Posted by
Gray Ghost on Monday, June 09, 2008 2:30:01 PM
In an article in the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Siyassa (March 31, 2008), entitled "Muslims Against Islam," Kuwaiti moderate Dr. Ahmad Al-Baghdadi wrote the following:
"The truth is that the biggest enemy of Islam is the Muslims themselves, because they have relinquished all decency in dealing with others, as well as the courage to oppose oppression..."
In an article on one of the leading moderate Muslim websites (
http://www.aafaq.org/english/Index.aspx) , Egyptian writer Ahmad Al-Aswani discussed the crimes committed by the Radical Islamic world that he believed have harmed the Prophet Muhammad and discredited the spirit of Islam:
"I do not think that cartoons, books, or films can harm a religion or affect the faith of those who adhere to it out of conviction."
"The ones who harm the Prophet are those who butcher and bomb innocents all over the world, from New York to Madrid, London, Bali, Riyadh and Cairo, Kabul and Baghdad - while invoking Allah and the Prophet under the banner of Islamic jihad..."
But the real eye-opener, is an article by Bahraini columnist Abdallah Al-Ayoubi in the Bahraini daily Akhbar Al-Khaleej (March 31, 2008):
"...The harm to the Muslim religion has not been caused only by the publication, in Danish papers, of cartoons disparaging the Prophet Muhammad or by the film... produced by the Dutch MP. There are many [other], graver, dangers that Muslim religion is exposed to. They come from those who use religion as a cover for their criminal conduct, which they attribute to the teachings of the Islamic faith..."
"Humane and noble [religious]
precepts have been destroyed by extremist 'Islamic' movements such as Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and others, that perpetrate hideous crimes against innocent [people]
in their own countries as well as in other, non-Muslim, countries... When base, despicable acts are carried out by [Muslim]
societies and nations, they cause tremendous harm to [Islamic]
religious teachings."
"This is what happened, for example, as a result of the September 11th crimes against the U.S., and as a result of the attacks in London and Madrid that followed in their wake."
"The Muslim nations must first and foremost purge themselves of [elements] that use Islam and its teachings as a disguise [i.e.] in order to present their crimes against humanity as jihad in the name of Allah... It is inconceivable that the teachings [of Islam] should justify the murder of dozens, [even] thousands, of innocent people. It is such iniquities that have corrupted the image of Islam in the eyes of non-Muslims..."
"[Muslim] nations must adopt the language of reason... in order to deal with the attacks on [Islam], and to wage war against 'Islamic' extremism, which has distorted Muslim religious teachings..."
Perhaps we observing the moderate Islamic world starting to rise up and begin stopping the radicals.