Muslims Mute on Terrorism? Excuse Me?
By Dr. Khaled Batarfi
03/19/07 "ICH" -- -- It is very easy to give simple answers to
difficult questions. Anyone can do it, even George W. Bush. Why
do they hate us? Because we elect our leaders. Why Muslims kill
Muslims? Because they hate each other. Why young Muslims turn
into suicide bombers? Because they hate life. Why no progress in
the Middle East? Because Arabs are born lazy and backward. Why
Islamic terror? Because Islam inspires violence and condones
terrorism. Where is the Muslim outrage? Don’t hold your breath!
They all support terror.
Past victims included Jews, blacks and Native Americans. Jews
were demonized to justify discrimination and extermination. The
African brain was “found” to be less capable. Millions were
enslaved, misused and killed because they were lesser humans.
“The only good Indian is a dead Indian,” the invaders
discovered. So genocide claimed the lives of millions of natives
in North America.
Now it is the Muslims’ turn. Push them to the limit; if they
fail it is because of their religion and race; if they react
stupidly or violently, it must be their faith and genes. Either
way, you win.
Since those who fight back follow the same faith or come from
the same race, we are all responsible. We should not only
dissociate and condemn them, but also fight them along with the
invaders. Neutrality is no longer an option. The problem is if
we do so our people will curse us, if we don’t the crusaders who
are looking for an excuse to oppress us will find one.
The bottom line is we are damned if we do and damned if we
don’t.
American columnist Thomas Friedman, in a recent article, wants
to know why Muslims are mostly mute toward suicide bombing. He
fully knows why 1,300 million Muslims are angry, and he also
knows that only a few thousand Muslims are in a violent mode. As
an “Israel-First” American, he must have known that his
uniformed terrorists in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan kill
thousands of civilians for every enemy combatant they eliminate,
and destroy towns and villages for every enemy cell they
demolish.
The terrorists in nice suits and cool uniforms are the ones who
drive young men and women to so much desperation that life
equals death to them. Some find no weapons to fight back the
superpowers of the day but their own bodies. In World War II,
the European resistance fighters were called martyrs when they
jumped the enemy’s guns. The Japanese, who did similarly, were
called maniacs. In our case, they are called terrorists.
Victor’s justice includes name-calling.
“Where is the outrage?” Friedman “innocently” asks. Answer: The
public outrage due is against your wars on Islam and Muslims.
Our terrorists fight us as much as they fight you, and we are
fighting them back. Listen to our mosques and follow our media
and you will find lots of battles, speeches, fatwas and articles
against them — that is if you don’t limit your readings to
Israeli MEMRI (founded and run by a former Mossad colonel).
This is our outrage, but where is yours? Where is the outrage
against the US soldiers who randomly shot and killed 16 Afghan
civilians on a highway in revenge for an earlier Taleban attack?
Or against the Marines who raped innocent Iraqi women and killed
family members in retaliation for a roadside bomb? Or against
the killing, maiming and displacing of a million Lebanese
civilians in response to the capturing of two Israeli soldiers?
We are fighting our terrorists, but are you fighting yours? Our
bad and ugly are taken to court, humiliated and hanged; when are
yours going to be tried and punished? We call our terrorists
“terrorists,” you call yours presidents, prime ministers and
patriotic “men and women in uniforms.” We don’t blame your
religion and race for the crimes against us, but you blame ours
to justify collective punishment.
Yes, we have our hate speakers and fear merchants, but they are
mostly in caves and prisons, hunted and doomed. Yours, however,
are members of legislative bodies. They lead legitimate
governments, businesses, churches, synagogues and media
organizations. Friedman is trying to compete with a league of
villains like Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James
C. Dobson, and Franklin Graham. Google them out and see what
kind of hate speeches they make against Arabs and Muslims every
day. Our extremists are civilized in comparison. If you want us
to go out of our way to denounce our extremists, you should show
us the way by denouncing yours. It takes two to tango.
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