Rapid Response

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> > >> Subject: An Honest Man Making a Powerful Statement.
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> > >> This morning on CNN (13/1/2015) the rector of
> the main mosque in Paris spoke to reporter, Amanpour. He reverted to
> English from French to make his final point and said that Islam has to
> reform. He cited there were 4 main schools of teaching in Islam of
> which as we all know the Wahabis in Saudi Arabia is the most militant.
> There is a need to take out the political content of Islam and the
> compassionate part emphasised. At long last just as we all have hoped,
> Islamic leaders are risking their lives and seeking a reformation
> within Islam.
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> > >> This message should be read by the whole world
> ......... the madness must end. From "The Heart of an Honest Muslim!"
> > >>
> > >> By Dr. Tawfik Hamid :
> > >>
> > >> "I am a Muslim by faith, a Christian by
> spirit, a Jew by heart, and above all I am a human being."
> > >>
> > >> Dr. Hamid is an Egyptian scholar and author of
> this article.
> > >>
> > >> I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a
> follower of Islam.
> > >>
> > >> After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by
> the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the
> too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel
> responsible as a Muslim and as a human being to speak out and tell the
> truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming
> catastrophe and war of civilizations.
> > >>
> > >> I have to admit that our current Islamic
> teaching creates violence and hatred toward non-Muslims. We Muslims
> are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy,
> the beating
> > >> of women by men, and killing those who convert
> from Islam to other religions.
> > >>
> > >> We have never had a clear and strong stand
> against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to
> subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax
> called jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time
> we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in
> > >> our Friday prayers in the mosques.
> > >>
> > >> What message do we convey to our children when
> we call the Jews "descendants of the pigs and monkeys"? [Yet, both
> Arabs and Jews are descendants of Ibrahim (Abraham)!] Is this a
> message of love and peace, or a message of hate?
> > >>
> > >> I have been into [Christian] churches and
> [Jewish] synagogues where they were praying for Muslims.
> While all the time, we curse them, and teach our generations to call
> them "infidels", and to hate them. We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk
> reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammad when someone accuses him of being a
> pedophile while, at the same time, ...we are proud with the story in
> our Islamic books that he married a young girl seven years old [Aisha]
> when he was above 50 years old.
> > >>
> > >> I am sad to say that many, if not most of us,
> rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror
> attacks.
> > >>
> > >> Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in
> front of the media, but we condone the Islamic
> > >> terrorists and sympathise with their cause.
> Until now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have
> > >> never issued a fatwa or religious statement to
> proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was
> declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Sharia
> law just
> > >> for writing a book criticizing Islam.
> > >>
> > >> Muslims demonstrated to get more religious
> rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the hijab (head scarf),
> while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers
> against the
> > >> terrorist murders. It is our absolute silence
> against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to
> continue doing their evil acts.
> > >>
> > >> We, Muslims, need to stop blaming our problems
> on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of
> honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and
> human rights in the whole Middle East .
> > >>
> > >> We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or
> mercy from most of the Arab countries to make
> > >> them "Jews-free countries" while
> Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have their
> > >> own nationality, and enjoy their rights as
> human beings. In Israel, women cannot be beaten legally by men, and
> any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being
> killed by the Islamic law of 'apostasy,' while in our Islamic world
> people do not enjoy any of these rights.
> > >>
> > >> I agree that the 'Palestinians'
> suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and
> > >> not because of Israel .
> > >>
> > >> It is not common to see Arabs who live in
> Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used
> to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in
> Israel, its 'enemy.' If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people
> claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening.
> > >>
> > >> We, Muslims, need to admit our problems and
> face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in
> harmony with humankind. Our religious leaders have to show a clear,
> and very strong stand against polygamy, paedophilia, slavery, killing
> those who convert from Islam to other religion, beating of women by
> men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam.
> > >>
> > >> Then, and only then, do we have the right to
> ask others to respect our religion.
> > >>
> > >> The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and
> say it openly: We Muslims have to change!
> > >>

The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools.

So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come.' 'My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

'We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.' 'The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

''The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. ''The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'? 'History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world Will have begun.' 'Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.'

'Now Islamic prayers have been introduced in Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in Ottawa, too, while the Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?). The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country until the fanatics move in .''In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, many of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food items in your local supermarket. Food on aircraft have the halal emblem just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding within the nation's shores.'

'In the U. K, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of "no-go" zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim community in those areas refuse to acknowledge British law.' 'As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts - the fanatics who threaten our way of life.'