You can find DC's first Open Letter To Islamic Organizations In America here.
While many Muslim medical and business professionals, athletes, and ordinary families are grateful to live in the United States and integrate into our society, accepting of our political, economic, and social stances, and enjoying the American dream, radical Muslims, fueled by a desire to transform this country into an Islamic State, having first made demographic inroads, executing a sustained campaign of targeted conversions to Islam, live among us as well.These people do not accept the American Constitution any more than they accept the concept of Human Rights. They do not believe in the full equality of men and women, they do not believe that non-Muslims have rights, with the exception of rights which Muslims would offer them through the system known as “dhimmitude” (from the phrase “ahl al-dhimma” or “People of the Pact”), which requires non-Muslims to submit to permanent humiliation, and many burdens, including the payment of special taxes, and permanent second class status.
The Sharia, or Islamic Law, is genuinely incompatible with the American Constitution. As representatives of American Muslims, what specifically are your organizations doing to rid our cities of those who believe that the American Constitution is merely man-made law, and hence to be replaced by Islamic laws? Have you issued public statements indicating that all citizens and residents of the United States owe their allegiance to the American Constitution, and to the equal rights of every individual, which are enshrined in the First Amendment? If you have not, what are you waiting for?
Officials of some Islamic organizations are on record as having said that they look forward to Islam becoming the dominant religion in the United States, with the Qur’an and Sunnah (derived from the hadith and sira) becoming the law in America. They work to undermine the both the U. S. government and the U. S. Constitution so that one day America could be vulnerable to an Islamic takeover, not necessarily by violence, but a takeover nonetheless? Have you reported such people to the proper government authorities on grounds of sedition?
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16353
When you hear statements in sermons (khutbas) that clearly preach the imposition of the Sharia, and the end of the American Constitution, do you report these people? Do you agree that your responsibility as Muslims is to monitor what is being preached in the name of Islam?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33898
Can you understand why Americans oppose a belief-system that is in direct contradiction to basic American values, and regard it as dangerous? Can you understand that responding with sappy name-calling, labeling Americans as “prejudice” or “Islamophobic” when they demonstrate a rational response to an understanding of traditional Islamic doctrine is not the way to mitigate the concerns of the American people?
If Islamists currently living in the U.S. strive to live under Islamic law, have you explained to them that this nation was founded, (as President Lincoln summed up) with a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
While working in the medical field, I have helped rehabilitate people of all faiths, including Muslims. And yes, some are friends of mine. They want nothing to do with Sharia – in fact, they came to America to get away from it. The assumption that some Muslim organizations have made that we Americans are gullible simpletons, incapable of understanding the Qur’an, or the hadith, is simply not true. We are learning, and not from the laundered versions of the Qur’an. Not from the apologist’s portrayal of Islam.
Recently, a nationwide survey conducted by Cornell University was published. The report indicated that 44% of Americans want Muslim civil liberties restricted. 44% of the American population (estimated at 294 million) translates into roughly 129.4 million people. This poll also included internals, which identified that 27% supported all Muslim Americans being required to register their addresses with the federal government, while 22% favored profiling (not “racial” but “ideological”) to identify potential terrorist threats. Those polled stated that they based their views on what they have seen, heard, read and learned.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec04/Muslim.Poll.bpf.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004347.php
In this country, trust is earned, not freely handed out. What steps are your organizations taking to improve relations with the American people? The texts of Islam cannot be shielded with a defense comprised of attempts to intimidate and silence Americans who question them by filing civil lawsuits. Nor will relations improve while those who question Islam are categorized as “bigots,” “racists” (Islam is not a race), and “Islamophobes”.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16340
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12898Do we somehow owe it to you to ignore what we have learned? Instead of constantly demanding that the government do something about so-called “Islamophobia”, think about why Americans react this way to Islam after reading the content contained in the Qur’an concerning the treatment of non-Muslims.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/004454.php
As the nation becomes increasingly informed, the Cornell poll figure of 44% will almost certainly rise, as it may already be too low. The fact that Muslim organizations work against the Patriot Act, and against American policymaking without Muslim input or “control” is likely complicating matters.
Different backgrounds and skin colors are certainly not all that make this beautiful country what it is. Diverse likes and dislikes, combined with a common appreciation for our freedoms also play a vital role.
Millions are members of the NRA. Millions are in favor of gun control. Millions ride their “choppers”, “fat boys”, and “soft tails” flying the American flag from the back of their bikes. Millions of others have never ridden anything faster than a Huffy.
Millions are members of the Ironworkers, Bricklayers, Electricians, Roofers, Carpenters, Concrete workers, Laborers, UAW, Grocers, Police and Fire, and Teamsters Unions. Millions are non-union Truckers, Factory workers, Bankers, Trash Collectors, and Fast Food Workers.
We are the athletes and fans of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR, and the NHRA.
Millions listen to Rap, Metal, and Country music. Millions listen to Classical, Jazz, Bluegrass, and lighter Rock.
Yet, with all of these differences comes unity, and deep love for our culture.
Imagine Islamists strolling into an American sporting event or pub, publicly announcing to Americans their plan to impose Islamic law here, explaining that once implemented, all of the freedoms Americans cherish will be abolished. Such an announcement would certainly generate a response that would no doubt be a newsworthy sight to behold. Since Islamists choose a more underhanded approach, we are making that announcement for them. We, meaning all of the websites, authors, publishers and bloggers who refuse to be bullied by anyone. We will continue to inform the uninformed, until Islamism is vanquished.
There is, however, still a chance. A more intelligent, realistic strategy would be for those Muslims who consider the Sharia the only acceptable law for them, to seek a more suitable place to live. Meanwhile, Muslims willing to adapt to, and respect the American way of life, stop demanding preferential treatment, stop promoting Islam in prisons and especially our public schools, accept the Constitution, and halt all attempts to silence the criticism of Islam by no longer denying what has been revealed to so many of us, are welcome to stay. They too, however, should understand that we “Infidels” have no sure way to distinguish them from the “Islamists.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004445.php
Americans are fed up with the idea that they should “learn about Islam”. Truthfully, they have learned what they know not by choice, but out of concern for this nation’s future. Here is the meaningful difference. Americans are learning the unpolished version of Islam, not the mystical illusion that Muslim “Guest Speakers” are presenting to our children in school.
The Cornell study demonstrates that more and more Americans are becoming better informed, sending poll results in the wrong direction for Islamic militants lurking in our cities. Tens of millions of Americans are intent on smashing any attempted assault on our freedoms and values.
For Muslim organizations in America: This is your shot at greatness. Will you team with us to remove the presence of radical Islam in the U.S., much of it supported by funding from abroad, and remove all the influences of those who threaten, in every way, our way of life?
If you will not, the blame, and imminent results of growing distrust cannot be placed on our shoulders, savvy?
DC Watson is a nationally certified Physiologist, licensed X-ray Technologist, Medical Case Examiner, and non-famous former Wrestler. He resides in Western Pennsylvania.
Yep, Americans are fed up DC. Good piece.
Yamamoto's mythic Giant is stirred awake indeed. Woe to the fools who have disturbed his slumber for they shall behold the Face of Shiva as have those who molested his repose in the past.
It's too bad the jihadis are not informed of the work of Harold Hotelling, Duncan Black, Maurice Duverger, et al, for they could have at least understood the futility of their choice to challenge Western civilization with their primative 7th century notions of natural order. Yes Mahmud, we are sorry to inform you that those lights in the night sky are not the campfires of our ancestors. Through the power of Western "magic" we have walked on the abode of the moon god himself, have sifted the sands of Mars, learned to produce 150% of our food needs with only 3% of our population, and also harnessed the power of the atom to incinerate our enemies. You just keep poking that stick in the Giant's ribs.
Good letter as usual, DC. Let us know if you get a response from anyone.
A really terrific piece, I hope it has been sent to every Islamic web site on the planet.
Quoth General (Admiral?) Yamamoto:
"Gentlemen, I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and instilled in him a terrible resolve."
No, he went back to sleep in '45. Its going to take a hell of a lot more than 9-11 to kick him awake again.
DC...you had me there until the last paragraph. The Mobots that take threats to heart are not the ones to worry about. It's the ones that don't care if they die that should worry us.
Surely the 9-11 terrorists thought that there would be a nasty anti-Muslim backlash in America (when in fact what transpired was the complete opposite... well, there's always next time.)
Picture's a little better than last time; drop the totally-irrelevant accreditations.
If Americans as a whole, ever manage to understand exactly what they are facing, meaning these extreme forms of Islam ARE the enemy, it won't wait to act. America is still hoping that understanding and acceptance will win the day. If these Jihadists ever manage to attack America again, you will witness a resolve that will last a generation and will impact every Muslim in America.
I hope this never happens, but I agree with DC, if it does then Muslims will be the ones responsible. They claim that we don't understand them, I am afraid that is a two way street and Muslims don't want to have to look down that road...
Moose
Zo, infidel. You have apparently been reading a non-Arabic language version of our holy book, plus related documents, and are creating out of context interpretations of various passages for your non-believing audience. As you know, only highly trained Islamic scholars are permitted to make such interpretations.
You alzo claim to have Muslim friends. If they are really good Muslims, this cannot be zo. Please provide us with the names, addresses and telephone numbers of these zo-called "friends" zo that we can verify the veracity of your claim, and zo that we might alzo address the error of their ways with them if what you say is correct.
Noting, too, that you are a white-boy, racist, islamophobic, big-brute biker-type, we are passing your description on to Omar, of our Inquisition and Enforcement Brigade for some appropriate action. Perhaps they will confront you at Sturgis.
Take this email blog as a warning from our group (Equal Rights For Everyone In America Under Sharia Law--except infidels and women, of course--) to stop hassling Muslims, dude.
Not yours,
Muhamed
LOL - that's beautiful, Bob.
DC Watson, you´re a brave man, but this people is blind and deaf, is impossible to reason with this people, greetings
Hey Mohammad, did you know that America has freedom of speech? Whenever islam is critisized, why do you and your other f**king morons play the racist card? When Christianty is criticized, and you muzzies are the father of it, it's ignored? Hey Mo, does the real truth in islam realy hurt you? Come on Mo! Play the racist card! Come on! Hit me with your racist rhetoric if you have nothing better to say. You muzzies are all the same. You don't diserve to live here!
If you will not, the blame, and imminent results of growing distrust cannot be placed on our shoulders, savvy?
Right ON.
Golly, Umma.
Were you referring to me?
Bob (not really Muhamed).
So sorry Bob. I didn't realize that your comments were sarcastic.Please accept my apologies.
Ummagumma - maybe that's because an angry Muzzie is beyond parody! An easy mistake to make.
Thank you DC. As bright as ever.
Related to the promoters of Shari'a law --an anti-Contitutional legal code--, a congressual Anti-sedition Act is in order.
Thank you DC. As bright as ever.
Related to the promoters of Shari'a law --an anti-Contitutional legal code--, a congressual Anti-sedition Act is in order.
Posted by: Joel Català at January 4, 2005 09:50 AM
Joel, I'm still trying to understand why the muslim neanderthals in America can make overt threats to overthrow our government with impunity! I addressed this question to all of my congressional representatives in Washington and in response, I got nearly identical form letters admonishing me for my impertinence, and reiterating the well-known fact that everyone is free to worship the religion of his choice in America. The fact that Islam is antithetical to our culture, our government, and our civilization is irrelevant. This struggle boils down to the survival of the fittest, and will depend on the will of the American people and whether we have the backbone and determination to rid our country of its avowed enemies. Our government, as it is now postured, will not help us.
I interpret this to mean that seditious muslims are protected under the Constitutional rights of free speech and freedom of religion. They may practice treason and incite jihad with no culpability. We've obviously come a long way from the communist witch-hunts of the fifties and now it is perfectly acceptable for our enemies to live here and openly plot the destruction of our government. Our colleges and universities are staffed by Marxists and radical muslim professors; our public schools are staffed by left-wing, self-hating, socialist, multiculturalist moral relativists; our entertainment industry is obsessed with pornography and violence but claims to embrace "peace" at any cost.
What a mess this country has become!
here is an except from a good article I read couple of years back..
The perils of 'multiculturalism'
Varsha Bhosle
There's an interesting debate occurring in the US, accelerated by a Washington Times commentary by Cal Thomas, who posits that "When Muslims gain political power, the historical and contemporary record is not encouraging for people who hold democratic values and are of the 'Judeo-Christian' persuasion. If politicians succumb to pressure from Muslim activist groups and equate Islam with the religious and political heritage of this country, we will know that an important beachhead has been attained by our enemies. From their behavior in other parts of the world, one can safely predict they will use this beachhead to advance their cause."
"Beachhead" denotes an area on a hostile shore occupied to secure further landing of troops and supplies. In Quranic terms, "beachhead" would be a foothold in a land where the writ of the Sharia does not run -- Dar-ul Harb or 'land of war' -- all of which must be conquered and transformed into Dar-ul Islam, the domain of Islam.
A week after the article, the Associated Press reported that a centuries-old Episcopal church in Boston will receive a federal historic preservation grant, as part of a campaign by President Bush "to remove barriers that have prevented faith-based groups from being treated fairly in the public square." The new policy drew howls from Americans United for Separation of Church and State because "It's really a gross abuse of tax dollars to drop public funds into the collection plate of an active church." This, despite the church being the very place where two lanterns were hung to signal Paul Revere that the British were coming.
Are the two items related, you think? Hmm... I guess I'll have to do the spoon-feeding required for the rocket scientists of the message board: Yes, related; the link is "multiculturalism." Rather, the dangers inherent in that idiotic concept which only serves to divide a nation and add or aggravate communal strife.
Multiculturalism is the antithesis of nationalism; it highlights the differences between peoples while ignoring the similarities. Multiculturalism is not about ethnic/racial/religious diversity -- that which once made America into a "melting pot" of nations. Under the influence of pointy-headed intellectuals, America came to consist of many different "pots" of cultures, each separate, impenetrable, and isolated from the others. In a land of diversity, when a person of a majority community -- not necessarily in terms of religion -- is told that another's culture is very different from his and thus must be "protected" at all costs, the minorities are automatically regarded as "them." And when that "protection" impinges on the rights of the majority, the minorities come to be seen as the "enemy." This is simply human nature, not in any government's control. However, resentments simmer and, at a time of crisis, quickly turn into acts of violence. Which acts, of course, are controllable by the law of the land. But my question is: Why create a divisive ethos in the first place??
Nationalism, on the other hand, highlights the similarities between peoples while obscuring the differences. It seeks to "melt" everybody into one unit, which, as a whole, reveres the nation, even as single members of the unit sustain cultural differences -- on an individual basis. That "individual basis" is what true secularism is all about. Secularism exists when the State does not espouse a religion; lets its citizens follow their different faiths even while preventing any one from intruding on the others; and treats all religions equally -- regardless of the number of people following each religion. Meaning, whether the majority or the minority community, one rule applies to all. "Special-interest groups" does not make for national unity and never will -- only assimilation can. It's the reason why Hindus, even today, think of Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists as basically Hindu. But the pinkos painted this as an evil designed to destroy those religions and managed to brainwash the Sikhs. Result: Hello, Khalistan...
Let's go back to Mr Thomas. His grouse is that Muslim advocacy groups, including CAIR and the American Muslim Council, are pushing for the elimination of references to "Judeo-Christian" when describing American heritage. CAIR and the American Muslim Alliance want "Judeo-Christian-Islamic" to replace that phrase "in all venues where we normally talk about Judeo-Christian values, starting with the media, academia, statements by politicians and comments made in churches, synagogues and other places." (But not 'mosque,' Mr Thomas notes.)
Point to ponder: Which American values can, even remotely, be called Islamic? Democracy? Freedom? Equality? Secularism? Gender equity? Freedom of thought? The right to free expression? The right to critique any holy cow? Does even one of these values exist in a single Islamic state...? Is even one of these values extended to all Muslim citizens of an Islamic state? Then, how can the constitution, the culture and the heritage of America be said to be influenced by Islam??? What is this need to introduce Islam in the heritage of a country which is no longer -- and hasn't been since a long, long time -- a nation of migrants?
A bigger point to ponder: What would be the fate of Hindus working in Saudi Arabia if they should advocate the replacement of the word "Islamic" with "Islamic-Hindu" in all references to the kingdom's heritage...?
Democracy, Secularism and Judeo-Christian values have met to bequeath certain rights to the utter Islamists of groups such as CAIR and AMA that enable them to make ludicrous demands -- and not be beheaded for it. It is these traditions that Islamists use as a foothold to organise themselves politically and, eventually, change the demography and the political climate of a land -- the existence of Pakistan being a prime example of that. The New York Times of February 23, 2002, reveals how CAIR began a nationwide voter-drive seeking to register more than 100,000 Muslim voters before the November elections, because "Muslim people feel disenfranchised. They feel they do not get the same political attention as other minorities." Yes, of course, that's how Mohammed Ali Jinnah, too, began... Good luck, America!
Such zeal in sectarian lobbying shouldn't come as a surprise to Hindus. For, according to Syed Abu-Ala' Maududi -- a Muslim scholar of British India whose commentaries on the Quran are widely respected -- "Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and programme, regardless of which Nation assumes the role of the standard-bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process... Islam requires the earth -- not just a portion, but the whole planet -- not because the sovereignty over the earth should be wrested from one Nation or several Nations and vested in one particular Nation, but because the entire mankind should benefit from the ideology..." (From a speech delivered on April 13, 1939, at the Town Hall in Lahore.)
It's as Raj writes: "...when the Muslim population reaches a critical mass: decimation." Or, Partition. Or, whatever it takes to fulfill the purpose of Islam. The more I observe and compare the demands of the Islamists of India to those of other countries, the more I'm convinced that it's only the proportion of "mass" that saves the non-Muslim majorities from civil war. For, no matter what the Islamists ask or do, the so-called Moderate Muslims remain as quiet as ever -- with the excuse that they have "no voice." Methinks, after Muslims reach a critical mass, these M&Ms simply give up even that excuse. I really can't see any other explanation for the continuing lack of debate amongst M&Ms over the questions that confound non-Muslims:
Why do Muslims insert Islam in all spheres of social and political debate even in countries where they are a minority?
Why do Muslims incorporate Islamic religious traditions in the public life of secular countries?
When will Muslims take a rational look at Quranic teachings and suppress those that demean other faith-based groups?
Why can't Muslims accept that there is such a thing as Islamic terrorism, and summarily condemn it?
Why do Muslims deny that there flourishes the idea of an Islamic world order, one which is attractive to almost all Muslims?
Why is it that people of other faiths are antagonised by the Muslim minority as a group?
Can everybody else be wrong, and only Muslims, right...?
What makes the job of Islamists easier is "multiculturalism" -- that which was invented and is pushed by Leftists. As Paul Roberts wrote in the Washington Times of November 16, 2001: "The political left endorses multiculturalism as an assault on US national identity. Libertarians endorse multiculturalism, because they favor anything that dissolves the state, and there's no better way to dissolve a state than to dissolve national identity." Some of the demands and assertions by the US' "multiculturalists" (including US Islamists, who themselves would never dream of ceding any rights to 'infidels' living under the Sharia) are astonishing. But more mind-boggling is the fact that most of the demands have been met:
President Bush had to change the name of the operation against terrorism from 'Infinite Justice' to 'Enduring Freedom' because, according to the mullahs, infinite justice can be rendered only by Allah.
Sultaana Freeman and Najat Tamim-Muhammad, both of Florida, are suing to keep their veils on for driver's license photographs. That is, they want to be issued an ID card that won't allow their identification (pretty convenient for female fidayeen, no?). CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper says, "To take it off would be the equivalent of some other woman being forced to remove her blouse." (Eh??)
Faced with persistent demands, NYC Schools Chancellor Harold Levy decreed that public schools must set aside a room for Muslim children to pray in during Ramzan. Christians cannot pray in school during Christmas; Jews can't during Hanukkah. No "liberal," not even the ACLU, protested against this merging of mosque with state.
"Liberals" and Islamists demanded that foreign terrorists, including Al Qaeda jihadis, should not go before a military tribunal. They should be given a lawyer, preferably in the mould of OJ Simpson's, and an open trial so that closely guarded secrets can be bared to the world.
A Muslim girl attending high school in Fort Worth, Tx, won the right to wear a hijab while playing soccer. High-school Muslim students in Williamsport, Penn, gained the right to take swimming instruction in private. A Muslim boy in Gainesville, Fl, was permitted to violate his school's dress code when his parents explained that untucked shirts were more modest. A Muslim woman of Kansas City, Missouri, was accepted as a medical student even though she refused to be palpated by male colleagues, disrupting the practice of having students learn by physical examination.
Muslims were in America before Columbus; Muslim navigators led Columbus to a little island in the Bahamas, a settlement of Islamic Mandinkas from Africa; Muslims from both Spain and West Africa sailed to America at least 5 centuries before Columbus... In October 2002, seminars explaining how Muslims discovered America were held in major cities and mosques all over the US.
Today, this last one seems like a pathetic dead-weight. But, how different is it from the theme that Lord Ram is a myth and the demolished structure wasn't built on temple land? Or, Lord Krishna is a myth and Mahabharat and Dwarka, mere fairy tales? A century from now, America could well see the progeny of CAIR declaring Muslim rights over California on the strength of the Muslims-discovered-America argument! And, pinko historians would support that...
What happens when such "multicultural" Islamic agitations occur repeatedly, at the cost of other religions? Obviously, a revolt from the other communities. The federal preservation grant to the Boston church is one; another is the case of the decorated spruce tree in the provincial assembly of Manitoba, Canada: Since 1990, the tree was officially called the "Multicultural tree." However, on December 15, 2001, Premier Gary Doer brought back the Christmas tree -- thereby reversing the trend of the legislature's shunning the words 'Christmas' and 'Jesus.' Some victory for the sake of the hijab, in'nit?
On an individual level, the 'Letters' sections of American newspapers reveal where Americans are moving; one example: "I would like to know how Muslim students got permission to pray during the Ramadan holiday when the US Supreme Court prohibits officially sponsored prayer in public schools... If all prayer is prohibited, then it should stand for everyone, with no exceptions." (The New York Post; November 17, 2001). Just like the Hindutva disgust over the denial of the UCC, in'nit? But most of all, the revolt is obvious from the fact that I, a person in Mumbai, knows minute details about Islamist demands in even Smalltown, USA: The anger is being openly vented. Not being a nation at all influenced by Gandhian values, America's Muslims better watch out for the backlash there.
Dear Mr Watson and Jihad Watch Readers:
A colleague of mine forwarded me your letter and I thought it appropriate to respond as a representative of an American Muslim organisation, the Free Muslim Coailition Against Terrorism and as a secular Muslim.
As an initial observation, your appeal is a respectful one. You correctly avoid making sweeping generalisations when you distinguish between radical Muslims and those Muslims who do appreciate and cherish the rights and freedoms of the United States (and there are many).
I will try and respond to each question:
1. What specifically are your organizations doing to rid our cities of those who believe that the American Constitution is merely man-made law, and hence to be replaced by Islamic laws?
Our organisation firmly believes in secularism; that is, Islam should have no role in governance. The basis of our belief lies in our interpretation of the Qu'ran. (http://www.freemuslims.org/document.php?id=44) Our organisation and members firmly believe in the American Constitution and its underpinnings. Specifically, we are challenging the traditional Muslim orthodoxy. Our members are speaking in mosques, and in Muslim communities. Although our movement does not have the strength of the Islamist Muslim organisations such as CAIR, we are gathering strength everyday. We are unifying these Muslim voices and amplifying them in as many ways as we can, whether it be in print, on the radio or on television.
2.When you hear statements in sermons (khutbas) that clearly preach the imposition of the Sharia, and the end of the American Constitution, do you report these people? Do you agree that your responsibility as Muslims is to monitor what is being preached in the name of Islam?
Our organisation has done this on some levels. Several Chapter have initiated Khutbah Watch programmes aimed at mnitoring the content of Friday Jummah Prayer sermons. It is a relatively new programme that needs time to succeed. We are in the stages of compiling a report of the programmes findings.
We have also initiated the "Eye on Extremism" programme which implores Muslims to report any suspicious activity, rhetoric to the proper authorities and our organisation so that we can mke it public. This programme has been in effect for about six months. Muslims have come forward to us to report extremism in their communities.
3. Can you understand why Americans oppose a belief-system that is in direct contradiction to basic American values, and regard it as dangerous? Can you understand that responding with sappy name-calling, labeling Americans as “prejudice” or “Islamophobic” when they demonstrate a rational response to an understanding of traditional Islamic doctrine is not the way to mitigate the concerns of the American people?
We do certainly understand why some Americans have hostile feelings towards Islam. Most Muslims have done very little to deflect or change these feelings. Generally speaking, Islamaphobia is a myth. Since 11 September, Islamist Muslim organisations such as CAIR have perpetuated this myth and have employed the tool of "victimisation". There have been certain incidents of violence against Muslims, and we certainly condemn them.
However, when a commentator launches criticism (often legitimate)towards our faith, they are demonised (Just ask Mr Spencer, Mr Pipes, Mr Ibn Waraq, and yourself Mr Watson). When groups like CAIR campaign to destroy the career of Daniel Pipes by stringing together piecemeal comments taken out of context against Islam, they are undermining the principles of democracy that they supposedly cherish.
Critics of Islam, even the ones harshest to our ears (Ibn Waraq and Dr Alia) need to be heard, not only by non-Muslims but by Muslims as well. They provide tey insight that could help us reform.
We have been given a golden opportunity. Some good could have come from 11 September and its progeny. Yet we have collectively failed to take this opportunity to change our way of thinking and change the way we think about Islam.
Our organisation however has taken the lead role in trying to make these changes. I will not (at the moment) delve into the exacts requirements of an Islamic reformation (thats a popular word lately). We all know what is needed ( a serious re-evaluation of our classical texts with a keen eye to abandoning the Sunnah and developing a new exegetical methodology, which our organisation is working on).
I am happy to discuss these issues with any of your readers. Please email me at t.haidon@justice.com.
Yours sincerely
Thomas Haidon
Board of Advisors- Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism
www.newzealand.freemuslims.org
Greetings from Germany. As always, Watson gets it right. Someday, we might need your help again. People here have just started to wake up and there is almost no resitance against totalitarian Islam in Europe.