
The Murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane two attempts on the Twin Towers 9/11 Al-Qaida ISIS the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas Iran Boko Haram Abu Sayyaf Little Rock Fort Hood the Boston Marathon the Vaughan Foods beheading incident the attacks on
two military installations in Chattanooga Tennessee Paris attacks 7/7 the London underground bombings and the list goes on and on and on.
Its about time the Muslim community in America do some serious soul-searching reform itself and vomit out of their midst their filth; if they want decent law abiding Americans to not suspect every Muslim as a potential terrorist!
Good decent Muslim citizens of America have to take a stand as did those righteous people in Nazi Germany against their regime at the time. They have to publicly denounce their extremists and potential extremists work with authorities to weed them out of their communities and press for a more Reformed version of Islam.
A Reform Islam that no longer looks at non-Muslims as infidels. A Reform Islam that denounces Jihadism. A Reform Islam that renounces the goal of the religion as to put the world under the reign of Allah i.e. Islam and Muslims. A Reform Islam that takes a live and let live attitude toward non-Muslims and yes even toward wayward" Muslims!
Muslim on Muslim violence is one of the lesser spoken about tragedies. Honor killings" usually done to daughters must stop. Bullying by extremists within the Muslim community to tow the Sharia Line" whether in America France Britain or anywhere else in the Democratic West needs to be dealt with seriously if all Muslim citizens dont want be suspect. To the outsider who can tell the victim from the victimizer?
Which brings me to Rep. Ilhan Omar… And her disgusting recent Some people did something" reference to the 9/11 Twin Towers tragedy.
Terrorists and all those who support them..." is what George W. Bush said after 9/11.
Those Muslims and Muslim organizations that dont denounce and actively work to uproot; passively quietly support. Or at least are legitimate targets of suspicion from non-Muslims.
By contrast Omar in her recent Council of American-Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles speech wrapped herself and the Muslim community in Victimhood not from their internal extremists but American society at large.
And I feel extremely lucky to to be here in California with all of you fighting for justice for equality for the right for us to equally exist in this country. Many people expect our community to feel like it needs to hide every time something happens. But repeatedly we have shown them that we are not to be bullied. We are not to be threatened. We are not to be terrorized. We are strong resilient and we will always show up to be ourselves..."
Continuing the Victim Narrative So we are coming off a tragic tragic nightmare that has happened to Muslims in New Zealand. Many of us know that this is not a one-off incident. Many of us were not shocked or surprised. Many of us were kind of holding our breath for a really long time thinking when will something like this happen..."
And then without missing a beat no soul-searching here she came out swinging ...the reason I think that many of us knew that this was going to get worse is that we finally have a leader a world leader in the White House who publicly says Islam hates us who fuels hate against Muslims who thinks it is okay to speak about a faith and a whole community in a way that is dehumanizing vilifying..."
Did Trump start Jihadism against the West or is he responding to it?
Fact check: In 2011 Pres. Obama ordered the entire federal national-security apparatus to get rid of counter-terrorism training material that instructed agents to focus on Islam itself rather than specific terrorist groups. So what is she talking about the American government long ago stopped a maybe overly general policy which did actually make sense right after 9/11.
Maybe if Muslims like Omar took on their own thugs instead of blaming the infidels" like Trump or the Jews" non-Muslims would be less suspicious of Islam and Muslims.
She continued ...if you one day find yourself in a school where other religions are talked about but when Islam is mentioned we are only talking about terrorists and if you say something you are sent to the principals office.
So to me I say raise hell make people uncomfortable. Because heres the truth: For too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and frankly Im tired of it and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it."
By the way this MO of playing victim then when becoming strong enough attacking goes all the way back to Muhammad himself. After fleeing his enemies in Mecca Muhammad and his entourage arrived in Yathrib (later Medina) near destitute. He started a peace process" between warring Arab tribes became a person of stature and negotiated a Covenant of Medina" which also promised equality" for the Jews living there. Later when he became stronger he broke the agreement worked to convert the Jews to Islam and when rejected turned on them attacking and killing two Jewish tribes and driving out the third.
If American Muslims dont want to be conflated with terrorism (which is most often carried out by Muslims globally I might add) or with anti-Semitism and hate then they need to stand up and put down their own self-appointed representatives like Ilhan.
Its either reform Islam now or face getting more Ilhan Omars...
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