Opinion from the desk of the Editor
Last week I watched the closing speeches of the “Super’ Tuesday elections…….I thought they were the most pathetic collection of BS that I have ever heard…..now that I am more disgusted……let us move on shall we?
I recently wrote a post about Islam……and as predicted the buzzword got some action on the site…..the post was explaining why I disagree with the hate mongers that say all Islam is about killing the infidel and hate……the post was entitled…..”Damn The Hate”…….
As I thought there was lots of telling me read surah 2 and 4 which sez it all for some people…….that Muslims will kill anyone not a Muslim…….not true!
I was giving my thoughts on Islam from my perception when I was exposed to it everyday while working in the Middle East……I never encountered anyone that would attack me for not being Muslim and yes, contrary to popular belief I am not a Muslim. I was treated with generosity, friendship and understanding. I am not saying that hate is not there….just that I was not exposed to it when there.
I mean anyone can find a hate passage in the Bible…….it is all in the interpretation. people can find hate if they look hard enough and in any place they chose.
It is true that some terrorists are Muslim but that does not mean that ALL Muslims are terrorists………..for instance the hot button terrorist of the day—–Boko Haram………and this article says it better than I could, especially at this early hour………..
Boko Haram considers itself an Islamist group and often gets labeled as such in news reports, maybe with the word “extremist” tossed in. Wrong, writes Carla Power at Time. Boko Haram is a “criminal group,” not an Islamist one, and that’s what we should call it. Everything about its actions defies the teaching of Muhammad, from its campaign against education, to its forced marriages and conversions, to its declared war on Christianity and the brutal slayings of innocents.
Even the very idea that Boko Haram is waging jihad is incorrect, because self-appointed leaders like Osama bin Laden or Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau have no authority to do so. Far from being Islamist, members of Boko Haram are actually “traitors to their faith,” writers Power. “Their sickening deeds and rhetoric repeatedly demonstrate that not only do they lack kinship with the vast majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but they lack respect for the religion they claim to fight for.” Click for the full column.
Boko Haram is a criminal organization that is using Islam as a justification…….they are NOT true Muslims. The killing of innocents is a sin……suicide is sin………just as Christians can find justification of their actions in the Bible……so do these faux Muslims.
The hate that is spouted daily is just disgusting regurgitation from small minds.
Words like Islamist or Muslim are just a dog whistle word for hate…….Muslim is the new Black!
Thank you for this post! I’ve also traveled in the Middle East as an Infidel and a Woman to boot, and was treated MUCH more warmly than I ever was in any so-called Christian nation. I’m so tired of this hate and fear-mongering. People who are high on hating Muslims might do well to look back on American history to realize that not too long ago, the same hatred was spewed against Catholics,not to mention Jews. I could go on, but I won’t.
Hello Debra and thanx for the visit and comment….please do not be a stranger….comments and opinions are always welcome…..I too am tired of the hate……especially from people that are just regurgitating something they heard or read…..
Xenophobia has always been something that conservatives exploit during election years. From the Irish-Italian immigration of the late 19th century, to the Asian and Eastern European influx during the early 20th century up to today’s immigration of Hispanics and Middle Eastern people of Islamic faith
Larry, it seems that an election is not necessarily needed……it is easier to hate than to understand.
“Even the very idea that Boko Haram is waging jihad is incorrect… Far from being Islamist, members of Boko Haram are actually “traitors to their faith,” writes Power. “Their sickening deeds and rhetoric repeatedly demonstrate that not only do they lack kinship with the vast majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but they lack respect for the religion they claim to fight for.”
They certainly do NOT fit the Muslim mould. Didn’t these guys start out as drug smoking, LSD dropping, peace-nick, hippies back in the 60’s? I seem to recall them releasing a really groovy record that owed a lot to Christian hymns and iconography. Here’s a link to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SQAdwdTSTM
However, I would hardly call that “sickening”. I rather enjoy it. Yes, there is mention of vestal virgins, but I would certainly not call it anything approaching a “Jihad”. It doesn’t make me want to strap a vest-bomb. It makes me want to get high and fool around in the park all day.
These people kinda remind me of the Christian sect called the “Circumcellions”….if they could not provoke people to kill them and them martyrs then they would just kill themselves……