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Your say - November 17, 2007

Posted in Irshaddering Thoughts, Q & A on Nov 17, 2007

 

With high school students in Ottawa

As you can see from the pic above, I adore meeting my readers. I also love hearing from them. But little did I realize how much you love hearing from yourselves!

What I mean is, a lot of you are writing to say that you miss the reader feedback I used to post on my site. I haven’t run your comments since launching this blog. Bad Shad.

Let’s rectify this immediately. Herewith, some recent reactions:

* “The people like you are in deep shit, you are gonna stay in the hell’s most fiercefull area. God help Muslims from the tactics of yours and the satan.” - Ahsan, Pakistan

* “Congratulations on saying what has been on my mind for a long time. Islam today, as we know, is not what Islam could have been if we had asked these questions earlier. I wish my daughters (19 years old) had this book at an age when they were naturally starting to ask questions, but living in an extended family they were shut up by others. I was a rebel anyway.

Many people haven’t read your book because they don’t understand the need for evolution in Islam. I bet more people will agree with you once they read it.” - Arshad

* “all your efforts which I can see are to get the media attention by disrespecting islam and muslims bcoz it has become an industry now. If u want to become famous just write a book against islam and then u r in media and talk shows. all you have done is please the enemies of islam.” - qasim

* “Let me say to those who think you are greedy for fame and money, or accuse you of being paid to insult Islam, you are clearly a talented writer who easily could have chosen to delve into many other subjects from which to make a fine living.

But I believe that out of deep commitment, you chose to do something about the state of this faith because you, like so many of us, are tired of lowering our heads in shame every time a suicide bomber does his awful work in Allah’s name, every time we watch the evening news and see the horrors committed by Muslims against Muslims in places like Darfur, or the killing of innocent children in Iraq…

It’s time we acknowledged our own faults. Kopp to your krap as they say in American ‘hood language, and attempt to catch up with the modern, secular world which is advancing at a dizzying rate. All I wish is for Islam to take its rightful place once again among the world’s great religions, offering guidance, knowledge, hope and comfort to those who seek. Your work is noble and generous, and liberating for a great many, many of us.” - Ismail

Ismail: I, too, wish — and work — for the day when a critical mass of Muslims will kopp to our krap. And do we ever have krap to contend with. Check out this story about a 19-year-old Saudi woman who was raped, then sentenced to 200 lashes.

Where are the protests of European, American and Canadian Muslims? Where are our cries that the basic human rights of Muslims are being violated? I’ll tell you where they are: buried in the sand, along with our heads.