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October 05, 2006
Help defeat radical Islamic extremism
Via Pajamas Media, I read of another outrage in Great Britain, in which a Muslim police officer was allowed to refuse for "religious reasons" to guard the Israeli embassy. Asks Marc, the post author: Are Muslim police going to refuse to protect shops that sell alcohol or butchers that sell pork, next?I suppose they might; cab drivers in the United States (Minnesota) have already been refusing to transport passengers carrying alcohol. Hey, aren't there "religious reasons" to refuse to transport homosexuals? And should a Muslim police officer be forced to render aid to gays who might have been assaulted, or arrest "fag bashers" if that violates his "religious principles"? I know such things don't typify the thinking of all Muslims, and I know that moderate Muslims like FreeMuslims.org do speak up regularly. So do moderate Muslims like Tashbih Sayyed, who does not mince words: In the United States of America, Islamists with clear ties to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon are not only being awarded by the administration but are also influencing the U.S. policy in the Middle East. There are reports that the Muslim cab drivers are imposing there restrictive values on the Americans by refusing to accept passengers who carry liquor in their luggage.The problem is that moderate Muslims are drowned out by political extremists like CAIR -- which recently managed to impose censorship on YouTube. Moderate Muslims need help. So do bloggers like Ali Eteraz, who right now is campaigning against the Iranian government's impending stoning of a woman to death. Considering my complaint about cab drivers, I figured the least I could do is link Ali's campaign against stoning to death. As to the latter, Ali reminds us that time is short: If you fail to do any or even some of these, I assure you that you will remember the image of a bunch of stones pinging against a woman's head cracking open her skull sometime after October 12. You have eight days.I join with Ali Eteraz in urging readers to write to Supreme Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khameini, to Iranian ambassador Hamid Reza Nafez Arefi in London, and to Minister of Justice Ayatollah Shahroudi. (After that, they might want to consider my previous proposal to send President Ahmadinejad a necktie.) UPDATE (10/06/06): The above story about the police officer refusing to do is job gets worse: Now comes this.(Via Glenn Reynolds.) Bakri supports bin Laden, and praised the July 7 London suicide bombers as "the fantastic four." That one of his supporters could become a police officer is more than scandalous; it's insane.A Muslim police officer who asked to be excused from guarding the Israeli embassy was married by the radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, The Daily Telegraph has learned. Also via Glenn Reynolds, a link to Brussels Journal's Paul Belien's discussion of the undeclared intifada against French police. Very disturbing stuff. posted by Eric on 10.05.06 at 01:45 PM
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HAVANA (AP) — Photographs of Fidel Castro standing and talking on the phone were published Sunday in Cuba's state-run media, a day after the ailing leader appeared in a video to dispel rumors he was on his deathbed. The Communist Youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde dedicated its front page to the Cuban president, printing a blown-up picture of a pensive Castro with the title "Always fighting for something, and fighting with optimism!" bestec-burjuiam · November 4, 2006 07:09 AM |
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I applaud Tashbih Sayyed. Thank you for bringing him to our attention. I also applaud Eteraz and other Muslim bloggers for their advocacy; however, I do find that some of them adamantly defend CAIR, which I believe to be mistaken.
From what I understand, CAIR may be acting within US law, and they may say that they are just exercising their freedom of speech; however, I perceive that they are cynically taking advantage of our current state of fear to further their own cause. American Muslims have more freedoms here than most places in the world, and organizations like CAIR use that freedom to reduce the freedom of the rest of us.
Of course there is a right to ridicule religion or other belief systems. I would not have it any other way, and I do not want that to change because some members of a particular religion demand special privileges. I would love to hear an American Muslim say the following, "I disagree with what you say, but I would defend your right to say it." That would truly be an American Muslim.