The fearful lives in a land of the free
It is so sad to see Muslims scared to stand up for the truth regarding Israel, America, and their countries that they live in. Muslims, of all people, have to be revolutionary - they cant be scared. It is even more a shame that we see all of these non-Muslims standing up and protesting out against Israel and America’s war on Iraq, but you do not see many Muslims doing the same.
The fearful lives in a land of the free
Robert Fisk
Westerners assume that anyone with a Canadian passport is safe
I was given the chance to talk to 600 Muslim Canadians a few days ago.
The dinner was in an Ottawa banqueting room and the guests also
included the imam of the Ottawa mosque, the Ottawa chief of police and
sundry uniformed Canadian army officers.
The imam sat between me and the Canadian capital’s top cop – a
genuinely decent guy who wanted Muslim Canadians to regard him as a
friend – and we were even able to joke about the reality of those
“random checks” which Muslims of Middle Eastern origin and a certain R
Fisk seem to receive at North American airports. All well and good,
then, until I got up to speak.
I warned the audience they might not like all they heard from me. And
sure enough, when I told the audience that they were perfectly at
liberty to condemn Israel and America – indeed, that they should
condemn both when they abuse human rights, occupy other people’s
countries and shoot innocent civilians – but that I wanted to know why
I so rarely heard them condemn the vicious police states in the Middle
East and other areas of south-west Asia from which they originally
came, I was greeted with silence. A smattering of Muslim diplomats sat
like statues, thus identifying the cruelty of their regimes. The only
immediate applause came when I remarked that the moment Western
soldiers started shooting at Muslims in Muslim lands, it was time for
the soldiers to withdraw.
Two interesting phenomena emerged from this remark. The first was
that, when I finished, both the police chief and the Canadian army
officers joined the applause. Canada’s hopeless military involvement
in Afghanistan is a subject of considerable controversy within the
Canadian military. When the politicians have had their say, I’ve
discovered, soldiers usually let us know their views.
Abu Zaynab
Again, why not bring light to Muslim oppression of other Muslims?
All I see you comment on is anything pertaining to Israel and America.
I’m sorry but there are plenty of things wrong with the Muslim world that needs to be noted too.
I wonder how you feel about the 250,000 Bihari Muslims who are stuck stateless in refugee camps to this day for 37 years now.
Or the exodus of Christians from Iraq by Muslim militants. Is that not worthy of attention either? Especially when they are a tiny minority to begin with?
Yes, I do concentate more on the foreign powers oppression of Muslim lands. But, I do agree that there are many problems in the Islamic world that need solving, but the foreign powers are more dangerous first. there are many articles on Islamic unity that i have put on http://www.islamislamislam.wordpress.com
Uh no, we are own enemy.
Muslims kill more Muslims than anyone else.
BTW, why didn’t you make a blog post about this? Mass graves unearthed in northern Afghanistan
You know that the Taliban committed far disgusting atrocities against the Shi’aa Hazaras yet for some reason you think Israel is worse than the Taliban. I’m not a fan of Israel but only a daft idiot would argue that Taliban were not worse than Israel.
I think you don’t see a problem with Muslims oppressing Muslims.
I just think it’s funny how you are concerned about Guantanamo Bay yet stay silent on how Shi’as are under assault in places like Pakistan and Iraq.
Charity starts at home, does it not?
As for Islamic unity, sorry brother but it’s a pipedream.