Post by maruf on Jul 9, 2005 2:39:20 GMT -5
It is very interesting to have this view, but then again, Mr. Friedman is a Kafir or non-Muslim who has an agenda, and the agenda lives in the supremacy of capitalism/democracy and the West.
The direction that is not brought up for our Ummah is, instead of isolating the "Terrorist Muslims" in the Ummah. What about governments that bomb innocent Muslims almost daily? What about governments that kill Muslims almost daily? What about governments who occupy Muslim lands and control their resources? What about those who torture Muslims? What about those who kill masses of Muslims at a protest? What about those who kick Muslims out of their homelands? What about those who simply hate those who submit themselves to Allah. Hate those who cover their bodies and pray. Why does not he or our Islaamic leaders exhort Muslims to root out those that plot against the Ummah and oppress and seek to suppress it?
I mean give me a break? You are saying that those in the Muslim community are the threat versus those who control the world through greed, namely capitalism, but call it liberty and freedom?
This is a slap in the face of any thinking human being, much less a Muslim. The Media are tools of the governments which are used by the super rich. Why would anyone believe a Muslim did anything in the first place when it comes from such deceiving sources as the Media? But, of course Mr. Friedman does not point this out. Allah is our witness to what is the Truth, and when these people die, May Allah show them.
Muslims do not control the world's resources while millions suffer. Muslims do not have any armies, navies, or intelligence services that spread destruction and chaos like the West does.
The supper rich of the West oppress their citizens as well as the world citizenry (including Muslims). Who is the threat? It is not Westerners or non Muslims, but the shaitanic governments of the world.
Intelligence agencies and governments have the ability to bomb, manipulate, and cause destruction to the world better than any group.
May Allah help our Ummah and give Muslims an Islaamic State that will provide justice to the world and spread peace, not chaos, tyranny, and evil.
Muslims must fight jihadist cult
www.bangkokpost.com/News/09Jul2005_news32.php
Thursday's bombings in downtown London are profoundly disturbing. In part, that is because a bombing in our mother country and closest ally, England, is almost like a bombing in our own country. In part, it's because one assault may have involved a suicide bomber, bringing this terrible jihadist weapon into the heart of a major Western capital.
That would be deeply troubling because open societies depend on trust _ on trusting that the person sitting next to you on the bus or subway is not wearing dynamite. The attacks are also deeply disturbing because when jihadist bombers take their madness into the heart of our open societies, our societies are never again quite as open. Indeed, we all just lost a little freedom Thursday.
But maybe the most important aspect of the London bombings is this: When jihadist-style bombings happen in Riyadh, that is a Muslim-Muslim problem. That is a police problem for Saudi Arabia. But when Qaeda-like bombings come to the London Underground, that becomes a civilisational problem. Every Muslim living in a Western society suddenly becomes a suspect, becomes a potential walking bomb. And when that happens, it means Western countries are going to be tempted to crack down even harder on their own Muslim populations. That, too, is deeply troubling. The more Western societies _ particularly the big European societies, which have much larger Muslim populations than America _ look on their own Muslims with suspicion, the more internal tensions this creates, and the more alienated their already alienated Muslim youth become. This is exactly what Osama bin Laden dreamed of with 9/11: to create a great gulf between the Muslim world and the globalising West.
So this is a critical moment. We must do all we can to limit the civilisational fallout from this bombing. But this is not going to be easy. Why? Because unlike after 9/11, there is no obvious, easy target to retaliate against for bombings like those in London. There are no obvious terrorist headquarters and training camps in Afghanistan that we can hit with Cruise missiles. The Qaeda threat has become franchised. It is no longer vertical, something that we can punch in the face. It is now horizontal, flat and widely distributed, operating through the Internet and tiny cells.
Because there is no obvious target to retaliate against, and because there are not enough police to police every opening in an open society, either the Muslim world begins to really restrain, inhibit and denounce its own extremists _ if it turns out that they are behind the London bombings _ or the West is going to do it for them. And the West will do it in a rough, crude way _ by simply shutting them out, denying them visas and making every Muslim in its midst guilty until proven innocent.
And because I think that would be a disaster, it is essential that the Muslim world wake up to the fact that it has a jihadist death cult in its midst. If it does not fight that death cult, that cancer, within its own body politic, it is going to infect Muslim-Western relations everywhere. Only the Muslim world can root out that death cult. It takes a village.
What do I mean? I mean that the greatest restraint on human behaviour is never a policeman or a border guard. The greatest restraint on human behaviour is what a culture and a religion deem shameful. It is what the village and its religious and political elders say is wrong or not allowed. Many people said Palestinian suicide bombing was the spontaneous reaction of frustrated Palestinian youth. But when Palestinians decided that it was in their interest to have a cease-fire with Israel, those bombings stopped cold. The village said enough was enough.
The Muslim village has been derelict in condemning the madness of jihadist attacks. When Salman Rushdie wrote a controversial novel involving the Prophet Muhammad, he was sentenced to death by the leader of Iran. To this day _ no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama bin Laden.
The double-decker buses of London and the subways of Paris, as well as the covered markets of Riyadh, Bali and Cairo, will never be secure as long as the Muslim village and elders do not take on, delegitimise, condemn and isolate the extremists in their midst.
Thomas L. Friedman is a New York Times columnist.
The direction that is not brought up for our Ummah is, instead of isolating the "Terrorist Muslims" in the Ummah. What about governments that bomb innocent Muslims almost daily? What about governments that kill Muslims almost daily? What about governments who occupy Muslim lands and control their resources? What about those who torture Muslims? What about those who kill masses of Muslims at a protest? What about those who kick Muslims out of their homelands? What about those who simply hate those who submit themselves to Allah. Hate those who cover their bodies and pray. Why does not he or our Islaamic leaders exhort Muslims to root out those that plot against the Ummah and oppress and seek to suppress it?
I mean give me a break? You are saying that those in the Muslim community are the threat versus those who control the world through greed, namely capitalism, but call it liberty and freedom?
This is a slap in the face of any thinking human being, much less a Muslim. The Media are tools of the governments which are used by the super rich. Why would anyone believe a Muslim did anything in the first place when it comes from such deceiving sources as the Media? But, of course Mr. Friedman does not point this out. Allah is our witness to what is the Truth, and when these people die, May Allah show them.
Muslims do not control the world's resources while millions suffer. Muslims do not have any armies, navies, or intelligence services that spread destruction and chaos like the West does.
The supper rich of the West oppress their citizens as well as the world citizenry (including Muslims). Who is the threat? It is not Westerners or non Muslims, but the shaitanic governments of the world.
Intelligence agencies and governments have the ability to bomb, manipulate, and cause destruction to the world better than any group.
May Allah help our Ummah and give Muslims an Islaamic State that will provide justice to the world and spread peace, not chaos, tyranny, and evil.
Muslims must fight jihadist cult
www.bangkokpost.com/News/09Jul2005_news32.php
Thursday's bombings in downtown London are profoundly disturbing. In part, that is because a bombing in our mother country and closest ally, England, is almost like a bombing in our own country. In part, it's because one assault may have involved a suicide bomber, bringing this terrible jihadist weapon into the heart of a major Western capital.
That would be deeply troubling because open societies depend on trust _ on trusting that the person sitting next to you on the bus or subway is not wearing dynamite. The attacks are also deeply disturbing because when jihadist bombers take their madness into the heart of our open societies, our societies are never again quite as open. Indeed, we all just lost a little freedom Thursday.
But maybe the most important aspect of the London bombings is this: When jihadist-style bombings happen in Riyadh, that is a Muslim-Muslim problem. That is a police problem for Saudi Arabia. But when Qaeda-like bombings come to the London Underground, that becomes a civilisational problem. Every Muslim living in a Western society suddenly becomes a suspect, becomes a potential walking bomb. And when that happens, it means Western countries are going to be tempted to crack down even harder on their own Muslim populations. That, too, is deeply troubling. The more Western societies _ particularly the big European societies, which have much larger Muslim populations than America _ look on their own Muslims with suspicion, the more internal tensions this creates, and the more alienated their already alienated Muslim youth become. This is exactly what Osama bin Laden dreamed of with 9/11: to create a great gulf between the Muslim world and the globalising West.
So this is a critical moment. We must do all we can to limit the civilisational fallout from this bombing. But this is not going to be easy. Why? Because unlike after 9/11, there is no obvious, easy target to retaliate against for bombings like those in London. There are no obvious terrorist headquarters and training camps in Afghanistan that we can hit with Cruise missiles. The Qaeda threat has become franchised. It is no longer vertical, something that we can punch in the face. It is now horizontal, flat and widely distributed, operating through the Internet and tiny cells.
Because there is no obvious target to retaliate against, and because there are not enough police to police every opening in an open society, either the Muslim world begins to really restrain, inhibit and denounce its own extremists _ if it turns out that they are behind the London bombings _ or the West is going to do it for them. And the West will do it in a rough, crude way _ by simply shutting them out, denying them visas and making every Muslim in its midst guilty until proven innocent.
And because I think that would be a disaster, it is essential that the Muslim world wake up to the fact that it has a jihadist death cult in its midst. If it does not fight that death cult, that cancer, within its own body politic, it is going to infect Muslim-Western relations everywhere. Only the Muslim world can root out that death cult. It takes a village.
What do I mean? I mean that the greatest restraint on human behaviour is never a policeman or a border guard. The greatest restraint on human behaviour is what a culture and a religion deem shameful. It is what the village and its religious and political elders say is wrong or not allowed. Many people said Palestinian suicide bombing was the spontaneous reaction of frustrated Palestinian youth. But when Palestinians decided that it was in their interest to have a cease-fire with Israel, those bombings stopped cold. The village said enough was enough.
The Muslim village has been derelict in condemning the madness of jihadist attacks. When Salman Rushdie wrote a controversial novel involving the Prophet Muhammad, he was sentenced to death by the leader of Iran. To this day _ no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama bin Laden.
The double-decker buses of London and the subways of Paris, as well as the covered markets of Riyadh, Bali and Cairo, will never be secure as long as the Muslim village and elders do not take on, delegitimise, condemn and isolate the extremists in their midst.
Thomas L. Friedman is a New York Times columnist.
