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| Divided loyalties: Two mythical moderate Muslims, observed |
| 2006-06-18 |
| Dr. Mahfooz Kanwar recently attended Calgary's largest mosque for a funeral. At one point in the proceedings, a man Kanwar has known for more than three decades led the prayers. "He was saying in Urdu (the official language of Pakistan): 'Oh, God, protect us from the infidels, who pollute us with their vile ways,'" recalls Kanwar, a professor of sociology at Mount Royal College in Calgary. "I stood up and grabbed him by the lapels, which was shocking even to me because I have never done anything like that in my life and I said: 'How dare you attack my country.' And then I addressed the crowd and said: 'I have known this man for more than 30 years and he has been on welfare for almost all of those years.' " Kanwar chuckles at the memory. "Then I said to this semi-literate man, 'you should thank me and those you call infidels.' "He asked me why and I said: 'Because the taxes I pay are putting food on your table as are the taxes of the so-called "infidels.' " |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 They probably consider it jizya - the tax paid by non-muslims. It is ok for a muslim to be supported by jizya. Qur'an 9:29: Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden that which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. |
| Posted by: john 2006-06-18 21:35 |
| #4 'Because the taxes I pay are putting food on your table as are the taxes of the so-called "infidels.' " Call it an Islamist intention. |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-06-18 21:13 |
| #3 Kanwar, a devout Muslim, says he has essentially been excommunicated by Calgary's mosques because he is too tolerant of others. Waitaminnit. We've been told, over and over, that Muslims don't pass judgement on who is a good Muslim and who isn't. We've been told they can't exclude the extremists because there's no mechanism in Islam to do so. Of course, we've simultaneously learned of the dozens of divisions within Islam, each of which considers the other little better than animals. And we've been told over and over that it's just a small number of extremists, that most Muslims in the West are interested in being part of the West, that they just want to get along. We've been told that there's no divided loyalties, no conflict between being (in this case) Canadian and being Muslim. But doesn't this story make a lie of all that? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-06-18 20:17 |
| #2 IT's nice to see that some Muslims are finally getting it. Sharia is a lose-lose situation. The infidels lose, but so do the Muslims. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2006-06-18 19:53 |
| #1 According to the "two nation theory" that actually produced the Pakistani state, muslims are a separate nation, with their own culture and history. They cannot coexist with other impure faiths and must have their own state. |
| Posted by: john 2006-06-18 19:15 |