Muslims must save Islam from Islamists

[Jango]

Relative to the taat schools of the government sector, APS is indeed elite, wouldn't you agree?

From a rural perspective yes.

Not from an urban perspective. By urban, I include lower middle class as well.

 

[VCheng]

From a rural perspective yes.

Not from an urban perspective. By urban, I include lower middle class as well.

Exactly. Relatively speaking. My point stands.

 

[Solomon2]

For Pakistanis even, APS is far from being elite.

For me (middle middle class :p), elite is someone who goes to Roots school or Beaconhouse or whatever in the day, tuition at ACE academy or someplace at evening, has a couple of fancy cars at a fancy home in F-7 or F-6 and moves around with an expensive phone in his hand.

I'm not T.F. and I think what you're saying may be valid. That's why I'm encouraging you to write to him.

 

[Paksanity]

@Solomon2

Forgive my ignorance, you live in US right?

 

[Mutakalim]

And we should save the World from American democracy. Right in your stupid country killing in the name of "religion" is wrong but genocides under democracy is well accepted.

In your country a white man walks into a school and kills a dozen children or shoots up a cinema but yet isn't called a terrorist, rather "mentally challenged". Worry about your "Police shootings".

Brother he is Quoting another paid writer. No need of giving his articles any attention.

 

[Solomon2]

Solomon2...you live in US right?

Yes, in the Washington, D.C. area. Grew up with diplomats as neighbors - including Pakistani/Bangladeshi ones.

 

[Zarvan]

Muslims must save Islam from Islamists

BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2014 09:00 PM EST

It seems there is no respite for the ordinary Muslim.

Barely a day goes by when news of fresh atrocities by our co-religionists isn’t in the headlines.

Most of the world’s billion-plus Muslims wouldn’t dream of killing in the name of Islam, but enough do to form a critical mass that has put us on a collision course with the rest of humanity.

The Sydney siege by an ISIS-inspired jihadist had barely ended when the horrific news of a Taliban massacre killing 140 children at a Pakistani school shocked the world.

It took place at an “Army Public School”, inside a Pakistan cantonment on the edges of Peshawar.

Many of the students who attended this elite school were the sons and daughters of Pakistan army officers.

Ironically, the Taliban barbarians who killed these children were a creation of the Pakistan military, aimed at controlling neighbouring Afghanistan as a satellite state.

Why did the Taliban strike at a military school?

Could it be retaliation for the recent Pakistan army campaign to expel the Taliban out of Pakistan and into Afghanistan?

That may be one reason.

But knowing the workings of the worldwide jihadist terror movement and the Islamists who sow its seeds in Islamic countries and the West, there is another:

That is, the Islamist’s rejection of Western-style education systems.

The school attacked had boys and girls attending classes in what is referred to as a co-educational “English-medium” school.

The boys, smartly dressed in green blazers, white shorts and green neckties, reflect everything the Islamists despise.

And to be in the company of teenaged girls being educated at the same school would be seen as the worst of sins by those who promote Islamism, not just in Islamic countries but in Canada.

I suggest this is the “Boko Haramization” of the Pakistani jihadist movement that proclaims “western education is ‘Haraam’ (sinful)”.

Not that the Taliban have any tolerance for educating girls —Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai being one their early victims — but this attack appears to have been aimed largely at teenaged boys.

Last month, Zahid Askani, an American-educated Baloch who ran a co-educational school, where boys and girls studied English and wore western-style jackets and neckties, was assassinated by suspected jihadist death squads with the reported backing of the military.

Massacres are not new to Pakistan, or its military.

In the last few years Pakistan’s army intelligence wing has reportedly abducted and killed hundreds of students in the Baloch Students Organization (BSO) in Balochistan who support an indigenous independence movement.

Just a day after an ISIS-sympathizer took hostages in Sydney, Australia, leading to his own death and that of two innocent civilians, the tragedy of Peshawar provides another opportunity for Muslims to recognize we have a serious problem that only we can correct.

Muslims who claim the actions of the Taliban or ISIS are not Islamic must match this rhetoric by coming together and calling for a strict separation between Islam and politics.

They must renounce armed jihad as unfit for our age.

If they don’t, we will all be tarred by the actions of those who kill in the name of Islam and Allah.

The hashtag on Twitter by an Australian woman expressing solidarity with Muslims, #Illridewithyou, may please us, but it will not save us from the proverbial Dante’s Inferno.

Only we can do that, no one else.

First we need to save it from mentally retarded traitors like Tariq Fateh and others like him.

 

[Solomon2]

First we need to save it from mentally retarded traitors -

When a writer labels someone who is both talented and accomplished as "mentally retarded" it's far more likely that the writer is expressing his own insecurities than anything else, yes?

 

[vsdave2302]

All extremists are same, Mullahs, Zionists, Hindu extremists, Christian extremists, Budhist extremists...

We must all join our hands to send all these to space or very far from this earth. They can then kill each other there, nobody gives a shyt...

You are absolutely wrong. Had all the extremist been same, All countries in the world would have become other syria, Iraq and afghanistan. With your denial mode you can win arguement but that will be counter productive as accepting the mistake is the first step of correction.

 

[Maravan]

There is a saying in Tamil, "Ethiriya pakkathula kooda vachurukalaam, dhrogiya dhoorama kooda vachirukka koodathu" (You can keep your enemy close to you, but you shouldn't keep your traitor even if he is far)....

 

[RescueRanger]

First we need to save it from mentally retarded traitors like Tariq Fateh and others like him.

He is a misguided individual, let him enjoy his airtime. No reason to get upset.

 

[MarkusS]

As the famous german philosph Nietzsche said:" the radical muslim will cut off your head, while the moderate muslim will hold your feet" I dont see muslims fighting against this. I see no reformation, no selfreflection.

 

[doppelganger]

@Horus @Irfan Baloch

By trying to pin the Zionist angle on to Solomon, you are both classically deflecting and projecting.

Fact is, today, there is only one faith whose followers are creating mayhem all over the world. The typical defence of those like you (the so called liberals, moderates, whatever other label fits) is that these people do not represent Islam.

Well, that is for YOU guys to sort out AMONGST YOURSELVES. Who represents what. They (the lunatic fringe) believe even more strongly than you (the liberals, moderates) that YOU do not represent Islam.

Frankly, we (non-muslims) are really not interested. Just please do not keep killing people. Because you are turning every faith away from you.

You know what is most alarming, disappointing, depressing, and at the same time, illuminating. EVERY Muslim I have spoken to in the past few days (educated all) has first condemned the killing. BUT there is always a BUT that follows .....

There is NO BUT guys. Period. If they abuse you or your prophet or your holy book or whatever, even so, THERE IS NO BUT for taking a gun and shooting people, or strapping explosives to your chest and blowing yourself up in a marketplace.

That is what is lost on the entire Muslim community. It is your prophet, your book, your faith. IT MEANS NOTHING TO OTHERS.

 

[RescueRanger]

As the famous german philosph Nietzsche said:" the radical muslim will cut off your head, while the moderate muslim will hold your feet" I dont see muslims fighting against this. I see no reformation, no selfreflection.

Matthew 7:7 ""Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

 

[Kaniska]

Jews should save Judism from the evil of Zionism too. What do you think Solomon?

Its a nice excuse to protect the skin!!!!...I agree with this article...You do not mind many other religion people in modern world who thinks God is more important than the people itself...There are selected few who feels to be special so that they blow themselves up for the same God, who always forbid people to kill any other people...What a tragedy...!!!

Yes, in the Washington, D.C. area. Grew up with diplomats as neighbors - including Pakistani/Bangladeshi ones.

Be watchful..because some people react to Paletsine issue more than the Paletsine people itself.