Five questions non-Muslims would like answered

THE RIOTING IN France by primarily Muslim youths and the hotel bombings in Jordan are the latest events to prompt sincere questions that law-abiding Muslims need to answer for Islam's sake, as well as for the sake of worried non-Muslims.

Here are five of them:

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(1) Why are you so quiet?

Since the first Israelis were targeted for death by Muslim terrorists blowing themselves up in the name of your religion and Palestinian nationalism, I have been praying to see Muslim demonstrations against these atrocities. Last week's protests in Jordan against the bombings, while welcome, were a rarity. What I have seen more often is mainstream Muslim spokesmen implicitly defending this terror on the grounds that Israel occupies Palestinian lands. We see torture and murder in the name of Allah, but we see no anti-torture and anti-murder demonstrations in the name of Allah.

There are a billion Muslims in the world. How is it possible that essentially none have demonstrated against evils perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam? This is true even of the millions of Muslims living in free Western societies. What are non-Muslims of goodwill supposed to conclude? When the Israeli government did not stop a Lebanese massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982, great crowds of Israeli Jews gathered to protest their country's moral failing. Why has there been no comparable public demonstration by Palestinians or other Muslims to morally condemn Palestinian or other Muslim-committed terror?

(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?

If Israeli occupation is the reason for Muslim terror in Israel, why do no Christian Palestinians engage in terror? They are just as nationalistic and just as occupied as Muslim Palestinians.

(3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?

According to Freedom House, a Washington-based group that promotes democracy, of the world's 47 Muslim countries, only Mali is free. Sixty percent are not free, and 38% are partly free. Muslim-majority states account for a majority of the world's "not free" states. And of the 10 "worst of the worst," seven are Islamic states. Why is this?

(4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?

Young girls in Indonesia were recently beheaded by Muslim murderers. Last year, Muslims — in the name of Islam — murdered hundreds of schoolchildren in Russia. While reciting Muslim prayers, Islamic terrorists take foreigners working to make Iraq free and slaughter them. Muslim daughters are murdered by their own families in the thousands in "honor killings." And the Muslim government in Iran has publicly called for the extermination of Israel.

(5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?

No church or synagogue is allowed in Saudi Arabia. The Taliban destroyed some of the greatest sculptures of the ancient world because they were Buddhist. Sudan's Islamic regime has murdered great numbers of Christians.

Instead of confronting these problems, too many of you deny them. Muslims call my radio show to tell me that even speaking of Muslim or Islamic terrorists is wrong. After all, they argue, Timothy McVeigh is never labeled a "Christian terrorist." As if McVeigh committed his terror as a churchgoing Christian and in the name of Christ, and as if there were Christian-based terror groups around the world.

As a member of the media for nearly 25 years, I have a long record of reaching out to Muslims. Muslim leaders have invited me to speak at major mosques. In addition, I have studied Arabic and Islam, have visited most Arab and many other Muslim countries and conducted interfaith dialogues with Muslims in the United Arab Emirates as well as in the U.S. Politically, I have supported creation of a Palestinian state and supported (mistakenly, I now believe) the Oslo accords.

Hundreds of millions of non-Muslims want honest answers to these questions, even if the only answer you offer is, "Yes, we have real problems in Islam." Such an acknowledgment is infinitely better — for you and for the world — than dismissing us as anti-Muslim.

We await your response.

source: latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-prager13nov13,0,1904398.story?coll=la-home-sunday-opinion

I have nothing against the religion itself. I'm just curios.

 

I get most of them or at least i can explain them to an extent but the thing i dont get is jihad (holy war). How could any war be holy? I know that some people interprete the Koran their way in order to influence someone. But how could anyone go kill others who are not his religion? What kind of religion is that? I know that most muslim people know there is nothing there in Koran that justifies the killing but why cant they try and educate the others who think differently?

 

Did you know that Mohommed actually was a warrior?

 

Are you certain he wasn't actually a Presbyterian?

 

I thought he was a shoe (sandal) salesman.

 

That's correct, Rob. All Presbyterians are shoe salesmen.

 

I thought he was a WR for the panthers?

 

He's on Da Bears now, sucka!

 

Not a good business move. Half of the year, you can't even wear sandals up there. I'd think he'd stick to warmer climes where both presbyterians and sandal-selling shoe people are more welcome

 

The Panthers are a hockey team in Florida. I think you mean LW...

 

You can if you wear thick socks.

 

Is this thread like which famous person would you like to sit down with for a meal?

 

That'd be fun, if I could mug them and steal all the money in their wallet afterwards.

 

I think that's what SEbasic used to do when he was a kid. He would go to restaurants with his family and then sit down with strangers and eat with them instead.

I believe the scheme was he would then steal their wallets and that's how his family was able to pay for their meals.

 

Actually you're partially correct. Animals will often sneak their offspring in with another family so that the other family ends up taking care of the offspring. SEbasic just kept messing it up by stealing the wallets and coming back.

 

Yeah. That sounds like SE. That black hat bastard

 

I'm hungry.

 

Sorry, Mellie... we're not that kind of thread. I think you meant to post in the pancakes thread.

 

He also married a 6 year old girl and consumated the marriage when she turned 9.

 

DA.... BEARS!