Do American Muslims Aid and Abet the Violence of a Few Muslims?..Yes

Sharky&Sharky was recently challenged by a quite intelligent young Muslim American gentleman when he demanded to know if his grandmother (presumably a fine upstanding senior Muslim woman) was held responsible by Americans for the 9/11 attack; he demanded to know if she is a terrorist in the American mind. The question came after he had affirmed that Muslim Americans are attempting to live good American lives contributing to productivity and are entitled to receive the American life of life, liberty, happiness, and their wish to enjoy all the fruits of American liberal democracy. These are Islamic Muslims to be be distingished from America's Black Muslims. Depending on the source there are between 2.5M to 5M Islamic Muslims in the US.

Continuing he averred that non-Muslim Americans ( that is Sharky&Sharky and you brother) are two-faced hypocrites in that we criticize Muslims while we continue to do arms deals with Muslim dictators that have done harm to America and foreign Muslims; as example the Saudi's who supported the 9/11 attackers or the now deposed ruler of Egypt. He has a point there, but this thrust is disingenuous it that it is an attack ad hominem (on lil ol Sharky&Sharky). an attempt to derail the discussion rather than keeping on point.

Sharky&Sharky is stating firmly to the young gentleman and with no reservations "When your grandmother or any Muslim American is silent on the actions of Muslim terrorists against Americans, then they and she are aiding and abetting Muslim terrorists". There you have it that's done. Later Sharky&Sharky will enable grandmother and others to redeem themselves. Sharky&Sharky admittedly conclude and conflate that her silence is interpreted by the non-Muslim merican as her identification with a foreign enemy. However she is not alone; many Muslim Americans, the American Umma, is silent including two Muslim US Congressmen. Now dear reader how can this be so you might say.

There are two key points to consider: Existentialism and Conflation. The Existentialism requires that if you enjoy and demand certain freedoms then you must extend those same demands and freedoms to others. It follows that if you have left a place where rights in the sense of classical liberalism are not respected and voluntarily come or join a place where they are respected and protected then as a member of that community you must speak out when the community is attacked or endangered. A failure to speak out indicates that you are not Authentic a hypocrite and you are only exploiting the freer place for the benefits that you get for free.

We are Americans and as Americans we conflate. Conflation is the neat, complete, and resolving and yet a fallacious thought process. Definition: Conflation is the bringing together of two concepts or schools of thought and combining the two into a posited composite without deep regard to the truth of the resulting composite. Then we treat the composited truth as a basis and a guide for our beliefs and future actions. All of us Americans do it. Here are some couplets to show how easy it is for you too to become a conflator: (1) "Pretty Blond Women, Dumb" (2)"Irish men, Drunks" (3)" American black men, Criminals". Sharky&Sharky could go on and on. The point is Americans are conflators; therefore, "Silent American Umma, terrorist sympathizers". It does not matter to us that there are exceptions or the conflating is fallacious. Not all pretty blond women are dumb; Not all Irish men are drunks (hmmm maybe no conflating on this one) We all know that all American black men are criminals. The reason that we keep building jails is to put black men in them as fast as we can catch them.  To be sure conflating is a fallacy or a bias or both. This fact does not matter. Americans conflate. Example; not all traitors are Democrats but all Democrats are traitors. Conflating is not about thinking through a situation; it is about getting through a situation. The world is so complex these days with or without Muslims that we Americans just want to get through it.

Here is the FBI's top 20 terrorists Muslims each and everyone. Yes Sharky&Sharky knows that there are a billion Muslims in the world; but as was said "conflation does not have time for analysis". After the FBI gets this 20 Muslims, they will move on to the next 20 Muslims. There are non-Muslims that are terrorists, examples like Timothy McVey and Terry Nichols. There non-Muslim organizations like: Nazis, Communists, anarchists, racists, and even extreme Christian fundamentalist; all have their terrorists. However these terrorists are decried by other American's and the American political leaders. The point is there are very few Muslim voices decrying the Muslim terrorists. This is precisely the point; there are so few Muslim American voices stopping the conflation. There is no multi-voice persistent denial of Jihad. Traditional Jihad is the perpetual declaration of war again non-Muslims. Multiple websites profess that the Quran is riddled with Jihad provocations; each claiming 100 or references to Jihad. Although Sharky&Sharky only find a few verses of the Quran that are truly provocative, these quotes alone serve to polarize non-Muslims Americans against Islam and by extension against Muslims whether Americans or not.

008:039: And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do.
009:005: So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
009:029: Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those {Christians and Jews} who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
009:073: O Prophet! strive hard [Jihad] against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination. (All non-Muslims are unbelivers and hypocrites).

You will note in the last few hostage returns from Islmaist of Westerners a ramsom was paid.

Here is a page of primarily elected American that are Muslims All have been silent on Muslim extremism. There are even a few women on this page. There are two US Congressman that are Muslims, Congressman Andre Carson from Indiana and Congressman Keith Ellison from Minnesota. Recently Rep. Carson said on a lengthy NPR inverview 

"I think Muslims have to take control of their own destiny, if you will. We could use the help of politicians and bureaucrats. But I think it's past the time for American Muslims to step forward and let it be known what our faith teaches us. We need to remind our fellow Americans that we have the same concerns as everyone else in this country, that Muslims are certainly concerned about the economy, we're concerned about failing school systems, we're concerned about excessive government spending and, in many cases, a lack of transparency in government."

Notice Rep. Carson doe snot mention the lack of transparency in Islam; nor is there any mention of Muslim terrorism concerns by Rep Carson in any way. Rep Keith Ellison will certainly not speak out against Muslim terrorism in that he accepted $13,350 from the Muslim American Society (MAS)  in order that he could make his required trip to Mecca, The Hajj. When asked why he did not disclose to the congressional ethics committee voluntarily MAS support of his Hajj :

"Where those limits exist," he said, "I'm going to take advantage of those limits, when it's legal for me to do so. And where it's not, then I'm going to disclose."

He has now disclosed the funding of his Hajj by the MAS. In a recent MPR interview:

Ellison acknowledged a recent poll showing that a majority of Americans oppose building a mosque near Ground Zero, but he said political leaders should stand up to anti-Muslim activists, regardless of any political fallout. "I think leaders should be thermostats and not thermometers,"

Rep Ellison did not acknowledge that political leaders should stand up to Islamic terrorism homegrown or foreign. However he did inform O'Reilly on the firing of Juan Williams. Mr Williams said on the O'Reilly Factor:

I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Rep Ellison let be known that he will discard his collections of Mr Williams books:


Rep Ellison has also failed to speakout about the atrocities committed by Minnesota's Muslim Sommali's in his state that were peddling their own underage girls as sex slaves. Here is another link with pictures of the indicted.


WHO IS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM?
Conflating is poor adductive logic. This conflation will continue until Muslim Americans begin to speak out and put Jihad in a modern liberal context. There has been one Muslim British Cleric that has issed a fatwa against Muslims extremist and Jihad. There has been a Muslim American cleric that has decried Jihad. Sharky&Sharky have called this a step in the Islamic Reformation. Here are a few examples of those who have decried Islamic terrorist there voices are few and weak against the daily explosion of Isalmic silence against Islamic terrorist acts.

• Saudi Arabia Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al al-Sheik
• England Pakistani-born Sheikh Tahir ul-Qadri, Pakistan-born ul-Qadri, 59, has written about 350 books on Islam, and is a scholar of Sufism, a Muslim branch that focuses on peace, tolerance, and moderation. The Quilliam Foundation, a UK counter-extremism think-tank, said the fatwa was "arguably the most comprehensive" theological refutation of Islamic extremism. Tim Winter, a lecturer in Islamic studies at Cambridge University, said while ul-Qadri's step of declaring "miscreants as unbelievers" was unusual, it was unlikely extremists would take notice of his edict..."Those who are already hardliners will pay no attention at all. But 'swing voters' - poorly educated and angry Muslims, who respect mainstream scholars, will probably take note," he told Reuters.
• Time Magazine Article
• Florida: U.S. MUSLIM RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ISSUES FATWA AGAINST TERRORISM

What is the problem? There are two problems. One in America and One the Muslim countries in which we fight wars against Islamic sources of terrorism.  Sharky&Sharky have written extensively in several articles about the conflict between democracy and Islam in other countries.

Baroness Warsi in England of course says that it is all the fault of bigotry against Islam. They say that Islam is fine; it has no problems. Those that speak out on the problems of Islam are racists and bigots. Of course she and Ellison address peoples' responses and reactions to Islamic terrorist acts, neither address the source of the problem, namely uncivil Jihad in today's civil society. They only admonish those who speak their possibly conflated bias reaction against Islamist terrorist acts.

Baroness Warsi

Sharky&Sharky want Muslims Americans to enjoy the freedoms and liberties of the US. However, to be authentic Americans, Muslim Americans must help protect those freedoms by speaking out loudly and publicly against Islamic terror here and all over the world, not perhaps hiddenly on Friday afternoon. Stop denying that those who commit Jihad against Americans are not one of you. Admit that you need a an Islamic reformation; this is not the 7th century. Jihad and Sharia and sexism are immoral and civil destroying acts. As Muslim Americans, articulate that Sharia is not your way as it is in say Bangladesh.  Here is an example of at least an attempt by Abukar Sanei:

One the prostitution ring news that now sparked from Minnesota and Tennessee, the blame goes to the Somali institutions, including the households in the Diaspora. We have seen many “community organizations,” but failed to see tangible programs set up for the young Somali generation. However, together, households and "community organizations" have failed to play their role and save the youngsters from these deplorable results.

This forthrightness addressing Islamic institutions is the effective longterm way to fix the American Muslim radicalization problem. First admit it. Second look for the source. If the Source is in the Quran, reform it as Christians have done their religion starting with Martin Luther. Thirdly, encourage imams to speak out openly as in the Washington DC Mosque of Imam Mohammed Magid. Sharky&Sharky is saying to the American Umma "cowboy on up to the responsibility" and fix it.  When this is done Americans will stop conflating and Grandmother will no longer be an aider and abettor of Islamic terrorist.

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