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Glenn Reynolds says:
AN ANTI-TERROR RALLY BY MUSLIMS in Antelope Valley, California.
You know, if these people had blown something up, they’d be getting more press. Which suggests that if the press wants to help eliminate terrorism, it should adjust its priorities.
Let’s shame them into it with our Digg for terrorist inciters, excusers, and opponents.
Actually sometimes the news is not about the act of terror, but the aftermath, the casualty that the strike leaves behind. When normal, innocent people die without their fault, the news part of the thing cannot be down-played. On the other hand, yes, the terrorist statements shouldn’t get the kind of coverage they get. As long as they are contained to their caves and their midieval ideologies, I couldn’t care less what messages people like Laden and Zawahiri have for the world.
Anti-terror marches are not news; there’s no reason that march should get more press. Most likely, the only reason the local paper did the story is because it runs counter to the biases of its readers: “Look! Local Muslims Who Don’t Want to Kill Us!” In another age they’d proably have done stories along the lines of “Look! Local Negroes Who Work Hard And Can’t Dance!”
More to the point, how is the American press reporting this story supposed to stop some brainwashed yahoo from blowing himslef up?
OK. That’s 100 people.
I’d be much more impressed if it was a 10,000+ rally in Dearborn, Michigan.
Exposure of this action could assist in letting the Islamic community show a non-terrifying public face. You will never get someone who hates on principle to be moved by a march. You could get a lot of Americans who show no particular bias against Buddhists, Hindus or Jews to become less antagonized by Islam. Its only a start and the march was far too small to do the community real justice but surely it warrants at least half the attention of tiny abortion rallies.
Democrat Diane Feinstein agrees that we need to digg and root out the scum in our midst.
{“I think until the mosques in the Muslim world and the imams in the Muslim world in a major way issue fatwa after fatwa denouncing jihad and denouncing terror that we’re not going make any progress,” the California Democrat told CNN.
“I don’t see many, if any, major imams throughout all of the Muslim countries coming together and saying: Enough of this. Stop. This is not Islam. You know, we object to it,” she said.
“Until there is something like an excommunication that would take place in the Catholic Church where, if you are going to engage in this thing, do not frequent our mosques, you don’t see this,” Feinstein said.
She added: “What you see in many places is that the mosque becomes an enabler one way or another.”}
This woman is right on. Democrat or not, she’d get my vote. She is putting the blame where it belongs–on muslim terrorists–the garbage who killed 50 in London and 80 plus in Egypt, and is carrying out a genocide in Darfur and Nigeria. Homicidal maniacs.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050724/pl_afp/usattackspolitics&printer%3D1
This guy, AHMED H. AL-RAHIM , is risking his life to say this, so deserves mention in the courage category. Likely fatwas have been issued.
{But what is more shameful is that there are no mass Muslim protests to speak of against terrorism that is committed in our name. In the same way that Muslims have protested against alleged desecrations of the Quran, they now should be out in full force in the streets of Cairo, London and New York, sending a clear message to the Islamists that Enough is Enough. Why not a "Million Muslim March" on Washington, of law-abiding Muslim citizens clamoring to reclaim their faith from those who would kill innocents in its name? Muslims must no longer stand by while murder and suicide bombings are committed in their name.}
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB11223421…
Also Pope Benedict deserves some credit for refusing to chant that islam is peace lie.
Pope Benedict XVI yesterday refused to declare Islam "a religion of peace."
{Asked by reporters whether Islam could be considered a religion of peace shortly before entering a meeting with priests and deacons of Valle d'Aosta in northwest Italy where he is spending a brief holiday, the pontiff refused to reply positively.} Good for you, Benny.
Another courageous muslim explaining the moderate lie. If he is right the majority are not against terror.
{304790Instead of witnessing "moderate" Muslims resolutely taking back their faith-tradition from extremists and murderers, the world has grown numb to endless apologetics and polemics explaining away "jihadi" politics as a misguided, though inexcusable, response to the wrongs inflicted upon Muslims by the West.
The truth is there does not exist an identifiable body of Muslims, substantive in number or an outright majority, who could be described as "moderate" by their repudiation of Muslim extremists.
But there are Muslims who, at great risks to themselves, unapologetically condemn the culture of violence Muslims have bred for extremists among them to exploit.
They work alone, or in small groups of like-minded Muslims, despite being maligned and ostracized by fellow Muslims, to dissect and expose Muslim extremism to the world at large while striving against immense difficulties to keep faith in the ideals of Islam.
Their effort, irrespective of any effect in advancing Muslim reformation, remains real, while "moderate" Muslims being nowhere to be found confirm their existence is a myth until proven otherwise. }
Good on you, Kat, for all the 'news' and references – as always. My only problem with Benny's (heehaaaa) comments a few days ago (not this story you've just shared) is that he glaringly left out Israel.
I am waiting for the day that 'the world' finally figures out (gee, think the MSM might ever help?) that the gutblowers in Palestine are twin brethren Islamofascists of all those other exploding terrorists all over the globe. When that happens, no longer will the taqiyya claims of occupier, etc., be available to 'justify' gutblowing of Jews as a 'special', 'defensive' case, as claimed by their Imams and others daily.
The word also hasn't quite gotten out yet that they're out to exterminate ALL Jews, along with kill or dhimmitize the rest of us. E v e n t u a l l y, the world will also understand why that Isaeli/Palestinian peace process seems to ALWAYS get derailed. Funny thing. And, perhaps that Nobel Peace Prize will also eventually be revoked and ripped from the Arafat legacy. Talk about a master terrorist/taqiyya trash talker!
Yes, I agree, leaving out Israel was very wrong. Israel has been fighting this scum for years.