THE AMERICAN SICKNESS? 12/03/06

Last night I was on a board where I noted that one Syrian individual with a PhD currently residing in Russia had vehemently cussed the rest of us out claiming that we were all inflicted with the American sickness. And what is the American sickness? The American sickness is the conviction held by certain others that we Americans think we are "better than everybody else."

Those who would be apologetics for terrorists and others of their ilk really ought to go to the Kavkaz Center website where they can be educated on exactly how Americans are perceived by some Muslims and governments in the Middle East. From the Kavkaz Center News Station, I learned such informative things as: Witch Shoppes and networking among Witches is a sign that Satanism is becoming the official religion of Western Society [that would indeed be news to my two friends over at the First Church of Satan website]; teaching kids to think for themselves leads to democracy and democracy places itself above the Sharia laws; English prisoners who professed to be Satanists were given Halloween "off" [sapphoq asks: "off" from what?]; Australian Satanists sacrificed a goat on October 13th; and Indian high school dropouts became involved in Satanism, dancing in cemetaries naked at night, and a grafitti spree.

I also hold no respect for the idea that Iranian President Ahmadinejad is a nice guy just like his blog [currently not showing an English translation but has in the past] portrays him to be. On the same board I was on last night, I encountered a well-educated American guy who denied that President Doctor Ahmadinejad wants to blow the nation of Israel off the face of the earth. Ahmadinejah's recent letter to "noble" Americans did little to nothing to persuade me to come over to his view of things. Dude was one of the student-turned-terrorist leaders who took over the American Embassy for 444 days. Evidence points to his role as a rather mean interrogator who engaged in torture. Please do not tell me he is "nice." He is not nice. He is a terrorist and the leader of a country to boot.

The folks over at Religious Tolerance in Toronto and The Battlefield Cry (a small newsletter from the folks over at Chick tracts) both recounted the July 2006 plight of one Reverend O'Neal Dozier. Apparently, he was among a group in Broward County who opposed the building of a mosque in the community of Pompano Beach. Reverend Dozier to his non-credit played the Race Card in arguing that young black men were at risk for converting to Islam. He did also speak of a terrorist plot to blow up the Miami Sears building but what he left out was the fact that terrorists in the United States do meet up at mosques.

Fellow blogger Rick Stark knows this and alluded to it in a letter he wrote to a Florida newspaper. I know it too because of a mosque in Albany, New York whose Iman and another leader were convicted of a money laundering scheme that would have supported a terrorist Pakistani organization. Reverend Dozier had acted upon his convictions by going door to door with religious tracts. Unfortunately, he also called Islam a cult on a radio talk show. For his actions, he was advised that his services were no longer needed at the Judicial Review Committee of Broward County. He was censured by the Council of American-Islamic Relations chapter in Florida. No apology was forthcoming. The Judicial Review Committee and the CAIR-Fla. exercised their rights in the matter.

Reverend Dozier also exercised his rights to freedom of speech. The CAIR Florida Chapter referenced his speaking out as inflammatory. Yet, I maintain that Reverend Dsss has every right to express an opinion regardless of who agrees or does not agree with it [N.B. He has been very outspoken against the "gay agenda." I am a supporter of GLBT civil rights.] What is interesting to note is that no other religious leaders spoke up to back the Muslim community. Reverend Dozier expressed a sentiment out in the public arena that the average American does not admit to in polite society. He struck a chord.

After 9/11, American Muslim leaders did not loudly condemn the terrorists who killed a bunch of people. Rather than disassociating themselves, they became defensive and argued loudly against having to do so. There are 24 fatwas [or fataawa] that are on-line which condemn terrorist acts and suicide bombings. Their existence did not erase the particular chill that was created by the large absense of an American Muslim leadership outcry against the terrorists of 9/11. One fatwa was issued in 2005 by the Figh Council of North America almost 4 years after. Whether or not the fatwa is worth anything can be debated.

Is Islam different in other places? Googling the words heterogeneous Islam will yield results explaining that yes, Islam in such places as China, Indonesia, Malaysia, England, and Italy has a more heterogeneous following than found in the Middle East. But I don't live in the Middle East. I am not living in Egypt or Sudan or France or any other place. I am living here in the United States. Yes, I do worry about terrorists in general and Islamic terrorists in particular. The terrorists who caused me to have nightmares after 9/11, the terrorists who rammed airplanes into buildings in my country, the terrorists who infiltrated our [non-dominantly theistic-Satanist] society and lived among us were followers of Islam. To deny this is the height of folly.

-radical sapphoq