Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Expulsions fuel French Muslim fears

While explosions fuel world non-Muslim fears

From The BBC

France has recently expelled a number of Muslim prayer leaders whom it considered to be a dangerous influence on France's five million Muslims.

The BBC's Caroline Wyatt has been to the southern city of Marseilles, the port with the longest history of north African immigration to France, to ask French Muslims for their response.


"Muslim prayer leaders", Caroline? Puleeeeeze. That creates the image of a group of devout people quietly praying or maybe even holding hands while the leader in a whispered voice beseeches the all mighty. Instead of the hate filled anti-western filth these guys spit out.

I suppose Yashar Ali, a Salafist, facing deportation in France is a prayer leader. And is Imam Abdelkader Bouziane who advocated wife beating and is also facing deportation, a prayer leader? Please note that the article about the deportation of both these "prayer leaders" comes from the BBC itself.

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She has stopped going to the mosque where she used to worship, because of what she saw as the radical message being preached there. But Nacera says that most Muslims in France want and try to integrate, and it is only a tiny minority which is listening to that new, often anti-Western message.

And therein lies the problem. So called moderate Muslims are doing the same thing all over the world and allowing terrorists to take over the Mosques. Since those Mosques are the very symbol of the entire religion of Islam, the new face of Islam is being shown as a terrorist one.

Every day in Iraq coalition soldiers risk their lives to try an protect these mosques while terrorists shelter in them and attack our soldiers. The Arab press scream if so much as a fleck of paint is scratched. And yet they are being destroyed from within.

Who is to blame for all this? Muslims themselves for abdicating their Mosques to terrorists. French Muslims seem to be happy to sit back and let the French government deal with the problem. And then blame the government for being racist.

Where are the protest marches by Muslims against bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and these terrorists who have taken over your mosques? You will scream, march and protest at the slightest affront to Islam or Muslims; while you rejoice in the streets at 9/11. You condemn the coalition for even so much as going near a Mosque in Iraq and yet you do not condemn the terrorist hijacking your Mosques for military uses.

By abdicating your mosques to terrorists, remaining silent about the atrocities committed in the name of Islam and rejoicing in those atrocities Islam shows itself for what it is; a religion in deep trouble.

If Muslims around the world are feeling targeted, welcome to the club. Your brothers are blowing us non-Muslims up around the world.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Muslims are more willing to stay silent about the threat to their religion by the fanatics because they are not targeted as the immediate goal in the war against apostasy.

Moderates do not have the group cohesion to attack those that are attacking the more peaceful bloc of their religion. Yet they have more than enough cohesion to scream foul if a Western bullet invades their mosque.

If they had more open societies, Islamic public discourse could work to counter the Islamist sentiments, but even in free countries, not often does one hear a moderate Muslim stand up to the Islamist elements. (However, one does come to mind--Irshad Manji).

This could be because as soon as a person of prominence does do this, they are slapped with a fatwa that orders the execution of the Muslim-turned-infidel (at least in the eyes of the Islamists).

It's been taboo too long for these people to walk so blindly under a faith. To let every piece of religion go unquestioned is not only absurd, but dangerous in the aspect that it can lead to a weakening of the religion and the supplanting of ideology.

Athena
http://athena.blogs.com

 
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