Bush Crusades and Islam

One of our regular contributors Anwaar Hussain has an excellent speech by Ali Baghdadi article at his site TruthSpring titled "Reform of Islam is Not Bush's or the Pope's business." The reprinted speech argues against the characterization of Islam that is currently prevalent, and calls for coexistence and cooperation across faith boundaries.

Muslims and non-Muslims ought to focus attention on common goals that are more important to humanity than theology, such as world peace, justice, freedom, equality, love, understanding, respect for one another, tolerance, cooperation, as well as mother earth and the environment.

In Muslim lands, Muslims, Christians and Jews have lived as neighbors for almost fifteen hundred years. They didn't dialogue. They didn't debate. They lived in peace and tranquility. The fact that Christianity and Judaism continued to exist alongside Muslims, who were and still are the majority, speaks of Muslim tolerance. The fact that Jews throughout the centuries fled Christian lands and took refuge in Muslim countries, demonstrates, beyond a doubt, Muslims' respect of non-Muslims' beliefs.

Baghdadi pulls no punches when it comes to Bush, and Bush's vision:

George W. Bush has been pushing for a new Islam that welcomes occupiers as liberators and labels oppression as democracy. He is promoting an Islam that requires his adherents to turn the other cheek to U.S. and Israeli soldiers, who are ordered to kill, maim, torture, burn, and destroy. He has been working hard to restrict Islam to spirituality, only to issues that deal with God but not man. No jihad! Jihad is not suicide, which is a great sin in Islam, but a struggle against injustice, oppression, occupation and aggression. Jihad is a legitimate resistance to daily murder of men, women and children. Bush's Islam calls on Muslims to capitulate, kneel down in submission, not the Lord of the Universe, but to the satanic" god" who resides in the White House. Muslims' answer came clear, brief and swift, "hell, no."

I encourage you to visit TruthSpring and read "Reform of Islam is Not Bush's or the Pope's business."