Quote Originally Posted by Hulud
yup, your right they dont speak out......
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...tory?track=rss
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Nation...431580703.html
http://www.voanews.com/english/archi...TOKEN=69018590
http://www.rayhawk.com/classics/matusa/home.html
http://www.freemuslims.org/
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595063392,00.html
the list goes on, but i figured a few links will suffice

may want to do some research before assuming things everyone
That's good. I liked a couple of those reports a lot actually. Probably because they are saying EXACTLY what some of us here are saying right now.

The Orlando report is a very good example of this. Professors, who are Muslims, express how they feel that other parts of the world do NOT back them up in their opposition.

Another great example is the article about the March in Washington DC. It was organized by the Free Muslims against Terrorism Coalition. They feel EXACTLY as most people do that it is up to Muslims to reverse the stereotype of compliance for Terrorism. He organizes a March and even inside the U.S. he gets opposition from his OWN RELIGION. The President of that organization is Kamal Nawash. HE says:

"Kamal Nawash is president of the Free Muslims Against Terrorism Coalition. Mr. Nawash, a Palestinian native raised in the United States, says that most mainstream influential Muslim American groups have not clearly condemned Islamic terrorist violence. "Most of the terrorism in the world is coming from Muslims," he says. "This is a very sensitive and difficult point for Muslims to talk about and admit to it. They'd rather not admit the obvious for the fear that this somehow might make Islam look bad."

He also added:

"We wanted Muslims to lead a march against terror - again based on the fact that only Muslims can deal with this," the president of the Free Muslims Against Terrorism Coalition says. "Of course, we hope that this march can be covered by Arab media and Muslim media and let the extremists know, 'Hey, we don't support you out here. There are people who oppose you.' The idea is to send a counter message. The idea of using this kind of violence for political change is simply not acceptable to us and we want to begin an ideological battle -- and this is part of it."

^^^^Which BTW sounds a lot like what Brett has been saying here since the beginning....take away their religious "ammo".

Ok, that is a very good step in the right direction, right?......Wrong!.....According to his own religious leaders.....this is what THEY said in return about the March and it's organizers:

"But several well-known Muslim-American groups, who claim to speak for the approximately 6 million Muslims in the United States, are withholding support for the rally. And some are openly critical of Mr. Nawash."

"All of the American Muslims I know feel as attacked by al-Qaeda as any other group of Americans," says Hussein Ibish, spokesman for the Progressive Muslim Union. "There were a couple of hundred Muslim Americans, or Muslims at least -- whether Americans or otherwise -- who were in the World Trade Center who got killed by al-Qaeda on nine-eleven. There were Arab Americans and Muslims among the police and among the firefighters who rushed into the building and got killed as well as people who worked in and around those buildings who died. There are at least eight thousand American Muslims who proudly serve in the American military in Iraq, and in the Middle East and everywhere else around the world. And I think...to apologize like that is to accept the idea that there's something that you could or should have done, something you've done that makes you culpable, and that your community is not pulling its weight in this. And I don't think that's fair at all."

Hussein Ibish says he believes Mr. Nawash is allied with what he calls "right wing" groups trying to make Muslim Americans look bad. "This kind of stance has a utility," he contends, "for people on the far right, other supporters of the extreme right in Israel and other right wing forces, including evangelical [Christian] forces, who want to paint the mainstream Muslim community and mainstream organizations -- whether liberal or conservative, whether secular or religious -- as all sort of disloyal, as having a secret, pro-terrorism agenda. So, I think, Kamal (Nawash) has made himself useful," Mr. Ibish adds. "Mr. Nawash poses as the exception that proves the rule, so to speak."


So again, I'm very glad to see that Muslims are seeing the same things everyone else sees. It should never be about Muslim vs Christians or Muslims vs U.S. or Muslims vs the world. It should be about right and wrong. It should be about humanity. And the human thing to do is to call a spade a spade and stand up against someone who is doing something wrong, especially if that wrong they are doing makes YOU look bad by association. In order to disspell any stereotype, you can't play right into the antagonists hand. If you do, you're not doing anything but proving him right and you dumb.