Posted: 1/14/2003 4:54:11 AM EDT
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[url]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/821757/posts[/url] Muslim Disinformation Campaign By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com | January 13, 2003 Islam has an image problem, and American Muslim organizations know it. If you ask them, this problem comes from people lying about Islam. Irresponsible, hate-filled Christian preachers and others decry Islam as a violent religion, Muslim spokesmen claim, and this bigotry gives rise to acts of violence against Muslims. The Council on American Islamic Relations and other Muslim groups have dedicated themselves to heading off such attacks by setting the record straight. On its website CAIR says that it was established in order to "promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America," and declares that "we believe misrepresentations of Islam are most often the result of ignorance on the part of non-Muslims and reluctance on the part of Muslims to articulate their case." |
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[b]"Laudable — but the cure offered by American Muslim groups may be worse than the disease. Instead of taking the post-September 11 interest in Islam as an opportunity for a thorough and searching examination of the root causes of Islamic terrorism and the hatred that fomented the terrorist attacks, all too often these groups have constructed a "positive image of Islam" out of smoke and mirrors. Instead of dealing forthrightly and constructively with the concerns and questions that non-Muslims have had since the attacks, CAIR, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and others seem interested in what one ex-Muslim termed "throwing sand in our eyes." [/b] I agree. Bilster |
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There is a fondamental difference in the behaviour of Muslims respect other people: in all the conversations I had with Muslims, the guilty one is always someone else: the Jews, the Christians or whoever... not them. A Palestinian writer, I believe US naturalized and professor in literature, was complaining that in the Islamic culture, differently than the western one, there has been only literature renaissance. Western world enjoied social and political and scientific renaissance. They didn't have their Galileo Galilei, their Newton, because probably the new concept they brought (and in the case of Galileo science and religion were colliding...) would lead them to be killed and their studies banned. More or less, separating religion and science lead us to be more evolved, and this separation is allowed by a sense of autocritic that has been developed inside the western society. No autocritic, no progress... But seems to me that the Muslims didn't learn yet. |