We were discussing..."Islamophobia"

Originally Posted on CARM by 'godsilove'
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/02/fam...ef=mpstoryview

Would this incident have occurred had the family did not appear to be of Muslim faith?

This is the kind of paranoia that could be avoided by toning down the anti-Islam rhetoric. There are millions of Muslims who do not sympathize with extremists - not all of them are willing to blow themselves or their children up on a plane full of their fellow citizens.

HERE IS MY REPLY:

Oh, I guess we are not allowed to wonder such things post-9/11, but the lesson we learned on that day was to love and trust all followers of the Religion of PEACE. Uh huh. Right. Or that we are never ever to be alarmed on a plane just because some Muslims are on it with us. Uh huh. What the heck are you smoking? And who made you God's arbiter of when and where and how people should react to FEAR, concern, or worry?

And why are you so willing to *condemn*, label, and incriminate people you don't even know for something you didn't even see?

Let's just put the cards on the table here why don't we. I HATE Islam for some very good reasons, I do not hate people. And I don't consider myself atypical as an American in this regard, although most have been so intimidated by the likes of YOU they won't talk about it any more, fearing the label "bigot" being plastered to their forehead.

I prefer to let ex-Muslims tell me about Islam, not some politically correct thought policeman with a hyperactive guilt gland who is paranoid over the thought of what they perceive to be "hate speech" or bigotry sweeping the nation, to such an extent they imagine others to be plotting incarceration camps for Muslims. That kind of rabid PCness and willingness to believe the absolute worst about mainstream America based on one stupid headline grabbing incident is itself the height of intolerant bigotry and ignorance. That there are some hypocrites who don't get that is ... amusing.

One such spokesperson I trust to tell the truth is Mossab Hassan Yousef, who happens to be the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef (a leader and founder of Hamas). Little Mossab was indoctrinated throughout his young life and became the leader of the Islamic Youth Movement. He listened to his father preach two, sometimes three times a day in towns and villages all over the palestinian territory, in refugee camps and all over, recruiting young men to Hamas and teaching the Q'uran. So. Is he "paranoid" when he says that the Muslim religion is inherently dangerous, not only for its perceived enemies but for its followers as well? Well, he is the one living under a death sentence from his own people, not me. Is he delusional when he declares that anyone reading, understanding, following, and actually believing the Q'uran has to be "sick", because it is so full of direct contradictions to itself that he calls it "schizophrenic"? Is he lying, for example, when he tells us that Hamas tortures its own members? And that not only Hamas but ISLAM itself desires to eradicate every Jew from the face of the earth?

(Golly gee, where have we heard THAT before).

And this young man who spent time in an Israeli prison, and who afterwards walked the countryside outside of his home town alone with a hidden and forbidden Bible, comparing it to the Q'uran in secret while contemplating his own sure death as the consequence of abandoning his father's faith -

well what led *him* to conclude Christianity is the only true religion, what led *him* to believe that Jesus Christ, a Jew - was in fact the son of God and redeemer of humanity? What led *him* to believe "Mohammedanism" was to blame for the unrest, chaos, pestilence and violence staining his people for the last 1400 years? What led *him* to believe that his religion was indeed intent on eradicating Israel, Judaism and eventually Christianity from the face of the earth? What led him to admit, in tears, that the book and religion he had so passionately followed his whole life was A LIE?

Who are we supposed to believe - him or the rabid thought police who want to scrub our brains clean of anything negative whatsoever about Islam and permanently muzzle anyone who dares to talk about the reality of the what's in the Q'uran.

Well guess what. I believe know ISLAM is to blame for 9/11. I believe ISLAM is to blame for hundreds of thousands of violent deaths all over the world. I believe ISLAM is directly responsible for the Crusades (educate yourself if you don't believe me). I believe ISLAM is a bad drug, that it promotes a death-addiction in its followers, is a false religion, is a dangerous LIE, and should be treated with the same respect and affection one would show towards a shotgun pointed in one's face.


/Amen.