Friday, September 21, 2007

Muslims Against Sharia



Evidently they want to keep Iman & Salat and chuck out everything else. I doubt that its possible, but: if they can bring it off, the effects would be life saving. Imagine Islam totally pacified, without violence!

At minimum, their efforts may wake a few Muslims up to reality. I learned about Muslims Against Sharia from a post at Jihad Chat. Here is a sample.

OUR GOALS

  • to educate Muslims about dangers presented by Islamic religious texts and why Islam must be reformed
  • to educate non-Muslims about the differences between moderate Muslims and Islamists (a.k.a. Islamic Religious Fanatics, Radical Muslims, Muslim Fundamentalists, Islamic Extremists or Islamofascists)
  • to educate both Muslims and non-Muslims alike that Moderate Muslims are also targets of Islamic Terror

The need for reform
Islam, in its present form, is not compatible with principles of freedom and democracy. Twenty-first century Muslims have two options: we can continue the barbaric policies of the seventh century perpetuated by Hassan al-Banna, Abdullah Azzam, Yassir Arafat, Ruhollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, Hizballah, Hamas, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, etc., leading to a global war between Dar al-Islam (Islamic World) and Dar al-Harb (non-Islamic World), or we can reform Islam to keep our rich cultural heritage and to cleanse our religion from the reviled relics of the past. We, as Muslims who desire to live in harmony with people of other religions, agnostics, and atheists choose the latter option. We can no longer allow Islamic extremists to use our religion as a weapon. We must protect future generations of Muslims from being brainwashed by the Islamic radicals. If we do not stop the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, our children will become homicidal zombies.

That is a small sample from their manifesto. Follow the link in this next excerpt to a long, detailed list of violent verses to be expunged.

  • Outdated verses
    The following verses promote divisiveness and religious hatred, bigotry and discrimination. They must be either removed from the Koran or declared outdated and invalid, and marked as such.

And violence?

  • Islam vs. violence
    Islam has no place for violence. Any person calling for an act of violence in the name of Islam must be promptly excommunicated. Any grievances must be addressed by lawful authorities. It is the religious and civic duty of every Muslim to unconditionally condemn any act of terrorism perpetrated in the name of Islam. Any Muslim group that has ties to terrorism in any way, shape, or form, must be universally condemned by both religious and secular Muslims.

Are they sincere? I believe they are. The group’s President endorsed the No2Jihad petition. That involves forswearing terrorism against Israel, the ultimate test for a Muslim.

Lets show some sincere support for www.reformislam.org.Blog them up and spread the word, particularly to your Moderate Muslim friends and associates. If Islam is to reform, it must start from within, and this effort could be the start.

This blog post has been emailed to comments@whitehouse.gov . I encourage you to copy and paste it into an email to the President.

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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

The purpose of this blog is to promote the Moderate Muslims Reject Terrorism petition. The petition's purpose is to give the peace loving moderate majority of the Ummah to signal their devotion to peace and rejection of terrorism.

President Bush assures us that "Islam is a great religion of peace" which has been "hijacked by extremists". That being true, there must be a silent majority who are repulsed by the extremists' bloody reign of terror. The petition was created in the hope that the silent majority will end their silence; speaking out by signing the petition.

Signers of the petition are urged to inform their brethren by emailing petition links. Nobody will sign a petition he is not aware of! The petition's url is: http://www.petitiononline.com/No2Jihad/petition.html . The text of the petition follows below.


Firmly believing in Allah's divine mercy and compassion, and sharing his love for all his creatures, the undersigned members of the peace loving and moderate majority of Muslims, revolted and repulsed by blasphemous bloodshed in Allah's name, reject as un-Islamic conduct all acts of terrorism including but not limited to:
  • school bus attack at Nahariya/Avivim (1970) which killed nine innocent children
  • Ma'alot massacre (1974)
  • Karni crossing bombing (2005)
  • World Trade Center attacks
  • Madrid rail bombing
  • London rail bombing
  • Beslan massacre
  • genocide in Darfur
  • Bali night club bombings
  • decapitation of Danny Pearl
  • decapitation of Nick Berg
We condemn, regardless of the identity of the victims, terrorism in all its forms, bombings, shootings, knifings, hijackings, abductions and mass casualty attacks because they do unjust injury to innocent people and irreparable damage to Islam.

We call for the exclusion of incitement to terrorist violence from our madrassah curriculum, kittab & kutbah and from the mass media of all Islamic nations.

We call for withholding Zakat from all organizations which teach, incite, facilitate or organize & perform acts of terrorism.

We call on all Imams and Mullahs to fill their kutbah with Allah's love, mercy and guidance, not with blood thirsty calls for Jihad.

We call on the Ulema to reject, as inspired by Shaytan,[22:52] the ayats & ahadith used by radical extremists to rationalize their terrorism.


All this we declare on our own free will, without any hesitation, mental reservation, kitman or al-taqeya whatsoever, by him in whose hand our souls are!

Click here to sign the petition. Click here to view current signatures & comments.

Immediately after posting the petition, I sent emails to FMCAT, CAIR, MPAC and several other organizations inviting them to endorse the petition. None of them responded. At the present time, only three Muslims have signed the petition.

This morning I posted a message on FMCAT's blog, including the full text of the petition. Perhaps someone there will reveal why the moderate majority of Muslims are unwilling to endorse an explicit rejection of terrorism.

Update:

A reader named Steve replied to my post at FMCAT, indicating that he was promoting the petition and could produce 20 new signatures within a week. By the next day, there were 30 new signatures. At the time of this update, the total is up to 52. Several Islamic blogs have linked to the petition and there has been some lively discussion.

Update:
As of 04/02/06, the petition has a total of 63 signatures. I have sent an email to the founder of the American Islamic Forum For Democracy inviting them to endorse the petition. See M. Zuhdi Jasser's Washington Times Op-Ed.

Update:

As of 07/09/07, the petiition has a total of 141 signatures, most of which are trolls spewing spam. To the best of my knowledge, no organization has endorsed the petition. A Technorati search revealed that most of its support came from Egyptian and Asian blogs.

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