Abdel Karim Suleiman Quotes
Terrorists
Some of the Prophet’s followers by modern standards were very violent and urged attacks on innocent people in order to intimidate others. He was expelled from his Egyptian university and arrested, tried and found guilty of “holding religion in contempt”. Which is a crime in most Islamic countries. He also “insulted” the President. He is the first blogger to have been jailed in Egypt for the contents of his blog. See {585058}.
Abdel Karim Suleiman, Egyptian Blogger, Description of some of The Prophet Mohammad’s Companions, Blog, 2004
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They were protesting the arrest and imprisonment of a Blogger whose Internet views on Islamic history were deemed “holding religion in contempt” a crime in Egypt as it is in most Islamic Countries. See {585059}. The call for action by the United Nations was based on the fact that all member states of the UN have guaranteed to provide basic freedoms including the freedom of religion and the freedom of speech. However many Islamic nations have filed an “understanding: with the United Stations that are unknown to most people that says that nothing is required that would be against Sharia—Islamic Law which does provide the death penalty for heresy.
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This quotation was used by many who opposed foreign aid to Egypt. At the time, Egypt was the second largest recipient of American foreign aid and yet there were leading Egyptians who held views like this. Advocates of aid to Egypt argued that it was in large part the American aid that was preventing radicals like Sabahi from controlling Egypt.
In September of 2005 a Danish Newspaper published some political cartoons showing the hypocrisy of some Muslims who use Islam to justify murder of innocents and terrorism. Many in the Middle East protested vehemently because the Prophet Muhammad's visage was depicted against Islamic tradition. Many Muslim leaders claimed that insulting religion was an “abuse” of freedom of speech including those from nations which regularly publish material that is virulent against Christians and Jews. Momani reprinted the cartoons and wrote this editorial arguing that the cartoons insulted Islam far less than the terrorism and murder—especially a recent murder of Muslims in Amman attending an Islamic wedding ceremony, He was fired by the newspaper owners and then actually arrested by the Jordanian authorities for “Insulting Religion.”
This statement is quoted by many critics of the agency who ask if the threat is so easy and ubiquitous, why have there been so few attacks?
After years of minority Sunni Muslim rule of Iraq, the U. S. invasion gave the majority Shiite Muslims political control. The Sunnis and Shiites have been at each others throats for centuries despite the fact that they are both Muslims. Saudi Arabia is the center of Sunni Islam and many of its religious extremists issue edicts advocating the suicide bombing of Shiite mosques and other facilities and assuring martyrdom for the suicide bombers.
