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Dr Tawfik Hamid Former Terrorist speaks out against Islamic terrorism

“ YOU WORRY ME Muslim ! "

By American Airlines Pilot – Captain John Maniscalco

I’ve been trying to say this since 9-11, but you worry me. I wish you didn’t. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.

But you don’t blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can’t help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don’t fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.

On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children’s mothers.

The Palestinians Celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you now. I don’t want to be worried. I don’t want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that have destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.

I Cry for MALAYSIA

by Dr Tan Kee Kwong - Malaysian Christian Politician.

Email: tkk18247@yahoo.com.sg

To The Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Cabinet.

One month ago, on a Sunday morning after Church I was driving near Jalan Duta. I was so overcome with emotion & pulled by the side of the road & wept silently for about 3 mins.
"What has happened to this beautiful country of Malaysia, how come now there are so many racial & religious problems facing our country?"
In addition to the outright looting & plundering of our country's resources & wealth, there seems to be a group of evil people who want to disrupt the peace & harmony that we cherish & enjoy, so far.

Arab-American Psychologist Wafa Sultan

Arab-American Psychologist Wafa Sultan: There Is No Clash of Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages and That of the 21st Century

Following are excerpts from an interview with Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan. The interview was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 21, 2006.

Wafa Sultan: Benturan yang kita saksikan di belahan dunia bukanlah benturan antar agama, atau benturan peradaban. Ini adalah benturan antar musuh, antar dua jaman. Ini adalah benturan antar sebuah mentalitas dengan pemahaman ke Abad Pertengahan dan mentalitas satunya dengan pemahaman abad XXI. Ini adalah benturan antar peradaban dan keterbelakangan, antara yang beradab dan primitif, antara kebiadaban dan rasionalitas. Ini adalah benturan antar kemerdekaan dan penindasan, antar demokrasi dan kedikdatoran. Ini adalah benturan antara hak asasi manusia, di sisi lain, dan pembatasan hak asasi tersebut, pada sisi satunya. Ini adalah benturan antara mereka yang memperlakukan perempuan seperti binatang, dan yang memperlakukan perempuan selayaknya manusia. Yang kita saksikan saat ini bukanlah sebuah benturan peradaban. Peradaban tidak berbenturan, tetapi bersaing.

Host: Dari kalimat itu saya memahami bahwa yang terjadi saat ini adalah benturan antara kebudayaan Barat, dan keterbelakangan dan keputusasaan kaum Muslim?

Freedom of Religion in Malaysia

I am what I believe

MALAYSIA has seen a fair share of cases involving religion. These include cases of people wanting to convert out of a religion, bodies being taken by religious authorities for burial and citizens being charged with spreading “deviationist teachings”.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION

Article 11 of the Federal Constitution states that every person has the “right to profess and practise his religion”. But what does that mean? What is “to profess”? And what is “to practise”?

The word “profess” is often associated with religion. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines “profess” as “to affirm, or declare one’s faith in or allegiance to (a religion, principle, God or saint, etc.)”. I think this is a good definition. Other synonyms of the word in a number of dictionaries include “claim”, “acknowledge”, “state”, “avow”, “assert”, “annunciate”, “enunciate”, “aver”, “pronounce” and “announce”.

A few things can be derived from these definitions:

> I determine my own religious views;

> No one else defines my religious views; and

> I am free to believe in what I want to believe in.

From the heart of a Muslim - Tawfik Hamid

I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam.

After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.
I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims.

We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.
We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.

The Truth of What Lies Behind the Veil

by Jacqueline Pascarl

Before this commentary gets underway, I feel that it is necessary to close the gate before the horse bolts. So first up, let me say that I am not anti-Islamic, I have lived as a Moslem woman from the age of seventeen until I was twenty-two (and admittedly, found it not to my liking for a number of reasons).

Much of my professional life has been spent working with, and for Moslem people in the war zones of Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo and Albania as an humanitarian relief worker, and I have travelled and worked extensively in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia - so I have seen quite a bit of the world and can compare how varying societies adapt the Islamic religion to the cultural morays and sensitivities of their regions.