Please forgive my absence. I was actually training for a fight. With 40 quickly approaching I have decided it would also be my last fight, so I wanted to give it my all. I’m just not able to roll with these 20 year old kids any more.
In this entry I am calling for revolution. I am demanding that people take to the streets. I am imploring that they take to TV and get their message out. Who am I calling out? I call out any follower of Islam. I am talking to you if you read the Koran as your book of faith. If you face Mecca 6 times a day and pray this is addressed to you. What am I asking you to do? I am asking you to come out and say “These people do not speak for me.” Prominent Imams should go on Larry King Live and say that the Koran as inspirational as a book as it is should not be followed to the letter in this day and age. C.A.I.R. should abandon the Al Sharpton tactics and going after companies that don’t allow head scarves. There is a entire agency in the government that fights those fights. C.A.I.R. should use some of their budget and go on a P.R. campaign to let us know that they are with us and not people like Faisal Shahzad. If any of this is happening I can’t hear it. The silence is deafening.
Aren’t you tired of your faith being associated with terrorism? Am I reaching to say that the thing Muslims have become best known for is terrorism? Now to suggest that every Muslim is a terrorist is incorrect, but to state that almost every terrorist is a Muslim is not.
Now I cannot say that I am surprised by the tactics that are used by these people. The book that they follow openly calls for the death of the non believers. Surah 9:5 calls for pagans to be killed unless they are willing to convert. Koran 5:33 tells followers to cut off the hands and feet or crucify anybody who opposes the words of The Prophet. Am I taking these verses out of context, possibly; but so are people who are waging war against innocent people in Allah’s name. People often take a single verse from scripture and use that as the basis for their whole philosophy. I can think of quite a few Christians who take a few verses from Leviticus and Corinthians as the basis for their hatred of homosexuality. Yet if they look at the deeds of Jesus, he would surely have embraced anyone; especially the people considered to be the lowest of society.
Change comes from within. The followers of Islam need to look within themselves and demand change within their own religion. They need to realize that Sharia Law cannot be followed to the letter in this day and age. You cannot beat your wife when she refuses to listen. The God I know (and supposedly God, Allah and Yahweh are one in the same) is not going to give you 72 virgins (and some translations have it as 72 golden raisins) for dying whilst killing others. Imagine their surprise when it’s a cup or raisins. And the whole virgin thing…who the hell wants to tell 72 different women what you want in the sack?
Bill Maher says that Islam is in a dark age, and you know what he is right. A few individuals are speaking and very loudly for an entire religion. These plots are being ordered by people who live in squalid conditions in Third World countries, really oppressive third world countries. They beat their wives because the prophet says it is their duty. Maybe it’s because I have always known the freedoms that America provides, but I think these people are backwards, embracing a 12th century mentality in the 21st century. I don’t understand and I never will.