American Values Under Attack: A Muslim Speaks Out Against Terrorism

Sunday, September 19, 2004

A Muslim Speaks Out Against Terrorism

It is beyond time for the Muslim community to speak out. This Muslim does.

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Francis Lynn said...: Read a blurb on it - looks interesting - thanks. They're in my camp to begin with.; 6:37 PM
Anonymous said...: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0920/dailyUpdate.html?s=ent2; 12:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Does Bush want to stop the terror? Really??? Then all he has to do is reign in Israel. The cost of supporting this racist country is increasing daily. Democracy in Iraq but not in Israel. What irony! What hyprocracy!; 4:38 PM
Francis Lynn said...: It's National Insanity Day, me thinks. Wonder how the coo coos find this site?; 4:41 PM
Anonymous said...: 9/22/04

Here's what happens in the US to amother Muslim who speaks out against terrorism. Go figure.

Cat Stevens' Peace Plane Grounded

by Charlie Amter
Sep 22, 2004, 7:35 AM PT

Next time, better just take the Peace Train.

Yusuf Islam, the London-based artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, forced a Washington, D.C.-bound United Airlines flight to land prematurely in Maine Tuesday after his name popped up on a U.S. terrorist watch list.

a d v e r t i s e m e n t

The "Morning Has Broken" singer was denied admission to the United States on national security grounds, according to a spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department. The singer-songwriter was heading to Dulles International Airport when his plane made an unplanned stop in Bangor, Maine around 3 p.m.

Islam was met by federal agents and detained for interrogation while the rest of the passengers were allowed to continue to D.C.

According to government officials, Islam, 56, was red-flagged by a computer system that analyzes passenger data before international flights enter U.S airspace. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center matched Islam's name on the passenger list for the D.C-bound United jet, then relayed the information regarding a possible terrorist match to the Transportation Security Administration. The TSA, in turn, requested that the plane land at Bangor International.

The Washington Post reported that Islam is identified as "Usef Islam" on several government watch lists, including the no-fly list. According to some print and broadcast reports, Islam's name is on the lists because he allegedly contributed funds to groups supporting terrorism.

However, he was allowed to visit New York as recently as May for a charity event without incident. No immediate comment from the feds on why he was permitted to fly then and not now.

The Homeland Security Department says Islam would be put on the first available flight out of the country Wednesday after spending the night in custody.

Ooh, baby, it's a wild world, indeed.

Stevens, famous for his easygoing demeanor and 1960s and '70s folk songs like "Moonshadow" and "Peace Train," converted to Islam in the late 1970s.

He abandoned his music career in 1977 and released his final record, Back to Earth in 1978. In accordance with life as a Muslim, Islam famously auctioned off his possessions gained from a lucrative career (Islam penned several well-known tunes in addition to his own hits, including Rod Stewart's "The First Cut Is the Deepest") and founded a Muslim school near London.

Last year, he rerecorded "Peace Train" for a star-studded fundraising CD benefiting children suffering from the war in Iraq. Shortly afterward, he told BBC News, "As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution to the dangerous path some world leaders today seem to be taking."

Islam recently condemned the school seizure by Chechen rebels in Russia, and has consistently been an advocate for peace since the Sept. 11, 2001. "No right thinking follower of Islam could possibly condone such an action," he said in a statement following the attacks. "The Koran equates the murder of one innocent person with the murder of the whole of humanity

He has consistently denounced the acts of terrorists as being directly contradictory to the peaceful teachings of Islam...[and he] has donated thousands of dollars to the 9/11 Fund.; 12:42 PM
Anonymous said...: If America were Iraq, What would it be Like?

President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are improving in that country.

What would America look like if it were in Iraq's current situation? The population of the US is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of statistics would have to be multiplied by that number.

Thus, violence killed 300 Iraqis last week, the equivalent proportionately of 3,300 Americans. What if 3,300 Americans had died in car bombings, grenade and rocket attacks, machine gun spray, and aerial bombardment in the last week? That is a number greater than the deaths on September 11, and if America were Iraq, it would be an ongoing, weekly or monthly toll.

And what if those deaths occurred all over the country, including in the capital of Washington, DC, but mainly above the Mason Dixon line, in Boston, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco?

What if the grounds of the White House and the government buildings near the Mall were constantly taking mortar fire? What if almost nobody in the State Department at Foggy Bottom, the White House, or the Pentagon dared venture out of their buildings, and considered it dangerous to go over to Crystal City or Alexandria?

What if all the reporters for all the major television and print media were trapped in five-star hotels in Washington, DC and New York, unable to move more than a few blocks safely, and dependent on stringers to know what was happening in Oklahoma City and St. Louis? What if the only time they ventured into the Midwest was if they could be embedded in Army or National Guard units?

There are estimated to be some 25,000 guerrillas in Iraq engaged in concerted acts of violence. What if there were private armies totalling 275,000 men, armed with machine guns, assault rifles (legal again!), rocket-propelled grenades, and mortar launchers, hiding out in dangerous urban areas of cities all over the country? What if they completely controlled Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Denver and Omaha, such that local police and Federal troops could not go into those cities?

What if, during the past year, the Secretary of State (Aqilah Hashemi), the President (Izzedine Salim), and the Attorney General (Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim) had all been assassinated?

What if all the cities in the US were wracked by a crime wave, with thousands of murders, kidnappings, burglaries, and carjackings in every major city every year?

What if the Air Force routinely (I mean daily or weekly) bombed Billings, Montana, Flint, Michigan, Watts in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Anacostia in Washington, DC, and other urban areas, attempting to target "safe houses" of "criminal gangs", but inevitably killing a lot of children and little old ladies?

What if, from time to time, the US Army besieged Virginia Beach, killing hundreds of armed members of the Christian Soldiers? What if entire platoons of the Christian Soldiers militia holed up in Arlington National Cemetery, and were bombarded by US Air Force warplanes daily, destroying thousands of graves and even pulverizing the Vietnam Memorial over on the Mall? What if the National Council of Churches had to call for a popular march of thousands of believers to converge on the National Cathedral to stop the US Army from demolishing it to get at a rogue band of the Timothy McVeigh Memorial Brigades?

What if there were virtually no commercial air traffic in the country? What if many roads were highly dangerous, especially Interstate 95 from Richmond to Washington, DC, and I-95 and I-91 up to Boston? If you got on I-95 anywhere along that over 500-mile stretch, you would risk being carjacked, kidnapped, or having your car sprayed with machine gun fire.

What if no one had electricity for much more than 10 hours a day, and often less? What if it went off at unpredictable times, causing factories to grind to a halt and air conditioning to fail in the middle of the summer in Houston and Miami? What if the Alaska pipeline were bombed and disabled at least monthly? What if unemployment hovered around 40%?

What if veterans of militia actions at Ruby Ridge and the Oklahoma City bombing were brought in to run the government on the theory that you need a tough guy in these times of crisis?

What if municipal elections were cancelled and cliques close to the new "president" quietly installed in the statehouses as "governors?" What if several of these governors (especially of Montana and Wyoming) were assassinated soon after taking office or resigned when their children were taken hostage by guerrillas?

What if the leader of the European Union maintained that the citizens of the United States are, under these conditions, refuting pessimism and that freedom and democracy are just around the corner?; 12:20 PM
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