I was born as a Muslim and
lived all my life as a follower of Islam.
After the barbaric terrorist
attacks done by my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and
after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts
of the world, I feel responsible as aMuslim and as a human being,
to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and
Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.
I have to
admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred
toward Non-Muslims.
We Muslims are
the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the
beating of women by men,
and killing those
who convert from Islam to other religions. We have never had a clear and
strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our
religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating
tax called Jizia.
We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.
We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.
What message do
we convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys"..
Is this a
message of love and peace, or a message of hate?
I have been into churches and synagogues where they were praying for
Muslims.
While all the time we curse them, and teach our generations
to call them infidels, and to hate them.
We immediately
jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet
Mohammed when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with
the story in our Islamic books, that he
married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above 50 years
old.
I
am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after
September 11th and after many other terror attacks.
Muslims denounce these
attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic
terrorists and sympathize with their cause.
Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam.
Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam.
Muslims
demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France
to stop the ban on the Hejab (Head Scarf), while we did not demonstrate with
such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders.
It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the
energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts .
We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East .
We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East .
We
kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab
countries to make them "Jews-Free countries" while Israel accepted
more than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their
rights as human beings.
In Israel, women can not be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel.
In Israel, women can not be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel.
It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab
world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to
work with happiness in Israel
, its 'enemy'. If Israel
treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite
happening.
We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a
new era to live in harmony with human mankind. Our religious leaders have
to show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy,
pedophilia, slavery,
killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of
women by men and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam.
Then, and only
then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion.
The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: 'We
Muslims have to Change'.
Tawfik Hamid
(Dr. Tawfik Hamid (aka Tarek Abdelhamid), is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization JI with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri who became later on the second in command of Al-Qaeda. Some twenty-five years ago, he recognized the threat of Radical Islam and the need for a reformation based upon modern peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts.)
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