Muslims need to speak out against extremists!!!?

Question

Okay my question is this, why is it that the peaceful Muslims of this great country are not rallying together to put an end to these Muslim extremists? They say they do not agree with it but they do nothing to change it. Okay they might not be able to put an end to it, but at least they can oppose it right?

lil me-In my question anywere did I mention hunting them down and killing them? Please do not put a play on my question.

Listen people this is just a question for debate, there is no need to tell me or anyone else here to shut up, right Taco?

Stiggo this not about race but religion.

Celtic-I am a white female 6 feet tall, Libra and I love to take long walks on the beach. That's my story, lol. Like I said I was just asking a question people, oh my.

My mistake Celtic I misread your answer! Sorry, lol.

Schaufel-Once again, it did not state in my question that the non extremist Muslims have to apoligize. In my opinion it takes more than 1 or 2 to speak out against them.

Answer 1

Yes exactly, every picture paint's a story, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they DON'T WANT TO SPEAK OUT, so what's their part in the story?? I wonder...........

I am a white female 9 inches shorter than you, I am a Libra, I was born on the beach, lol,

Answer 2

Angelhunter is right. There were 3 Christian extermists (my guess would be a little higher than that sinceTed Kaczinski also comes to mind). While these (4) men were extremists, I think their 'actions' were the result of a mental imbalance not Christianity. There are ARMYs of Muslim extremists--these people have been indoctrinated with hate from birth. Something our nice, tolerant liberal friends will overlook as long as they share the same political objectives.

Answer 3

After reading Islam Detenda Est's answer, I would now put all muslims together then. If they are not going to be part of the solution then they are part of the problem and should be dealt with in the same way as the problem people. They don't agree with the violence but won't do anything about it. Makes them one in the same then.

I for one felt sorry for them after 9/11 when the "innocent" ones were being harrassed. Not any more.

It would be the same thing if any other group of people stated they didn't agree with the violence or drug dealing that was going on in the neighborhood or a school, but because they were of the same race as the people selling the drugs, etc. they wouldn't speak out. That makes them just as guilty as the perps.

Answer 4

A major shift has got to occurr in Islam. Just like in other religions. A major turn back to the Islam of peace, gender equality and education. Until this happens, I am sad to say, many Muslims will pay with their lives for not opposing the evil they see taking over their religion.

Saudi Arabia is one country that will pay dearly, as will Iran. If anyone of any faith believes that the free people of the world will just sit there and be taken over is fooling themselves.

Unfortunately, America has not responded to the 9/11 attacks appropriately. I fear that it will take another much worse attack, perhaps the loss of an entire city, before we respond the way we should have responded.

Just like in WWII when Nazi Germany, Facist Italy and Imperial Japan were beaten into unconditional surrender in four years, the total combined firepower of the US military must be employed. The result will be many dead Muslims. How many will be up to them. The sooner they surrender the more will survive. It is ugly but it is a fact. War means lots and lots of death, suffering and remorse. It is that ugliness that makes people less inclined to start war.

In troublesome places in Iraq, the town should have been surrounded, announcements made and leaflets dropped warning the civilians to get out. Then a major air strike should have followed. Yes, I am sure many civilians would be killed too, but what makes these civilians any more precious than the Germans or Japanese civilians we bombed in WWII?

We have yet to take the fight to these people. Do that and see how popular their local warlord becomes. Pretty quickly the regular civilians will turn on him as the cause of the trouble and rightly so.

You cannot win their hearts and minds until you have their respect. They don't fear us because we are not looking fearsome. They respect strength. It is time we showed them what real strength is.

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Answer 5

Here's a quote from the leader of a "mainstream, peaceful Islamic group"

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

Omar Ahmad,
Co-Founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ( CAIR )



Beheading infidels, "convert or death" and all that stuff is NOT extremists, it's mainstream Islam. It's what the religion has ALWAYS been about.

Extremists would be people with radically different ideals than the norm. In the case of Muslims, the extremists are the few who are actually interested in peaceful coexistence.

Answer 6

The US always invades countries with natural resources it desires. When the population fights to protect its resources, the US media calls them terrorists. That's what they said about the Vietnamese NLF, they said the same thing about the Sandinistas, the Philipinos were simply disregarded as savages. The Palestinians, their country taken away, and they are called terrorists for defending their land. The Soviets also called the Afghan resistance terrorists. Putin calls the Chechen rebels terrorists. France called the Algerian NLF terrorists.
It seems that when empires encounter indigenous opposition they always take the same two tiered strategy. Conduct a massive campaign of terrorism (as the US is doing today in Iraq through its indiscriminate bombing, imitating perhaps its Vietnam days) and accuse the resistance of terrorism.
Perhaps an uneducated person will fall for those lies every time they are uttered. Any one who studies history would be displaying too much ignorance or too much imperial zeal to validate such orwellian examples of the manipulation of language.

Speaking of orwellian, anybody see Bush saying "The US does not commit torture?"

War is Peace. Ignorance Is Strength.
MiniTruth

edit: for those calling Islam a violent religion. Have you people read the Old Testament?!?! The Torah? God smites, leads the Hebrews through war. The God of David was a god of empire.
Constantine converted to Christianity in order to guarantee victory in battle. Sainthood in Christianity is defined by martyrdom and very many Catholic saints were warriors. During the Crusades, the Pope advocated the violent eviction of Muslims from the Holy Land even though they welcomed Christian Pilgrims. The Catholic Monarchs in Spain expelled the Muslim and Jewish population even though the Spanish Caliphate had been a beacon of tolerance. Jews were openly persecuted and excluded in Christiandom until the mid-20th century. Jews were at least tolerated by Islam until the mid-20th century and today there are thriving jewish populations in Muslim countries.
Wasn't it Christians who came over to an unknown continent and decimated the indigenous population? Wasn't the Christian conquest of America characterized by rape, plunder of the continent's natural resources and genocide?

Jesus was a man of peace... that much is true. Christianity is NOT a religion of peace. It has not been one since Constantine drew crosses on the shields of his army.

Answer 7

Stiggo, the question is which Muslims ARE "acting like it." You would have a good point if Islam were an otherwise peaceful religion and a bunch of extremists were turning it into something other than what Muhammad did and taught but that's not the case and you know it.

Muhammad was a mass-murderer and plunderer. He was a 7th century combination of Charles Manson and Blackbeard. On top of that he was a pedophile.

His Koran commands Muslims to kill non-Muslims "wherever ye may find them" and to "behead them and cut off every fingertip of them."

If you don't believe me, go buy a Koran and read it yourself.

I think that even if so-called moderate Muslims hold that these examples are not to be taken literally, when someone does take them literally, there's a duty to speak out against it.

Answer 8

Many Muslim groups have denounced the extremists, but it doesn't make for very compelling news, so you don't hear about it. Most Muslims probably have jobs and stuff that prevent them from holding daily rallies as well.

What do you really expect them to do anyway? Do you really think a jihadist in Iraq is going to give a tiny rat's behind about a protest in the U.S.? Undoubtedly they would dismiss them as not being true believers.

Answer 9

I'm going to try to give a balanced perspective of this situation... first off, give credit where credit is due... there are many, many muslims who have denounced the acts of terror used in the name of Islam... such as Shaykh Hamza Yusuf of California, Imam Siraj Wahaj of Brooklyn, and Imam Faisal Abdur Rauf of Lower Manhattan, who in the aftermath of 9/11 did indeed denounce terrorism in the name of Islam [1]. There are dozens of other such examples that could be quoted, but you get the point... it is happening.

Furthermore, why is it the responsibility of other muslims to apologise for every evil action taken in the name of their religion. There are Christians who bomb abortion clinics in the name of God, and I find this apaling as a Christian. Personally I cannot see the logic in fighting against the killing of prescious human life, by the killing of prescious human life. But, don't expect me to apologise on behalf of those doing these bombings... it's not my job to make excuses, or to speak out against their actions.

To be fair, however, the main reason that muslims, at least muslims in the middle east, do not speak out against terrorism as much is due to the fact that the muslim fundamentalists are a very powerful force in that region, and truth be told, they are folowing the teaching of the Qur'an. Many "liberal" muslims see Jihad as an internal struggle against sin and vice, and as an outward struggle to convert adherents to Islam with words and actions... however this is not the traditional view of Jihad.

Traditionally Islam has heald that Jihad, which literally means striving, incompases both the internal struggle against sin, and the outward violent struggle to force conversion to Islam. Therfore many muslims do see the violent attacks in the name of Islam as wholy justifiable actions taken for the benifit of Allah!

So the sad truth of the matter is that terrorism IS consistant with the traditional teachings of Isalm... how could many muslims, espically the more conservative muslims from the middle east in which there is considerable support for Islamic fundamentalism, come out against a practice that is allowed, or even promoted, by their faith? They can't, and therefore, you'll find in the middle east more often than denouncing terror, Imams will be at best falling silent about the issue, and at worst actively promote the acts....

Answer 10

Maybe they are 'secretly' extremists or are controlled to be such. I really wonder about this myself as the central war seems to be the Zionists versus the Nation of Islam. Chrisians just seem to be the 'sheeple' that take no action whatsoever allowing them to be controlled by either faction. Not trying to make this on religion, but that is what it is about to most of the above.
I believe that the biggest problem is the ones that we NEVER hear about above. Seems like all we hear about is Muslims.....................to my knowlegde they do not control the media!
I am a white, christian, male and I to believe as many Muslims do, that the Jews are the synagogue of Satan!

Thanks for the thumbs down as it reinforces my belief that the true enemy lie within! The Muslims are spiritual compared to the Zionists and other similiar Jew sects! At least they believe in JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!