And how is that free time spent?

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Apr 5, 2007 at 16:07

Moderate Muslim wrote:

MM: "By the way, Muslims pray 5 times a day. Each prayer is approx. 5 minutes long. That is 25 minutes. That leaves 23 hours 35 minutes to do everything else."

And how are those 23 hr, 35 min spent, Moderate Muslim? Are most Muslims spending an hour or two of that free time once or twice a week trying to reform their cult and turn it into a truly peaceful religion? No. Instead they spend it supporting, excusing, enabling, condoning, or performing terrorism, whining about anti-Muslim sentiment, or protesting cable tv shows that portray Islam accurately. Now and then they spend it rioting, arsoning, and murdering, such as when a cartoon "offends" them.

Some of them even spend it on public internet forums, disparaging those who dare to speak the truth about Islam, and spewing propaganda, lies, distortions, and ignorance.

In the past year, Moderate Muslim, you have had 23 hr, 35 min. per day of free time, multiplied by 365 days. That comes to about 8,607 hours of free time (ie time outside of your mandatory prayers) over the past year. How many of those free hours have you spent working to reform your religion? How many of those hours have been spent sponsoring, promoting, planning, or attending reform rallies in the name of Islam? How many of those free hours have been spent protesting the violent clerics in America who espouse Islamic violence in their schools and mosques? How many of those free hours have been spent countering the propaganda spewed by CAIR and other Muslim terrorist support groups? How many of those hours have been spent trying to rally Muslims to excise the fanaticism from their religion and make it a peace loving religion?

No need to embarrass yourself. I think we all know the answer to that question.

And if I look back on all the Muslims I have known throughout my life, I can honestly say the answer is zero hours for them as well. They did spend many hours spewing propaganda though. Anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian garbage. It was their favorite pastime, and I do not exaggerate.They did spend large amounts of time (and money!) trying to recruit me to train their children in terrorist tactics. They spent a hell of a lot of time crying when Israel killed the various terrorist leaders it has targetted, and spent lots of time hanging posters of those murderous monsters everywhere they could. The only thing I never saw them spending time on was anything peaceful or conducive to reform or acceptance of non-Muslims.

Strange, isn't it, how Muslims always seem to be able to find time to protest television shows and to spew propaganda and to "defend" Islam from the truth, yet they never seem to have time to attend rallies designed to spark reform in Islam?

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