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  • Trying to Ventilate Closed Minds Without Putting Bullet Holes in Them

    Trying to Ventilate Closed Minds Without Putting Bullet Holes in Them or Another Encounter with Muslim Intolerance

    There was a time in the history of Islam and the World when the phrase “Muslim Intolerance” might have been considered an oxymoron. Today, however, the open-minded, tolerant Muslim seems, sadly, to be in the minority.

    Our Muslim community is filled with a seething rage at something they cannot define so they call it the way of infidels, unbelief, America, or “the Jewish Conspiracy”. I have just been a victim of this madness and intolerance last Friday at my local Mosque after Friday prayers. I know many of you have stopped going to the Mosque because of this idiocy, but I won’t stop. I like the Mosque (especially when it’s empty) Anyway, I had given an outspoken Anti-Israeli Arab Muslim an article to read, written by the founder of “Free Egyptians” called “Alive but Unsolved”. It was not a very confrontational article, it was written in Arabic and English. (That proved I was a spy!) The article suggested that the Israeli-Palestinian debacle might be better served without violence, and that the issue, as it is seen in the Arab world, is not going to be solved because the surrounding Arab nations need it to justify repression and terrorism. WOW…I was really surprised by the viciousness and hatred I brought down on my head, and I didn’t even write the article! So much for the calm exchange of ideas that some of you tell me to engage in…the incident strengthened my resolve to keep going to this Mosque. They would like nothing better than to see me gone. I wrote this little piece on my return home.

    The whole contemporary Arab-Palestinian culture, so it seems to me, is based on hatred…hatred of life…hatred of Jews…hatred of America and the west. The poor Palestinian people themselves have been manipulated and all but destroyed by corrupt leaders (with billions of dollars in the bank) and Islamic-Fascists that have twisted Islam and The Quar’an into a system of hate. Please don’t write to me and tell me I am against the Palestinians and oblivious to their struggle, I am not…I am against terrorism, violence and murder as a means to achieving their goals.

    They have even taught this system of hate to their children. These children, and those yet to be born, will never be able to make the ascent into a new world. They will have new bodies, with new fresh blood in them, born for a new epoch of peace and co-operation among Mankind. Surely, that’s what children have always been born for, to usher in a new age, with new bodies and blood, a new song in their mouths.

    However, from where I stand, I fear the twisted hearts and minds of their Fathers will still inhabit their new bodies and blood. The hatred shouted and whispered into their new ears will deny them a life…their new blood will be spilled in vain, never to sing the new song of freedom from tyranny and hatred.

    I pray for the children…born and unborn.

    Ibrahim Abdul Mu’min President of the NY chapter www.freemuslims.com

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