[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed [18847512]
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed [18847512]
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed [18847512]
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed [18847512]
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT Jusfiq Hadjar
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OAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Jusfig mengangggu orang lagi. Ngga kapok-kapoknya nggangguin orang. Kemaren bilang, kristen kejam, biadab dan sadis. Sekarang bilang Islam yang begitu. Konsisten Fiq. Ayo kalo ngga konsisten, tak setrum lagi tititnya (dia takut pemirsa, liat aja paling juga mengkeret anune). Jusfiq Hadjar [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis: Yang membom Bali untuk kedua kalinya berkemungkinan orang Islam lagi - belum pasti sih. Tapi saya repost tulisan Abdel Rahman al-Rashed ini untuk kesekian kalinya, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jusfiq Hadjar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoogroups.com. Learn more Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:05:21 + Subject: Re: [apakabar] Jufiq: Kristen Tipikal keji, ganas, biadab Jusfiq Hajar wrote: Orang Kristen Tipikal kudu biasa disodori dan menatap kenyataan - dan saya tidak akan bosan mengulang ini - yaitu : ajaran Kristen Tipikal itu sungguh buas, kejam, keji, biadab lagi ganas. Ada perintah untuk memerangi orang kafir, artinya perintah untuk saling berbunuhan, ada perintah untuk memotong tangan pencuri, ada perintah bagi suami untuk memukul istri yang bandel... Perintah ini sungguh biadab. Perintah ini sungguh kejam. Perintah ini sungguh keji. Perintah ini sungguh ganas. Perintah ini sungguh biadab. (Dan masih banyak contoh lain..). Tidak semua ajaran Kristen Tipikal itu buas, kejam, keji, biadab lagi ganas. Tapi ini tidak mengubah kenyataan bahwa ajaran Kristen Tipikal itu buas, kejam, keji, biadab lagi ganas. Dan untuk memanusiawikan ajaran Kristen Tipikal itu hanya ada satu cara: menyatakan ajaran buas, kejam, keji, biadab lagi ganas sebagaimana adanya yaitu buas, kejam, keji, biadab lagi ganas! Jadi ajaran buas, kejam, keji, biadab lagi ganas harus dicampakkan jauh-jauh. Dan saya ulang: mengatakan ajaran Kristen Tipikal itu tidak mengenal kekerasan seperti yang dikatkan beberapa peserta mailinglist ini adalah dusta. Kebuasan, kekejaman, kekejian, kebiadaban dan keganasan kudu ditolak... Titik. Dan kalau Yesus membenarkan kebuasan, kekejaman, kekejian, kebiadaban dan keganasan maka kita kudu berani berkata bahwa Yesus itu sungguh buas, kejam, keji, biadab dan ganas. Dan kudu disanggah. Dan saya berkata lebih jauh: seperti entah sudah berapa kali saya repost disini ( Pahit kedengarannnya? Tapi begitulah kenyataan. = PAREWA PAREWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis:HOAHAHAHAHAHHA AHAHAHAHAHAHA Kalua juo waan akhirnya Jusfiq. Hoahahahaooaha. Satu lagi rahasia si Jusfiq: Dia ini Bapak biologis dari misionaris Kristen Tipikal yang mengaku-ngaku sebagai adiknya Buya Hamka tahun lalu di Padang. Jadi harap pemirsa tidak tertipu dengan nama dan gelar Setannya, yang ngaku-ngaku Islam Mutazilah. Dia ini aslinya misionaris Kristen Tipikal yang dibiayai belajar dan tinggal di Padang. Jadi fasih dia bahasa Minang. Rantau.net sudah ketipu menyangka si Jusfiq orang Minang. Makanya jangan percaya simbol primordial. Orang ini pula yang menyiarkan radio misi Kristen Tipikal berbahasa Minang dari Leiden. Duitnya mak besar. HOAOAOAOAO Rahasia berikutnya menyusul. Jusfiq Hadjar [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis: Ya, itulah yang saya hargai dari budaya katolik: mereka punya kebiasaan bersedia mengakui kesalahan. Mendiang Paus John Paul telah mengakui dan minta ampun (forgiveness) atas kesalahan yang telah dilakukan oleh gereja katolik selama 2000 tahun yang lalu... Jusfiq HADJAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis: Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- - Apakah Anda Yahoo!? Sekarang dengan penyimpanan 1GB http://id.mail.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/uTGrlB/TM ~- Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT Yahoo! Groups
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam itu hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam iti hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT Post
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam iti hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT Post
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam iti hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT Post
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam iti hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT Post
[proletar] Reposting: Almost all terrorists are Muslims: Abdel Rahman al-Rashed
Saya repost tulisan ini, sekedar untuk mengingatkan kita akan wajah Islam yang sekarang kudu ditatap oleh orang Islam sendiri... Dan orang Islam tipikal kudu sadar bahwa ini disebabkan karena ajaran agamanya itu adalah buas, ganas, kejam lagi keji karena tidak menentang kekerasan... Terus menyalahkan orang lain, terutama Yahudi atau Nasrani tidak akan mengubah kenyataan... Tapi yang paling menyedihkan dari segalanya itu adalah bahwa ajaran Islam iti hanya berdasarkan kepada 'Katanya... 'Katanya, al-Musahf itu berisi wahyu Allah. Tapi tanpa bukti. Katanya hadits itu ada yang sahih.. Tapi tanpa bukti. --- Thursday, 9, September, 2004 (24, Rajab, 1425) A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims.. Abdel Rahman al-Rashed* It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan, North Ossetia, were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Darfur, Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Those responsible for the attacks on residential towers in Riyadh and Khobar were Muslims. The two women who crashed two airliners last week were also Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim. What a pathetic record. What an abominable achievement. Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realize the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture. Let us listen to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the sheikh the Qatar-based radical Egyptian cleric and hear him recite his fatwa about the religious permissibility of killing civilian Americans in Iraq. Let us contemplate the incident of this religious sheikh allowing, nay even calling for, the murder of civilians. This ailing sheikh, in his last days, with two daughters studying in infidel Britain, soliciting children to kill innocent civilians. How could this sheikh face the mother of the youthful Nick Berg, who was slaughtered in Iraq because he wanted to build communication towers in that ravished country? How can we believe him when he tells us that Islam is the religion of mercy and peace while he is turning it into a religion of blood and slaughter? In a different era, we used to consider the extremists, with nationalist or leftist leanings, a menace and a source of corruption because of their adoption of violence as a means of discourse and their involvement in murder as an easy shortcut to their objectives. At that time, the mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry. We can't call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own. We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youths, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges. *Abdel Rahman al-Rashed is general manager of Al-Arabiya news channel. This article first appeared in the London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Copyright: Arab News © 2003 All rights reserved. Site designed by: arabix and powered by Eima IT Post
