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by Raheel Raza
• May 29, 2014 at 5:00 am
Boko
Haram's members justify their acts in the name of Islam, and Muslim
leaders are intimidated into silence. Add to this a hatred for the West
and its values, and you have an explosive combination of violence and
faith being pushed upon innocent civilians.
Inaction on
the part of both Nigeria's government and global powers has led to this
latest horrific act of abduction.
Muslims
globally cannot remain under the illusion that because they put out press
releases or say that Boko Haram is "not Muslim," they can
distance themselves from these crimes. If they do not openly condemn Boko
Haram and similar groups such as the Taliban or the Muslim Brotherhood,
they are by default supporting those causes.
Some
of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were recently abducted by Boko Haram.
(Image source: Boko Haram video)
Recently, on a radio panel about Islamic sharia law featuring two
academics from American universities -- a Muslim Professor of Islamic
Studies and a Christian professor of Religious Studies -- it was
frustrating trying to keep the conversation on track.
Both professors were preoccupied with "The Golden Age of
Islam" and "How Christianity went through a similar
crises" and other similarly irrelevant information. The real focus
should have been: "What is happening in the name of Islam today
and what do we do about the atrocities being perpetrated in the name of
sharia as we speak?"
Unfortunately, that question was consistently being buried. For many
Muslims and especially Muslim organizations, a discussion about Islam and
Muslims usually ends up in defense and deflection. Rarely does the
conversation focus on half the population: women. That is the crux of the
problem. If women are considered only half-human, why dwell on their
human rights?
by Douglas Murray
• May 29, 2014 at 4:00 am
Among the
bizarre aspects of the New York Times story was that it relied for
its sources on Muslims who had been questioned while in jail. Should
people imprisoned for breaking the law be deemed entirely reliable
witnesses?
Although
the Times would presumably be content with the NYPD infiltration
of drug cartels, its recruitment of American Muslims is called
"racist" and deserving of full front-page treatment.
One way
media could help is to correct the lies of groups such as the Council on
American-Islamic Relations [CAIR].
For some years now the swiftest path to a Pulitzer Prize has been
well-known. Notwithstanding at least one distinguished recent winner, it
remains that there is only one sure-fire way to get to the attention of
the Pulitzer judging committee – and that is to severely and irreparably damage
American national security.
Best of all, of course, is to endanger the lives of U.S. combat
personnel while they are in the field of battle. This is the arena in
which the New York Times has appeared to aim for Pulitzer
predominance during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But in recent weeks,
the Gray Lady has outdone even herself. After all, the American and
global publics may have got used to the Times helping to lose wars
abroad. But how to excuse her for apparently seeking to lose a war at
home in America?
by Harold Rhode and Joseph
Raskas • May 29, 2014 at 2:00 am
Western concessions
have therefore only bolstered the determinations of the Iranians to
maintain their nuclear program until they can run out the clock on
negotiations and achieve their goal of acquiring nuclear capability. But
it is we in the West who are eagerly allowing them to do so.
A
visibly delighted Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of Iran, chats
with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Geneva on Nov. 24, 2013,
after announcing the nuclear agreement with Iran. (Image source: Iranian
Students News Agency).
When the Iranians, then one of the most advanced and mightiest
empires on earth, were conquered in 636 CE by what they deemed one of the
most primitive peoples on earth – the Muslim Arabs – they felt deeply
shamed. Ancient Persian descriptions reportedly refer to Arabs as
"rodent eaters and lizard eaters."[1]
At that time, Iranians, also known as Persians, who had ruled over
countless ethnic and religious nationalities for more than 1,110 years,
may have felt superior to the nomads inhabiting the border areas of their
vast empire.
It was these desert nomads, however, the Muslim Arabs, who, within
100 years after the death of their prophet, Muhammad, in 632 CE,
transformed the Middle East into today's Arab World – except for Iran.
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