Regarding the recent terrorist attack at the Seattle Jewish Federation by a Muslim man motivated by anger with Israel, a leader of a local Muslim organization sent this letter to the Jewish Transcript (published August 4, 2006). I'm underwhelmed.
It is with deep sorrow that we note the one dead and five injured people in the mindless act of cruelty by a hate-filled man. Our hearts go out in sympathy to the injured and to the families of victims.This is consistent with Siddiqui's ongoing refusal to recognize that Muslims, acting as Muslims, sometimes commit acts of aggression in the name of Islam. He seems to feel that Muslims are only ever victims, persecuted by the government and the targets of a paranoid US. But Siddiqui's letter does clear up any misunderstandings about where he's really coming from, as did his statement in Louis Farrakhan's Final Call website: "We struggled for some time about whether a statement should be sent out or not, because we would like this to be recognized for the grievous crime that it is, rather than an event that calls for an explanation or apology by Muslims.
In the end, it was decided that we need to extend our sympathies and good will to those who were victimized by this crime because it would prevent misunderstandings between the faiths.
Muslims, Jews and Christians have been working long and hard in this area, to build relationships of respect and trust that have so far endured many tests.
We look forward to the future in which this test, too, shall be endured and people of the three Abrahamic faiths will have come closer in spite of this tragedy.
We would like to close with this hadith from the Prophet Mohammed:
"Those in whose hearts is no mercy for others will not attain the mercy of Allah." (Bukhari and Muslim)
Jeff Siddiqui
American Muslims of Puget Sound, Lynnwood
The pro-Israeli spin doctors are in full battle-cry, sending e-mails, articles and making phone calls wherever necessary. The radio and television hosts make a great pretense of 'journalistic inquiry' as they skew their shows against the Arabs and in favor of the poor Israelis," writes Jeff Siddiqui, of American Muslims of Puget Sound, in Seattle, Wash, not to mention his statement to the P-I the day after the Seattle terrorist attack:
Siddiqui said his organization and several other groups had announced a silent march today to demand a cease-fire in Lebanon and Palestine and to protest Israeli bombing.Siddiqui seems to have difficulty acknowledging that the Muslim world suffers from violent anti-Semitic and anti-western pathologies , whether it manifests itself as airplanes flying into office buildings in New York, as a spontaneous shooting in Seattle or in the form of 3,000 rockets fired by Hizbullah on innocent Israeli civilians. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 07, 2006 10:56 AM | Email ThisThat march, which starts at 11 a.m. at the Kirkland Marina and ends at Houghton Beach Park, should have no relation to the Seattle shootings, Siddiqui said.
I wonder when CHRISTIANITY WILL CONDEMN THE KKK AND THE FOUNDER OF AMERICA who were/are racist skum!?
Posted by: JB on August 7, 2006 12:32 PMI wonder when liberals such a JB will condemn such ILSAMOFACIST murderers instead of trying to make excuses for them???
Posted by: pbj on August 7, 2006 12:47 PM"I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel,' before opening fire on everyone,"
Naveed Afzal Haq
Try again idiot.
Remember Sen. Robert "sheets Byrd (Democrat) was a Grand Keagal. The one of those in the Senate.
The push for emancipation, the underground railroad, and the civil rights movement were all based in mainstream christian churches. LBJ got more support for the civil rights legislation for republicans than democrats.
Christians widely condemn violence committed in the name of christianity. I see no such trend and practice in Islam.
Siddiqui is typical, he cannot condemn the Islamofacist targeting and killing of women and children.
Since I know you'll bring Qana or some such thing, when the terrorist hide behind and among children they are the ones who violate the rules of warfare by violating placing them in danger. Not the ones returning fire.
Posted by: JCM on August 7, 2006 12:57 PMIts even more telling that 95% of the population of the US during the 19th century were nominally "Christians". Your point would have only been passingly interesting if the founder of the KKK was not christian. As it is, its completely meaningless.
I hadn't heard that the shooter was a baptized Christian... but in context, that also has very little meaning... his actions were done in the name of Islam... not Christianity. Lots of people get Baptized... in many branches of Christianity, any beliver can baptize anyone - in some, you don't even need water. Heck, there's even at least one branch that will baptize dead people... doesn't sound like very significant to me.
Don't you have anything meaningful to post?
Posted by: thecomputerguy on August 7, 2006 01:04 PMKind of a catch 22. Amusing watching the left getting their knickers in a twist!
Posted by: Fred on August 7, 2006 01:24 PMPity poor Siddiqui - he can't come to terms with the fact that he is representative of the the reason that moslems are so warily regarded in these troubled times.
(Yea, I can pity him, but you can bet that I won't turn my back on him ;'}
Posted by: alphabet soup on August 7, 2006 01:38 PM
KDB, we domdemn, in the strongest terms, the Grand Kleagle racist extrordinaire, the 'Grand Man of the Senate" himself, DEMOCRAT Robert "KKK" BYRD!!!
Still waiting for Democrats to criticize the KKK. Oh wait, they ARE the KKK. Silly me.
He's completely missing the point. We are all looking to the leaders of the local Muslim community to condem any act of hatred against anyone, Jewish or otherwise. His forced statement misses the target that is being held up by everyone else who has condemed this horrable act. Of course, if he doesn't condem it then perhaps an explanation is in order.
Posted by: Mikey on August 7, 2006 04:06 PM1. He obviously has mental issues
2. It's an isolated incident
3. He's in Jail. Probably for the rest of his life.
Why are you guys so threatened? The answer is: you're not.
It's all a political game, and it's pathetic.
Posted by: Gerald on August 7, 2006 05:29 PMThreatened? only by people like you who do not believe in nor care about self-preservation.
Heeeyy---did I just nibble on the troll hook? Ohhh--should have known better!
Before you go ranting about the dog in our yard, clean up the sh*t in your own, you irrelevant acid-brained dorkweed.
(/taking you seriously)
Posted by: ERNurse on August 7, 2006 05:50 PMShe said it was the most boring job in the world.
http://lanadela.livejournal.com/73535.html
Posted by: Gene on August 7, 2006 06:24 PMUntil the Democrats relize that we are at war with the extremist Muslim religion, we will always be rowing upstream in trying to maintain the American lifestyle!
Jimmie sez it all--when you cut through all the BS, life is pretty much about survival.
Posted by: Organization Man on August 7, 2006 06:29 PMIt was his liberal ideology. He felt "victimized" by the Jewish people for them bombing the Muslims in Lebanon even though he didn't know anyone there.
In this case, I am a Muslim, did not mean I practice the Islamic religion but instead meant I identify myself with the Muslim people.
The liberals preach group identification. If you can make yourself part of a "victimized" (or what the liberals perceived as being victimized) group then you can be all self-rightous and stuff.
He just took it to the next level and attacked his "oppressors" (in the liberal mindset).
No, this wasn't about Islam. It was about Liberalism.
Posted by: CnR on August 7, 2006 06:47 PMJimmie sez it all--when you get right down to it, life is pretty much about survival. With apologies to George Patton, "Life isn't about dying for your principles. It's about letting the other poor dumb bastard die for his."
Posted by: Organization Man on August 7, 2006 06:52 PMNo. It is not. Do some research. Starting with the Jeff Jacoby post.
Just this year, for example, Mohammed Taheri-azar, a philosophy major at the University of North Carolina, deliberately rammed a car into a crowd of students, saying he wanted to "avenge the death of Muslims around the world." Michael Julius Ford opened fire in a Denver warehouse, killing one person and injuring five. "I don't know what happened to him yesterday," his sister Khali told the press. "He told me that Allah was going to make a choice and it was going to be good and told me people at his job was making fun of his religion."
Other cases in recent years include Hasan Akbar, a sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division, who attacked his fellow soldiers at an American command center in Kuwait with grenades and rifle fire, killing one and wounding 15; Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet, who killed two people when he shot up the El Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles airport in 2002; and Ali Hasan Abu Kamal, who was carrying a note denouncing "Zionists" and others who "must be annihilated & exterminated" when he opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State building.
Jacoby doesn't mention another 'lone gunman' who blew himself up outside an Oklahoma football game last year.
Do some reading, Gerald. It ain't the Amish doing all this crap. It isn't isolated. And it certainly isn't political in the sense you think it's political.
Posted by: jimg on August 7, 2006 07:30 PMI just remember 9/11.... That's enough proof for me.
Posted by: Chris on August 7, 2006 07:49 PMClearly this killer's Islamic faith meant more to him than anything else he dabbled in. Why do you try to take attention away from that? He WANTED people to identify him as muslim; yet you try to pretend that it was his dabbling in christianity that made him kill people. We all would truly like to know why the left goes out of its way to excuse islamofacism. Could you enlighten us, please? Don't go off on some leftist tangential rage--just tell us why you see christianity as worse than islam Inquring minds really would like to know.
Posted by: Misty on August 7, 2006 08:31 PMThat's what I said.
I did not say that I support terrorists, hate america, and think that radical islamic folks are our best friends.
You guys are always great for a chuckle. So full of hate you can't wait for someone to say something you disagree with.
Don't worry. I'll always be here to give you your fix of hate. ;).
Posted by: Gerald on August 7, 2006 09:39 PMWrong NOUN, Hemingway. That would be CHRISTIANS not CHRISTIANITY. I can't wait to grow up and begin thinking for myself like a good little, enlightened, intellectually superior liberal and butcher the english language [not to mention everything else]. As a Christian (and not a very good one at that), I CONDEMN ALL RACISM and/or DISCRIMINATION in ANY FORM. Got it??
Moreover, I don't see how ANY member of the KKK could be a Christian saved by GRACE through FAITH in the Lord Jesus Christ considering the FACT that He was JEWISH. I mean, this is a no-brainer. I'm reminded of the saying: "Going to church on Sunday makes one a Christian as much as going into the garage makes one a car." Or, as C.S. Lewis put it in 'Mere Christianity': "A cold, self-righteous prig who regularly attends church on Sunday may be further from heaven than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither."
So, who is this singular "FOUNDER" of America, anyway? (Besides being a dead, hetro, slave-owning, white male that is...) Or, are you referring to the land rich, but cash poor Founding Father-types (PLURAL)? Go ahead. Play the Thomas Jefferson card. I dare you. I await with baited breath.
P.S. You mispelled SCUM. Apparently you were too busy hyperventilating to realize the error. OR, you're simply THAT stupid. Unbelievable.
Google: "Taqiyya" "Tu-Quoque"
That's all you need to know about the veracity of any Muslim.
Posted by: Warren Bonesteel on August 7, 2006 09:55 PMJihad is waged by shooting Jewish women and by three-piece suit taqiyya.
Seattle's filthy muslim terrorist comitted his 'random' act of Jihad on the muslim holy day Friday, with a crescent moon in the sky, the third lunar day of the new month.
The last 'random' filthy muslim terrorist jihad act was taheri-azar driving his SUV into a crowd of people at UNC. That also occurred on the muslim holy day Friday. There was a crescent moon in the sky too, being the third lunar day of the new month.
And the bastards at the FBI and Federal Prosecutor's office issue the standard Justice Department lie: "There's nothing to indicate that it's terrorism."
Posted by: Drew on August 7, 2006 10:46 PM3) Sure, he's in jail--but I suppose that there are no other people like him waiting to snap? Nobody at all like him in Canadian mosques, or Florida mosques, or...nope, he's an isolated, odd case. He's just a troubled victim, all alone in the world of radicalized Muslims who decide that killing Jews will solve a lot of problems.
Why are you guys so threatened? The answer is: you're not.
And I suppose, Gerald, that you probably feel more threatened by, say, Reichert than by people like this guy. Here's a hint--you and I are both infidel targets...
It's all a political game, and it's pathetic.
If it's so pathetic, why are you playing?
Why are some people so determined NOT to see what's really there??
Michelle Malkin has a blog entry describing all the Islamofacist "isolated incidents." There are way too many of them. and yes (for all of you in Palm Beach)---there IS a pattern of this. And yes, we ought to be concerned.
As far as the march that Siddiqui's group and other groups had planned together, are you suggesting that protesting the war is not valid in light of the shooting, or that they should've changed the march to be a protest against the shooter?
Posted by: Gabriel on August 8, 2006 06:21 AM