Pulse of The People:It’s not about peace
The record.
Published: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Islam is not a religion of peace. It is and has been a religion of violence, vengeance, and conquest for 1,400 years. Western Civilization is at war with Islam. Saying that we are at war with terror, or radical Islam, or Islamic extremists, provides decent American Muslims with a rationale to do nothing to fight against the jihadis and Islamic supremacists within their communities.
Our American Muslim community is at great risk. It is a great tribute to the tradition of tolerance of the American people that in the face of repeated Muslim atrocities, committed in the name of Allah, in the United States and worldwide, that acts of hatred or vengeance against American Muslims have been virtually non-existent. It would be a sad day for America if this remarkable forbearance ever wore thin. Unless Muslims in America act to reform Islam, American Muslims risk becoming a pariah community.
To those who say Islam cannot be reformed, consider the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. This Islamic movement, although regarded as heretical by mainstream Muslims, divests Islam of violent beliefs and practices, condemning religious wars and violence. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is said to be a growing international movement, with membership in the tens of millions.
If Islamic violence is to be stopped, and if our American Muslim community is to take its place in our glorious pluralistic public square, political correctness and religious sensitivity must be put aside, and we must openly acknowledge and declare that large segments of the Islamic world are at war with us in the name of Islam. Robert I. Lappin,
Swampscott, MA
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http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2012/05/20/opinion/doc4fb68ca56180c527151077.txt
Muslims are to blame themselves for exposing a picture of violent Islam due to their wrong and misguided interpretation of JIHAD..Whereas, Islam literally means submission and peace. Our Holy Prophet (sas) was the RAHMATUL LIL AALAMEEN….MERCY FOR UNIVERSE…
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Also of interest is this nerws on NYPD
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Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Thursday urged the New York Police Department to purge its intelligence databases of information gleaned from its clandestine spying on Muslim neighborhoods.
They also criticized the Obama administration for offering tepid responses to questions about whether it endorses such tactics.
Lawmakers introduced a resolution Thursday calling for an end to NYPD programs that infiltrated mosques and monitored even innocent conversations in cafes and bookstores. Muslim business owners were included in police files, even with no allegations of wrongdoing.
The resolution has little chance of passing but it followed a heated debate Wednesday night over a House amendment that would have banned racial profiling by any department that receives federal money. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., introduced the amendment, saying wholesale surveillance has proven ineffective in disrupting terrorist plans.
“Contrary to the blanket assertions by some that the tactics have kept New York City safe, the NYPD failed to uncover two actual plots against New York City,” Holt said, referring to attempted bombings in Times Square and the New York subway system.
That prompted a strong objection from Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., one of Capitol Hill’s most vocal defenders of the NYPD.
“We should be here tonight giving the NYPD a medal,” King said. “We sit here, 10 1/2 years after September 11, and the most effective law enforcement, counterterrorism unit in the country is being attacked?”
The NYPD says its tactics are all lawful and necessary to keep the city safe. Asked Thursday about what the lawmakers said, Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded: “Where do they live?”
“I don’t think you’ll find many elected officials here who want to look at their constituents and say, `I want to stop what is perfectly legal, appropriate, has been vetted through the courts and everything else, a procedure to try to get as much information as we can from publicly available sources,'” he added.
It’s unclear where the Obama administration stands. White House grants helps pay for the NYPD’s programs but the White House says it has no control over how the money is used.
President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, recently declared his “full confidence that the NYPD is doing things consistent with the law.” An anonymous White House official then issued a clarification to those remarks, saying Brennan wasn’t referring to NYPD surveillance.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to Congress and one of the lawmakers who introduced the resolution, said he understood the political difficulties the White House faces in wading into a debate over racial profiling and national security.
“But transformational leadership is about standing up and doing the right thing,” he said.
Dozens of lawmakers have been asking the Justice Department for eight months to investigate the NYPD’s tactics and determine whether they are legal. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, the top civil rights official at the department, has not answered questions about the matter. His spokeswoman has said attorneys are reviewing the requests to investigate.
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Little knowledge or lack of it always proves injurious/dangerous as said in Urdu, ‘neem hakim, khatra-e-jan’. In view of this bitter truth let us pray that may God Almighty enables Muslims to understand the real meaning of their religion/faith called Islam, which believes in peaceful co-existence and mutual co-operation of all human beings in society with love and respect for each other as a natural way of life termed as ‘Deen-e-Fitrat.’ The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, founded 122 years ago, in Qadian, India, by His Holiness the Promised Masih Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib, is regarded throughout the world as the most law-abiding, peaceful, respecting/loving their neighbors, inspiring others as if ever ready for sacrifice whatever they possess, even their life to save and serve the life of others, without making any distinction on the basis of one’s color or creed and believe in practicing the most attractive,forceful slogan of social life,’Love for all hatred for none’.Let all the Ahmadiyya Muslims of more than 200 countries of the world, pray for the rest of their brothers-in-faith as well as others that God Almighty, may also enable them to understand the true meaning and significance of Islamic way of life and the difference of two types of ‘Jihad’,–1)Jihad-e-kabir, is to fight the evil forces in the inner-self of an individual and 2)Jihad-e-saghir, the lesser level jihad with sword, which is allowed in Islam only in self-defence, nothing less, nothing more. This is what we call as a natural way of life in human society.Alhamdolillah, all praise to God mighty.
Jazak’Allah Janab Koya saheb and janab S.A. Sheikh saheb for your nice and valuable comments.