Friday, June 8, 2007

Building Moderate Muslim Networks

My first impression was WOW! ... How can a cooperation of any magnitude have the guts to set the standards of how people shall act ..

Offensive, Uncalculated, & maybe stupid is the RAND released report entitled "Building Moderate Muslim Networks"

In a nutshell, the report picked up the tasks of categorizing Muslims to good and bad ones.
Surprise surprise! if you pray five time a day and wish to live under the rule of your own religion -- Islam in this case -- you are an extremist.

If you reject being ruled by a non-Muslim .. Watch out you are an extremist!

and much more ...

Religion is one thing (better to keep it private) and life is another thing ... and like to gave a blind eye to the nature of Islam and the day-to-day life-Islam mixed lives of more than the quarter of the world population.

Anyway .. that was not my point to highlight the report per say ... What I really respected is the reaction in the Muslim world.

My friend told me that Islamic scholars are very much appreciating the quick response in the Muslim world to the "Moderate Muslims" report .. All to be thanked, some people stood firmly against the report through articles and discussions.

What i really adored though was an article that didn't stop at what most defenders stopped at .. the author did not defend Muslims or Islam against the lies of the report, yet he attacked back ...

"Building Moderate American Networks" just said .. well, my report is simply asking you to apply your own constitution, be "moderate" and enough for extremism
He attacked the RAND with its own weapons .. How can RAND ever deny its loyalty to the US constitution .. Thus, Dear RAND you are the extremist not the one who calls for Islamic rule, ahh and check your constitution to know more!

I like that so much .. attacking back is a way for defending ones beliefs ... Maybe for being quite so long, Muslims are thought of being weak .. I believe NO! Islam in itself is more powerful than any written constitution or man made creed now on earth, yet Muslims are not using their own weapons ..

I will leave you here .. this was a lengthy entry, dont get used to that ..
Ahhh, please i need your comments
Salam for now

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

interesting .. i believe that is already being implemented. I mean, look now at the Bush & Congress policies, less hard power and more soft power (that surely would include "moderates" buidling)