My Thoughts on Islam

My Thoughts on Islam


On June 6, 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed. Four years later in 1972, the Israeli Olympic team members were kidnapped and massacred at the Summer Games in Munich by members of the Black September group. That same year on September 5, Pan Am 747 flight 73 was hijacked and diverted to an Arab country where it was blown up killing 80 passengers. The next year, on May 27, a Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome with 33 people on board killed.

The US embassy in Iran was taken over by mobs of young Arabs in 1979; 52 Americans were held captive for months. 

On October 23, 1983, one of the darkest days of our military,  the U. S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up killing 241 American servicemen.

Two years later on October the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old wheel-bound American passenger was murdered and dumped overboard.  In June 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered. Then, in 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 was exploded killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground.

On February 26, 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time; five years later, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were attacked and destroyed killing 258 people including eight Americans.

One of our most devastating tragedies occurred on 9/11/01. Four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers, and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon, and the other,  reputedly destined for the U. S. Capitol,  was diverted by the actions of heroic passengers and crashed in a vacant  Pennsylvania field.. Thousands of Americans died during this horrific episode..

The following year, CNN reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped held captive for months and despite pleas from many fronts, was finally publically beheaded.

On September 11, 2012, the US Consulate in Benghazi was overrun. Four Americans, including our ambassador Christopher Stevens, were murdered.

And just this year, two brothers exploded bombs during  the Boston Marathon injuring scores of bystanders, killing eight-year-old schoolboy Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, a Chinese graduate student studying at Boston University.

All of these incidents were perpetrated by young radical men professing authoritative permissiveness under the rules of jihad as documented in dogma of the Muslim faith. Where in the name of Allah has the outcry from Muslim leaders and other moderate followers of the Islamic faith been? Do they not think these heinous acts are important? Are they afraid of retaliatory fatwa from the radical element in Islam? Perhaps they should take a cue from the African American community. When any act deemed to be racially motivated reaches the public eye, black, and other leaders forcefully speak out on television, radio, newsprint and in hundreds of churches across the land with predominantly black congregants, often demanding and spurring legal action. Where is the hue and cry from moderate Muslims?