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| 2002-07-08 |
| A group of Muslim scholars and jurists is visiting the United States to promote better understanding and cooperation with government officials and nongovernment organizations, its leader said Monday. Ummm... Guys? I think the problem is that after having a pretty close look at Islam and its works for the past nine months we have too accurate an understanding of it... Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsin al-Turki, secretary general of the Muslim World League, said the Sept. 11 attacks have aroused fear and mistrust between Muslim peoples and the West. Only because Muslims — acting as Muslims, not as Agents of a Foreign Power — carried out a sneak attack that killed 3000 of our citizens... Al-Turki said his 16-member group wants to convey "that we are keen on cooperation between the two sides in order to achieve world safety and peaceful coexistence" and that "religion has taken a back seat and has been accused of inciting violence and destruction. We need to promote a culture of dialogue, not confrontation and mistrust." That establishes that there are two sides, rather than a single side, living in peace and harmony, the only differences being minor cultural things like religion. We tried "peaceful coexistence" with our last mortal adversary and it didn't work particularly well... Speaking at the National Press Club, al-Turki said that as in other faiths, "There are extremists in Islam but it is unfair to take them as representative of all Muslims." He is a former minister of Islamic affairs in Saudi Arabia and for 16 years was a university rector. As in no other religion as presently constituted, Islam has a sect or two that's determined to achieve world domination and the subjugation or elimination of entire peoples. Maybe Muslims should work correcting that, rather than paying for guns and ammunition... Other members of his group include Sheikh Ahmed Lemo of Nigeria, a former judge; Jaafar Sheikh Idris of Sudan, an academic who serves as a consultant to many Islamic organizations; and Muzammil H. Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America. ISNA is a front organization of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islam, Qazi's organization that's working to make him caliph. They are visiting Washington for talks with members of Congress, interfaith groups, nongovernment organizations and media editorial boards after stops in Chicago and New York. Their next destination is Los Angeles. Hitting all the hot spots... The Muslim World League, based in Saudi Arabia, is a nongovernmental organization that propagates Islam and tries to refute false allegations against the religion. True ones, too... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |