I'm going to cuss in this post. Yeah, I know, it's Ramadan.
You know, that month (DISCLAIMER: this coming from a Catholic, American woman) where Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, pray, perform charitable acts, and seek to be closer to God in all that they do?
Um... someone get the asshats at Daesh a copy of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Islam"-- pretty sure, "run down people on London Bridge, stabbing people, shooting them, and causing general mayhem" are not on the "do this during Ramadan" list.
Creating terror among the people in which you live is NOT furthering the cause of Islam; it's doing the opposite. Harming innocent people is not upholding your religion; it's the opposite. And to do so during the "holiest" month of your religion, well, is unthinkable to me.
I just don't get it. I can't get it. I don't want to get it.
I am loathe to say I HATE anything, but I hate Daesh.
I hate what they're doing to the OVER A BILLION (true) followers of Islam.
Daesh and groups like it, of which there are far too many, have "hijacked" Islam, in my opinion, and instead of following their faith, have perverted and corrupted it. They're quick to say they're the only TRUE followers of the religion, that they're following the Quran and the hadiths, and everything as was originally intended.
I beg to differ.
Anytime ANYONE says they're the "true" followers of something is when I'm EXTREMELY skeptical. What these asshats have done is take a few select surahs of the Quran, twist them, and then use the twisted meaning for their own benefit, to justify the disgusting, horrible acts of terror done in the name of Islam and Muslims everywhere.
Yes, it gets them publicity, for a short time. It brings their cruel, disgusting acts to a wider network than their caves and enclaves in Syria and Iraq and elsewhere. But at what cost, when it also helps to justify the Cheeto-faced POTUS' "Muslim travel ban" and no doubt, makes people loathe and fear and even ATTACK Muslims, like was recently done in Portland, OR?
A few years ago, around this time of year, in 2012, I went to Portland, and my car's transmission, well, basically up and quit with little to no warning. In trying to get it to the tow truck a few friends/coworkers had, well, it decided to REALLY not move any further. Three Muslim men, either going to or returning from prayer, HELPED my friends and I move the car. I've never forgotten that, and hope that wherever they are, God has blessed them for their act of kindness toward a young woman that quite literally, almost totally lost it in downtown Portland.
THAT, to me, are the acts of "true" Muslims-- helping out their fellow citizen of the world in a time of need, not asking for anything return, and in fact, REFUSING anything offered.
The acts done by "Muslims" recently in Manchester, and again, today, in London, are not the true faces of Muslims. Those acts are terrorism and Islam at its worst.
I'm relatively loathe to link to the Daily Mail; they do tend to sensationalize things, but occasionally get it totally spot on and right and report the news that the rest of the world is too afraid to. This article, which of course, because it's a LIBYAN imam CONDEMNING the Manchester bomber (and his family), will NEVER make it to US media, because of our definite bias towards showing ANYTHING positive from Libya. But in this article, the imam of the mosque outside Tripoli where the murderer prayed five times a day, condemns the action, and also, the bomber himself. Libyan Imam Condemns Manchester suicide bomber
Bravo to that imam; he's a brave, brave man for speaking out about what he knows about the murderer and the murderer's family. His words, condemning the murderer as a "monster" and a "traitor to both the UK and to Libya", are spot on. I pray that God keeps him and his family safe from harm (and those who seek to harm), and that He blesses them richly.
I'm afraid I'm becoming hardened to this sort of thing. And I'm definitely getting sick of posting about YET ANOTHER terror attack. But I will NEVER tire of condemning and blasting the asshats of Daesh, nor will I ever stop using the term Daesh. It's said they dislike it, so that's all the more reason to use it!
Anyways... may the rest of this holy month be peaceful for all of us. And may we all be safe from harm.
You know, that month (DISCLAIMER: this coming from a Catholic, American woman) where Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, pray, perform charitable acts, and seek to be closer to God in all that they do?
Um... someone get the asshats at Daesh a copy of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Islam"-- pretty sure, "run down people on London Bridge, stabbing people, shooting them, and causing general mayhem" are not on the "do this during Ramadan" list.
Creating terror among the people in which you live is NOT furthering the cause of Islam; it's doing the opposite. Harming innocent people is not upholding your religion; it's the opposite. And to do so during the "holiest" month of your religion, well, is unthinkable to me.
I just don't get it. I can't get it. I don't want to get it.
I am loathe to say I HATE anything, but I hate Daesh.
I hate what they're doing to the OVER A BILLION (true) followers of Islam.
Daesh and groups like it, of which there are far too many, have "hijacked" Islam, in my opinion, and instead of following their faith, have perverted and corrupted it. They're quick to say they're the only TRUE followers of the religion, that they're following the Quran and the hadiths, and everything as was originally intended.
I beg to differ.
Anytime ANYONE says they're the "true" followers of something is when I'm EXTREMELY skeptical. What these asshats have done is take a few select surahs of the Quran, twist them, and then use the twisted meaning for their own benefit, to justify the disgusting, horrible acts of terror done in the name of Islam and Muslims everywhere.
Yes, it gets them publicity, for a short time. It brings their cruel, disgusting acts to a wider network than their caves and enclaves in Syria and Iraq and elsewhere. But at what cost, when it also helps to justify the Cheeto-faced POTUS' "Muslim travel ban" and no doubt, makes people loathe and fear and even ATTACK Muslims, like was recently done in Portland, OR?
A few years ago, around this time of year, in 2012, I went to Portland, and my car's transmission, well, basically up and quit with little to no warning. In trying to get it to the tow truck a few friends/coworkers had, well, it decided to REALLY not move any further. Three Muslim men, either going to or returning from prayer, HELPED my friends and I move the car. I've never forgotten that, and hope that wherever they are, God has blessed them for their act of kindness toward a young woman that quite literally, almost totally lost it in downtown Portland.
THAT, to me, are the acts of "true" Muslims-- helping out their fellow citizen of the world in a time of need, not asking for anything return, and in fact, REFUSING anything offered.
The acts done by "Muslims" recently in Manchester, and again, today, in London, are not the true faces of Muslims. Those acts are terrorism and Islam at its worst.
I'm relatively loathe to link to the Daily Mail; they do tend to sensationalize things, but occasionally get it totally spot on and right and report the news that the rest of the world is too afraid to. This article, which of course, because it's a LIBYAN imam CONDEMNING the Manchester bomber (and his family), will NEVER make it to US media, because of our definite bias towards showing ANYTHING positive from Libya. But in this article, the imam of the mosque outside Tripoli where the murderer prayed five times a day, condemns the action, and also, the bomber himself. Libyan Imam Condemns Manchester suicide bomber
Bravo to that imam; he's a brave, brave man for speaking out about what he knows about the murderer and the murderer's family. His words, condemning the murderer as a "monster" and a "traitor to both the UK and to Libya", are spot on. I pray that God keeps him and his family safe from harm (and those who seek to harm), and that He blesses them richly.
I'm afraid I'm becoming hardened to this sort of thing. And I'm definitely getting sick of posting about YET ANOTHER terror attack. But I will NEVER tire of condemning and blasting the asshats of Daesh, nor will I ever stop using the term Daesh. It's said they dislike it, so that's all the more reason to use it!
Anyways... may the rest of this holy month be peaceful for all of us. And may we all be safe from harm.
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