Kill Us Too, We are also Americans

[Sir_Dig_A_Lot]

http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1783_0_25_0_C

A good read I wanted to share with people at gupshup in hopes that they will understand how some misguided people are bringing a bad name to the religion of a billion people. Spread the word around!

Kill Us, Too: We Are Also Americans
The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, recently issued a decree to its supporters: Kill at least one American in the next two weeks. Well, I am an American too.
By Aslam Abdullah, September 12, 2006

Come and get me
The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, recently issued a decree to its supporters: Kill at least one American in the next two weeks “using a sniper rifle, explosive or whatever the battle may require.”

Well, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, I am an American too. Count me as the one of those you have asked your supporters to kill.

I am not alone, there are thousands of Muslims with me in Las Vegas, and many more millions in America, who are proud Americans and who are ready to face your challenge. You hide in your caves and behind the faces of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. You don’t show your faces and you have no guts to face Muslims. You thrive on the misery of thousands of Muslim youth and children who are victims of despotism, poverty and ignorance.

During the past two decades, you have brought nothing but shame and disaster to your religion and your world.

You said you “invite you not to drop your weapons, and don’t let your souls or your enemies rest until each one of you kills at least one American within a period that does not exceed 15 days with a sniper’s gunshot or incendiary devices or Molotov cocktail or a suicide car bomb – whatever the battle may require.” I invite you to surrender, to seek forgiveness from God almighty for the senseless killing you and your supporters are involved in and repent for everything you have done.

You say that the word of God is the highest. Yes, it is. But you are not worthy of it. You have abandoned God and you have started worshipping your own satanic egos that rejoice at the killing of innocent people. You don’t represent Muslims or, for that matter, any decent human being who believes in the sanctity of life. Many among us American Muslims have differences with our administration on domestic and foreign issues, just like many other Americans do. But the plurality of opinions does not mean that we deprive ourselves of the civility that God demands from us. America is our home and will always be our home. Its interests are ours, and its people are ours. When you talk of killing of Americans, you first have to kill 6 million or so Muslims who will stand for every American’s right to live and enjoy the life as commanded by God.

By growing a beard, shouting some religious slogans and misquoting and misusing some verses of the divine scriptures, you cannot incite Muslims to do things that are contrary to our religion. Yes, you even fail to understand the basic Islamic principles of life and living. Islam demands peace in all aspects of life, Islam demands respect for life. Islam demands justice.

What you are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, India or other parts of the world is anti-human and anti-divine. You are an enemy of Islam as much as you are an enemy of America. You must understand that God who entrusted you with life is the same God who spelled his spirit in every human being regardless of his or her religion or ethnicity or nationality or status. You are violating him.

We feel totally disgusted with your action and we condemn you without any reservation. Don’t come to our mosques to preach this hatred. Don’t visit our Islamic centers to spill the blood of innocents. Don’t think that just because we share the same religion, we would show some sympathy to you. You are not of us. You don’t belong to the religion whose followers are trying to live a peaceful life for themselves and others serving the divine according to their understanding. In our understanding of faith, you appear as anti-divine and anti-human. We reject you now as we rejected you yesterday.

There is nothing common between you and us.

We stand for life, you want to destroy it.

We accept the divine scheme of diversity in the world and you want to impose conformity.

We respect every human being simply because he or she is a creation of the divine, and you hate people based on their religion and ethnicity.

We support freedom and liberty and justice, and you promote bigotry, murder and strangulation.

You will never be able to find a sympathetic voice amidst us. Our differences with others will never lead us to do things that are fundamentally wrong in our faith, i. e. taking the lives of innocent people and killing others because they are different.

So on Sept. 11, when you will be hiding in your caves, we will be out in the streets paying tribute to those who you killed because you failed to see the beauty of life. We will condemn you once again the same way we have been doing ever since 9/11 because we are Muslim Americans.

Aslam Abdullah is director of the Islamic Soceity of Nevada.

[Man_with_a_Plan]

Re: Kill Us Too, We are also Americans

We can have hundreds and thousands of these people in media, press and Gupshup who denounce terror and dissociate themselves from Al-Qaeda and their agenda but still be looked criminal and terrorists in the eyes of West. It is really for them to make the distinction and understand that there are Muslims not only in America but also in rest of the world who despise and loathe people who kill innocents.

Now I know I will be throw the usual immigration and rights of Muslims in America but my point is not direct towards them rather the foreign policies and media portrayal. Mostly that have been take out of context, I mean in recent news there is debate between White House and others about whether the President should use the word “Islamic fascism”.

[Mr_Fraudia]

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Man w/o a plan.

Just because there are yahoos in the media and hillbillies..red state types ;) does not mean we dont do what is right. This is not only a message to those aorund us regarding our loyalties or anything but also to the extremists that they dont have a free reign and that we will be and are more vigilant in keeping such psychs out of our schools, mosques and places wher they can poison minds. That hs ben happening all around, imams holding extreme views are being told by their congregations to pack and go home.

asalam abdullah man...you go man, you stated what many of us feel.

[Faisal]

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I think this may be a classic case of quoting things out of context.

While I completely agree that Muslims (mainstream muslims, i.e.) need to deassociate ourselves from those who espouse terror tactics and killing of civilians and we should/must/do condemn all forms of terror; Iraq is a battleground right now with proper US military facing off against locals and other Muslims purportedly defending their Muslim land (a.k.a "insurgents" or "freedom fighters" or "Al-Qaida" etc). Comparing that to terror attacks on civilian populations in England and elsewhere is like apples and oranges. Lets not confuse the issue here.

If the Al-Qaida leader in Iraq has made a call to his followers to attack and kill American troops, US President has made similar calls ("dead or alive", remember?). Its a war out there, and both parties are trying to kill as many of the others as they can. If Mr Aslam Abdullah plans to join US forces who are occupying Iraq and in many instances are brutally murdering and bombing Iraqis in the name of fighting insurgents, then by all means Mr Abdullah should also expect to receive some bullet fire in return as well.

[Mr_Fraudia]

Re: Kill Us Too, We are also Americans

depends on whether he meant american troops only, or troops, journalists, aid workers, whatever, dunn it, and does it man its limited to iraq or is he asking his followrs on some global scale.

[CheGuvera]

Re: Kill Us Too, We are also Americans

A more appropriate and courageous letter would have been one that would be addressed to the American authorities/people stating that they don't have to go half way across the world to kill over 150,000 innocent muslims, when they could do so right here in America...

[PakistaniAbroad]

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Mr. Abdullah should make better use of bandwidth and time by investigating where exactly this Abu Hamza whatever said this.. find the source.. and then try to find out who runs that source and protects it from being shut down.. he may get a little wiser and not come across as a blabbering idiot..

[Mr_Fraudia]

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@CheGuvera

A more appropriate and courageous letter would have been one that would be addressed to the American authorities/people stating that they don’t have to go half way across the world to kill over 150,000 innocent muslims, when they could do so right here in America…

Che

feeling corageous?

[hitchki]

Re: Kill Us Too, We are also Americans

And here comes annother light-bearer for the darkness-enduring masses.

[Deewaanagi]

Re: Kill Us Too, We are also Americans

I think that is a very lovely article.

@CheGuvera

A more appropriate and courageous letter would have been one that would be addressed to the American authorities/people stating that they don’t have to go half way across the world to kill over 150,000 innocent muslims, when they could do so right here in America…

And I think YOU have completely missed the point. In all ways possible!

[system]

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Very good article.

This should not be confused with the illegal war in EE-Rak, for me this is more about the ideology, philosophy and practices preached by Islam.

[amana]

Re: Kill Us Too, We are also Americans

Wasn't it Muhammad Abduh who came to the US and said that in the West he saw a lot of Islamic principles in place, but not many muslims, but when he returned to muslim countries, he saw a lot of muslims, but not much Islam?