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June 26, 2006

Muslim Blogger Speaks Out On 'Muslim Silence'

Topics: Understanding Islam

The Big Pharoah speaks out on Muslim silence in the face of terrorist attacks, not just in non-Muslim countries like Europe, but also in Muslim countries. This deafening silence and their unwillingness to take action towards claiming their religion back from the terrorists/radicals only enhances the negative connotations people ascribe to Muslims and Islam in general. From these excerpts you can see that TBP cuts no slack for Muslims who are silent against terrorism:

Denouncing was never ever enough.

For some of the more than five dozen Muslims interviewed for this story in Amsterdam, Paris and London, it's a sense of shame, or even guilt, that innocents have been killed in the name of Islam; they say those feelings make them seek to be "invisible."

Bullshit. If you feel ashamed then you have to do something about it. A Muslim organization in the US decided to do something about it yet guess what happened, very few showed up at their anti-terror rally. That was a huge shame.

For those lucky enough to have jobs, there is little time to protest or even write letters to newspapers.

Really?! So the millions who protested the war in Iraq are all unemployed? The thousands of demonstrate for various causes everyday are all unemployed? If you want to attend this rally, you would, if you want to write this letter to the editor, you would.

For others, there is fear of being branded anti-Islam in their communities.

That's a correct reason. Currently, radicals (both violent and non-violent) control the Islamic discourse around the world. The sane reformist Muslim voice is almost no where to be found. The hold that radicals are having over Muslims is so great to the extent that the average Muslim who wants nothing in life except praying to his god and putting food on the table thinks that true Islam is in fact what these guys are saying. The poor guy was never exposed to an alternative.

Read the rest, and be sure to check out Big Pharoah's 10 Commandments, given to him by 'Allah' - seen in his "burning computer."

This is the article that The Big Pharoah is addressing in his post.

Like most non-Muslims, I await with bated breath the sound of reformist Muslim voice that, as TBP points out, remains no where to be found. The vacuum left by their silence is rapidly being filled by radicals who are gaining increasing traction in making violence and terrorism a link most associated with Islam.

Posted by Richard at June 26, 2006 9:55 AM

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