Dancing with Dogs: We are peaceful...as long as you don't want us to assimilate

We are peaceful...as long as you don't want us to assimilate

My heart absolutely bleeds for these poor, little kids who after all simply think they are so much better than everyone else. Being so superior is not a sin, no?

For Conservative Muslims, Goal of Isolation a Challenge

The seventh- and eighth-graders were competing in a debate on this question: Is a segregated, all-Islamic upbringing key to protecting your Muslim identity? Eight of the dozen argued yes, using variants of the theme offered by Fatimah Waseem. Young Muslims “join with the non-Muslims, copy them and look up to them. This is hurting our identity… . Sometimes, we turn way from Islam,” she said. “In conclusion, … we cannot sway in the wind and become weak. We need to be protected … by segregation.”

I mean, who cares about integrating with a society that is just so much beneath them? After all, it isn’t like anybody here ever fought to be integrated with the normal society, right?

But the discovery that 15 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were Saudi and that their violent al-Qaeda ideology was rooted in Wahhabism had a particularly deep impact on Salafis, whose theology and practices were suddenly suspect. The attacks “shook the foundations of anyone affiliated with Wahhabism or Salafism,” said Chris Khalil Moore, 31, of Annandale, a convert who became immersed in Wahhabism while studying in Saudi Arabia before abandoning that approach to Islam. “Because they were fingered, pointed at, as being the ideology that helped foster the mentality of those hijackers,” he said, “I think a lot of people got scared.”

Well, said! I know it is obviously not my place as an unbeliever woman to say anything about you in public, brother, but how dare anyone be scared of a group that only managed to kill a few thousands of people and believes unbelievers like me and that too women are not worth the air we breathe? It is obviously not because of incidents like this…..right?

One of the area’s most prominent Salafi preachers, Ali al-Timimi, is in prison, convicted on charges that he incited young Muslims to wage war against the United States.

How exactly do you reconcile this lament -

Salafi teachings begin to be more attractive to more Muslims as a defensive response,” said Peter Mandaville, an assistant professor in George Mason University’s Public and International Affairs Department. “In the face of this new global war on Islam, they are saying, we will hold fast and emphasize anew the fundamental tenets of our faith.

-with this from the same article -

For many years, the Saudis distributed a widely used English edition of the Koran with commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. But in the late 1990s, they began giving out a new edition called “The Noble Koran,” with commentary that reflected the Wahhabi outlook of two scholars at the University of Medina.

Dude, they don’t hate you - you are the ones who hate everything that is not you!

I also found this paragraph quite interesting - especially the parts I highlighted -

In mid-2004, federal agents raided the institute, confiscating computers and documents. But no one closely associated with the facility has ever been charged with a terrorism-related crime.

(I was right, brothers! Look at this - a terror conviction for an Al Huda teacher!)

Many local Muslims were particularly embarrassed by commentary that disparaged Jews and Christians even though neither group is mentioned in the original Arabic.”

It is very interesting that this article dwells adoringly on the strict gender-separation between the people -

A sign in a corner of the parking lot underscores its strict gender segregation.
“Sisters Only,” it reads.
Inside is the congregation’s prayer room — divided by a tall barrier so men and women cannot see one another during worship — and classrooms for Al-Huda School’s 300 to 400 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Here, too, is Muslim Link, a community newspaper published by Dar-us-Salaam.

It reminded me of this tidbit from another very interesting article I read this morning -

Hordes of horny men will wreak havoc across much of the world, according to a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Key reason: systematic abortion of female fetuses. Current result: “an estimated 80 million missing females in India and China alone,” plus imbalances elsewhere in Asia and North Africa. Future result: 12 to 15 percent more men than women in parts of the world over the next two decades. Implications: 1) “The growing number of young men with a lack of family prospects will have little outlet for sexual energy.” 2) “This trend would lead to increased levels of anti-social behavior and violence.” 3) “When single young men congregate, the potential for more organised aggression is likely to increase substantially and this has worrying implications for organized crime and terrorism.”

I seriously don’t understand what the article’s point was - are they saying that Salafism sucks or that it is increasing in popularity only because we are scared of it? (this was just a rhetorical question, btw). I find a lot of white-washing in here and excuse-making with absolutely no facts are no responsibility assignment. Everybody says that American Muslims are being discriminated against without once mentioning the reasons why or even mentioning the actual facts that prove if there is really discrimination. If 90% of terrorists fit a profile and people are worried youa re pretty close to the profile already is it really a good idea to get yourself closer to a self-destructive ideology? If a Muslim fell in a forest and hurt his little toe, are Jews still sons of apes and pigs? What hogwash!

Why not present the full facts about Wahabism and Salafism - you know, actual facts about what the preachers are preaching in the mosques and not what they say they are preaching? How about some actual freaking journalism from our journalists instead of stories that make my mind and not my heart bleed?

Posted by shanti at September 5, 2006 3:04 PM