Jeremiah, a muslim convert, wrote
Errors Common to Ibn Warraq and Other Non-Muslim Writers… in 1997 and was widely quoted over the net. A year ago he wrote the article below. It is worth reading for American muslims. It is a long article and hence I did not cut and paste the whole article. However the link to the full article is there.
My First Year as a Muslim, Ten Years Later
The Failure of Muslim-American Leadership
Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Jr., Ph.D.
Reprinted with permission of the author Tuesday, January 01, 2002
About ten years ago, a year after my conversion to Islam, I wrote an open letter to the Muslim community regarding my first year as a Muslim. It was not a positive letter-- addressing issues of sexism, gross expressions of hatred towards “the People of the Book”, and the general absence of responsibility and accountability in our community. The letter was published in the community newsletter I was attempting to establish, and it was ignored. A few years later, yet again attempting to establish a community newsletter, I wrote that we had a legacy of producing hurt, alienated people who leave the community and do not return to the mosques. This too was ignored.