A Declaration Against Genocide
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 02/18/2008 12:55 PM
H/T: Powerline
This ones for you MSU at UCI. David Horowitz and the folks at his freedom center have put together a Declaration Against Genocide calling on student groups to denounce violence and coercion, protect freedom, and promote the dignity of individual conscience.
This ones for you MSU at UCI. David Horowitz and the folks at his freedom center have put together a Declaration Against Genocide calling on student groups to denounce violence and coercion, protect freedom, and promote the dignity of individual conscience.
Declaration Against Genocide
Whereas genocide - the murder, or plan to murder, an entire people - is a crime against all humanity;
Whereas genocide is a crime that has metastasized in the modern era, leading to the murders of millions of Armenians, Cambodians, Tutsis, Sudanese, Bosnian Muslims and others;
Whereas the largest and most devastating genocide on record is the Holocaust of European Jews;
Whereas a new genocide of the Jews is being called for by Islamic leaders in the Middle East;
Whereas global forces are being mobilized by the Iranian regime to eliminate the Jewish state;
Whereas the genocide of the Jews is called for in texts understood by some Muslims as authoritative and echoes through sermons in some mosques today, and is proclaimed by certain leaders of the Islamic religion;
Whereas Catholicism and other Christian denominations have condemned the Holocaust and repudiated anti-Jewish pronouncements that have stained their religious past;
We call on all Student Governments and campus Muslim groups to:
1. Condemn and repudiate the Hadith which reads: "The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time [of judgment] will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!" Sahih Muslim book 41, no. 6985
2. Condemn and repudiate the Hamas Charter which says: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it"
3. Condemn Ahmadinejad who has said "The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible."
4. Condemn Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah who has said:
"The Jews are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment."
"There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel."
"If they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."
5. Affirm:
* The right of all people to live in freedom and dignity
* The freedom of the individual conscience: to change religions or have no religion at all
* The equal dignity of women and men
* The right of all people to live free from violence, intimidation, and coercion
We call upon all campus political, cultural, ethnic and religious groups to stand with us in opposing all forms of religious supremacism, violence and intimidation.
Mr Ruxpin (if that is your real name), If you want to take a position that the MSU...
(2), (3), and (4) are ok by me, but I have problems with (1): are we going to ask Jewish organizations to condemn and repudiate the commandment to wipe out of the tribe of Amalek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek#War_of_extermination_against_the_Amalekites
How about the stoning of women for adulterous (i.e. pre-marital) relations? How about the stoning of servants who work on the Sabbath?
That's pretty stupid.......That's very typical of you to reference the ancient and medieval world. Apparently you Islamo-fascists haven't move on as your still commit honor killings against women, suicide bombings, and mass terror attacks against Americans and Jews (ie: 9/11). I'm sorry that you hold on to such deep hatred that you won't accept #1.
Hmmm...that's an interesting conclusion to which you've jumped, Mr. Constantine. How - pray tell - do you know that I'm an Islamo-Fascist?
I'm not a Muslim, nor am I an Islamist sympathizer or apologist in any way.
Don't get me wrong: I think (1) is bad news.
But it is part of the Muslim scripture.
Repudiation is more than just rejecting something. Merriam-Webster defines repudiation as
1. divorce or separate formally from;
2. to refuse to have anything to do with: disown;...
That's big, and it wouldn't be fair to ask this of Muslims if we did not ask similar things of other religious groups that are equally tied to scripture.
(2), (3), and (4) are tied to specific leaders and governments; they do not tar an entire religious group.
(1), on the other hand, does.
What Mr. Horowitz should have done is to name specific people or governments which had, in fact, either read those hateful words, or paid for them to be read.
For instance, there was a recent MEMRI video made of a speech in a mosque in - I think - the West Bank or Gaza Strip where that Hadith was read at a Muslim religious event inside a mosque.
It seemed plainly evident in the video that purpose of reading that Hadith was not to have a religious discussion (i.e. is this hateful or not? should we say we don't agree with this or not? how should we interpret this?), but as a call to action - to execute these words.
That preacher, that mosque, and whomever pays for the preacher and mosque - which I think was either the PA or the HAMAS government - needs to be condemned and repudiated.
Repudiation, however, of a Muslim scripture would be inappropriate.
(I also, btw, don't support the things you assumed I supported: "honor killings against women, suicide bombings, and mass terror attacks against Americans and Jews (ie: 9/11)")
PS - your captcha is a bit too hard to figure out. I'm going to try to submit this now for a third time. Maybe you should include an audio link so I can hear the letters.
Muslims Against Sharia is proud to be the first Muslim organization to sign Declaration Against Genocide!
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/02/david-horowitz-freedom-center-announces.html
Danger Here,
You are an idiot, and a liar.