Over at Peace, Bruv, brother Kashif is complaining about possible censorship at Muslim Matters. (Both blogs by the way, make for required reading.)
He has my sympathy. This situation did remind me of the difficulties we Muslims face in finding our way to a new equilibrium. Very hard to find your equilibrium when your co-religionists (read: “brothers and sisters”) are trying to find the body parts of their loved ones, blown to bits by some American or British munition in the Muslim-Killing-Fields of Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine. (I could reel off the long list of all the “trouble-spots” mentioned in Friday sermons, but you know them all. Any country that has a Muslim majority, or a Muslim agenda, is likely to find itself in “a spot of trouble” with the war machine of the Zionaxis)
So on the one hand, I sympathise with those who ordinarily are the standard bearers of Ummah 2.0 when they make the odd political slip-up-whilst-Muslim and on the other; I sympathise with those, like Kashif, who call them to account. After all, we are the nation that is supposed to enjoin the good and forbid the evil.
As for fighting terrorism and extremism, yes, I’m all for that, of course I am. Let’s confront it everywhere we see it. The best place to start is at home – our Western governments who fuel and encourage the Long War to extort power and privilege in the face of Chinese, Indian and Russian aspirations. I’m no longer a child. I expect statecraft, but right now, statecraft is being run by a bunch of monkeys without a clue. If we are serious in the West about stopping terrorism, we could do it instantly by withdrawing our funding of Israel. That measure would deliver on two fronts and I’ll leave you to work them out. It will never happen of course, while Zionists run America. Even Abu Mazen, purportedly Israel and America’s poodle, has given up on Obama.
You know, what is always needed in such discussions is that they be conducted in a civil atmosphere, with frankness and patience. So I’m with Kashif on this one.
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They even removed the trackback link.
The problem with such censorship, especially on important matters like this is that it forces discussion elsewhere. Now i personally think that MM is a good place to have this discussion because of the quality of its reader base. When the discussion goes elsewhere it’ll probably degenerate into backbiting/slander.
No they haven’t. I reached your blog and this one through the trackbacks.
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