It seems there is at least one Muslim society speaking out against terrorism

[gbear]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/opinion/18friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

I love that their muslim society is refusing to bury them in a Muslim cemetery. If suicide bombing is ever to be defeated, I suspect it will be by demonizing the acts and ignoring the perpetrators. They're dead. Let them rot fogotten someplace they won't inconvenience anyone else with their decomposition.

[BigMike619]

I love this...

[Prosperity]

good, the nihilists deserve no respect even after death

[mjah]

Plenty of Muslims speak out against terrorism.

Whether it gets reported or not is a different story. Ask yourself how you'd know about it if no news agency (left, right, or center) bothered to pick it up.

[Prosperity]

Plenty of Muslims speak out against terrorism.

Whether it gets reported or not is a different story. Ask yourself how you'd know about it if no news agency (left, right, or center) bothered to pick it up.

it gets reported, and it gets posted here

but people ignore them, and then act all surprised when the next story comes out, and then ignore it/forget about it real quick

[Mad Mike]

http://www.freemuslims.org/

About FMC

The Free Muslims Coalition is a nonprofit organization made up of American Muslims and Arabs of all backgrounds who feel that religious violence and terrorism have not been fully rejected by the Muslim community in the post 9-11 era.

The Free Muslims was created to eliminate broad base support for Islamic extremism and terrorism and to strengthen secular democratic institutions in the Middle East and the Muslim World by supporting Islamic reformation efforts.

The Free Muslims promotes a modern secular interpretation of Islam which is peace-loving, democracy-loving and compatible with other faiths and beliefs. The Free Muslims' efforts are unique; it is the only mainstream American-Muslim organization willing to attack extremism and terrorism unambiguously. Unfortunately most other Muslim leaders believe that in terrorist organizations, the end justifies the means.

As written recently by Khaled Kishtainy, columnist at Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, "I place on the Islamic intellectuals and leaders of Islamic organizations part of the responsibility for [this phenomenon] of Islamic terrorism, as nearly all of them advocate violence, and repress anyone who casts doubts upon this. Naturally, every so often they have written about the love and peace of Islam – but they did so, at best, for purposes of propaganda and defense of Islam. Their basic position is that this religion was established by the sword, acts by the sword, and will triumph by the sword, and that any doubt regarding this constitutes a conspiracy against the Muslims."

The Free Muslims finds this sympathetic support for terrorists by Muslim leaders and intellectuals to be a dangerous trend and the Free Muslims will challenge these beliefs and target the sympathetic support given to terrorists by Muslims.

The Free Muslims encourages Muslims and Arabs to be proud of their faith and at the same time critical. The community of the faithful must now take steps to bring Islam into the 21st century. As the Free Muslims’s founder recently said, "The only way that we as a people can make a profound difference and improve the quality of life for all Muslims is if all of us make a difference individually."

Other Americans have spoken up against terrorism, but never before has this message come with such clarity from Muslims or Arabs. Muslims are the only ones who can resolve the problem of terror in Islam, and sadly until the founding of this Free Muslims, they were the only group who had not definitively spoken up against the use of terror.

:applause:

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

I think everytime the intellectuals speak up in the M.E. they're killed or locked up. It's easy for those guys (FMC) when they're sitting back in the U.S. away from the action.

[gbear]

Mjah,

as one of the parts of the article pointed out, the suiders are often considered heroes or Martyrs.

from the article:

"To be sure, Mumbai’s Muslims are a vulnerable minority in a predominantly Hindu country. Nevertheless, their in-your-face defiance of the Islamist terrorists stands out. It stands out against a dismal landscape of predominantly Sunni Muslim suicide murderers who have attacked civilians in mosques and markets — from Iraq to Pakistan to Afghanistan — but who have been treated by mainstream Arab media, like Al Jazeera, or by extremist Islamist spiritual leaders and Web sites, as “martyrs” whose actions deserve praise.

Extolling or excusing suicide militants as “martyrs” has only led to this awful phenomenon — where young Muslim men and women are recruited to kill themselves and others — spreading wider and wider. What began in a targeted way in Lebanon and Israel has now proliferated to become an almost weekly occurrence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan."

[MrSilverMaC]

it gets reported, and it gets posted here

but people ignore them, and then act all surprised when the next story comes out, and then ignore it/forget about it real quick

I have not read many of them. I wish I could catch more of them, cause it restores some of my waning faith in humanity. But even among the stories that may have been posted, this one stands out.:applause: