I have said this many times and will say it until I can’t no more; American’s, European’s and wherever Whiteman lives; Muslims are getting persecuted, hated, jailed, arrested, tortured, blown-up to pieces, discriminated against, their country is getting invaded, their wealth getting destroyed, Islam is insulted, the messenger of God trashed and etc, etc. but this is only the beginning, the hatred of Islam and Arabs so prevalent in America, the Dubai port deal falling apart a sign American’s are heading to a dangerous venue to take it to the next step. This intense hatred of Whiteman led by racist Zionists will intensify and Muslims will overtime go to the extremes to defend themselves through whatever means. But at the end (Muslim’s lack of weapon’s to defend themselves) Muslims will be killed by hundreds of millions yet another milestone in the Whiteman’s killing machine which is upgraded from fifty million in the Second WW. Muslims have no effective defense against these evil people in the Whitehouse, the house of representatives or senators who are ready to wipeout Muslims from the face of the earth. Anyone that is following the news would understand the situation will be worst than what happened to the Jewish and Gypsies and other minorities in Europe in a war Whiteman begun in WWII. This is no exaggeration; this is not just an opinion of Muslim’s anymore, many non-Muslims also see it coming in full swing.
Juan Cole said “ Thursday, March 09, 2006
Bigotry toward Muslims and Anti-Arab Racism Grow in US;
Dubai and the Quran
The constant drumbeat of hatred toward Muslims and Arabs on the American Right, on television and radio and in the press, has gradually had its effect. This according to a Washington Post poll. Even in the year after September 11, a majority of Americans respected Islam and Muslims, but powerful forces in US society are determined to change that, and are gradually succeeding. As they win, Bin Laden also wins, since his whole enterprise was to "sharpen the contradictions" and provoke a clash of civilizations.
Some 25% of Americans now say they personally are prejudiced against Muslims. And 33% think that Islam as a religion helps incite violence against non-Muslims, up from 14% after September 11.
The Bush administration policy is to continually insinuate that the Muslim world is the new Soviet Union and full of sinister forces that require the US to go to war against them. But at the same time, America has warm relations with Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, etc., etc. When Saudi Arabia's then crown prince (now king) Abdullah came to the US, Bush brought him to the Crawford ranch, held hands with him and kissed him on each cheek.
This two-faced policy and self-contradictory rhetoric has contributed to growing hatred and bigotry toward Muslims in the US, which is no less worrisome than the hatred Jews faced in Europe in the 1920s. It is dangerous because of what it can become.
The subtext of bigotry and racism is what has blindsided the Bush administration with regard to the port deal for a company based in Dubai. Dubai is like the Fifth Avenue of the Middle East-- the place with the pricey shopping and the tall skyscrapers and the extravagant fashions. Dubai businessmen are no more likely to take over US ports and allow them to come to harm than US businessmen are. They want the deal in order to make money. Bush knows this very well. But since he has spent so much time fulminating against shadowy and sinister forces over there somewhere, he has spooked the American public and members of his own party.
The Big Lie eventually catches up with you.
The hatemongers are well known. Rupert Murdoch's Fox Cable News, Rush Limbaugh's radio program and its many clones, telebimbos like Ann Coulter, Evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham, Congressmen like Tom Tancredo, and a slew of far rightwing Zionists who would vote for Netanyahu (or Kach) if they lived in Israel-- Frank Gaffney, Daniel Pipes, Michael Rubin, David Horowitz, etc., etc. And finally, there are many Muslims who have an interest in whipping up anti-Islamic feeling. Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress helped maneuver the US into a war against Iraq with lies about a Saddam-al-Qaeda connection and illusory WMD. The dissident Islamic Marxist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is now placing equally false stories about Iran in the Western press and retailing them to Congress and the Pentagon.
The hatemongers think that the American public is sort of like a big stupid dog, and you can fairly easily "sic" it on whoever you like. Just tell them that X people are intrinsically evil and that the US needs to go to war to protect itself from them. Then they turn around and blame those of us who don't want our country reduced to footsoldiers in someone else's greedy crusade for being "unpatriotic."
All human beings are the same. They all have the same emotions. All laugh when happy and weep when sad. There are no broad civilizations that produce radically different behavior in human beings. All are capable of violence. (Christians killed tens of millions in the course of the 20th century, far, far more than did Muslims). Few commit much violence except in war. You can walk around any place in Cairo at 1 am perfectly safely, but cannot do that everywhere safely in many major US cities, including the nation's capital, Washington, DC. Even the idea of Islam as a cultural world or civilization opposed to the Christian West is a false construct. Eastern Mediterranean honor cultures (Greece, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Syria) have more in common with each other across the Christian-Muslim divide than either has in common with Britain or the US. And, Muslim states don't make their alliances by religion. Egypt was allied with the Soviet Union in the 1960s, then switched to the US in the 1970s and until the present. Four of the five non-NATO allies of the US are Muslim countries. Turkey is even a full NATO ally and fought along side the US in the Korean War.
Dangerous falsehoods are being promulgated to the American public. The Quran does not preach violence against Christians.
Quran 5:82 says (Arberry): "Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, and the Christians, and those Sabeaans, whoso believes in God and the Last Day, and works righteousness--their wage waits them with their Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow."
In other words, the Quran promises Christians and Jews along with Muslims that if they have faith and works, they need have no fear in the afterlife. It is not saying that non-Muslims go to hell-- quite the opposite.
When speaking of the 7th-century situation in the Muslim city-state of Medina, which was at war with pagan Mecca, the Quran notes that the polytheists and Arabian Jewish tribes were opposed to Islam, but then goes on to say:
5:82. " . . . and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: 'We are Christians.' That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud."
So the Quran not only does not urge Muslims to commit violence against Christians, it calls them "nearest in love" to the Muslims! The reason given is their piety, their ability to produce holy persons dedicated to God, and their lack of overweening pride.
The tendency when reading the Quran is to read a word like "kafir" (infidel) as referring to all non-Muslims. But it is clear from a close study of the way the Quran uses the word that it refers to those who actively oppose and persecute Muslims. The word literally meant "ingrate" in ancient Arabic. So the polytheists ("mushrikun") who tried to wipe out Islam were the main referents of the word "infidel." Christians, as we see above, were mostly in a completely different category. The Christian Ethiopian monarch gave refuge to the Muslims at one point when things got hot in Mecca. The Quran does at one point speak of the "infidels" among the Jews and Christians (2:105: "those who committed kufr/infidelity from among the people of the Book.") But this verse only proves that it did not think they were all infidels, and it is probably referring to specific Jewish and Christian groups who joined with the Meccans in trying to wipe out the early Muslim community. (The Quran calls Jews and Christians "people of the book" because they have a monotheistic scripture).
People often also ask me about this verse:
[5:51] O you who believe, do not take Jews and Christians as friends; these are friends of one another. Those among you who ally themselves with these belong with them.
This is actually not a good translation of the original, which has a very specific context. In the Arabia of Muhammad's time, it was possible for an individual to become an honorary member or "client" of a powerful tribe. But of course, if you did that you would be subordinating yourself politically to that tribe. The word used in Arabic here does not mean "friend." It means "political patron" (wali). What the Quran is trying to do is to discourage stray Muslims from subordinating themselves to Christian or Jewish tribes that might in turn ally with pagan Mecca, or in any case might have interests at odds with those of the general Muslim community.
So the verse actually says:
[5:51] O you who believe, do not take Jews and Christians as tribal patrons; these are tribal patrons of one another. Those among you who become clients of these belong with them.
Since the Quran considers Christians nearest in love to Muslims, it obviously does not have an objection to friendship between the two. But apparently now it is some Christians who have that hateful attitude, of no friendship with "infidels."”
that said, true man and woman would not be intimidated, cowed or retreat from saying what is right. A world led by evils through propaganda will not win at the end, my feeling in this regard is, how many of us tortured and killed or suffered the truth will shine at the end; In fact, it is necessary for people to sacrifice themselves in the path to freedom. African American’s did it in America, so are native American’s and others. History shows in America, how a Whiteman system excluded, persecuted, tortured, enslaved, lynched and humiliated black men and women; eliminate the tribe’s of Native American’s in this country through ruthless war of aggression. That the same devil system now smelling blood and gut to go After Muslims. They may kill and do all their evil deeds and be proud about it, but we have to pass through history like African Americans, and Native people in this country in order to show their evil system would not break human spirit. We have to show evil Whiteman’s system, it will definitely be defeated as long as people of good-will work together. This struggle has no religion or ideology; it is a combination of people coming from different wake of life. Christians, Muslims, Jewish and all other religions or any system adhere to peaceful existence of humans without being bombed and tortured could and should work together to defeat the evil system that is spreading like a wild fire. The Muslim world is doing its part but it has to do better. Muslims resisted and isolated extremist groups. Despite being raped and killed, Muslims showed a great restraints rightly so time and time again. When Muslims being invaded one like in Iraq, they fought and continued to fight the invading forces until freedom achieved. Muslims and non-Muslims alike have a right to defend themselves from any kind of operations, but the fight has to be proportionate and concentrated. There can be no excuse to harm civilians from invading countries even though half America supported the invasion and the killings of civilians because they are Muslims. Ordinary Muslims showed and will continue to show they have the best intention of treating a fellow human being regardless of a religion that one might follow. Some Muslim extremists groups are out there but are not blossomed like extremists of Christian-Zionists in the U.S. or white supremacist groups like in Europe and Australia. But things might change for worst, just like Americans chose the extremist Bush, Muslims might choose the extremists too, but that would be a disaster for Muslims if that is going to happen. Extremists don’t care about sacrificing other fellow Muslims for screwed ideology, they send a young men to destroy American symbols like 9-1-1 yet they are ready to surrender (people like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) to the enemy they avowed to destroy. But they know they don’t believe in the ideology they are perusing, they know they have no knowledge or structure to construct but extremist agenda, they know they are a failure as we have seen in Taliban’s Afghanistan or in slave state of Saudi Arabia yet they sent young men to death camp to kill as many people as they can while committing suicide. Why anyone in a right mind ever devised an attack so horrified the entire world? What was the purpose of that? How could they believe a plane full of human’s be used against New York buildings full of people and the plane crashed in Pennsylvania? Assuming the Pentagon is a military target how could that be acceptable in light of civilian passengers in it which is used as a missile? Osama thought the type of attack he planned and executed will be the undoing of the American power, but he was wrong, even if that was the case that victory shouldn’t be applauded because it was against the rule of war in Islam. Such victory would have been bad on the ground it is founded on ruthlessness.
Juan Cole said “ Thursday, March 09, 2006
Bigotry toward Muslims and Anti-Arab Racism Grow in US;
Dubai and the Quran
The constant drumbeat of hatred toward Muslims and Arabs on the American Right, on television and radio and in the press, has gradually had its effect. This according to a Washington Post poll. Even in the year after September 11, a majority of Americans respected Islam and Muslims, but powerful forces in US society are determined to change that, and are gradually succeeding. As they win, Bin Laden also wins, since his whole enterprise was to "sharpen the contradictions" and provoke a clash of civilizations.
Some 25% of Americans now say they personally are prejudiced against Muslims. And 33% think that Islam as a religion helps incite violence against non-Muslims, up from 14% after September 11.
The Bush administration policy is to continually insinuate that the Muslim world is the new Soviet Union and full of sinister forces that require the US to go to war against them. But at the same time, America has warm relations with Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, etc., etc. When Saudi Arabia's then crown prince (now king) Abdullah came to the US, Bush brought him to the Crawford ranch, held hands with him and kissed him on each cheek.
This two-faced policy and self-contradictory rhetoric has contributed to growing hatred and bigotry toward Muslims in the US, which is no less worrisome than the hatred Jews faced in Europe in the 1920s. It is dangerous because of what it can become.
The subtext of bigotry and racism is what has blindsided the Bush administration with regard to the port deal for a company based in Dubai. Dubai is like the Fifth Avenue of the Middle East-- the place with the pricey shopping and the tall skyscrapers and the extravagant fashions. Dubai businessmen are no more likely to take over US ports and allow them to come to harm than US businessmen are. They want the deal in order to make money. Bush knows this very well. But since he has spent so much time fulminating against shadowy and sinister forces over there somewhere, he has spooked the American public and members of his own party.
The Big Lie eventually catches up with you.
The hatemongers are well known. Rupert Murdoch's Fox Cable News, Rush Limbaugh's radio program and its many clones, telebimbos like Ann Coulter, Evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham, Congressmen like Tom Tancredo, and a slew of far rightwing Zionists who would vote for Netanyahu (or Kach) if they lived in Israel-- Frank Gaffney, Daniel Pipes, Michael Rubin, David Horowitz, etc., etc. And finally, there are many Muslims who have an interest in whipping up anti-Islamic feeling. Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress helped maneuver the US into a war against Iraq with lies about a Saddam-al-Qaeda connection and illusory WMD. The dissident Islamic Marxist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is now placing equally false stories about Iran in the Western press and retailing them to Congress and the Pentagon.
The hatemongers think that the American public is sort of like a big stupid dog, and you can fairly easily "sic" it on whoever you like. Just tell them that X people are intrinsically evil and that the US needs to go to war to protect itself from them. Then they turn around and blame those of us who don't want our country reduced to footsoldiers in someone else's greedy crusade for being "unpatriotic."
All human beings are the same. They all have the same emotions. All laugh when happy and weep when sad. There are no broad civilizations that produce radically different behavior in human beings. All are capable of violence. (Christians killed tens of millions in the course of the 20th century, far, far more than did Muslims). Few commit much violence except in war. You can walk around any place in Cairo at 1 am perfectly safely, but cannot do that everywhere safely in many major US cities, including the nation's capital, Washington, DC. Even the idea of Islam as a cultural world or civilization opposed to the Christian West is a false construct. Eastern Mediterranean honor cultures (Greece, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Syria) have more in common with each other across the Christian-Muslim divide than either has in common with Britain or the US. And, Muslim states don't make their alliances by religion. Egypt was allied with the Soviet Union in the 1960s, then switched to the US in the 1970s and until the present. Four of the five non-NATO allies of the US are Muslim countries. Turkey is even a full NATO ally and fought along side the US in the Korean War.
Dangerous falsehoods are being promulgated to the American public. The Quran does not preach violence against Christians.
Quran 5:82 says (Arberry): "Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, and the Christians, and those Sabeaans, whoso believes in God and the Last Day, and works righteousness--their wage waits them with their Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow."
In other words, the Quran promises Christians and Jews along with Muslims that if they have faith and works, they need have no fear in the afterlife. It is not saying that non-Muslims go to hell-- quite the opposite.
When speaking of the 7th-century situation in the Muslim city-state of Medina, which was at war with pagan Mecca, the Quran notes that the polytheists and Arabian Jewish tribes were opposed to Islam, but then goes on to say:
5:82. " . . . and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: 'We are Christians.' That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud."
So the Quran not only does not urge Muslims to commit violence against Christians, it calls them "nearest in love" to the Muslims! The reason given is their piety, their ability to produce holy persons dedicated to God, and their lack of overweening pride.
The tendency when reading the Quran is to read a word like "kafir" (infidel) as referring to all non-Muslims. But it is clear from a close study of the way the Quran uses the word that it refers to those who actively oppose and persecute Muslims. The word literally meant "ingrate" in ancient Arabic. So the polytheists ("mushrikun") who tried to wipe out Islam were the main referents of the word "infidel." Christians, as we see above, were mostly in a completely different category. The Christian Ethiopian monarch gave refuge to the Muslims at one point when things got hot in Mecca. The Quran does at one point speak of the "infidels" among the Jews and Christians (2:105: "those who committed kufr/infidelity from among the people of the Book.") But this verse only proves that it did not think they were all infidels, and it is probably referring to specific Jewish and Christian groups who joined with the Meccans in trying to wipe out the early Muslim community. (The Quran calls Jews and Christians "people of the book" because they have a monotheistic scripture).
People often also ask me about this verse:
[5:51] O you who believe, do not take Jews and Christians as friends; these are friends of one another. Those among you who ally themselves with these belong with them.
This is actually not a good translation of the original, which has a very specific context. In the Arabia of Muhammad's time, it was possible for an individual to become an honorary member or "client" of a powerful tribe. But of course, if you did that you would be subordinating yourself politically to that tribe. The word used in Arabic here does not mean "friend." It means "political patron" (wali). What the Quran is trying to do is to discourage stray Muslims from subordinating themselves to Christian or Jewish tribes that might in turn ally with pagan Mecca, or in any case might have interests at odds with those of the general Muslim community.
So the verse actually says:
[5:51] O you who believe, do not take Jews and Christians as tribal patrons; these are tribal patrons of one another. Those among you who become clients of these belong with them.
Since the Quran considers Christians nearest in love to Muslims, it obviously does not have an objection to friendship between the two. But apparently now it is some Christians who have that hateful attitude, of no friendship with "infidels."”
that said, true man and woman would not be intimidated, cowed or retreat from saying what is right. A world led by evils through propaganda will not win at the end, my feeling in this regard is, how many of us tortured and killed or suffered the truth will shine at the end; In fact, it is necessary for people to sacrifice themselves in the path to freedom. African American’s did it in America, so are native American’s and others. History shows in America, how a Whiteman system excluded, persecuted, tortured, enslaved, lynched and humiliated black men and women; eliminate the tribe’s of Native American’s in this country through ruthless war of aggression. That the same devil system now smelling blood and gut to go After Muslims. They may kill and do all their evil deeds and be proud about it, but we have to pass through history like African Americans, and Native people in this country in order to show their evil system would not break human spirit. We have to show evil Whiteman’s system, it will definitely be defeated as long as people of good-will work together. This struggle has no religion or ideology; it is a combination of people coming from different wake of life. Christians, Muslims, Jewish and all other religions or any system adhere to peaceful existence of humans without being bombed and tortured could and should work together to defeat the evil system that is spreading like a wild fire. The Muslim world is doing its part but it has to do better. Muslims resisted and isolated extremist groups. Despite being raped and killed, Muslims showed a great restraints rightly so time and time again. When Muslims being invaded one like in Iraq, they fought and continued to fight the invading forces until freedom achieved. Muslims and non-Muslims alike have a right to defend themselves from any kind of operations, but the fight has to be proportionate and concentrated. There can be no excuse to harm civilians from invading countries even though half America supported the invasion and the killings of civilians because they are Muslims. Ordinary Muslims showed and will continue to show they have the best intention of treating a fellow human being regardless of a religion that one might follow. Some Muslim extremists groups are out there but are not blossomed like extremists of Christian-Zionists in the U.S. or white supremacist groups like in Europe and Australia. But things might change for worst, just like Americans chose the extremist Bush, Muslims might choose the extremists too, but that would be a disaster for Muslims if that is going to happen. Extremists don’t care about sacrificing other fellow Muslims for screwed ideology, they send a young men to destroy American symbols like 9-1-1 yet they are ready to surrender (people like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) to the enemy they avowed to destroy. But they know they don’t believe in the ideology they are perusing, they know they have no knowledge or structure to construct but extremist agenda, they know they are a failure as we have seen in Taliban’s Afghanistan or in slave state of Saudi Arabia yet they sent young men to death camp to kill as many people as they can while committing suicide. Why anyone in a right mind ever devised an attack so horrified the entire world? What was the purpose of that? How could they believe a plane full of human’s be used against New York buildings full of people and the plane crashed in Pennsylvania? Assuming the Pentagon is a military target how could that be acceptable in light of civilian passengers in it which is used as a missile? Osama thought the type of attack he planned and executed will be the undoing of the American power, but he was wrong, even if that was the case that victory shouldn’t be applauded because it was against the rule of war in Islam. Such victory would have been bad on the ground it is founded on ruthlessness.
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