Reviving the Crusades

"This is not a War against Islam."- President George Bush.  Du_h!!!!

SOON THE NATIONS OF DISBELIEF WILL COME AGAINST YOU....“Soon the nations will call one another against you, just as people call one another to eat from a platter of food.”

The  Muslim Aided War Against Muslims.

  • By M. Cherif Bassiouni. M. Cherif Bassiouni is a law professor at DePaul University

October 22, 2002

The slightest bit of anti-Semitism will be met with strong condemnation by the media and the rest of civil society--as it should. But not so for egregious vilification of Islam. Imagine if high visibility Muslim or Christian religious leaders would publicly state to the viewing and hearing of millions of Americans that: "Moses was a terrorist" and "Moses was a brigand and a robber," "Judaism is a monumental scam" and "Judaism is a very evil and wicked religion." The reaction would be overwhelming. President Bush would probably address the nation from the Oval Office to denounce such an outrage, every major newspaper would run denunciatory editorials and TV and radio talk shows would continuously discuss the reasons and the remedies needed. In short, the nation would be swept by a tidal wave of social opprobrium--and rightly so.

But these outrageous and insulting statements were not made about Moses and Judaism, but about the Prophet Muhammad and about Islam. Substitute the first two quotes with "Muhammad" instead of "Moses" and "Islam" for "Judaism" and you would have what was actually said, in that order, by Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham--all respected leaders of the "Christian right." Falwell made his statement on CBS' "60 Minutes" and Graham was the minister who delivered President Bush's inaugural prayer last year.

Reactions against these slanderous statements from the media and civil society were few, no massive outrage, no presidential denunciation, even though the president went to great lengths after Sept. 11 to assert that America's war on terrorism was not a war against Islam. The measured tones of negative media and public reactions to these hateful attacks attest to the degree of social acceptability of these statements, even though some of the utterers proffered tactical retractions. U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, an adherent of the "Christian right" whose principal ministers made these slanderous statements, did not investigate, let alone indict, these preachers for hate crimes. He did not even publicly denounce their statements.

This in part explains why Muslims are notoriously targeted by the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and are frequently treated in the course of their interrogation and detention in a degrading and harsh manner, and nothing is done about it.

Power and influence are the currency of American society, those who have it and know how to use it succeed in advancing their causes, and those who don't remain disenfranchised. Native Americans and African-Americans have had a long time to learn that lesson. Now it is the turn of Muslims and Arab-Americans to learn it--the hard way.

The Muslim world does not fathom the peculiarities of American society. They think that if something is wrong, it should apply across-the-board. They see double standards in America's foreign policy and now domestically as well. They do not understand that if anti-Semitism is met with such opposition, it is substantially because American Jews, to their credit, make it their business to fight against it. And they do not understand that since American Muslims are complacent about anti-Islamism, they will not be heard and that practice will go on. Above all, they do not understand why the Bush administration is silent against Islam-haters when it is trying so hard in its hopeless propaganda effort to win over the hearts and minds of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.

Who needs Osama bin Laden to recruit terrorists when we have such eloquent spokespeople for America's hate war against Islam? To stop this hateful prejudice is a question of principle. It is also a matter of our national security.

Copyright © 2002, Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion

 

Crimes against Islam

  • Israel’s unholy war against Islam in Palestine
    http://www.jerusalemites.org/crimes/crimes_against_islam/45.htm

When the Israeli army captured Haram al-Shariff (the Noble Sanctuary), the third holiest shrine in Islam, on June 7, 1967, an Israeli flag was hoisted-only briefly-on the Dome of the Rock. In the same day the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli military, Shlomo Goren, urged General Uzi Narkiss, the OC Central Command in the Israeli army of occupation “ to put a hundred kilograms of explosives in the Mosque of Omar [the Dome of the Rock, which the Israelis mistakenly take it as Mosque of Omar] and that’s it, we’ll get rid of it once and for all” according to Bernard Wasserstein’s Divided Jerusalem, 328).

The Dome of the Rock had been built by the great Umayyad Caliph Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan between A.D. 688 and 69. It is the oldest Muslim monument surviving.  Al Aksa, which is situated behind it, was built by Al Walid Ibn Abdul Malik (A.D. 705-715). Both of them make up Al-Haram Shariff Compound. On 637, the Arab Muslims liberated Jerusalem when Caliph Omar received its key from Safronious, a clergy Christian.

Although the Dome of the Rock and Al Aksa Mosque survived the army Rabbi’s deadly wish --and God willing would continue to be there, as a great Minaret for Islam-- Israeli ill designs against it had not cease. An Israeli attempt was made in the summer of 1969 to destroy Al Aksa when a Australian Jew associated with fanatic Jewish groups set fire to the historic pulpit of Saladin and the fire spread into various parts of the Mosque. Had not been for the thousands of Muslims who rushed spontaneously to the scene with buckets filled of water Al Ask would have been turned to rubble.

Goren was in fact exposing while talking to Narkiss a dreadful black hole in the Zionist mind seeking to build a Jewish state clear of all Arab Palestinians and their Muslim sacred shrines.

Extremist Jewish groups like the Faithful of the Temple attempt every year on the occasion of the destruction of the second Temple by the Romans 2000 years ago to take over Haram al-Shariff, which the Israelis consider it the site of the destroyed Temple Mount.

As a matter of fact, Ariel Sharon and other ardent Israeli cabinet members are bent on encouraging these dangerous Israeli groups working vehemently for the destruction of the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem and elsewhere in historic Palestine. His provocative visit to Al Haram joined by at least thousand policemen and soldiers sparked the Palestinian Intifada on September 28, 2000.

Hundreds of mosques and other Muslim holy shrines have been transformed by Jewish settlers to nightclubs, coffees, restaurants and boutiques.

Israel’s unholy war against Islam continues unabated but by different means. Israeli occupation troops are desecrating Al Aksa Mosque, and preventing Muslim worshippers to pray in Al Aksa Mosque for Friday noon’s prayer under the pretext of security reasons. Footages of Muslim of Palestinian worshippers praying at the streets of Jerusalem outside the compound every Friday under the shadow of occupation troops’ gun-muzzles attest to Israel’s  war against Islam.