Tawfik Hamid speaking from the heart, we hope he doesn’t
have a Fatwa issued against him
From R.A.
Jason
"I am a Muslim
by faith.... a Christian by spirit....a Jew by heart....and above all I am a
human being." Dr. Tawfik Hamid.
Dr. Hamid is an
Egyptian scholar and author opposed to Islam fundamentalism.
From the heart of a
Muslim – Tawfik Hamid
I was born a Muslim
and lived all my life as a follower of Islam.
After the barbaric
terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe,
and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many
parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being, to
speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well
from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.
I have to admit that
our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims. We
Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy,
the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other
religions.
We have never had a
clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our
religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating
tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we
curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.
What message do we
convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs
and monkeys". Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate?
I have been into
churches and synagogues where they were praying for Muslims. While all the time
we curse them, and teach our generations to call them infidels, and to hate
them.
We immediately jump
in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammed when someone accuses
him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story
in our Islamic books, that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when
he was above 50 years old.
I am sad to say
that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th
and after many other terror attacks.
Muslims denounce
these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic
terrorists and sympathise with their cause. Till now our 'reputable'
top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to
proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared
an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing
a book criticizing Islam.
Muslims demonstrated
to get more religious rights as we did in
It is our absolute
silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to
continue doing their evil acts. We Muslims need to stop blaming our
problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of
honesty,
We kicked out the
Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them
"Jews-Free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs
to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In
Israel , women can not be beaten legally by men, and any person can change
his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of
'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I
agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt
leaders and not because of
It is not common to
see Arabs who live in
We Muslims need to
admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new
era to live in harmony with human mankind. Our religious leaders have to
show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery,
killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women
by men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam.
Then, and only then,
do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The time has come
to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: 'We Muslims have to Change'.
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