How can young Muslims learn Islam's true message of peace, and not be bamboozled by the myriad Muslim Misunderstanders of Islam who lurk on the Internet? Laurel Bowman of the VOA (an organization that should know better) goes for an answer to Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked unindicted co-conspirator CAIR. "Muslim Leaders Grapple with How to Protect Their Youth," by Laurel Bowman for the Voice of America, December 18:
At one of the largest mosques in the United States, Muslim leaders are trying to create a safe haven for young people to learn Islam's lessons about peace. But can those leaders protect their youth from the doubts that lurk within them? Muslim leaders renewed efforts following the arrest of five American Muslims in Pakistan who allegedly tried to join terrorist groups using the Internet.It's a battle of bodies and for minds on this basketball court just outside Washington. It's Tuesday night at the Adams Center, one of the largest mosques in the U.S. The young people here are hard at play, and the Muslim elders are hard at work trying to keep them engaged in positive activities. [...]
"Many of young people are vulnerable to being preyed on," said Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. Awad helped broker talks between the FBI and the families of the young men arrested in Pakistan. He says Muslim leaders had already started looking at dangers on the Internet before the men went missing.
"On the Internet, the other side is trying to exploit people's feelings, and they give them instructions on how to do wrong things and we have to give (them) tools and manuals also on how to stay cool and level-headed and stay reasoned and don't get yourself and others in trouble," Awad said.
At the Adams Center that discussion has started too.
"We are telling parents, 'Hey this is what was available on the Internet, this is what your kids are able to do and some basic tips on if you want to increase security this is how you can do it," Ahmad stated.
What's most important, says Ahmad, is keeping young people in the game of peaceful resolution, what he calls a true teaching of Islam.
What exactly are they teaching to show these young people that the jihadists are misusing Islamic texts and teachings? Not surprisingly, this article doesn't say.
What exactly are they teaching to show these young people that the jihadists are misusing Islamic texts and teachings? Not surprisingly, this article doesn't say.
Not surprising to those of us who know Islam and its (7th century) tenets written into the Koran and Hadiths, that 61% calls for domination of the non-Islamic "other" with violence or guile, while 2.6% calls for peaceful intentions towards a universal humanity. And the latter "peaceful" is mostly in the earlier Meccan texts when Mohammad was not yet dominant. What would they quote from their "holy" texts about teaching the would-be Jihadists how Islam is peace? That 2.6% is dominant over the 61%? Not too convincing an argument, is it? Nevertheless, good luck with it.
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"what he calls a true teaching of Islam."
He has some explaining to do. Part of the explaining is textual. He might start with 9.5 and 9.29 and explain what "young Muslims" should make of those passages and the rest of Sura 9. Then he can go on to discuss the 100-odd passages from the Qur'an that are to be found helpfully collected in the Calcutta Koran Petition. After that, he should be able to explain, that is try to explain away, a few hundred at least of the most "authentic" Hadith that appear to suggest quite an aggressive, murderously hate-filled, attitude toward all non-Muslims. And after that, he will have to explain exactly how Muhammad, regarded as al-insan al-kamil, the Perfect Man, remains a model to be emulated, despite his watching with evident pleasure the mass butchreing of the bound prisoners of the Banu Qurayza, and having planned and executed the attack on the inoffensive farmers of the Khaybar Oasis, who were oblivious to Muhammad, but had loot (and women) he wanted, for himself and his followers. And he will have to explain the killings of Abu Afak and Asma bint Marwan. He will have to explain Muhammad's remark about how "war is deception." He will have to explain not only what is in the Qur'an, the Hadith, the Sira, but also explain what all the most important Muslim commentators on these texts had to say about what they mean, and what they had to say about Infidels, and the treatment of Infidels. Surely he knows these things. And surely, by now, he knows that he cannot hermetically seal off knowledge of such things from Infidels, by all the usual wiles and guiles -- "You have to know Arabic" (80% of the world's Muslims do not know Arabic, and most Arabs do not know the classical Arabic of the Qur'an) which becomes, more or less, "you have to be a Muslim to have a view on Islam -- the rest of you have no right to an opinion." No, we beg to differ. Islam is not elementary particle physics. The texts and tenets of Islam can be studied, and have been studied, studied by many Western schiolars in the period before the Great Inhibition and Great Intimidation set in, and their works are available all over the place, and many have been reprinted, or are being reprinted or have been copiously quoted from on-line, made available to all.
It's now too late to keep inveigling and fooling, and distracting or attempting to distract. The worst nightmare of Muslims is that we Infidels will actually look, without their guidance, at what Islam inculcates. And so some of us have. And so more of us are doing, every day -- prompted, in large part, by the day's Jihad news, and by the transparent falsehoods uttered in defenese of Islam by those who, in so doing, merely increase the level of suspicion rightly-directed at them sky-high.
"and we have to give (them) tools and manuals also on how to stay cool and level-headed and stay reasoned and don't get yourself and others in trouble," Awad said."
Think about it.
....and don't get yourselves, and others.....caught.
The obvious question is: why is this necessary for Muslims, and not for others? What is contained in the texts of Islam, what becomes the subject of khutbahs (Friday Prayer sermons) by imams, what is it that any Muslim can read inthe Qur'an, Hadith, Sira or learn about on Islamic websites, that makes them prone to "getting into trouble"? What can it be? Surely vague allusions, the perfectly-explicable somehow never explained, are not satisfactory. The refusal of Muslim clerics, Muslim spokesmen, individual Believers, to be anything but defensive, and at times hysterically so, rather than to examine calmly the texts of Islam, is telling. They can't do so, because for Infidels those texts are so worrisome, so damning, that it is only by a continued collective effort at refusing to look (one that members of various Western governments and security services have been doing, and have a solemn responsibility to stop doing, now) at those texts and tenets, that one can justify the madness of ever having allowed Muslims to settle in large numbers in the countries of the West, where they now, especially in Western Europe, are an growing source of anxiety and alarm, where their presence disrupts, causes enormous headaches in schools and hospitals, undoes social cohesion, unhinges many, causes great and growing expense for monitoring those Muslim "communities," makes members of some identifiable groups feel, and with good reason, especially threatened physically (look at how Jews must in many cities remove identifying symbols -- Stars of David, kippahs, etc. -- for fear of attack, or how Hindus in certain English cities have to watch their step).
This can't go on. Or rather, it can go on, until it can go on no further, and either a kind of hell descends, or all hell breaks lose. Such an outcome is perfectly avoidable, if everyone holds onto his reason, and examines, calmly, the texts of Islam, and the effect of those texts seen in the observable behavior of Muslims, in countries where they can get away with anything (Dar al-Islam), and in countries where, at the moment, they cannot (Dar al-Harb), but are trying, through tactics designed not to arouse attention, to achieve the same goals as those in Al Qaeda, Jaish al-Muhammad, Lashker-e-Toiba, Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar al-Islam, and a thousand other groups, or ten thousand groupuscules, or by lone individuals, such as Majr Nidal Hasan, acting all by himself, but with the guidance of the texts of Islam.
Too bad Nihad missed the career opportunity of his life when he could not get to the parents of the 19 hijackers in time prior to 9/11/2001, rats !
If only such a brilliant program was in action at CAIR or any other organization, the parents of these 19 misunderstanders of the "true religion" would not have killed 3,000 human beings, being prevented by their parents, now becoming more aware of the danger of internet content and browser security issues.
Or would they?
Only Allah knows the answer.
Peace
Krazy Kafir
that's exactly how I read it.
It's all about not getting caught.
"Many of the young people are vulnerable to being preyed on" immortal words from Nihad Awad. Much like the immortal words of Omar Ahmad CAIR's Co-founder: "Islam is not in America to be equal but to become dominant. The quran, muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America and islam the only accepted religion on earth".
So Nihad will spew CAIR's co-founders dreams and words to vulnerable young people, in front of the camera's appear to be mainstream, caring and open. When the intent by CAIR's co-founder is to scrap the U.S. Constitution in favor of Sharia law. Ahmad is clear: islam is not in America to be equal but to become dominant. That is superiority. That is seditious. That is Anti-American. Those words from the self proclaimed largest muslim civil rights group in America.
The ADAMS center is right here in Sterling, VA, just one minute (literally) away from our home. I did not know it is one of the largest mosques in the U.S.! It's always packed on Friday, and I have seen the boys playing basketball. The Imam is Mohamed Magid. What do we know about him? I will do a search of his name.
I was curious, so I went to the link of the ADAMS center, to try and find copies of sermons. None. And the only article by the Imam is one entitled "Parenthood": http://www.adamscenter.org/Islam/ImamArticles/Parenthood.aspx. No link to sermons. Are they in English or Arabic? Do they tape them?
To get on their email list you must provide the following information:
Your Name, Phone #, and Address
Are you an ADAMS member?
Two references of people you know within the community
Which jumaa do you attend at ADAMS or other Masjid adams1-owner@yahoogroups.com
Hmmm....I would like to see what their emails say, but I'm not about to give them my phone number, or provide "references". And why the references? I wonder if they would send it to me without all the above info. Well, I just found a link to the current newsletter (October 2009, nothing more current):
http://www.adamscenter.org/AboutUs/Newsletter/HeartbeatV3_I27.pdf
I noticed there are no women in the picture from the article which is linked above.