*words fail me*
but not JTLOL
MM: SoA = Soldiers of Allah SWT = “Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala,” or “Glory to Him, the Exalted.”
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The term “American Muslim” is an oxymoron, a contradiction in logic by two diametrically opposed concepts locked in eternal conflict with each other. To be an American is to prefer freedom to submission; to choose free will over blind obedience; to favor individual achievement over drone compliance; to support free enterprise over hive slavery; to dream of a better future rather than to long for a medieval nightmare.
To be an American is to raise your daughters with the attitude that they can do anything a man can do, not to subjugate them as chattel to their fathers and husbands. An American daughter is given an education, not an indoctrination. American girls are allowed to make choices and mistakes, not just meals and babies. American fathers love their little girls and treat them like princesses; they don’t slaughter them like goats in the name of fragile male honor.
A true Muslim gives himself completely to a selfish, jealous, petty, vengeful god. A true American gives his devotion to a loving, caring, understanding, forgiving god. A true Muslim considers himself responsible for converting infidels to Islam and killing those who reject his faith. A true American considers himself responsible for protecting his family and killing those who attack his country.
A Muslim can no more be a good American than a lemming can be a wolverine. The concepts are irreconcilably inimical. Although a Muslim might live his entire life in America, be a good citizen of America, and never cause a moment’s trouble for America, he can not ever be a true American unless he is a non-practicing Muslim, for the rules of behavior and decision making are totally incompatible.
“American Muslim” will forever be a deceptive misnomer, much like “alone in a crowd” or “nearly pregnant”; it simply cannot exist in nature. One is either a Muslim or an American, never both simultaneously. And those absurdly politically correct pantywaists among us who fear a backlash against “American Muslims” as a result of the lunatic Hasan’s amok spree at Ft. Hood are only borderline Americans at best.
Why would a resentment, suspicion, even a backlash directed at an enemy in our own back yard be a bad thing?
Posted by on 11/09/09 at 02:45 PM
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