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From Magic City Morning Star R.P. BenDedek R.P. BenDedek (pseudonym) writes for Magic City Morning Star News and is the author of 'The King's Calendar:The Secret of Qumran' at www.kingscalendar.com. From Brisbane Queensland (Australia), he is a Conversational English Teacher currently teaching in China (Hubei Radio and TV University Wuhan) as well as a student of the Chinese Language at Wuhan university. I've recently written two articles in relation to Terrorism: London Terror: Islamic Politics & Religion - and - Racism, Discrimination, Terrorism and Armageddon. Within these articles I wrote the following points:
Today I want to specifically address the last two points, by bringing to your attention an article in the Sunday Mail Online Newspaper (Brisbane Australia) entitled: We must expose fanatics by David Murray, who reports the following:
These initiatives taken by the Muslim Leaders address the three major problems that I perceive that we have in the west, when it comes to the issue of Islamic Terrorists.
This Sunday Mail article is a welcome relief. It tells us that Muslim leaders are active in their attempts to ensure 'homeland security', and active in their 'anti-terrorism' beliefs. While I am well pleased to have read the article, in the back of my mind I could not help but wonder what the 'civil libertarians' and 'human rights' organisations will have to say about the measures to be introduced in Muslim communities. For starters, it requires that people become informers, reporting to police any person who utters a statement that might be considered inappropriate. We all know the down side to this type of behaviour. We have heard and read of enough situations in relation to 'feminism and racism', where someone (a man) says something innocuous, only to be accused of being 'sexist or racist'. I'm sure some Muslim community members will report others to police simply because someone wants to cause someone else a little trouble. However my point here, is that if the Australian government (or American?) insisted that we all report people whose speech or actions were less than acceptable, we would have '(un)civil libertarians' jumping up and down, screaming about draconian or communistic laws that impinge on 'MY freedom of speech'. But my guess is that these same people won't say a word about such things within the Muslim community. Firstly, because in their hearts they too are racists, with the same feelings as the rest of the population. In their hearts, they would feel a little safer with these new measures. The second reason that they will keep silent, is that they are 'hypocrites'. I say this because I feel (an opinion without evidentiary substantiation) that most activities and objections of civil liberty groups have only two purposes. The first is to draw attention to themselves in order to boost their self esteem and importance; and the second, is that their underlying motivation is and has always been, to create legal situations in which social norms can be changed in order to justify the behaviours and attitudes of a group of people whose basic personality resides on the fringes of society. They seek change so that their fringe positions can be legitimised as 'main stream'. Some would say that my accusation of 'hypocrisy' is unjustified, and that such groups have done a lot of good in society. To the latter I would agree, but to the first I would disagree. One of the contradictions of such groups is that while they all tie in, they have created for themselves a maze of contradictions. Take for instance the issue of Racism. If I call you any number of disparaging four lettered words, such groups could care less. But if you are a Negro/ Chinese/Jew or anything else, and I call you a Negro/Chinese/Jew or something else *%##% then I am a racist. This of itself is illogical, and worse, it ignores the true 'hate crime' which is not about race, but about the evil that resides in some hearts that cannot contain their innate nastiness. But here is the real foundation to what I am saying. If you speak out against a Black, Religious, African or Pakistani or Indian, and say that you don't like them because their culture is "this, that or something else', you will find yourself in court. But these same groups that are eager to take you there, are the same ones who press for changes to our laws, to STOP CERTAIN CULTURAL PRACTICES that are attached to immigrants. For Example: Female Circumcision (haven't stopped Male Circumcision yet) and the slaughtering of Chickens, goats, or other animals associated with religious practices, to name two. So in fact, they ensure that whilst we MUST accept other cultural norms, they first VET OUT all those things of which they disapprove. On the flip side, they never get involved in issues in relation to such cultures, unless those issues are attacked 'offshore'. Such issues would include 'wife beating' and the sending of teenagers back home to be forcibly 'married off'. If they involved in these issues 'onshore', they would fall into the category of 'racist', and this they could not do. So while I am glad to read the report from the Muslim Leaders in Australia, I can't help but wonder when the civil libertarians will jump up and down about it. It's really quite amusing. In the end however, the situation is serious, and the Muslim Leaders have done the right thing, firstly by announcing their actions, and secondly, by ensuring their own young do not get caught up in these atrocities, either as terrorists or victims. Muslims are just people, and while some of them are violent, this does not mean that all Muslims are violent. One only has to look to Ireland on that score. Just because terrorists there were Irish, does not mean that we suspect all Irishmen are terrorists. I hope that readers at Magic City have been reading the articles onsite, written by Noor Al Haqq and Jamal Dookhy (Aboo Mohammad), to get a better Idea of what Islam really is. Be vigilant; be safe ride a bicycle to work, and stay away from restaurants and any place where people congregate! HAVE FUN! (?) R.P.Bendedek Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com Note: Because of the recent Server change, some links may not work. This file was amended September 2007. King's Calendar Social Commentaries may be found at: http://www.kingscalendar.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=331 _______________________________________________________
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