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| American Muslim leaders would like to help root out extremists? |
| 2005-07-25 |
| True effort or taqqiya? I'm not clever enough to venture an opinion. EFL. American Muslim leaders say they have already taken up the challenge facing British Muslims after this month's deadly suicide bombings, helping law enforcement root out extremists. But their efforts face a similar problem - getting support from all the faithful. The Muslim Public Affairs Council, an advocacy group based in Los Angeles, last year started the "National Anti-Terrorism Campaign," urging Muslims to monitor their own communities, speak out more boldly against violence and work with law enforcement officials. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based civil rights organization, is running a TV ad and a petition-drive called "Not in the Name of Islam," which repudiates terrorism. And Muslims in New York and several other cities have joined FBI advisory committees to resolve complaints about law enforcement and educate government agents about the religion. But winning broader support for these undertakings among the nation's more than 2 million Muslims has been difficult since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Muslim leaders say. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 You have to remember that before the act, they are muslims, and after the act they are muslims. But while they are murdering, torturing, or raping innocent people they are not really muslims - kind of a temporarily vacation from Islam.. and afterwards they are back to being muslims in good standing again.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-07-25 18:38 |
| #7 I'm getting a little long in the tooth waiting. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-07-25 16:37 |
| #6 They have to think of themselves as AMERICANS first and muslims second and they are getting little traction. They held a peace rally in Washingtom for muslims against terrorism and the turnout was pityful. I say OK you have chosen sides deal with the consequences of that. I don't want to hear any muslim/arab/paki/etc complain about being "targeted" but TSA or any law enforcement agency. You want to support terrorism then we will just have to treat you as such. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-07-25 12:21 |
| #5 Taqqiya. Talk is cheap, whiskey costs money. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-07-25 11:22 |
| #4 "Not in the name of islam" They forgot the asterisk Not in the name of islam* *except where muslims perceive themselves as being oppressed or where there are factions who will provide plausible explanations for the "militancy" |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2005-07-25 09:27 |
| #3 The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based civil rights organization, is running a TV ad and a petition-drive called "Not in the Name of Islam," which repudiates terrorism. Given the number of CAIR officials who have been convicted of actively supporting terrorism, this is meaningless. I'd be more impressed if CAIR itself were repudiated. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-25 08:18 |
| #2 True effort or taqqiya? I'd assume taqqiya untill some MM hedz are offered as token of sincerity. |
| Posted by: N guard 2005-07-25 08:17 |
| #1 Different moslems think differently so, yes, it is obviously difficult to determine the sincerity. A lot of secular moslems are very frightened because they came to the US to escape their more violent coreligionists. Some such people have admitted to me that they feel Islam is a bad religion and they are sick about it. Others hope that Islam can be rescued somehow. And then there are those who believe otherwise. |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-07-25 08:11 |