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hisannabelle -> RE: French Muslim war graves defaced. (4/7/2008 12:24:54 AM)
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fast reply.
these are posts i made on another website but insha'allah they will also be useful for those here in seeing a small amount of muslim reactions to terrorism gathered in one place. i'd also like to point out that...well...what else can we DO? other than live our lives? i mean, for every single muslim in the world to try to make their voice heard in western media at every opportunity is almost entirely prohibitive. we have jobs, school, immigration, bills, and everything else to worry about. on top of that, we have to worry upon walking out of our door, because (at least for covering women) we face quite a bit of difficulty even going to the grocery store often enough. what else can i do? should i carry a sign that says, "i denounce terrorism," every time i leave the house? i mean, every sheikh whose teachings i personally read, listen to, and follow is listed among the links i posted below denouncing terrorism. what else can we do?
level, i noticed you list buddhism among things you love. as a buddhist, i never spent my entire existence apologizing for sinhalese genocide of tamils, or for the deaths caused in the terror of the karmapa controversy, or for any other violence in the name of buddhism. i don't know any buddhists who are expected to expend all extra energy they have trying to get the "moderate voice" heard on tv (and, being involved in buddhist leadership here and maintaining ties to that community, as well as studying buddhism academically, i know a LOT of buddhists). how is that different?
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Insha'Allah this will be of some help to your concern about Muslim responses to terrorism. I looked for specific links to Muslim responses to terrorism, particularly those of scholars, leaders, and organizations. There were too many to list, but many of them can be found here:
http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php
Another listing can be found here:
http://www.unc.edu/%7Ekurzman/terror.htm
This includes responses from well-respected Islamic scholars with a huge following, such as Shaykhs Hamza Yusuf and Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Scholars have even declared fatwas against terrorism. This letter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/h..._07_letter.pdf is from 130 well-respected Islamic scholars condemning terrorism. It also lists links to information about organizations of Muslims in America, Canada, and the UK who condemn terrorism.
They are as public as humanly possible. Most of those links are to articles from major news sources like the BBC, the Washington Post, Associated Press, Agence France Presse; the letter I posted was sent to a huge list of major Christian religious leaders, including the Pope. Many of the messages have been projected on Muslim and Arab news sources, opening them up to criticism from the "many" you seem to think agree with terrorists. A huge number of the messages are from high government leaders, including heads of countries, in Chad, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Egypt. How much more public can you get? The fact is, the media reports about Islamic terrorism because Muslims speaking out against terrorism does not make money.
One of the interesting points I'd like to make on behalf of non-Wahhabist Muslims is that we are in the same boat you are. Aside from the fact that many of us (like myself) are Americans, born of American non-Muslim families, and members of other Western nations, we are also considered "unbelievers" by pretty much every terrorist group. These radical groups denounce Shi'a and Sufi Muslims as unbelievers, and all Sunni Muslims who do not agree with them, and call for our destruction as well.
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