Yesterday I saw a cute but so realistic cartoon in our local fish wrapping grade Democratic newspaper.
Anyways, in the Forum part of the phone book like Sunday edition, among tons of paper spam, was a little cartoon showing an old lady, sitting in an airplane next to a Middle Eastern man in a Turban (without profiling, I would have never guessed that the unshaved person on a turban and a robe was posing as a Middle Eastern traveler! J). Candidly, she was asking him if he was part of the silent world majority of the peace-loving Muslims or if he was a terrorist ready to blow her to pieces.
Five years almost to the day after September 11, Madrid and London, the War on Terror, we are still waiting for moderate Islam to come forward and take a side, denounce the one that blow us up or try when they don’t kill fellow Arabs.
We hear everyday of suicide bombers, terrorist attacks and uncovered plots. Everyday, Imam in London, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Syria, Sudan, Somalia and Palestine are calling for holy wars, for the destruction of Israel, for the death of the white crusaders, for the end of America. Everyday, they write Fatwas and brainwash kids and adults.
Where are the peace-loving Muslims? Where are their Imams and Fatwas? Do they care or are they scared to death by what is happening around them, in their homes where teenagers rebel, in their Mosques, in their neighborhood or countries where sectarian differences are turning to violence.
Islam is not one religion but made of many sects that claim to be the only one, claim to be it.
The Arab world is not just in the Middle East but all over with the biggest Muslim countries in East Asia…Islam is made of three major feuding groups, two fundamentally different sects, and a dozen of dissident smaller branches.
The Muslim faith is living today the “wars of religion” and massacres that the Christian lived centuries ago when the Catholic church tried to dominate the Western spiritual world through blood and terror (Catholic, Protestants, Lutherans, St Bartholomew massacres).
Do you think they can live in Peace?
Do you think they tolerate each other?
Do you think Islam is fueling many of our modern conflicts?
Do you think moderate Muslim should actively take a side?
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