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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. --Albert Einstein

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Million Muslim March?

In today’s WSJ, Ahmed H. Al-Rahim an Iraqi-American, who has taught Arabic and Islamic studies at Harvard University has a call to action for his fellow Muslims – A Million Muslim March. Read the whole story.

…Sadly, only the voices of Western political leaders constantly remind us that Islam is a "religion of peace." Where are the Muslims, especially those living in the West, who have the freedom to organize and make their voices heard? It seems that the only time we hear from the Muslim masses is when there are alleged desecrations of the Quran, or of prisoner abuse in Iraq. Where is the Muslim outrage, the mass protests to defend Islam, in whose sacred name murder is committed nearly every day, against what Western leaders describe as a "perversion of its true nature"?

Unfortunately, those in the Muslim community have a hard time hearing reasonable voices like Ahmed H. Al-Rahim’s over the “Death to America” chants.

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