What do you guys think of this? Reaction paper to banning the building of mosques in Switzerland?
College paper Muslims in the West are constantly making demands for freedom: freedom to build mosques, freedom to wear the burka and hijab, freedom to practice Sharia law. They generally present these demands as basic rights owed to them by the countries in which they live. And Western liberals — even those opposed to the Islamic agenda — are hard-pressed to rebuff them. This is due to a faulty conceptualization of the issue. A new approach must be adopted. Let’s call it “Linkageâ€. The idea is simple: Muslims have no rights in Western lands as long as non-Muslims are being persecuted in Muslim lands. Some simple examples: 1. No more mosques in the West, until there is a church in Mecca. 2. No freedom to wear Muslim clothing in the West, until all women have the freedom to wear whatever they want in Mecca. 3. No more funding of Islamic education and proselytizing in the West, until all faiths are free to establish schools, libraries and missions in Mecca. 4. No foot baths for Muslims, until there are holy water dispensers for Christians in Mecca. etc. We all know what’s going on in Mecca. Christians, Jews and other faiths are barred entry in a form of Islamic apartheid. In Mecca, churches are illegal. The Bible and the cross are illegal. Priests are illegal. Preaching Christianity and other faiths is punishable by imprisonment, torture and death. Converting to Christianity or another faith is punishable by imprisonment, torture and death. In short, the heartland of Islam is one of the most appalling hellholes of religious intolerance in the world today. Yet Muslims have the gall to demand footbaths and other frivolous perks in our lands. The hypocrisy reeks like a sewer. It’s obscene, and even the most unconcerned layman can immediately perceive the unfairness. Muslims are only concerned for freedom when they are on the receiving end. This is my proposal: We in the anti-Jihad movement should adopt the principle of “Linkage†as a war cry. We should repeat it like a broken record. Advocate it relentlessly on blogs and in street demonstrations. Distribute flyers. Pressure politicians. Run television ads. Make it into T-shirts and hats and coffee mugs. Glue posters to walls with really stubborn glue. DEMAND fairness! The principle of linkage is already making inroads. Last year, the Russians demanded a quid pro quo from the Saudis: A Saudi Mosque in Moscow in Exchange for a Russian Church in Mecca? The king of Saudi Arabia has announced that he is ready to support the construction of a mosque and Islamic cultural center in Moscow, a city with only four mosques for its more than two million Muslims. In response and probably to block this, Orthodox Christians in Russia have called for opening a church in Saudi Arabia. After the Saudi offer was reported, three Russian Orthodox groups — the Moscow section of the Union of Orthodox Citizens, the Radonezh Society, and the Byzantine Club — released an open letter to Saudi King Abdullah suggesting that there should be another mosque in Moscow only after a Russian Orthodox church was opened in Mecca. Jean-Louis Cardinal Toran, the head of the Papal Council on Inter-religious Dialogue, agrees: If Muslims consider it correct to have a large and beautiful mosque in Rome, then it is equally correct for Christians to have a church in Riyadh. Alison Ruoff, a prominent evangelical member of the Church of England’s General Synod, has applied linkage: Mrs Ruoff, a former magistrate, said in an interview with London’s Premier Christian Radio that no more mosques should be built in Britain until all persecution of Christians in Muslim nations had ceased. The British writer Adrian Morgan raises the same point: Yet when one sees the number of mosques being erected in Britain, often with money from Saudi Arabia, I wonder why no Far Left individual raises the question of hypocrisy. Saudi Arabia funds the export of Islam around the world (even to Nepal), yet prevents any Bibles from being brought into their kingdom. No churches are allowed to be built in Saudi Arabia, and migrant workers who hold unofficial Christian services have been jailed. Similarly in Pakistan, Christians are a minority group, yet they are persecuted mercilessly. In Malaysia, no one is allowed to leave Islam and Buddhists, Hindus and Christians are legally defined as second-class citizens, and yet Malaysia regards itself as upholding a “civilizational†form of Islam. The principle of linkage is gaining momentum. With the help of everyone in the Counterjihad community, we can broaden it into an avalanche.
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no linkage needed!!!!!!!!!!!!! but I can't see this question lasting long
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Sounds like a reasonable fair exchange.
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Whether linkage is gaining momentum or not but this is the second time around that the Swiss showed their ugly side to the World, all that talk of neutrality obviously had angles in hindsight. The issue of whether minarets are representative of Islam is besides the point. The issue is, it was perceived by those who voted against it. Lets not forget in all this that 43% voted in favor. The arguments will only become valid if the Western nations open their markets to the third world, security council and the non proliferation structure lose its veto by the West and China. And the Western countries agree to pay environmental tax to the poor and developing countries. To demand social equality from the comfort of "closed door" policies is the worse type of hypocrisy. At the same time, let it be a warning to us that one of the most contentious aspect of the so called Muslim dress code, Niqab was successfully deployed as instrument of publicity to drum up support against the building of minarets. Instead of appeasing the sect centric Mullahs. it is about time we face up to the reality that the stereotype of a Muslim is well and stubbornly in place, Hijab for women and beards for men. Unlike conventional stereotypes, this is is a gift from us to "them". Instead of concentrating on the Hijab and beard if we were to emulate the best example of the Prophet Pbuh as per the advice of God Himself, we would do much better in promoting our religion and way of life. We should focus more on God, the Day of Judgment and remembrance of God as the verse Quran 33:21 clearly spells out and not twist it to mean physical appearance or worse. Once we are able to place the verses in context and act them out, then the qualities of true Momins, the qualities of truthfulness, humbleness, generosity and courage for the right reasons will shine through. We must not spend our time forever explaining away why we look the way we look but to use the opportunity to attract people to Islam by who we are and not how we look.
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Hypocrites can't handle the truth. This is a well spoken, honest, logical, well written piece of writing.
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Let me ask you - does Saudi Arabia or any of the Islamic Countries permit the Muslims from other lands to immigrate there? No. Don't take my word for it, check it out. Even a baby born in these countries doesn't have the Right for Naturalization. Then, on what basis do the Muslims assume they have the Rights here? Except for the fact that our Liberals are foolishly hoping to build their Vote Banks with these immigrants at our cost, there's no logic in our allowing these people to come here. Most of them have no skills, no education and are coming here for the dole and benefits, because our Liberals are "wise" enough to give them all that at our cost. Why are we allowing the Liberals and their PC Brigades to do this to us? Let's first get rid of these unscrupulous Politicians from our midst and let the Conservative take care of the Muslims and resolve this issue. No amount of our saying anything else is worth our doing this, now. This BS about the Muslims need to be educated and helped has gone on for long enough. Send all the Muslims to their precious Islamic Countries and the problem will resolve on it's own. The Muslims will make a mess of their economies and fight and kill each other there. All the richest Islamic Countries will go broke if they have to take the burden of their Muslims. Not to mention, they'll find out, first hand, what it's like for them to have to host such people. Serve them jolly well right, if you ask me.
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LOL. Please submit this paper to your faculty. Nowadays faculty routinely check papers on the web for plagiarism and it will make smile when you are dismissed from university for your plagiarism of copyrighted works by Baron Bodissey and Adrian Morgan.
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since Saudis do not allow non muslims to live in Saudi Arabia what is the point in building a church? i understand if there were a community of Christians living there just as there are communities of muslims living in switzerland and Russia otherwise i really don't see the point in building one! If you don't LIKE THE ACTIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST WHY ACT SO HYPOCRITICAL by deciding to act like them by oppressing muslims in the West? why should they be oppressed for the actions of other islamic governments? where is the freedom and justice in this? why should they suffer for others actions?What is wrong in Saudi giving and donating money for building mosques? you wouldn't mind if Israel were giving money for jewish communities to build their synagogues would you lol!?!?! its all just bloody hypocrisy. i think it's disgusting that you have the nerve to talk about non muslims being persecuted in Arabia and yet you feel it would be ideal and necessary to persecute muslims in the West to prove a point, surely this goes against your own moral beliefs?
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Why neglect to mention that the Middle Eastern countries' laws are based on the Islaamic religion, and the American laws formed by the founding fathers were based on the idea that all religions would be granted freedom? This is why there is no double standard; the Constitution promises religious freedom, Shari'ah does not. Islaamic countries are under no obligation to allow the building of churches and the likes.
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peace upon you noise is not faith pan minarats does not effect truth faith [silly move] there are 2000 years old Churches in the heart of the Holy Land, even after the killining of 1million Muslims at hand of crusaders Omar blessed, the 2nd Khalifa while freeing Jerusalem was invited to take the city key from the Bishops, while he was in the Church, afternoon prayer time came. he was asked the Bishops to pray in the Church, he gently refused saying: "may be fanatics might turn it into a mosque. he walked out and prayed in the out door, this spot became= Omar's mosque. we do not ask to build mosque in the Vatican which we respect as holy Chirstian shrine. as for Churches in Saudi Arabia= there is in Provence of Najran= where there is Christians from before Islam era. there are no Christians in Rhyadh, but, there are Muslims in Europe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/europe/2005/muslims_in_europe/default.stm == This article deals with the history and evolution of the Islamic religion in Europe. According to the German Central Institute Islam Archive, the total number of Muslims in Europe in 2007 was about 53 million, including 16 million in the European "2. No freedom to wear Muslim clothing in the West, until all women have the freedom to wear whatever they want in Mecca." all three religions used to wear head cover= men and women: Genesis 24:65 and asked the servant, "Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?" "He is my master," the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself. [in Europe, up until WW2, veil was worn by Jews and Christians][you can see that in war documentaries] "3. No more funding of Islamic education and proselytizing in the West, until all faiths are free to establish schools, libraries and missions in Mecca." Mecca is place of pure faith zone, Christians became slaves to the Romans through Paul who created fake teachings, and Constantine who destroyed some Gospels that show the lies of Paul. To suggest, as some historians (and many others with axes to grind) have done, that Constantine rescued the Christian church from persecution is fantasy. Christians had enjoyed complete tolerance in the Roman Empire from 260-302. More importantly, Christians were persecuted by the regime that Constantine constructed. http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Cults/Catholicism/ch-state.htm we, Muslims are the ONLY still followers of the prophets. you are senselessly attacking decency for no logical reason ya_shami@yahoo.ca
