I got a lot of mail today about a previous article describing a teenage Muslim girl who claimed to have converted to Christianity, and was now in fear of her life since she suspected her family might do her "in" with an "honor killing!"
"Not so!" said her father, a middle class jeweler from New Jersey.
After Rifqa proselytized with a Bible at school, Mohamed Bary said, the family asked her to stop because it wasn’t an appropriate activity in school.
They also told her she had an obligation to study her original faith first, before choosing another.
But Mohamed Bary says they never threatened to kill or harm the girl. “She is still my daughter,” he said.
Now the question posed was whether she was just a troubled teen, or a potential victim of a barbaric and medieval practise of honor killing?
My exact words were; "I think the Department of Children and Families might want to err on the side of caution on this one!"
For this I got all sorts of mail from Muslims and Islamic institutions telling me that "honor killing" is more of a "cultural tradition" than a religious one.
Even though this is true, the sad fact of the matter is that this suspicion, and the stereotype of Arabs /Muslims as bloodthirsty, ignorant throwbacks to a more violent time has been re-enforced by their actions and attitudes.
Let me give a plain and direct message to all Muslims in the world today!
You got one hell of a P.R. problem folks!
Until you howl with rage and condemnation over every last act of barbarism by these "fundamentalists," "terrorists," "fanatics" and "misogynists" running around giving your religion a bad name, the world is going to paint you with the same brush as them!
Only utter outrage at the terrible depiction of your faith by these ignorant, superstitious assholes will ever get the general population to accept you for what you really are, and not some demented and deranged savage.
The time for complacency is over my friends.
If you want to change racial stereotyping, then it's all up to you...... no one else!
Your "tell it like it is" scribe;
Allan W Janssen
Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know......!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E! and H E R E! And as a paperback H E R E ! and H E R E !
Visit the blog "Perspective" at http://allans-perspective.blogspot.com
"Not so!" said her father, a middle class jeweler from New Jersey.
After Rifqa proselytized with a Bible at school, Mohamed Bary said, the family asked her to stop because it wasn’t an appropriate activity in school.
They also told her she had an obligation to study her original faith first, before choosing another.
But Mohamed Bary says they never threatened to kill or harm the girl. “She is still my daughter,” he said.
Now the question posed was whether she was just a troubled teen, or a potential victim of a barbaric and medieval practise of honor killing?
My exact words were; "I think the Department of Children and Families might want to err on the side of caution on this one!"
For this I got all sorts of mail from Muslims and Islamic institutions telling me that "honor killing" is more of a "cultural tradition" than a religious one.
Even though this is true, the sad fact of the matter is that this suspicion, and the stereotype of Arabs /Muslims as bloodthirsty, ignorant throwbacks to a more violent time has been re-enforced by their actions and attitudes.
Let me give a plain and direct message to all Muslims in the world today!
You got one hell of a P.R. problem folks!
Until you howl with rage and condemnation over every last act of barbarism by these "fundamentalists," "terrorists," "fanatics" and "misogynists" running around giving your religion a bad name, the world is going to paint you with the same brush as them!
Only utter outrage at the terrible depiction of your faith by these ignorant, superstitious assholes will ever get the general population to accept you for what you really are, and not some demented and deranged savage.
The time for complacency is over my friends.
If you want to change racial stereotyping, then it's all up to you...... no one else!
Your "tell it like it is" scribe;
Allan W Janssen
Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know......!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E! and H E R E! And as a paperback H E R E ! and H E R E !
Visit the blog "Perspective" at http://allans-perspective.blogspot.com
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