Dear Alochock,
Do you agree with this article?
I agree with part of it. This author is against some extream ideas and
I see his points. I failed to see what he stood for. Seems like he is
more interested in opposing than standing up for islam.
God gave us freedom to worship Him or to reject HIS faith. Muslims
supposed to follow Quran and Sunnah only. We are not supposed take clue
from Saudi or Canada.
Because fundamentals of Islam are sound. I see in some places this
"Syed" fellow is more focused on opposing than anything. Maybe this is
popular trend for clueless people but this is not Islam.
It seems major Hasan had issues with his lonely life and mistakenly
thought he was doing something noble. He violated direct order of the
noble Quran
(source- 5:32). You should not try to be better Christian than the
pope.
It is a sad situation. We should stand united against this senseless
killing.
This is not the time to blame islam for a frustrated man and poor army
managerment in Texas.
We should take opportunity to study authentic Islam and stand up for
humanity.
-QAR
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink.net>
To: Alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:57:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [ALOCHONA] The Saudi-ization/ Radicalization of Islam in the
US by Syed Nadeem Ahsan, MD
Major Nidal Hasan and Us.Syed Nadeem Ahsan, MD The Saudi-ization/
Radicalization of Islam in the US places America and Muslim-Americans
at grave risk. The cover of this week's Time magazine asks; "Is Fort
Hood an aberration or a sign of things to come?" A perfectly reasonable
question given that a major driving force behind Major Hasan's
psychopathic rampage is his belief system, one that was acquired here
in the US at a mosque that is quite similar to the mosques you and I
might have been attending in our own towns. Mosques where
indoctrination of Muslims into the ways of the Wahabi is on
going. Speaking at the memorial for the fallen soldiers at Fort Hood,
President Obama told the crowd of mourners; "No faith justifies these
murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with
favor..." . This is a silly half-truth at best and a craven,
patronizing lie at worst. But Obama means well when he defends Major
Hasan's god, even when everyone knows that the god of the Wahabis does
indeed encourage slaughter of the innocent. You need to look no
further than the many thousands dead and dying in Pakistan for an
illustration. Major Hasan is merely the tip of a particularly sinister
iceberg, emblematic in both his bewilderment and actions, of the
worsening disarray that Muslims in the US are falling into. This
crisis is by and large of the making of the mosques that have the
unique misfortune of being squarely in the clutches of obscurantist
Saudi-begotten mullahs that are often from parts of the world where
Muslims are forever being humiliated by the belligerence of the
Israelis, Israel's surrogate; US foreign policy, and their own
dictatorial governments, and who, through uncontested ownership of the
bully pulpit, are brow-beating hapless American-Muslims into
unquestioned acceptance of a particularly poisonous brand of faith; the
Wahabi-Arab Islam of the sort Major Hasan practices. In 2006, six men
attending the Palmyra mosque in New Jersey were arrested and
subsequently found guilty of planning an attack on US soldiers
stationed at Fort Dix in New Jersey. Despite this, the leadership of
that mosque has failed to display any worthwhile contrition and has
steadfastly refused to change the tenor of the discourse at that
mosque. Similarly, the mosque in my hometown in New Jersey, built
mostly through the efforts of a Pakistani-American couple few years
ago, has over the last two years been taken over completely by
Saudiized radicals. The Imam, a young Saudi-indoctrinated zealot takes
every opportunity to torment young children entrusted to his care with
ironclad guarantees of hell if they do such horrible things as go
trick-or-treating on Halloween or even celebrate their own birthdays!
This man and his fellow guest Imams openly militate for good Muslims to
withdraw from the mainstream. They demand that Muslims minimize their
interactions with the mushrikeen and follow the Imams' edicts sans
question. The obscurantist, isolationist mindset they wish to
inculcate amongst American-Muslims is rapidly becoming the predominant
mindset, one that is an obstacle in the way of Muslims becoming fully
engaged citizens of this great nation, like the Jews or Hindus have
become, and one that will lead to the downfall of all Muslims in this
country as more Major Hasans launch suicide missions and fed up
Americans do all they can to restore order. In a recent article titled
"The Saudiisation of Pakistan", Pakistani academic/commentator Pervez
Hoodbhoy wrote: For three decades, deep tectonic forces have been
silently tearing Pakistan away from the Indian subcontinent and driving
it towards the Arabian peninsula. This continental drift is not
physical but cultural, driven by a belief that Pakistan must exchange
its South Asian identity for an Arab-Muslim one. Grain by grain, the
desert sands of Saudi Arabia are replacing the rich soil that had
nurtured a magnificent Muslim culture in India for a thousand years.
This culture produced Mughul architecture, the Taj Mahal, the poetry of
Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and much more. Now a stern, unyielding version
of Islam (Wahhabism) is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the
Sufis and saints who had walked on this land for hundreds of years. A
picture very similar to this is emerging in the US as well, creating
such monstrosities as the 9/11 hijackers (15 out 19 of whom were
Saudis!), Major Hasan and further oppression of Muslim women. The
Saudi-isation of a once-vibrant Pakistani-American culture too
continues at a relentless pace. Social events are becoming increasingly
segregated and Wahabi proselytizers can be found in numbers even at
completely secular community events such as Pakistan Day
celebrations. Islam's last remaining hope was the Muslims of the West.
But this hope too is being extinguished by the Saudi-Wahabis that have
completely taken over American mosques -- and more tragically, American
Sunday schools, where little minds are being filled with the kind of
fanaticism that leads to the sort of behaviour Major Hasan exhibited.
The odds are stacked against those that wish to rescue Muslim
communities from this scourge. The Saudi-Wahabis are too resourceful
and way too entrenched already for the rescuers to be able to mount a
meaningful revival. Muslims are becoming more marginalized each day and
Muslim children are in increasing danger of being ostracized by the
mainstream. The crisis for Muslim-Americans is compounded by the fact
that their leadership remains in the hands of such groups as the
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which supports the Saudi
regime, and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), which is
composed of members of Jamaat e-Islami, a Pakistani fundamentalist
organization that helped to establish the Taliban. These organizations
are taking advantage of the fact that Americans don't like to interfere
in the religion of other people. But the reality is that Saudi Islam
isn't a religion, it's a politicized radical ideology. And the people
who are being taught this ideology are prime targets for recruitment by
terror organizations. And the true moderates in the American-Muslim
community are continually losing ground and being made to retreat
further and further from their non-Salafi Sufi/Barelvi antecedents; the
Islam of co-existence and the Islam of being an active part of the
mainstream. A small ray of hope would appear to be such movements as
the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), founded by Tarek Fatah, a
Pakistani-Canadian journalist and the Washington DC-based Center for
Islamic Pluralism (CIP). Both organizations are looking to counter
Wahabi madness through a belief in a progressive, liberal, pluralistic,
democratic, and secular society where everyone has the freedom of
religion. It goes without saying that that fanaticism and extremism
within the Muslim community is a major challenge to all of us. We must
stand opposed to the extremists and must present the more humane and
tolerant face of our community to our fellow-countrymen and to the rest
of the Islamic world. Because if things keep going in the current
direction, all of us, conservative-Muslims, liberal-Muslims,
secular-Muslims, cultural-Muslims, we will all be buried together under
the deluge of American outrage. And we all know our children deserve
better. ------------ --------- ----- The author is an academic
physician working in Philadelphia, PA, and can be reached at
dervaishbaba@hotmail.com
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