Posted by
Randy Miller on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:27:15 PM
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/one_arabs_apology_opedcolumnists_emilio_karim_dabul.htmExcerpt in case the NYPost takes down the article later:
"Well, I'm sick of saying the truth only in private - that Arabs around the world, including Arab-Americans like myself, need to start holding our own culture accountable for the insane, violent actions that our extremists have perpetrated on the world at large.
Yes, our extremists and our culture.
Every single 9/11 hijacker was Arab and a Muslim. The apologists (including President Bush) tried to reassure us that 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam, but was a twisting of a great and noble religion. With all due respect, read the Koran, Mr. President. There's enough there for someone of extreme tendencies to find their way to a global jihad. "
This is what every honest Muslim who values decency over tribal loyalty should be saying. Fear doubtless plays a role in keeping some who share his views from coming forward--especially as Islamo-monsters are more than happy to eat their own, as evidenced by Al Queda's recent video [Do they actually do anything anymore? All they do is release videos and threats. What's the matter losers, can't sneeze without wearing a cruise missle?].
But if good muslims are really so cowardly, what use are they to advancing goodness? If they won't clean up the festering pit their religion has become, we must do it.
Which reminds me of something Laura Ingraham said today. American Muslims tend to be conservative. Well of course--though liberals and Muslims share a contempt for American foreign policy and hatred for Israel, they differ on, well, homosexuality, feminism, environmentalism, capital punishment (heh, oh yeah), and multiculturalism (except as a tool to sneak Muslims into the west w/o assimilation). But are we really willing to advance our (needed) political agenda at the expense of a possible 5th column (or would that be 6th column, after the "peace" movement?) in our countr