**** Exclusive must cite The Jawa Report ****.
From time to time here we get Muslim posters in different areas. Some are terrorist supporters and some do their best to dispell the image that all Muslims support the terrorists. In fact the recent letter intercepted by the US shows that Al-Qaeda is painfully aware that it's tactics are the design of it's own defeat. If in fact Al-Qaeda and the other terrorists actually had the support they claim, there would be no occupation of Iraq. This is key. Muslims must fight the terrorist with both words and deeds to prevent further suffering for everyone. It appears that Muslims are waking up to that fact and rejecting the hate and random murders that are the hallmark of Al-Qaeda.
Below you will find two letters from a man in Pakistan who calls himself a fireman determined to fight the fires of hate spread by the Jihadists. Although the first letter is directed to Muslims only, the author has given me permission to post it here. These are the kind of people who need the US help we have been giving.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MUSLIMS ONLY
(Read And Circulate Message For Peace)
Dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters,
God forbid if any one of our near one and dear one is killed then the killer is evil, a beast and what not and should get penalty but if one among us kills anybody then he is not evil and we start lying, denying or even justifying the killing.... double standards? Being Muslims, many of our brothers and sisters are not working for peace. They are misguided, mistaken and spreading the virus of hatred and revenge through telling deliberate lies, disinformation and false accusations, which is resulting in death and miseries for number of innocent people living around the world at the hands of merciless KILLER MUSLIMS and also bringing bad name to MOHAMMED(PBUH).
I will post both complete letters in the extended entry. Note that his English may take a double read, but if you take your time you can get the meaning. The first letter, which I thought was the best one, is directed at Muslims. The second to all people in general.
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If peace is to come, perhaps it will come from the Muslims who will decide to remake the face of Islam. That is what it will take, because as long as a large percentage of Muslims believe that the Koran should be literally followed up to and including violent jihad, peace will not come.
Posted by: jesusland joe at October 13, 2005 06:02 PM (rUyw4)
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Lets hope a counter-reformation suggested catches on for everyone's sake.
Posted by: Marcus Aurelius at October 13, 2005 06:39 PM (ICDIn)
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There's certainly a lot of talk about remaking the face of Islam. Now let's see some action.
Posted by: IO ERROR at October 13, 2005 07:37 PM (vhWf1)
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I highly doubt there will be a reformation of the Muslim faith, it could only come with removing a vast portion of Mohammed's fever dreams, especially every reference to killing Jews, and Christians. Anyone thing that will happen? they'll tamper with the words of Mohammed?
Posted by: dave at October 13, 2005 09:09 PM (CcXvt)
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I don't think there'll be so much a reformation as a turning away. I know a Pakistani grocer who doesn't go to mosque except on holidays, and I met many of the local muslims at a wedding last year. Honestly, they are pretty much Americanized and seem rather happy to live in a place where they know their children aren't going to get snatched by the secret police or killed by random gunfire. Well, at least not on this end of town. I've had many conversations with him and his wife and they basically ignore the parts of the koran that don't fit in with their peaceful, prosperous existence, just as Christians ignore the parts of the Bible that urge them to stone children to death.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 13, 2005 09:49 PM (0yYS2)
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IM,
christians don't stone children to death because Christ already paid the penalty for our sins. That was his whole purpose. What you should really be asking is why Jews don't stone their children to death.
Posted by: Carlos at October 13, 2005 10:25 PM (8e/V4)
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Oh that there were more like this man. Many more. Wish I could write back to him to give my personal support. The best we can do is keep fighting for him and those like him. What are the chances this would ever be posted on sites like Kos, and DU? Slim and none, I'd say.
Posted by: Oyster at October 14, 2005 06:33 AM (YudAC)
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Oyster: email me and I'll forward the mail back to you if you like.
Posted by: Howie at October 14, 2005 08:22 AM (D3+20)
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cept use the gmail addy cause that's where I got it.
Posted by: Howie at October 14, 2005 08:23 AM (D3+20)
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Carlos, if Christians don't stone children because the OT is superceded by the NT, why do they insist on a literal interpretation of the creation per Genesis, which is demonstrably flawed in many ways? It is possibly to embrace the ideals of Jesus while disregarding the folk myths of a stone-age nomadic desert tribe, isn't it? After all, Buddha was from India, and Buddhists don't make a big deal about sticking to ancient Indian myths, though the Tibetans did manage to incorporate their own myths into Buddhism without becoming rigid orthodox literalists about it.
Speaking of Buddhism, I believe that since Jesus' teaching were so radically different from orthodox Judaism, but strangely similar to those of Buddha, it's entirely possibly that his "missing years" from 12 to 33, I believe it was, were spent in India or perhaps Babylon or Afghanistan, beyond the reach of Herod or the Romans, where he learned from new teachers who had 500 years of Buddhist thought to teach from. Your thoughts?
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 14, 2005 12:16 PM (0yYS2)
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hmm...quite intersting.
Posted by: Nash at October 15, 2005 12:33 AM (8Mvcj)
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All: A Christian would say that Jesus (God) doesn't need to learn from anyone. And just because the OT laws regarding sacrifice were superceded by Christ's sacrifice in the NT doesn't make basic truths concerning the origins of the world, mankind, etc., as described in the OT invalid.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at October 18, 2005 04:36 PM (jfxHI)
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