From The Telegraph, with thanks to Anthony:
The editor of the world's leading Arab newspaper has launched a scathing attack on Muslims in Britain for turning a blind eye to terrorist fund-raising activities on their own doorstep.
Why can he say this and Blair can't?
Writing in the wake of Thursday's bombings, Tariq Al-Humayd, the editor-in-chief of London-based Al-Sharq Al Awsat (The Middle East), claimed that collections were frequently held in the capital's Arab areas for jihadi causes in the guise of charities.In a strongly worded editorial, he said that those enjoying the freedom of life in Britain had a "responsibility" to scrutinise such collections carefully, and if necessary prevent them taking place.
"In London, we have seen, and are seeing, the money being collected in the streets, and the conventions under various titles, and everyone is inciting jihad in our Arab countries and cursing the land of unbelief in which they live," he wrote.
"When you express amazement [at this], they tell you that this is freedom. Has freedom no responsibility? No one answers."
Along these lines, I read an article about how we can secretly be funding terrorism by the things we buy and support. Will try to find the article.
reminds me of a quote about Colombian cocaine cartels. something to the effect of .10 of every $ spent on cocaine is used to fund assassinations of judges and cops in south america.
begs the question;
how many of the miles we put on our vehicles help kill the adversaries and victims of islamofascism
along another line of thought, is this guy honest, and therefore someone we should support,
or is it just fronting.
in his defense, i can't recall the last time i heard a muslim talk about personal responsibility other than in relation to blind obedience to islam exclusively and to the neglect of all other institutions, regardless of
how a muslim may benefit from them.
He's fronting -- I'm convinced that only an extremely small minority of Muslims can be believed...
... and unfortunately those are the ones who chant "Death to America" and the ones who admit their acts of terror are deeply rooted in their Islamic faith... But I believe all Muslims are horrible thralls with hatred in their hearts...