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A very humble request

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Submitted by Prashant (United States), Nov 12, 2016 at 15:05

Dear Dr Pipes,

The above CAIR official who asked people to overthrow the US government is the least of our problem. What else do we expect from CAIR after all? Our real problem should be the people who are intelligent and powerful and are in a position to speak the whole truth but do not. A very quick search allowed me to find tens of articles written by various Muslim and non-Muslims writers, journalists and university professors worrying about potential threat to Muslims in the United States in the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in the US general elections. Here is a partial list of the people who have written on this topic: Adam Hamze in Huffington Post, Wajahat Ali in New York Times, Arsalan Iftikhar in Chicago Tribune and Washington Post, Jessica Schulberg in Huffington Post, Tom Gjelton on NPR, Jesse Yomtov in USA Today, Moustafa Bayoumi in The Guardian, Marissa Wenzke on Mashable, Khaled A Beydoun on Al Jazeera, and Miriam Berger on Fusion.net. This list can easily be about ten times longer if I spend some more time.

All these people are, obviously, great defenders of human rights and democracy. I believe that human rights and democracy are very important values that all nations, governments and people must try their best to defend. However, I also believe that it becomes difficult for democracies like USA, India, UK, France, Israel, Germany, Canada, and many others to defend the cause of democracy inside their borders when so many Islamic nations pay little or no service to the cause. These countries are theocracies where rights to vote, speak and practice their religions freely is hardly available to non-Muslim citizens and visitors.

My very humble and heartfelt request to these people is to write about the need of secular democracy in Islamic countries of the world as soon as they finish their current responsibility of standing for democracy in the United States. In fact, I will humbly request these people to make freedom and democracy in the Islamic world their life long mission.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
confedecial [31 words]nasim analystasDec 26, 2016 14:02234912
Overthrowing the US government. Note how they run for political office to gain control of our Republic. [247 words]Anne- USADec 7, 2016 07:54234545
1Religious schizophrenia [61 words]MaherNov 14, 2016 06:19234065
Speech [12 words]AlbertE.Nov 13, 2016 22:26234056
1… twitter time [42 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
AllisonNov 13, 2016 15:33234038
3Let us salute Asra Nomani [42 words]PrashantNov 13, 2016 00:15234016
1A very humble request [342 words]PrashantNov 12, 2016 15:05234008
Add two more names to this list [217 words]PrashantNov 14, 2016 23:59234008
An stampede of people who want to speak on behalf of American Muslims [234 words]PrashantNov 18, 2016 00:09234008
Another hypocrite stands up [3 words]PrashantFeb 4, 2017 23:31234008
cair [13 words]mattNov 12, 2016 12:01234003
Hussam Ayloush broke the law? [49 words]dhimmi no moreNov 12, 2016 11:44234002
Thank You Daniel. The New Administration Needs to Be Made Aware of This [45 words]DallasNov 12, 2016 06:57233993
Not For Long [34 words]Bill SekerakNov 12, 2016 06:22233991
1The time has come to prosecute the likes of Hussam Ayloush. [39 words]Steven ShermanNov 12, 2016 05:31233990
1Deliberately hypocritical Islamists and naively ignorant non-Muslims [335 words]PrashantNov 12, 2016 01:48233987
2That's called "SEDITION!" [61 words]UNCLE VLADDINov 11, 2016 21:55233984
1Corrected Presidential Transition Date [61 words]DajjalNov 13, 2016 00:58233984
1World's democracies must cooperate [230 words]PrashantNov 13, 2016 10:31233984
America Offered Freedom - Kind of Strange That Values of Freedom are No Longer Appreciated. [328 words]M ToveyNov 16, 2016 15:47233984
Arrest them for domestic terrorism [104 words]KimberlyNov 11, 2016 18:51233981
Arrest them for domestic terrorism [104 words]KimberlyNov 11, 2016 18:51233980
Tit For Tat [263 words]Pied PiperNov 11, 2016 17:59233975
Question: Just how close are Bolton and Gingrich to Trump? [8 words]AnonNov 11, 2016 17:33233973
Expulsion [30 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
Berzrkr50Nov 11, 2016 17:22233972
Stop the Islamiztion of America! [91 words]FRANK LIVINGSTON EFONov 11, 2016 16:27233967
Overthrow the U.S. government [11 words]F.ThorntonNov 11, 2016 15:51233965
No more White House visits [114 words]JeffNov 11, 2016 15:36233963
Why isn't he being prosecuted for this? [6 words]jhNov 11, 2016 14:57233962
More to the point, DOJ, FBI, President-elect Trump take note [19 words]Abu NudnikNov 11, 2016 13:46233958
Sounds like an overt act to me [7 words]DrumwasterNov 11, 2016 12:23233957
American Democrat Leftists have become fascists [71 words]Robin RosenblattNov 11, 2016 12:08233956
pretending to be asleep [55 words]carNov 11, 2016 10:50233953
1CAIR A Criminal Organization [70 words]KielNov 11, 2016 10:07233952

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