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| Where are the Voices of Moderate Muslims? |
| 2006-09-19 |
| Something's wrong. As I thumb through the pages of newspapers and magazines and flip through newscasts on radio and television, it seems that something is terribly wrong. While the overwhelming majority of Muslims in America are peaceful citizens, their voices are not ringing out. We are at war. Islamofascists have declared war on the United States and stated that they intend to kill all Americans. And they've shown us that they mean business. We've just passed the anniversary of the worst attack on America in history, 9/11, when Muslim terrorists killed nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and children as they turned passenger planes into missiles. Yet the news is filled with stories of Muslims -- not loudly condemning the Muslim murderers -- but complaining of their treatment here and demanding Americans change their attitudes. We Americans should change our attitudes? Terrorist cells have been discovered here. Plots to blow up bridges and the Sears Tower have been uncovered. Bomb-making supplies carried by Muslim terrorists have been stopped at our borders. A plot to bomb 10 airliners bound for the United States was foiled. Yet we Americans should change our attitudes? America has opened its doors and universities to Muslims from foreign countries -- perhaps the best way for these students to see our freedoms and develop a new respect for our country. But where, I ask, is the returned show of support? Pope Benedict is calling on moderate Muslims to speak out against the violent strain of Islam, calling jihad a movement against the nature of God. But where are the moderate Muslim voices here? Why aren't they speaking up to repudiate the kidnappings, suicide murders and beheadings done by Islamofascists? For an answer, I went to the Web site of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR. But the CAIR site highlights a workshop on how to "Know Your Rights"; a section on "Political Empowerment"; a demand to put a Muslim holiday on all school calendars. This past spring, Muslim students at Michigan State University held a protest -- not to decry Islamic terrorists -- but to speak out loudly against Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed as a terrorist. What's worse is this: When a tenured professor, I.S. Wichman, sent an e-mail to a student, the school's Muslim Student Association made the letter public and demanded that the professor be officially reprimanded. What had Wichman written? He wrote that, more than being offended by the cartoons, he was offended "by beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murderers, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women, the murder of a film director in Holland, and the rioting and looting in France." He went on to write, "If you do not like the values of the West -- see the First Amendment -- you are free to leave." It seems that the students believe they have the right to protest cartoons, but professors don't have the right to speak out against murderous atrocities. Something's wrong. To Michigan State's credit, the professor will not be reprimanded as he was exercising his right to free speech. We are at war. Our soldiers are following the rules of war -- but their opposition is not. CIA counterterrorism officers are buying private insurance to cover legal costs in case they are charged with a crime, as is being hinted at by some members of Congress who feel their interrogation techniques might be too "tough." In Iraq, Americans have been kidnapped, tortured, beheaded, burned, hanged from bridges, dragged through streets. But the CIA's method of questioning a terrorist in a cold room while playing loud music is too "tough"? We're fighting a war for civilization against an enemy bent on destroying it and creating an Islamic world based on a warped view of what true Islam is -- yet where are the voices of American Muslims condemning this enemy? Something's wrong. Silly Rabbit. She still believes in tooth fairies, Santa Claus, and 'moderate' muslims.... |
| Posted by:mcsegeek1 |
| #8 a moderate muslim is one content with a world void of joos and pigs... ... and maybe just the occasional honour killing. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-09-19 19:44 |
| #7 Moderate Muslim is one who claims to be content with the distruction of Israel (and maybe return of Andalusia). |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-09-19 19:36 |
| #6 Dear Silly Face, Since you're in Chicago, you know there are no MM's present. You have some of the most virulent Muzzies in the US (outside of Dearborn) right there among you. Those mosks sprouting up all over the burbs are spouting the most unbelievable garbage imaginable. Silly Faces like you will be among their first victims. Although I hope they jump the fat hog O'Donnell first. The ones you don't hear spouting are busily donating to their favorite charity buying more weapons for their cousins back home. It's time for all do-gooders to awaken from their slumber. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-09-19 19:29 |
| #5 "Where are the Voices of Moderate Muslims?" Screaming "Kill the Pope!" |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-19 18:57 |
| #4 I don't think she gets it. We have been hearing from the "moderate Muslims". They just have a different definition of what it means to be a "moderate Muslim" than we do. Until we grasp, or should I say acknowledge this difference, we'll just keep spinning our wheels. |
| Posted by: charger 2006-09-19 15:40 |
| #3 Never before has an entire civilization depended upon its survival upon the self-restraint of those they constantly attack. Self-restraint only goes so far. The Muslim world view tends to favor Muslims, even psycho ones who "aren't Muslim" above all others. This attitude will make it easier to rationalise the destruction of Islam if they score another big hit. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-09-19 11:47 |
| #2 This is the sound of one hand clapping. What's the Cluebat's batting average, I wonder... given the voting record, about .500? I'm going to give her a little bit of credit... You're right, Mary. Something is wrong. Although I favor a knockout punch, perhaps, with ever so gentle nudges like this article and enough time, time we probably do not have if we are to avoid some future disasterous attack, a few more will begin asking the same questions - and eventually get it. Better than most articles on the topic since it does beg the question she poses. |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-09-19 11:28 |
| #1 While the overwhelming majority of Muslims in America are peaceful citizens, their voices are not ringing out. They're content to pay for jihad, so that others may slaughter their way into paradise to vouch for them. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-09-19 11:10 |