Obama, wins , Muslims divided.

Submitted by Sufi Imdad Ali (Pakistan), Nov 13, 2008 at 00:13

With warm regards, I am profoundly at a loss to comprehend the psyche of respectable Daniel Pipes regarding Islam and Muslims. He is a literary doyen and provides ample opportunities to all to share their views, vent out anger and anguish, and engage peoples across the world to hold debate on controversial topics in order to increase the capacity of human beings to tolerate others. But unfortunately, he is more prone to attack on Islam and Muslims without rhyme and reason. What I deduce from his articles that he is not recognizing Islam as a Divine religion and Muhammad (PBUH) as a last apostle of Allah. He is entangled in the cobweb of Christianity and Judaism. Being a literary doyen he should or ought to remain neutral and set directions for world community to promote religious and social harmony and respect believes and religious values of others.

Still Muslims are wary and cautious in the perspective of president Obama. Many thinkers and intellectual believe that his victory has brought social and cultural change not a political one. American citizens vehemently and ardently supported Obama because future of US seemed dark and oblivion. It was exigency and necessity of time to support those who preached anti war polices and restores the image of US. Obama is an orthodox Christian and will remain as long as he is in power. He will serve the interest of US and Jews. Muslims are not in euphoria and every conscious soul understands Mature and sober Islamic leadership is vivid and clear in their perceptions that Obama will protect and serve US interests which are her main objectives. ...

However, few Muslims especially youth are in state of frenzy and firmly believe that victory of Obama in not a social change but a political change. He will bring radical changes in order to maintain global peace; he will take drastic and concrete steps to reduce the intensity of terrorism which has a global phenomenon, he will bridge gap between East and West and cast a side prophecy of Shelly, East and West never meet, he may revive UN in order to prevent war which seems imminent and he may take bold steps to resolve Middle East issue and save world from ecological disaster.

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