Muslims fear backlash each 9/11

The Koran and Bible contradict eachother. Both books have violent and intolerant messages, as well as tolerant and peaceful messages.

For example, the Koran says to fight against Christians and Jews (9:29), but also to treat them with kindness and patience (2:109).

The Bible says to love your enemies (Matthew 5:44), but also to hate your enemies (1 Corinthians 16:22).

theres is nasty old world shit in all religious texts more importantly then what is written is what is done

These are core Islamic texts recognised as the word of God by all Muslims and Islamic schools of jurisprudence:

Bukhari:V4B52N220 "Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been made victorious with terror.'"
Qur'an:8:12 "I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle."
Qur'an:8:57 "If you gain mastery over them in battle, inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them, so that they would learn a lesson and be warned."
Ishaq:326 "If you come upon them, deal so forcibly as to terrify those who would follow, that they may be warned. Make a severe example of them by terrorizing Allah's enemies."
Qur'an:8:67 "It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land."
Ishaq:588 "When the Apostle descends on your land none of your people will be left when he leaves."
Tabari IX:42 "We have been dealt a situation from which there is no escape. You have seen what Muhammad has done. Arabs have submitted to him and we do not have the strength to fight. You know that no herd is safe from him. And no one even dares go outside for fear of being terrorized."
Ishaq:326 "Allah said, 'No Prophet before Muhammad took booty from his enemy nor prisoners for ransom.' Muhammad said, 'I was made victorious with terror. The earth was made a place for me to clean. I was given the most powerful words. Booty was made lawful for me. I was given the power to intercede. These five privileges were awarded to no prophet before me.'"
Ishaq:327 "Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'"
Qur'an:7:3 "Little do you remember My warning. How many towns have We destroyed as a raid by night? Our punishment took them suddenly while they slept for their afternoon rest. Our terror came to them; Our punishment overtook them."
Ishaq:510 "When the Apostle looked down on Khaybar he told his Companions, 'O Allah, Lord of the Devils and what into terror they throw, and Lord of the winds and what they winnow, we ask Thee for the booty of this town and its people. Forward in the name of Allah.' He used to say this of every town he raided."
Bukhari:V5B59N512 "The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer [Prayer of Fear] near Khaybar when it was still dark. He said, 'Allahu-Akbar!' [Allah is Greatest] Khaybar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a hostile nation to fight, then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.' Then the inhabitants came out running on their roads. The Prophet had their men killed; their children and woman were taken as captives."

they stand up against them publicly to appease non muslums but wheres the martin luther king to oppose malcolm x. the mother theresa against crusaders.where is the movement to move islam out of the dark ages?
islam in the middle east is in a state of war, only the aggressors know it the passives don accept it. we are asking muslums to not sit back and say its enough to simply live by example when other muslums are highjacking thier identity.
terrorists are not islam they are a perversion and islam insists that islam is to be protected.
the biggest threat to arabs is the fear mongering west
the greatest threat to islam is islamic jihadists

To put it in the simplest terms possible, there are a lot of crazy people from every part of the world! People always fear what they don't understand! Terrorist can come from anywhere they could even come from another planet! That's a little unlikely,but the point I am trying to get across here, is if people took the time to Learn about other cultures & learn to accept the fact that everyone on this Earth is very different,I think that would make the world a better place! The war in Iraq has been going on LONG before the US ever decided to get in the middle of it all! Since before the Bible was written! I don't think the world will ever be a peaceful place! Humans are just too ignorant to have any real respect for much of anything honestly! About a week after the 9-11 attacks I found my self in a train station for the first time in my whole life,I was sitting in the station next to four guys in turbans! I wasn't the least bit scared really! I actually had a conversation with one of the men,despite a slight accent, he spoke great English & expressed to me that he was very fearful of going anywhere after what happened! We ended up talking most of the ride in to Washington state! He was a very nice man & had much to say about respecting others!

zurama i totally agree!!!

Radical Islamic extremists caused 911!! Most Muslims are not like them. It's like my mother always said......There are more good people in the world, it's just that the bad one make more noise.......

morgan and its also sad that some Muslims used hate as a reason to do 9/11... there ya go akamaial and abraham, et al... i am a Muslim speaking out against Islamic terrorists... or am i lying like you claim Muslims do when they speak out against something you accuse them of never speaking out against...

you know after 9/11 i was on the local NBC news WTOV9 and i was invited there to speak out about how Osama and the hijackers message was not in line with the message of Islam and i did do that... i was supposed to be given a half hour interview... you know how long i got? 5 minutes.. and i got cut off because they needed to show footage of the bombings in the Middle East that we were doing in response to 9/11... now how many people do you think got to see my 5 min segment?!

It's sick some people use 9/11 as an excuse to hate.

And just because you have never heard a Christian denounce fundamentalists doesn't mean that doesn't happen either. But then, many never miss a chance to lump all Christians into their neat little judgemental compartments when it suits them. I personally have heard Muslims, Christians and Jews denounce extremism, but you won't see that in the media covered fairly regarding any of them. And that is where the misconceptions come in, especially when you have people on the Internet cherrypicking stories as well to suit their own prejudiced motives.

For those of you saying "Muslims never stand up against extremists!" you are DEADWRONG. Just because you have personally never heard a Mulsim denounce fundamentalists or seen a peaceful march doesn't mean they don't happen. Do people even bother to research this stuff before they rant? Let me get you started:

http://www.islamagainstterrorism.com/

http://www.freemuslims.org/

http://www.islamagainstextremism.com/

Stop being ignorant!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62151,00.html

Look through this list. See that some of the names are Muslim/Middle Eastern? THEY WERE VICTIMS TOO.

haha I'm a liberal quoting from Foxnews.
ahh well. truth is truth.

applause right on clyde right on clyde!!

I can't believe some of the ignorant posts on this board. Stop blaming the entire religion of Islam. Muslims live from far reaching parts in Africa to South East Asia. The Middle East IS NOT THE ONLY PLACE MUSLIMS LIVE! Are we clear?

This was a group of assholes that hijacked planes. We don't think that Timothy McVeigh represents the entirity of the US armed forces do we? We don't think that every Roman Catholic white male is a domestic terrorist, do we?

Stop with this generalizations, stop with racism based off of phenotype, stop listening to media which is exploiting these cultural differences to create canyons of misunderstanding and intolerance.

And STOP telling people how to live! It isn't up to us, it is NOT our place. We do not have authority over other people's lives, and the moment you find yourself in that position of power you need to re-examine your role in the world, need to re-evaluate your own religion beliefs and your own ideas of intolerance and hatred. I can't believe this, after all of this talk about "western civilization," it just doesn't seemed so civilized all of a sudden.

Its something as a grudge that the media feeds into as well as all the people who leaves the blame on a specfic groups.......

Nothing could be done to change their minds now, let it die......

im a mexican who looks arab and every day im discrimated against people and its just horrible

The world must totally suck for anyone who's Eastern now days! People see a dude with a turban & they say something like "Rag head" or "Terrorist "with out even knowing the person!

9/11 was an American tragedy caused by Muslims. So why do the Muslims deserve sympathy?

Like I have posted before FREECRACKHEAD I don't hate Jews I hate how Israel is finding ways to evict and kill Palestinians. GET IT RITE! DAMM

bullshit

it makes me crazy to hear how many people keep on whining about middle eastern people and the Islamic religion in general when it was extremist who did this. Quit blaming a whole pupulation and race of people for it. Playing on blind hatred and scapegoating in the reason why 90% of wars start in the first place, especially American ones.
People seem to forget about how the Romans came to Europe and made the pre-Christian indingenous peoples convert (or be killed). Then there were all the Inquisitions by the Europeans in their lands, and later on in the new lands, and the forced conversion (or be killed) of non-christians or people of different denominations from the Queen or King of the given moment. How about the forced exile of Jews from Spain by the Alahambra decree and the Reconquista against the Muslims? But that's too long ago. Fine, recent history- Over 6 million Jews were killed when Hitler easily played on the Anti-Semitism (Jews killed our Jesus!) of the European population. Still too long ago? Ok fine. Don't get me started on how damaging homophobia still is, and a lot of people base their racism on their skwered versions of bible verses. Ever heard of Prussian Blue? Save the good christian white people from the minority and non-pure scourge! & How about Ann Coulter (Let's Cut Of Their Heads and Convert Them To Christianity) and Bill O'Rilley (Pink-Pistol Packing LEsbians!!!)
We don't blame those cruel and unforgivable acts or beliefs on all Christians. We recognize that people act seperate, on their own, away from all stereotypes and social ties people may put on them because of what they are or what they believe in, and do wrong on their own vocation, and you can't blame the relgion they claim to do these things for.
I just wish we could grant the same grace to other people and religions.

Muslims fear backlash every 9/11???

So does anyone with general tolerance or a yearning for peace or a social conscience. That was a point in time that changed not only how this and interlocked countries operate,... but also changed people's perceptions and prejudices. So every time 9/11 is spoken,... we fear intensified hatred, violence, revenge or war.

And,... have these past, present and future battles helped to solve the problems? Or is all this bloodshed worsening our woes, raising tensions, strengthening prejudices and/or creating further terrorism?!

I smell an unholy, cultural war a brewin',... and it scares the bejeesus outta me.

PEACE!

I feel for them becaus my husband and my kids are Middle Eastern. I have traveled and voluteered in Iran and I have felt the hate a little more than you. My own parents wouldn't go to my wedding because of hate, they never even met my husband untill 1984 4 years after marrying him. That was during the hostage crisis and then this shit happens and that brings out the hate again. I see it every year and hear some form of hate everyday.I am white and older.

"Muslims",...if by which you mean AMERICAN free independent autonomous citizens of the nation in which we are all PRESUMED equals,....do not need to do jack to make YOU feel better or more secure. DIG THIS; as a middle aged white male with a libertarian(small "L") bent, I do not owe the black man, the college grad, the Asian executive, the feminist blind chick, the "raped as a child with damage issues" set, ......etc. ANY MORE because of their "group" status, than I owe ANY OTHER autonomous thinking monkey on this planet. My job is to support and champion my brothers and sisters AS INDIVIDUALS. One by one, and with feeling. THAT makes the chorus of our polis. Now I know how Flint feels defending Hustler,...its not the message, but really,...the messenger who is your peer.

Like I have said MOST of the Muslims in America denounced the act. Its just people who don't want to hear it that says THEY as if 1 Muslim should appologise for the sick act of extreamist. But as an American I apologise to Muslims that had nothing to do with the crazinest and are being treated like crap. and to Afican Americans that have been treated like shit also.I was raised in a very hatefull family and I am so glad i grew up and away from their hate.

If Muslims are afraid of backlash maybe they should be.
People maybe suspicious of Muslims because the rest of America has NEVER heard the denunciation by Muslims of Muslims committing acts of violence in the name of Islam. I do recall well in the succeeding months after the attacks, Mullahs and Imams explaining why WE must understand the motivations for the attacks. The rationalizations for the attacks, the excuses. While I do hear once in awhile normal workaday Muslims denounce the attacks as un-Muslim, it is always those well read individuals, those educated in the Koran, who are the most vocal and articulate in justifying the attacks on September 11th.
We in the west and the U.S. are suppsoed to excuse this behavior because the antique culture of Muslims cannot seem to get past 632 A.D.
In the final analysis, it was not Presbyterians, Methodists, Quakers or Baptists who committed these acts of war.
If Muslims fear backlash, then that is good.
That fear should be cultivated and nurtured.
They started this war in 1979.

hate should be stopped.every where,every time

I remember the Muslims in the US protesting against the fact that some idiots that have the warped sence morals if you can call them that. I was at several protest. But I think if a group of Middle Easterners got together in a group they would tear gassed and called terrrorist anyways.By racist in this country and boy have I seen alot of that in person and on this site.

Until we have a mass Muslim upraor against 9/11 and other Terrorists acts I hope they fear everyday!

There are many Americans because of their "peacefull" Muslim religion can't sleep, wake up scared, missing loved one's.....etc....

Muslim's need to PUBLICALLY stand up against these TERRORISTS before they receive forgiveness.

And you wanna know why Blacks feel the way they do
& they never bombed anyone so get over it but watch
your backs because really there forfathers had no right
to take peoples lives which makes it bad for them right
now so BLAME IT ON THE PEOPLE THAT DID IT !

yano, why is this even a subject of controversy! its extremely sad that people are discriminatory against each other all over the world for the wrong reasons! we discriminate over color, religion, ethnicity, poor, rich, not rich enough, what you wear.... its alll appearance and fabricated shit. 9/11 was a massacre of Americans, done by the god damn government to put blame on someone else that didnt deserve it. Don't be selfish and self loathing people, I feel for anyone who is put down and beat up and harassed for these reasons! Love your neighbor, coworker, and even the bum on the corner. We're all just people on this earth trying to live and be happy, so help each other out, instead of beating them up and always pushing them down. And I'm saying this for everyone, not just Muslims... openn your minds! and ur hearts...

Peace and LOTS of LOVE.... :)
btw its raining in Austin, Tx! yesss for moisture!

I do not Blame the muslims. I blame our Goverment. They are the ones that droped the ball on this. They were told in plenty of time this was going to happen and they did nothing. Just what was destroyed that the goverment was scared might get leaked??Just what did bush and cheany do? Do not trust your goverment. Question every thing and every body.

About two months after 9/11, one of my best friends figured out I was an Arab-American. I was living in Orlando, Florida, this friend was white, and the half American part didn't really matter to him. So the very day he figured it out, he initiated a fight with me. at the time, i was 14 and had never been in a real fight before. I was very worried about the outcome of this.

He never landed a punch on me, and i ended up breaking his ribs in front of all of his friends that were egging him on. His friends later approached me, trying to sympathize with me, claiming what he tried to do was wrong. I didnt bother pretending to care about them. Yet, im not trying to sit here and act macho at all, im not even proud that it had to come to that. I was lucky to go up against someone that couldnt follow through with tough and arrogant talk he had.

Since then, i have never feared the arrogance of the ignorant. I actually look to flesh it out of people and society. But i dont do so with the intent of resolving it a physical manner, and have not done so since that first incident. I wont hide it, i get a rise out debating with ignorant people that feel so self righteous about their feelings, just to put them in their place. I walk tall on 9/11; knowing that i had nothing to do with it, nor do i support the actions, so they do not reflect me. I know many that lost friends and family on 9/11, and it is typically those that are directly effected by it that are more compassionate towards my ethnic mix then those that get rallied with a sense of nationalism. I love the idea of what America can be, and strive to get us to that place, one day and ignorant person at a time.

this is bullshit. wah wah wah is all i hear.

Never forget what happened to your country on 9/11.

Moderate Muslims should separate themselves publicly from the likes of Al Qaida and other extremist jihadi groups.

Every Friday in Iran is death to America day as the people chant, pray and walk. Notice there is no similar thing happening in the US against any Islamic country (not even Saudi Arabia!).

The only Muslim victims of 9/11 were working in the WTC and killed by other Muslims on that fateful day.

Never forget!

It is the failure to cherish the differences in others that causes the amount of suffering that we see in our world. And only by changing our individual ways of thinking will we be able to overcome suffering

FEAR the SHEEPLE!!!! The rest of us know we attacked our own Country for Profit and Scare Tactic!!!!

Bahhhhhh

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