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Why Don't Muslims Speak Out Against ISIS?!
ABC News’ Laura Ingraham, Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Fox & Friends and other U.S. media commentators say that Muslims are silent and complicit in the barbarian crimes of ISIS. Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said that all Muslims are the same as ISIS, and implied that all Muslims should be met “with a bullet to the head”.
Why don’t we hear Muslims condemning the barbarian ISIS terrorists?
Turns out they are loudly condemning ISIS … but our press isn’t covering it.
Father Elias Mallon of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association explains:
“Why aren’t Muslims speaking out against these atrocities?” The answer is: Muslims have been speaking out in the strongest terms, condemning the crimes against humanity committed by ISIS (or, as it is increasingly called, IS) and others in the name of Islam.
Father Mallon is right …
Vatican Radio – an official Vatican news site – reported last month:
Two of the leading voices in the Muslim world denounced the persecution of Christians in Iraq, at the hands of extremists proclaiming a caliphate under the name Islamic State.
The most explicit condemnation came from Iyad Ameen Madani, the Secretary General for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the group representing 57 countries, and 1.4 billion Muslims.
In a statement, he officially denounced the “forced deportation under the threat of execution” of Christians, calling it a “crime that cannot be tolerated.” The Secretary General also distanced Islam from the actions of the militant group known as ISIS, saying they “have nothing to do with Islam and its principles that call for justice, kindness, fairness, freedom of faith and coexistence.”
Meanwhile, Turkey’s top cleric, the spiritual successor to the caliphate under the Ottoman Empire, also touched on the topic during a peace conference of Islamic scholars.
In a not-so-veiled swipe at ISIS, Mehmet Gormez declared that “an entity that lacks legal justification has no authority to declare war against a political gathering, any country or community.” He went on to say that Muslims should not be hostile towards “people with different views, values and beliefs, and regard them as enemies.”
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Gormez said death threats against non-Muslims made by the group, formerly known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), were hugely damaging. “The statement made against Christians is truly awful. Islamic scholars need to focus on this (because) an inability to peacefully sustain other faiths and cultures heralds the collapse of a civilization,” he told Reuters in an interview.
The Independent noted last month:
Muslim leaders in Britain have condemned the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), expressing their “grave concern” at continued violence in its name.
Representatives from both the Sunni and Shia groups in the UK met at the Palace of Westminster and relayed their message that the militant group does not represent the majority of Muslims.
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Shuja Shafi, of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, said: “Violence has no place in religion, violence has no religion.
100 Sunni and Shiite religious leaders from the U.K. produced a video denouncing the Islamic State, saying they wanted to “come together to emphasise the importance of unity in the UK and to decree ISIS as an illegitimate, vicious group who do not represent Islam in any way.”
Breitbart noted earlier this month:
Two prominent Muslim leaders are urging Muslim men not to join the radical jihadists.
“The public have to be critical. This is not about [establishing] a Caliphate [Islamic State]; but [a group] working for its own cause and gains from a sectarian issue,” said Nahdlatul Ulama executive council chair, Slamet Effendy Yusuf.
The Nahdlatul Ulama is one of the largest Islamic organizations in the world and concentrates on traditional Islam.
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Muhammadiyah, an organization with 29 million members, is more modern, well-known for educational activities, and avoids politics. Secretary Abdul Mu’ti said ISIS does not represent Islam.
“That’s my point, this [movement] is not in the context of religion [Islam],” Abdul said. “We all need to question the group’s goals. Don’t just follow radicals who tried to win their own wars in other countries; we will be the ones to suffer losses.”
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These men are not the first Muslim leaders to denounce the Islamic State. The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) spoke out against IS’s expulsion of Christians in Mosul. The group claimed the rejection served to “violate Islamic laws, Islamic conscience and leave but a negative image of Islam and Muslims.”
Al Arabiya News reports that the Arab League Chief denounced acts committed by the Islamic State in Iraq as “crimes against humanity,” demanding that they be brought to justice, and he:
Strongly denounced the crimes, killings, dispossession carried out by the terrorist (ISIS) against civilians and minorities in Iraq that have affected Christians in Mosul and Yazidis.
The Daily Star writes that Egypt’s highest religious authority – Al-Azhar’s Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam – denounced the Islamic State as a threat to Islam and said that the group violates Islamic law:
[They] give an opportunity for those who seek to harm us, to destroy us and interfere in our affairs with the [pretext of a] call to fight terrorism.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) - the largest Muslim group in the U.S. - called ISIS “un-Islamic and morally repugnant,” noted that the Islamic State’s “human rights abuses on the ground are well-documented,” called the Islamic State “both un-Islamic and morally repugnant” and called the killing of American journalist James Foley “gruesome and barbaric”. See this, this and this.
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) – the largest Muslim organization on the continent - released a statement denouncing the Islamic State “for its attacks on Iraq’s religious minorities and the destruction of their places of worship.” ISNA President Imam Mohamed Magid said, “ISIS actions against religious minorities in Iraq violate the Quranic teaching, ‘Let there be no compulsion in religion’ … ” adding, “Their actions are to be denounced and are in no way representative of what Islam actually teaches.” INSA condemned the vicious execution of Foley at the hands of the terrorist group ISIS, terming it as “un-Islamic behaviour”, and said:
ISIS actions have never been representative nor in accordance to the mainstream teachings of Islam. This act of murder cannot be justified according to the faith practiced by over 1.6 billion people.
The head Shia religious leader in Iraq and Sunni religious leaders in Iraq have all condemned – and called for war against – ISIS.
Al Jazeera reports:
Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority has condemned the armed groups Islamic State and al-Qaeda as apostates and labelled them the “number one enemy of Islam”.
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“Extremist and militant ideas and terrorism which spread decay on Earth, destroying human civilisation, are not in any way part of Islam, but are enemy number one of Islam, and Muslims are their first victims” ….
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) released a statement condemning “the barbaric execution of American Journalist James Foley by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).” MPAC urged “all people of conscience to take a stand against extremism” and offered condolences to Foley’s family. MPAC also noted the importance of countering ISIS and other extremist groups by working “to empower the mainstream and relegate extremists to the irrelevance they deserve.”
ISIS and Al Qaeda Are FAKE Muslims
The 9/11 hijackers used cocaine and drank alcohol, slept with prostitutes and attended strip clubs … but they did not worship at any mosque. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. Hardly the acts of devout Muslims.
Huffington Post reports:
Can you guess which books the wannabe jihadists Yusuf Sarwar and Mohammed Ahmed ordered online from Amazon before they set out from Birmingham to fight in Syria last May? A copy of Milestones by the Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb? No. How about Messages to the World: the Statements of Osama Bin Laden? Guess again. Wait, The Anarchist Cookbook, right? Wrong.
Sarwar and Ahmed, both of whom pleaded guilty to terrorism offences last month, purchased Islam for Dummies and The Koran for Dummies. You could not ask for better evidence to bolster the argument that the 1,400-year-old Islamic faith has little to do with the modern jihadist movement. The swivel-eyed young men who take sadistic pleasure in bombings and beheadings may try to justify their violence with recourse to religious rhetoric – think the killers of Lee Rigby screaming “Allahu Akbar” at their trial; think of Islamic State beheading the photojournalist James Foley as part of its “holy war” – but religious fervour isn’t what motivates most of them.
In 2008, a classified briefing note on radicalisation, prepared by MI5′s behavioural science unit, was leaked to the Guardian. It revealed that, “far from being religious zealots, a large number of those involved in terrorism do not practise their faith regularly. Many lack religious literacy and could . . . be regarded as religious novices.” The analysts concluded that “a well-established religious identity actually protects against violent radicalisation“, the newspaper said. [Here's the Guardian report.]
For more evidence, read the books of the forensic psychiatrist and former CIA officer Marc Sageman; the political scientist Robert Pape [Pape found that foreign occupation - and not religion - made certain Arabs into terrorists; the CIA's top Bin Laden hunter agreed]; the international relations scholar Rik Coolsaet; the Islamism expert Olivier Roy; the anthropologist Scott Atran. They have all studied the lives and backgrounds of hundreds of gun-toting, bomb-throwing jihadists and they all agree that Islam isn’t to blame for the behaviour of such men (and, yes, they usually are men).
Instead they point to other drivers of radicalisation ….
When he lived in the Philippines in the 1990s, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, described as “the principal architect” of the 11 September attacks by the 9/11 Commission, once flew a helicopter past a girlfriend’s office building with a banner saying “I love you”. His nephew Ramzi Yousef, sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, also had a girlfriend and, like his uncle, was often spotted in Manila’s red-light district. The FBI agent who hunted Yousef said that he “hid behind a cloak of Islam”. Eyewitness accounts suggest the 9/11 hijackers were visiting bars and strip clubs in Florida and Las Vegas in the run-up to the attacks. The Spanish neighbours of Hamid Ahmidan, convicted for his role in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, remember him “zooming by on a motorcycle with his long-haired girlfriend, a Spanish woman with a taste for revealing outfits”, according to press reports.
And alleged Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a pothead. And his brother Tamerlan looked more like an ego-driven hustler than a devout Muslim (that’s his Mercedes in the background).
I agree with Bill O’Reilly when he said that it is unfair to call the Norwegian mass murderer a “Christian”. Likewise, we shouldn’t call Arab terrorists “Muslims”.
Postscript: I am not a Muslim. I am, however, American. And knee-jerk hatred of any group of people based on their religion – including Christians, Jews or Muslims, – is deeply anti-American.
And the most crazed, radical Islamic terrorists would never have gained power if the U.S. and our allies hadn’t overthrown the more moderate Arab leaders.
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USA :: Radical IslamJIHAD IN AMERICA: RADICAL ISLAM NOW TRUMPS GAY MURDER VICTIMS IN AMERICA
08-24-2014 5:39 am - Pamela Geller
According to court documents, Ali Muhammad Brown described his June murder of 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin as a “just kill” and said it was an act of jihad “vengeance.”
Before July 4th weekend, I wrote about Ali’s previous infidel victims, the murder of two gay men in Seattle by a devout Muslim. The leftist media didn’t touch it. The vicious leftist enemedia would not report on the Islamic execution of gays in America. Islam trumps gay. And just like the Fort Hood massacre and the Boston bombing, jihad is scrubbed from the story. The media vigorously self-enforces the sharia: “do not criticize Islam.”
On July 3rd, I wrote:
Ali Muhammad Brown was charged with executing two gay men in Seattle. Brown was previously prosecuted federally following an FBI probe into an Islamic group suspected of supporting jihadists overseas.
This devout Muslim is also a registered sex offender for crimes against a 6-year-old girl, the same age as Aisha when Muhammad married her.
He was previously prosecuted as part of a federal investigation into a sleeper cell thought by investigators to be linked to a terrorism funding organization. “One prominent member of the group is thought to have been killed waging jihad in Somalia after fleeing prosecution in the United States.”
The reporter of this horrible double slaying does not connect the dots.
Seattle has a problem. They won’t run our ads highlighting Muslim oppression of gays, despite this savage reality. If you recall, a devout Muslim set fire to a packed Seattle gay bar during a New Year’s celebration shortly after midnight on January 1. Seattle’s largest and longest-running gay nightclub was doused in gasoline and set aflame by Musab Masmari. He was arrested on his way to the airport.
Where are the left-wing, the gay and LGBT organizations denouncing the Islamic texts that inspire such mayhem and murder of gays? Where is that fierce gay leadership condemning Muslim oppression of gays under the sharia? The silence is deafening.
They were loud and proud against our ads. They were holding press conferences condemning me. Gay organizations in America say nothing, but loudly condemned my ad campaign highlighting Muslim oppression of gays under the sharia.
Why haven’t we heard from this City Council, or this Human Rights Commission, SFHRC head Theresa Sparks, but most especially the enemedia that scrubs their coverage of motive? They called our ads hate and issued a resolution condemning our AFDI ad campaign (the first of its kind) against our organization for merely quoting Muslim political leaders, spiritual leaders and cultural voices in the Muslim community who call for the torture and death of gay people.
Now we are told that this Muslim killed a New Jersey teen in the cause of Islam.
Where is the outrage? Where are the Ferguson-style riots? Where is ACT UP?
America, how many of these murders and acts of jihad, honor killings, etc., are covered up by media and law enforcement?
The enemy is within and America is disarmed.
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SOURCE: http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/media-ruling-islam-trumps-gay-america-is...
ISIS is fake.
Didn't they capture a dam - did they blow it up - no.
Didn't they capture an oil refinery - did they blow it up - no.
Ditto for all of the oil pipelines and other critical infrastructure.
A bonafide conquerer would lay waste to everything - subjugate the population - weed out and promote - establish a new political order.
Terrorism is a business: Terrorists need capital; bank accounts; payroll clerks; email and web facilities; weapons and munitions; training; advertising and promotion; etc.
ISIS is a creature of the USA - in this case the CIA.
This is managed Terrorism. Why should this business be confused with religion.
Where is their base of operations - not in some mosque - most likely some military base near DC.
Why is it so hard to understand - if the USA has no real enemies - and the USA wants to continuously and vigilantly prepare for war - then the USA needs to create enemies. No enemies - no justification for the military-industrial complex.
This is an important article
however there are still 15-20% of the muslims in the World that are fanatic ,
We are talking about 200 million people!!
I live in Israel and have Muslim friends - all of them condemn viloence and strongly oppose to Isis .
This is encouraging as is your article.
Do your Muslim friends "strongly oppose" sharia, then? Because that is full of instructions to act violently. Stoning to death for adultery, amputation of hands for theft, etc. How strong is their opposition to this?
Follow the money. The Islamic State is obviously well funded. From where are the funds coming? Qatar and Saudi Arabia are obvious candidates, regardless of what their governments are saying.
and Turkey!
And the vast majority of ISIS victims who have been executed and beheaded were Muslim.
You know, George, you really have turned me off with some of your rants in the past but this piece is good. Thanks for having the moxie to state the truth when people don't want to hear it.
They must be talking about the Muslims that aren't being killed by ISIS (al Qaeda, IS, ISIL, Mujahideen, whatever name the CIA and MI6 come up with next)...
Oh, that part of reality conflicts with the false narrative these quislings are paid millions to perpetuate?
Nice apologia. Maybe yours will be the last head cut off.
I thought the quote was "kill them all and let Allah sort them out."
The original stated: "... let God sort them out..."
Yeah, I looked it up after I posted. I've only heard the Allah version. Different eras I guess...
I love how ISIS kills one Journalist and we move on and forget the the Jews just killed 2000 Arab Palestinians. Never mind
And I didn't think you Hamas boneheads knew how to read much less type! Go figure.
Blind faith will do that for ya. Next time try opening your eyes.
Why doesnt the media cover this? Two reasons: 1) If you have another persecuted group ie Christians, it takes the wind out of the sails of the most persecuted (most defended), the Jews. 2) If you point out all this other stuff about the Muslims it makes them look weak, which then weakens the Israeli constant need for US support against the evil Muslims. Nope sorry, gotta make the Muslims all look bad and the Jews the most persecuted so we can continue to bankrupt America defending Israel.
Extremists grow fat on the low-hanging fruit .
Forebearance leaves only the bitter fruit .
The Spanish Reconquestada started very small as result of unprovoked aggression.
See https://www.academia.edu/6047250/Cowabunga_
Wouldn't it be funny if the same people condemning Islamists for not speaking out about ISIS are also the most vehement supporters of the primary funding and arming agencies behind ISIS.
haha.
Well hey what's the truth bu the first casualty. Nobody gives a fuck what Sean hanniity or Laura Ingraham thinks either.
Think about this, how many people have been threatened with death for writing something critical of Islam? Does that explain why media is reluctant to write about it?
Al Queda = Wrongheaded message, recruit, boondogle US, train, expand
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ISIL is just another message on the road to popular revolution against US interests in Asia/Africa
Scholar and Professor Reza Aslan describes ISIS as waging a "Cosmic War" that has no real earthly goals but, rather, requires a victory consisting of a Universal World Wide Islamic State.
He says that the solution to their Jihad is to bring both economic and political justice to the downtrodden whom they prey on. He says that the only real solution to the several thousands of true believers in the ISIS movement is DEATH.
So, nah, this focus on US and Western wrongs is off the mark. The corrupt policies of the USA help to provide a rational for recruitment into ISIS, sure, but the goals of ISIS and the ideology of ISIS don't actually connect to the worldly litany of wrongs or supposed wrongs.
The counter argument to the above statements only requires the printing in a newspaper of the Image of Muhammad.
Or does the lack of such cartoons not tell us all we need to know?
Ha! John McStain's buddies have yet to state their desire to attack what should be, if the narrative was well thought out, their biggest enemy, Israel. Why? They were programmed not to. This is a zionist creation folks. The facts are out there for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. Wake the F up!!!!!!
A. They have, it's progenitor is called 'The Great Satan'. Muslims aren't completely blind to how their enemies finance their exploits. Problem is, the Saudi royalty is their enemy within, the enabler of their servitude.
Q. Why don't Christians speak out about the usury and counterfeit nature of their fiat regime that allows for ISIS financing and support in the first place?
A. Because complicity is easy to deny, keeps the nat gas and oil flowing to support their power, assets and lifestyle.
Time for a table turning?
Hate to break it to ya pal but the godless and bloody progressive worshipers of the state are in charge.
Grimaldus
Me thinks the author of this article's real name is Mohammed or maybe even Achmed and that it wouldn't take a whole lot to get him screaming "I kill you!" with a maniacle look on his face.
Seriously - since when did Tyler/Zero Hedge become an apologist for Islam?
Nice number 1!
Fuck off George.
Muslim apologist knob
Maybe this is potentially THE reason why????
GW
You need to work with this guy and collaborate to produce a video together in the very near future!
The sooner the better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43F9tZpFWJo
Not so fast. The bar is being set WAY TOO LOW in this article.
Physical violence is only one kind of violence. The violence of being under threat as a woman if you choose not to wear the veil or if you choose to drive a car in Saudi is another kind of violence. Religious absolutism is VIOLENCE!
Recall the violent protests by Muslims all over Europe when some Cartoonists depicted Muhammad. Artists and publishers were then blocked out of fear of physical violence against them. That fear and self censorship is itself VIOLENCE. Keep that level of Muslim outrage and anger and threat in mind when you consider the above piece.
Not so comfortable now, are you?
Condemning ISIS is not anything close to sufficient with regard to Islam being just another kid on the religious block. Isis represents a threat to the political institutions of some oil rich states like Saudi Arabia (which engages in public beheading) and states like Turkey and Iran that propose Islam as being the State Religion.
Where are the protests by Western Muslims against the Iranian religious state or against Saudi religious chauvinism? If you protest ISIS then you had better protest against Saudi as well. The embassies are known and the streets in front are EMPTY of protesters!
Where are the protests within Islam AGAINST intolerance and discrimination based on religion or gender?
No. The very concept of the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution is REJECTED by these Imams and Scholars and Muftis so when we evaluate their "moral compass" realize that they still hold a goal of changing YOUR Western Country into Their Country.
This is, in fact, the real danger. We know the dangers of religions who's adherents are absolutist in the supremacy of their religions. Western history can be seen as a millennium of struggle AGAINST this mindset yet here we are importing folks who don't understand or appreciate where the West is coming from. Who don't respect the philosophical underpinnings of the enlightenment and the natural rights of individuals to reject religion should they so choose.
Now, I particularly like intellectuals like Reza Aslan who do a great job of arguing how Islam and Muslims should be. He was born Shiite in a fairly non-religious family, then converted to Christianity and then got a PHD in Religious Studies and Sociology...and then converted back to Islam but rejected Sunni/Shiite distinctions.
Reza Aslam seems to appreciate the separation of Church from state. He is awesome in arguing this.
But Reza Aslam has NO credibility within the rank and file Muslim community of scholars and proselytizers. He is frankly lucky to not have been killed like Salmun Rushdie.
And Reza Aslan is not himself brave enough to march in protest of mosques that reject the separation of church and state.
Hey nv
Where are the protests of the open genocide Israel and the U.S. are perpetrating in Ukraine?
Great news!!!!
Someone across the border is keeping tabs in that "Big White Book"... Might want to sit back and enjoy the show the way the Germans were made to at the conclusion of WWII when they were defeated and forced to walk through the "camps".
Isn't it grand when someone can bring the Holocaust to you without even leaving your own home!
"If you protest ISIS then you had better protest against Saudi as well."
I agree 100%! But Saudi Arabia has been one of the U.S.'s closest allies for DECADES. We ship huge amounts of arms to Saudi, and our NSA DIRCTLY HELPS SAUDI RELIGIOUS NUTS PERSECUTE MODERATES!!!
Persecute the moderates! That says it all right there. Thats why censorship is all the rage. It would be so much harder to devide and counquer if the moderates were given any footing.
The gas attack is a good example of moderates kicking ass. All they needed to do was ask the good questions. Just asking the questions has a way of shutting up the liers. Because liers dont like answering for anything ever.
So you down vote me because the USA is hypocritical? You don't really think I am a avatar for the USA do you? Seriously, we are not discussing Ukraine here, moron.
Did you bother to read what I wrote?
I applaud GW for posting this. The American MSM is under the ownership of a group antagonistic to both Christianity and Islam.
There have been many superb posts already on this thread.
I think the error is in judging Islam by Muslims, or rather those who claim the name. Just as it is an error to judge Christianity, and Christ, by Christians, so-called.
I well know the anti-White racism evinced by Pakistanis who claim to be Muslim, it was obvious in the slaughter in Mumbai and in the attacks in London and elsewhere in Britain.
However that is NOT a teaching from Islam. Just read the Qur'an, it is a short book, very dry reading, but surely much gentler, much more humane that the genocidal Old Testament.
Where the Tribe is instructed by old Jehovah to wipe out the other tribes and take over their lands of "milk and honey"
So I recommend the film KINGDOM OF HEAVEN if you want to know how truly noble some Christians and Muslims were, and I say if we, as Christians, could live up to the honor and decency of Saladin, we would be much better followers of Our Lord than attempting to live down to "Christians" such as Bill Clinton or Obama.
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered, but never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport."
Christopher Hedges, Pulitzer Prize Winning American Journalist, on assignment in Gaza
"Arab Palestinian Christians and Arab Palestinian Muslims lived side by side for the past 1400 years, and for anybody to say that the Arab Palestinian Christians have been persecuted recently by Muslims is absolutely another big lie, like the big lie that spoke of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq."
Riah Abu El-Assal, Christian Bishop of Jerusalem
OMFG! Dhimmitude know no boundaries. You sir are a liar.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Grimaldus
When you don't know what it is that you have then it is impossible to understand the threat religion places on post Enlightenment societies.
Laddie, you really aren't saying your gateway to understanding Western Democracy is a movie, are you?
Good men do good things.
Bad men do bad things.
To get good men to do bad things requires religion (or ideology...same thing at the core).
+1. This is why I say there's no reason in using these blanket religious generalizations to analyze anything. Judge people by their actions, not by whatever verbiage they claim, or which we claim for them.
None of this is about religion, nor has it ever been. That's all a bunch of excuses.
That is simply not right, guy.
Yes, judge individuals but don't lose sight of how movements come into being and how *real* they can be.
Ideas can have a power of their own. If you don't argue the other case you then lose the battle of ideas.
Problem is, we are so fat and happy in the West, taking our societies tolerance and pluralism as undeniable and permanent that we can't see these insular communities of Islam that flat out reject the current norms. We, ourselves, have lost our intellectual understanding of our own societies. That leaves us as a community defenseless to argue and reason our case.
Then when we lose the war of numbers it is game over.
If you lived in Malmo Sweden where Muslims call for Sharia or some other district of the West filled with recent immigrants from Islamic states then you could see just how fragile our grasp on religious freedom and pluralism is.
I betcha they'd talk different if it was there head getting sawed off.
"NOW GO IN THERE AND GET THE BAD GUYS!"
I wasn't raised in a Theistic tradition at all, so I find it remarkable how many people use such things as excuses for their own behavior, and as indictments of other people's behavior. I note, for instance, that in America we aren't talking about the Russian Orthodox Church, and its opponents, in defining the situation in Ukraine. But that's a very real factor, if you read what Ukrainians say about what's happening in their own country.
I don't care what excuses people make for their own bad behavior. If they're behaving like monsters, that's enough for me. When I see the US military, which is dominated by Evangelical Protestants, killing huge numbers of Muslims, or arming one sect of Muslims against another sect of Muslims, I don't see a religious issue. I see brutal, blood-soaked geo-politics at work. I don't care which version of the same middle-Eastern invisible omnipotent sky wizard they're blaming for their abominable crimes.
All these issues that come cloaked in religious distractions are really all about perfectly secular issues in the first place. It's about resources, energy, political power, military power, wealth, etc. Just like always. Even the Crusades and the various other "Holy Wars" were more about those same mundane concerns than the religious excuses and whitewashes applied to them. Nobody hates ethnic, religious, political, racial, or political groups they don't believe pose a risk to them.
Why don't Catholics speak out against the Banderists in Ukraine? Why don't more Baptists speak out against Fred Phelps and his band of inbred mutant crazies? Why don't Evangelical Protestants speak out against Efrain Rios Montt, the butcher of Guatemala, who is a minister in the evangelical/pentecostal Church of the Word, and claimed Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as close personal friends, despite his open genocide against Mayan people in his own country?
So it's all bullshit, and asking "why muslims don't speak out against ISIS" is bullshit too.
We Americans should stick to running our own country and quit deciding how every one else runs theirs.
I thought ISIS was Obama and John McCain's NWO merceneries that are going to be used to attack the US like they did the WTCs.
Washington D.C. is attacking the United States of America and the states are left without a military to protect them. FED stole everybody's money to boot.
Rather self-righteous finger-pointing, isn't it?
Why don't self-professed Christians speak out against the actions
of their own governments ?
It is not as though ISIS organization is the global Muslim government.
Hell, if anything ISIS is a creation of the US and its protectorate despots.
Terror and torture?
What about the the CIA, MI5, and NATO?
What about drone assassinations?
The US admits to renditioning, torturing and killing of its prisoners
doubtless in more horrible fashion than quick beheading,
but doen't release the videos.
"Turn the other cheek" is now become "turn a blind eye".
Why don't self-professed Christians speak out against the actions of their own governments ?...
As you indicate, Christians are individuals and governments are comprised of the many. Here in the US, though we have a triune form of government similar to the triune understanding of God as He's presented in the bible, we still have separation of church and state. Personally, I wish there to be a greater separation of state and church, and that's where I tend to concentrate my voice. The whole business of IRS exemption has seriously compromised the autonomy of Christianity and the sooner we quit treating the church as deriving it's privilege to exist from the state, the better.
As for the ISIS being condemned from leaders within the Muslim community, they will have a hard time selling such as long as taqiyya remains a tenet of their faith.
jmo.
Turn the other cheek refers to personal relationships.
BTW, the US gov't is NOT the representative of the Christian church.
Other than that "war is hell."
The current mass media regime serves its owners. Always has, always will.
We don't hear of Muslim denunciation cause it don't serve their dominant narrative.
Regarding the last sentence in the article: and who has been responsbile for overthrowing more "moderate" muslim leaders that B 0baMao?
Mubaric in Egypt, Ghadafi in Lybia (murdered) Syria's Assad "must go", Maliki in Iraq. And as a result the whole ME is aflame and now we have isis and an islamic state.
Why don't "moderate muslims" speak out MORE? Probably because they're intimidated and terrorised be the more militant members of their communities, and told to shut up OR ELSE.