MUSLIMS AGAINST SHARIA

The Muslims Against Sharia site appears legitimate, and should it prove to be so, that is, a site erected, maintained, and supported by a growing number of inspired Muslim leaders, indeed would be uplifting news, an excellent supplement to that long-elusive manifestation of concerted actions required to force Islam to meet the West on a sound and logical footing, joining the company of a few other strong and courageous voices out there contradicting the usual "Religion of Peace" deception fed the infidels, such as Islamwatch, another site created by and for ex-Muslims.

While we can apprerciate both the perceived and the real threats of dangerous blowback, even the threat of death to [reformation-minded] apostates and blasphemers of the Muslim faith, those Muslims who speak out against these pernicious doctrines and problems facing Islam today, placing the responsibility of reform squarely upon Muslim shoulders, can only invigorate our call for more strong voices like these to step forward out of the shadows of Dar Al-Islam to help turn the tide of Islamic aggression operating with extreme prejudice in the world today.

Here is an excerpt from the manifesto published on the Muslims Against Sharia homepage:

The need for reform
Islam, in its present form, is not compatible with principles of freedom and democracy. Twenty-first century Muslims have two options: we can continue the barbaric policies of the seventh century perpetuated by Hassan al-Banna, Abdullah Azzam, Yassir Arafat, Ruhollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, Hizballah, Hamas, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, etc., leading to a global war between Dar al-Islam (Islamic World) and Dar al-Harb (non-Islamic World), or we can reform Islam to keep our rich cultural heritage and to cleanse our religion from the reviled relics of the past. We, as Muslims who desire to live in harmony with people of other religions, agnostics, and atheists choose the latter option. We can no longer allow Islamic extremists to use our religion as a weapon. We must protect future generations of Muslims from being brainwashed by the Islamic radicals. If we do not stop the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, our children will become homicidal zombies.

Accepting responsibilities
To start the healing process, we must acknowledge evils done by Muslims in the name of Islam and accept responsibility for those evils. We must remove evil passages from Islamic religious texts, so that future generations of Muslims will not be confused by conflicting messages. Our religious message should be loud and clear: Islam is peace; Islam is love; Islam is light. War, murder, violence, divisiveness & discrimination are not Islamic values.

Religious privacy
Religion is the private matter of every individual. Any person should be able to freely practice any religion as long as the practice does not interfere with the local laws, and no person must be forced to practice any religion. Just as people are created equal, there is no one religion that is superior to another. Any set of beliefs that is spread by force is fundamentally immoral; it is no longer a religion, but a political ideology.

Equality
Islam is one of the many of the world's religions. There will be no Peace and Harmony in the World if Muslims and non-Muslims do not have equal rights. Islamic supremacy doctrine is just as repulsive as Aryan supremacy doctrine. History clearly shows what happens to the society whose members consider themselves above other peoples. All moderate Muslims must repudiate the mere notion of Islamic supremacy.

Sharia
Sharia Law must be abolished, because it is incompatible with norms of modern society.

Outdated practices
Any practices that might have been acceptable in the Seventh Century; i.e., stoning, cutting off body parts, marrying and/or having sex with children or animals, must be condemned by every Muslim.

Outdated verses
The following verses promote divisiveness and religious hatred, bigotry and discrimination. They must be either removed from the Koran or declared outdated and invalid, and marked as such.

Outdated words & phrases
Use of the following words and phrases or their variations must be prohibited during religious services:
• Infidel/Unbeliever: these terms have negative connotation and promote divisiveness and animosity; Islam is not the only religion
• Jihad: this word is often interpreted as Holy War against non-Muslims
• Mujaheed/Holy Warrior: no more wars in the name of Islam
• American (Christian/Crusader/Israeli/Zionist) occupation: these terms promote bigotry; at this point in time, Muslims living in non-Muslim lands have more freedoms than Muslims living in Muslim lands

Read it all...

Post-script (November 12, 2009): Muslims Against Sharia has been shown to be a fraudulent site. Beware of them, even as they push moderate propaganda that sounds reasonable to Western ears, but as more than a few other anti-jihadist commentators can attest, should one disagree in any way with the proprietors, the MAS spokesmen turn adolescently vulgar, scatalogical and vicious, ad hominem and void of ideas, unbecoming of the civilized allies of the West they pretend to be.

ISLAM LOVES DEATH, BUT SO DID SAINT PAUL

Well, Tancredo is finally legit with this one. As Robert Spencer put it. "The list just keeps growing. No word yet, however, on any demonstrations planned to wish "dath" on Osama bin Laden or any of the others who have, as we're endlessly told, "hijacked" Islam."

And what about the recent words of Barack Obama who suggested that if he were president and he had "actionable" intelligence, he'd send US troops into Pakistan without Musharraf's permission to route out the terrorists? There there were some protests, but mostly from around this country. with Bush and the State Department jumping into the fray. However, it seems also, that some in Muslim circles actually consider Obama a Muslim, despite his own protestations and evidence that he is a church-going Christian. A lapse Muslim. Why no fatwa against him? Could it be they secretly wish him elected to the presidency?

It's odd. The FBI vigorously films, studies, and deconstructs every "peaceful" demonstration in the US, and of course, all the fine folks on the Left scream bloody murder about invasion of privacy. But while the mainstream media conveniently ignores these rather frequent protests calling for DATH TO AMERICA at every turn, the numbers game heats up as the ideological war churns onward. The common responses of a "hijacked religion" and "merely a handful of radicalized terrorists" seems determined to avoid considering the effects of daily recruitment to the religion of death, except to place blame on American gall and the Bushies in particular. Handicapped by an enigmatic adminstration of appeasement seemingly purchased by Saudi interests, these top cops can seem only to turn the screws on its own people. But this last observation is an illusion. The US is not a police state, not yet. Yet every one of these countries the patronizing Left (along with the Bush adminstration) like to appease, are.

My friend in the State Department says it's better to talk than bomb. I agree, most of the time. His speciality is research and terrorism, and spends most of his year out of the country in al parts of the planet talking tough to foreign counterparts, yet he has never heard of Robert Spencer or Jihad Watch, Daniel Pipes, or others I've mentioned to him over dinner a few months ago. makes me suspect the fight is barely begin at the governmental level. That's why folks like Tancredo are immediately marginalized.

None other than the now deceased Ayatollah Khomeini, I think it was, bragged that Muslims love death more than the West loves life. Or was it Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah who revealed in an interview after the recent prisoner swap between Israel and his group: "We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable. The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win, because they love life and we love death."

Abdallah Al-Naggar, a religious columnist for the Egyptian government daily Al-Gumhuriya, has written about the differences between a "Muslim believer's" approach to death and that of his non-Muslim enemies: "The believers in Allah rightly do not dread their enemies and do not fear [waging a] jihad, because they see jihad as a profitable bargain, selling their lives to Allah [to get paradise in return]. Their enemies protect their [own] lives, as criminals do. [Allah] has already said about them: 'You will find that they are the people who protect their [own] life more than anyone else.'... The believers do not fear the enemy [during] the struggle and do not protect their lives. Allah has promised them one of two good things: [either] victory or martyrdom.... Yet their enemies protect [their] lives like a miser protects his money. They do not give [their lives] easily; they do not enter into battles seeking martyrdom; they do not act in order [to attain] martyrdom. This is the secret of the believers' victory over their enemies—though the believers are few and the polytheists many, with advanced weaponry and equipment."

Liberal Egyptian playwright Ali Salem mocked articles such as those by Al-Naggar in the Arab media. In a satiric column published in the London daily Al-Hayat, Salem sarcastically suggested opening a kindergarten to teach terrorist values: "You will easily notice that they love life, and that is the weak point that we will exploit. We, in contrast, love death and protect it. Do not believe that Allah created life for us to live, build, and enjoy. [No,] Allah created us to test our ability to rebel against life, to despise it, and to get rid of it at the earliest opportunity. Each and every one of you must seek out your first chance to die—but you must not die for free...You must know, dear children, that our martyrs gain entry to Paradise, while their dead are [sentenced] to the fires of Hell. These idiots do not believe in Paradise, in the fires of Hell, or in the Day of Judgment." Tunisian intellectual Al-Afif Al-Akhdar asked in an article for the liberal Arabic-language website www.elaph.com: "Why do expressions of tolerance, moderation, rationalism, compromise, and negotiation horrify us [Muslims], but [when we hear] fervent cries for vengeance, we all dance the war dance?... Why do other people love life, while we love death and violence, slaughter and suicide, and [even] call it heroism and martyrdom?"

I agree that the above paragraphs are frightening, and Islam is in the sick throes of demonic death worship. But for all you Sunday school Christians out there, simply recall the words of Paul and Jesus. Paul wished for death so that he could return join his Master. Jesus often suggested a pact of non-aggressive love of others, even one's enemies. Do not confuse non-aggressive behavior with the passive aggressive methods of many evangelical types in this country. And the history of the church is littered with violence.

Now perhaps we can better understand the depth of the issue here. I know it's tough on those of you with an agenda with increase your numbers and please some wild wicked version of your God or State, but the point is this. Everybody must calm down. And the Muslims are no exception. In fact, that crowd is in dire need of an immediate awakening. Until that day arrives or I succumb, I, Gabriel Thy, stand in the watchtower, watching, warning, loving thine and mine enemies.

HISTORY IS PLAIN ON MODERATES

From the grapevine, with a few added words for emphasis:

A man whose family was a part of the German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

"Very few people were true Nazis, "he said," but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."

We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.

Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

• It is the fanatics who march.
  
• It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.
  
• It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave.
  
• It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill..
  
• It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.
  
• It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals.
  
• The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority" the "silent majority" is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population, it was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet.

And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?

America's own history is certainly full of similar atrocities, executed by extremists, while others neither partook in the abominations, nor stopped them until it was too late for far too many.

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.