September 07, 2004

'Innocent religion is now a message of hate'

It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims.

The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims.
[...because they're black. Yes, Arab Muslims are racist, too.--Jen]

Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims.

Bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim.
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We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women.

We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the Sheikhs who thought it ennobling to re-invent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that the author is pointing a finger at the Sheikhs in Soddy Arabia?
And do read the whole piece, as I just quoted some of the best parts.
Notice also who wrote this and where it was first published:

Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. Yesterday, his article appeared in the pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.

I suppose it took the slaughter of hundreds of children in Beslan, but some Muslims finally are fed up with the heinous deeds of their more radicalized and militarized "brethren."
We know that the majority of Muslims are peaceful and don't wage their own jihad as a violent struggle against "infidels," but the ones that do are making life for the rest of us, including those who practice the religion of "peace," impossible.
Let's hope we hear many more Muslims joining their voices with that of Mr. al-Rashed.