brothers in religon, I apologize and beg forgiveness on their behalf.

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