The Trouble with Peace Loving Muslims

The trouble with peace loving Muslims is that they have let hate piddling Muslims define their religion for the rest of us. The treasonous attack in Fort Hood, Texas, by a Muslim officer only adds to the distrust. When an Army officer fires upon and kills his fellow comrades, it calls into question not only the loyalty of the officer, but of the faith as well. I don’t personally know any Muslims; I’m sure I deal with Muslims and don’t know it, but an incident like this causes people like me to wonder about Muslims in general.

I never hear of Muslims turning in or capturing terrorists. I never hear of them turning on hate-spewing clerics or religious leaders. Never. What I do hear is that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance and that we have nothing to fear from Islam. Really? Why shouldn’t people who know little of the faith not be fearful? Terrorism by Muslims is nothing new. Ask any Israeli or any one that was stationed in the embassies that were bombed in the 1990’s … or witnesses of the first World Trade Center attack … or the 9/11 attacks … and now at Fort Hood … do they believe there is nothing to fear from Islam? I think you might find that some have a different opinion.

When will Muslin (especially American Muslims) take action against the extremists in their midst? When will they take the lead in removing the threat? They haven’t done a thing in decades... and even less since 9/11. Some will say that they have. Some say that they fear retaliation from the extremists. Others will say it is not Muslims’ responsibility.

The 9/11 terrorists were living among us … moreover they were living and interacting with other Muslins and religious leaders among us. Don’t you think there were just a few of them that were aware of their motives? It is not hard to imagine that they were given aid and support. Major Hasan received aid and direction from somewhere … from someone. These killers have been taught it is acceptable to kill those that believe differently from them. What concerns me most is that this teaching is being fostered in Mosques here in the U.S.

It is no longer acceptable to tell Americans that incidents involving Muslims here at home are simply isolated and not related to Al Queda …. it doesn’t matter whether or not if it is related to global terrorism. There have been foiled attempts in Florida, Buffalo, New York, and Dallas by poorly organized young men … an Army recruiter in Arkansas was killed by a lone Muslim … enough is enough! Now we hear that the FBI had identified Major Hasan as a known threat … by protecting his rights and being overly cautious, good people were killed. What happened to the victims’ rights to life and liberty?

Our government’s first responsibility is to protect us from all enemies - foreign and domestic. They did not protect the victims from domestic enemies in Fort Hood … they did not protect victims from our enemies on 9/11 or countless other times when Americans have been killed by Muslim terrorists (regardless of whether it was by the PLO, Hamas, Hezbala, Al Queda, or a lone attacker).

Islamic terrorism is not our problem … it is a Muslim problem. Peace loving Muslims are all to willing to pass blame onto political, cultural and religious circumstances rather than taking responsibility for the hatred that is encouraged within some of their ranks. The Muslim population is very small in the U.S. There is not a Mosque in every town and neighborhood. I believe that when attacks take place, there are a good many Muslims that are not taken by surprise … their numbers are just not vast enough for me to believe otherwise. Where do they pick up their ideals? Is it from some Muslim evangelist on TV or radio? Is it from you? It’s not from me. It’s imported from their homeland and fostered by their religious leaders.

Americans may complain about government’s failure to insure our security and their inability to “connect the dots” that lead up to terrorist attacks … and they do so justifiably. However, the best way to not be attacked is for Muslims to stop known terrorists and bigoted religious leaders from taking action and spreading their dangerous ideals among believers. By denying them a platform, aid, and comfort, they can help rid us of the menace. It is up to peace loving Muslins to remove the cancer from within their body.

Until peace loving Muslins show that they love all life as their own and turn in (and turn on) the extremist element that lives among them, no one is safe from them … including other Muslims. If there is only a small percentage of extremists within the Muslim faith, then surely there are greater numbers that are able to counter and over-power them. However, there must be a willingness to do so … and that is what I believe is missing.

Some in the media are worrying and warning that there may be a backlash against Muslims in the U.S. because of the killings in Fort Hood (as if a back lash has ever really happened in the past). There has been a concentrated effort, not only by our government but by every day Americans, to avoid any serious back lash. Government (in the form of our political leadership, bureaucrats, and lawyers … not our hard working agents and investigators) has once again failed to keep us safe here at home. But it’s not just the government who has failed … Muslims have failed us as well. It’s time for our efforts to be met with an equal effort by Muslims to end jihad against non-Muslims here and globally. Only when that happens will we then be able to call them our friends and allies in the fight against Islamic terrorism and embrace them as fellow Americans without suspicion.

There you have it.
Pass it on if you like or let me know if don’t have a clue.

Eddie