A press release from the The American Muslim Association of North America, AMANA, courtesy FreedomNowNews:
The American Muslim Association of North America, AMANA condemns in the strongest terms Israel's terror assassination of Shaykh Ahmad Isma'il Yasin, the renowned Islamic scholar and founder of the leading Palestinian Resistance Movement – Hamas which where established to free the Palestinian territories against the illegal occupation by Israelis."This evil act of state terrorism against an old and disabled man is outrageous. As Shaykh Ahmad Isma'il Yasin was leaving the mosque after the morning prayers, an Israeli helicopter missile launch killed him and enraged the entire region with vows of revenge.
What follows is predictable enough. Then, at the end of the press release, this:
The American Muslim Association of North America, AMANA has a long history of promoting peace and justice for all. Trough our campaign to stop the killing of Muslim, Jewish and Christian civilians in our messages and in our website. http://www.al-amana.org/gallery.php
Muslim, Jewish, and Christian civilians? Then why the outrage over the killing of a primary agent of the murder of Jewish civilians?
"enraged the entire region with vows of revenge"
As if they are not enraged every other day of the week.
It seems the only time you hear from muslims is when one of their own is killed. AMANA is just another front for the muslim to kill and hate. There voice is as weak as their faith.
Where was AMANA when this "crippled old man" was issuing his death fatwahs, sending off his jihadist warriors to murder. He was a just an ordinary murder contractor. No, not ordinary, a "man of peace."
This raises an interesting theological problem, doesn't it? Since orthodox Islam has always taken a fairly strict view of Allah's sovereignty and Muslims have tended to end most sentences with "inshallah", does this mean:
(a) Allah could *not* stop the killing of Yassin? In which case, his sovereignty is limited.
(b) Allah *wanted* Yassin to die? In which case the Israelis were merely acting as the causal agent. In this case, protesting against it is actually protesting against Allah.
Here, I feel, is the rub. Radical Muslims cannot celebrate a "good" event as the proof of Allah's blessing, yet so quickly turn round and condemn a "bad" event. Either they have a totally sovereign deity, or you do not.
As I read about HAMAS, I was reminded of an organization I belonged to as a young person, at a stage in my life when I was extremely vulnerable and seeking answers to 'the meaning of life', etc.
The organization was Scientology. HAMAS and the Islamist movement in general sound very much like a cult to me. For example, Arabs who don't work against Israel are 'fair game' for punishment by Muslim activists. And of course, all the promises of POWER assured to those who wage this holy war against the non-believers. Yes, people must fight those who are trying to kill them, but a serious system of 'de-programming' those who have been brainwashed since infancy is very important. Information and education will do a lot to bring about reform in the Muslim religion. And understanding, not acceptance that they have the right to kill those who practice behaviors they don't like, but understanding about why they just might be horrified at the images they see on Jerry Springer and Howard Stern television shows, imagining that this form of culture awaits them if they give up the fight against Western ways. I mean, aren't you sometimes embarrassed and afraid when you watch BET and MTV? Imagine the fear of a fundamentalist Christian who has just read the bible and believes that God is going to punish the country for those acts! Think about how those 'true believers' in the Middle East feel should they choose to welcome the West.
AMANA, it just isn't working any more. You've been "outed."