Bear Creek Ledger

June 10, 2006

Here’s a call to Muslims to admit their failings

Filed under: Uncategorized, Islam, Middle East — Toni @ 7:26 am

Muslims wallow in a culture of denial thus enabling the terrorists within.  Here's a rare column by one Muslim who tells the truth about those in the 'Religion of Peace Pieces'. 

We Muslims Have Work To Do - by Salim Mansure: Toronto Sun.com

Instead of acknowledging the reality of the Arab-Muslim world as a broken civilization, we Muslims tend to indulge instead in blaming others for our ills; deflecting our responsibilities for failures that have become breeding grounds of violence and terrorism.

Many of our intellectuals in public life and our religious leaders in mosques remain adept in double-speak, saying contrary things in English or French and then in Arabic or Farsi or Urdu.

We have made hypocrisy an art, and have spun for ourselves a web of lies that blinds us to the real world around us.

We seethe with grievances and resentment against the West, even as we have prospered in the freedom and security of Western democracies.

We have inculcated into our children false pride, and given them a sense of history that crumbles under critical scrutiny. We have burdened them with conflicting loyalties — and now some of them have become our nightmare.

We preach tolerance yet we are intolerant. We demand inclusion, yet we practise exclusion of gender, of minorities, of those with whom we disagree.

What's astonishing to me is that it's taken 3 decades for Muslims to begin to speak out.  I think their time is running out to adapt and change. 

H/T Lucianne

1 Comment »

  1. Wow! I wonder if the writer will have to go into hiding now…

    Comment by yankeemom — June 10, 2006 @ 12:07 pm

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