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Questioning Whether Islam Is Religion of Peace

Submitted by kaosktrl, Jul 9, 2007 12:17

Reasonable Muslims now agree that when a religion veers so far off course, it loses immunity to inquisition. "We ought to go through very serious questioning and soul-searching," a founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Dr. Maher Hathout, wrote on "The American Muslim" Web site Thursday. "How did we, as a group, fail to nip this ugly phenomenon in the bud?" he asks. "How did we indulge in the luxury of theoretical debates, and craft all kinds of euphemisms to let this go on, spill out, and grow?""

This kind of gibberish is just one end of the jihad spectrum , anyone who thinks this is a phenomenon, or that Islam can withstand any scrutiny is a liar or ignorant, Im going with the former, I used to fall in with the later, but 5 years later after this late date. Its jihad now.


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Dear Mr. Ibrahim We in the Muslim world need to be saved from those who preach evil. We need to persecute... [MORE]

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Jul 10, 2007 10:08

Strange how when Israel commits all those crimes and massacres (which has been the case for the past sixty years)... [MORE]

Folan 

Jul 10, 2007 08:44

Raising the bar further, most Muslim scholarship of today maintains the refrain that Islam is not meant to be another... [MORE]

notawhitegal 

Jul 10, 2007 02:44

Hathout is just as fanatical about spreading islam as the terrorists, he's just fighting the battle on a different front. [MORE]

Kylie 

Jul 10, 2007 01:47

This is merely an apologist smokescreen to detract from the fact that Islam is NOT a religion of peace. "Westernized"... [MORE]

Julie 

Jul 9, 2007 16:35

How this kind of commentary can be seen as exceptional or extreme in a world perpetually held to ransom and... [MORE]

Michael McDonald 

Jul 9, 2007 15:34

Al Qaeda jihadis follow the Sunnah(the example of Mohammed) and the Koran explicitly. That is why in a debate about... [MORE]

Elizabeth 

Jul 9, 2007 14:23

Reasonable Muslims now agree that when a religion veers so far off course, it loses immunity to inquisition. "We ought...

kaosktrl 

Jul 9, 2007 12:17

This is known in Islam as "Taqiyyah". The word "al-Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings,... [MORE]

Paul Becker 

Jul 9, 2007 21:29

Bravo ! Excellent column by a brave writer. It is about time muslims took a good hard look at what... [MORE]

Anne Martin 

Jul 9, 2007 12:16

Mr. Ibrahim's editorial is clear, succinct, and honest. It also has the virtue of being true. Thanks to the NY... [MORE]

David Kleykamp 

Jul 9, 2007 01:58

Having had the privilege of living and traveling in the Muslim world, living in Lebanon and Morocco – as a... [MORE]

James 

Jul 9, 2007 18:20

Something about your post does not ring true James. You claim that your wife is a practicising Muslim. If that is... [MORE]

Zarin 

Jul 9, 2007 19:34

The basis of James's commentary, that Islam is primarily a personal or community religion, is highly misleading. As one who... [MORE]

spinifex 

Jul 10, 2007 00:11

What great news is the terror suspect who died in Glasgow from burn wounds. Pitty is he is from Bangalore... [MORE]

Dave 

Aug 3, 2007 05:41

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