Sat Jul 16, 2005
THE CURSE OF FAIR AND BALANCED
LET'S HEAR THE OTHER SIDE
LET'S HEAR THE OTHER SIDE
THE CURSE OF BEING FAIR AND BALANCED
So I’ve been a little hard on Muslims lately.
Pissed off a bunch of people according to my emails. Some of them from the myopic PC AT ALL COSTS crowd; some of them followers of Allah. And another few from right wing christians who would send every Muslim anywhere to Allah’s Paradise, a place they seem to think is the equivalent to any right-thinking Christian’s hell.
Good. Nothing like a little controversy among rabid zealots (or is that ‘zeal-louts’?): My god can beat up your god. Die infidel, die. There is no god but Yahweh and Mohammed is his oil rich prophet. (I get confused sometimes).
Actually what I have been doing is a little on-line research looking at web sites including things as extreme as the El Gazebo and iluvsnakehandling dot org. to allahisafriendofmine dot com. The object of my search is to ascertain the truth about Islam. There is so much confusion in this country. Is it a religion of peace or, as was the case in the Middle Ages on both sides, is it a matter of convert or get your balls cut off, then die. Convert to your enemy’s religion. No middle ground here.
Large segments of the followers of Allah are still bogged down in the Crusades. The old memories die hard. And there is plenty of savage brutality to go around…for ‘they did it’ and so ‘we did it’. Appears as the current war on Terror might just be payback for wrongs real or imaginary going back to 1,000 B.C. or so.
(Notice the ‘B.C.’ We don’t use that idiotic ‘CE’ so prominent in the la la land of today’s colleges and universities, where it is entirely OK to attack the heterosexual white male for every evil he has committed, is committing this very moment, or may commit in the future. Here’s to the death of Political Correctness and the negative impact it has had on the English Language, which is so emasculated in certain circles that it has become a sterile shadow of its former, vigorous self…not unlike the language spoken in La Belle France this very day. Would somebody send me a list of proscribed words and phrases published on any American campus? I would have some fun with that.)
Having put online a link to and some quotes from a website that claims it shows ‘what the Koran really says’ a couple of days ago. We offer another link to a website, this pro American Muslim, that presents a rather different slant on things like suicide bombing.
One of the complaints made by many is that Muslim leaders never stand up and loudly condemn the horrors of the random terror bombing of civilians. They, it is reasoned, should have said more about the events of 9/11, last year’s Madrid massacre, and the death of fifty-four innocents in London two weeks ago.
Well, maybe, just maybe they did….cooler Muslim heads have done so, but in the hue, cry, and rhetorical aftermath they are not always heard.
Which brings us to a web site you must visit if you have even a modicum of the fair and balanced in your soul. The site is called CAIR, acronym for COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS and can be accessed at http://www.cair-net.com .
What follows is a quote from this website dating back to July 13th, this past week. Read it carefully. Decide for yourself whether truth is spoken here or is it a clear-cut case of covering of the old ass. Don’t be unduly influenced by the likes of Neal Boortz, Rushbo, or Sean ‘Baby Jesus’ Hannity. Don’t believe for a moment that pols such as Teddy Kennedy and Pelosi have the last word on this or any other matter. Think for yourselves….decide for yourselves…be a leader, not a follower.
Read On:
American Muslim News Briefs | Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Why don't we hear Muslim leaders condemning terrorism? In the wake of the London bombings, I called Parvez Ahmed, a Jacksonville resident who three months ago became chairman of perhaps the best-known Muslim organization in America, and asked him that. And there was silence. Well, just when the phone cut out. Once I got him back on the line, the University of North Florida professor who is the new chairman of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, did what he has been doing ever since he woke up Thursday, logged onto his computer and saw the news. He condemned the bombings. He condemned the people behind them. He did it immediately and unequivocally. "This is just absolute madness," he said. "It does not make any sense whatsoever. No ideology can even remotely justify what's going on." You want a Muslim condemnation of terrorism? How would you like it delivered?
In the past week, Muslim groups have been condemning the attacks via e-mail blasts to the media, through news conferences, during a personal meeting with the British ambassador, in prayer services all over the country and, coming soon to television stations, with a public service announcement. This hardly is new. After Sept. 11, Muslim leaders issued statements, prayed for the victims, encouraged relief efforts and, in some cities, took out a full-page newspaper ad signed by 40 groups that said: "We condemn in the strongest terms possible the use of terror to further any political or religious cause." Nearly 700,000 Muslims have signed a "Not in the Name of Islam" petition on CAIR's Web site that begins: "We, the undersigned Muslims, wish to state clearly that those who commit acts of terror, murder and cruelty in the name of Islam are not only destroying innocent lives, but are also betraying the values of the faith they claim to represent." Yet when Ahmed speaks in public, the most common question is: Why don't Muslims denounce terrorism?
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