panda_
28-07-2005, 20:26
Hallo,
Dit is mijn eerste post hier en hopelijk word ik niet meteen geband doordat ik start met een Engelstalige citaat. Om de schade te beperken heb ik in ieder geval de citaat zo klein mogelijk gemaakt. Waar het echter om gaat is het volgende. Een islamitische columnist van de Washington Post vindt dat moslims verantwoordelijkheid moeten nemen voor de "mess" (polarisatie en verwarring) die de terroristen veroorzaken. Ook haalt zij flink uit naar de linkse politiek die de schuld altijd bij het westen zoekt en zo de moslims hun verantwoordelijkheid ontneemt.
I was against the invasion of Iraq and would not have voted for George Bush if I were a U.S. citizen, but I'm done with the "George Bush made me do it" excuse. We must accept responsibility for this mess if we are ever to find a way out.
And for those non-Muslims who accept the George Bush excuse, I have a question: Do you think Muslims are incapable of accepting responsibility? It is at least in some way bigoted to think that Muslims can only react violently.
Source: Washingtonpost.com
By Mona Eltahawy a New York-based columnist for the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.
Zij besluit de column met:
And what about assimilation? It is not bigoted to ask Muslims if they are integrating into the societies they are living in. Just as the British government has responsibilities toward its citizens, immigrants included, so too do those immigrants. Muslims ask for time off work for prayer, for example, and they often get it. But are they truly living in Britain or are they perpetuating an existence that even their relatives "back home" long ago left behind? Domestic policy is too often ignored by many Muslims who are more concerned with Palestine, Iraq or any other place where Muslims are believed to have suffered injustice.
I raise these questions because London might have done it for me, but I'm not done with Islam. The clerics and the terrorists will not take it away from me. God belongs to me, too.
Wat vindt men hier van haar mening?
Dit is mijn eerste post hier en hopelijk word ik niet meteen geband doordat ik start met een Engelstalige citaat.
I was against the invasion of Iraq and would not have voted for George Bush if I were a U.S. citizen, but I'm done with the "George Bush made me do it" excuse. We must accept responsibility for this mess if we are ever to find a way out.
And for those non-Muslims who accept the George Bush excuse, I have a question: Do you think Muslims are incapable of accepting responsibility? It is at least in some way bigoted to think that Muslims can only react violently.
Source: Washingtonpost.com
By Mona Eltahawy a New York-based columnist for the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.
Zij besluit de column met:
And what about assimilation? It is not bigoted to ask Muslims if they are integrating into the societies they are living in. Just as the British government has responsibilities toward its citizens, immigrants included, so too do those immigrants. Muslims ask for time off work for prayer, for example, and they often get it. But are they truly living in Britain or are they perpetuating an existence that even their relatives "back home" long ago left behind? Domestic policy is too often ignored by many Muslims who are more concerned with Palestine, Iraq or any other place where Muslims are believed to have suffered injustice.
I raise these questions because London might have done it for me, but I'm not done with Islam. The clerics and the terrorists will not take it away from me. God belongs to me, too.
Wat vindt men hier van haar mening?