Barbara J. Stock
November 15, 2004
Followers of Islam: can you see the blood on your hands?
By Barbara J. Stock

Since the events of September 11, 2001, we Americans have spent much time reassuring Muslims that we are sure that the radical among them is a small number. President Bush has repeatedly stated that a small number of fanatics have "hijacked" a peaceful religion. But is Islam a "peaceful" religion?

Certainly the vast majority of Muslims would have a problem with actually beheading another human being or slitting a toddler's throat but there are many Muslims who find nothing wrong with this behavior. They read their Quran and agree that it is all justified. Indeed, if one reads the Quran, just about everything from slavery to pedophilia to rape is justified. The only thing that matters is who is doing what to whom. If it is a Muslim beheading an infidel then it has Allah's blessing and thus is perfectly legal and is encouraged.

From the Quran: Surah 4: Women — Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. From the Quran: Surah 5: The Table Spread — Christians will be burned in the Fire. Christians are wrong about the Trinity. For that they will have a painful doom. From the Quran: Surah 2: The Cow — War is ordained by Allah. Do these words to believers of Islam sound very peaceful to you?

For the past several months I have been having a rather one-sided conversation with a Muslim in London who writes about the joys of killing Americans, his fellow Brits as well as Jews and Christians. He speaks endlessly about what animals we Americans are. This conversation has been one-sided because all Yamin Zakaria ever does is send me his hate-filled rantings that justify absolutely everything the butchers in Iraq inflict on the civilian population. Yamin has gone so far as to condemn the most respected Islamic leaders in Iraq. According to Yamin, "Inside Iraq, the Shia Ulemas (scholars) like Sistani and the Kurdish leaders driven by their narrow tribal, sectarian and self-centered interests are collaborating with the Americans." For their dealings "with the devil" they will pay a high price. Zakaria continues: "We as Muslims are obliged to support our Mujahideen; we should pray for their victory — they are our boys!"

I always respond asking Yamin if he is bursting with pride over the deaths of a busload of small Iraqi children at the hands of his "friends" but he never answers. I ask if he is proud that his "friends" have dragged Iraqi policemen out into the street with their hands tied behind their backs and then executed them for all to see. But he has no answers. He just sends more of his columns with titles such as: "The Satanic Christians of the USA" and "The Final Solution (Endlösung) for Fallujah and Ramadi." You see, all is justified in the Quran. The killing of one of his "boys" is an outrage. The suicide bomber who kills women and children is a hero.

Living in London, Yamin is quite safe. His family is safe. Zakaria can sit in the safety of his London home and write whatever he wishes. What he wishes to do is be a cheerleader for the killing, the slaughter, the executions and beheadings because he doesn't have to do any of it. No one will come and ask him to send his son out to be a suicide bomber or ask him to prove his loyalty by executing a three-year-old Jewish toddler. Yamin posts his hate-filled words on an Islamic blog and Islamic web sites and he is regarded as insightful and brilliant by the followers of Islam that read them. The question in my mind is this: is he — and others like him — any less guilty than those carrying out these heinous acts? Is there any less blood on their hands just because they don't pull the trigger or plant the bomb?

Yamin writes, "One can accept the direct loss of life in the course of battle. But when prisoners of war and the general civilian population are gratuitously subjected to torture, abuse and execution, this can only be classified as sheer barbarism, propelled by the innate racism and hatred rather than the heightened instinct of survival produced in battle." Is Zakaria referring to the crimes of Saddam Hussein or his sons? Is he pointing out the crimes of his "boys" who are killing fellow Muslims all over the world? Perhaps Yamin is referring to the bombings in Spain or Bali or the genocide in Sudan? Of course he is not. Those attacks are repeatedly praised as great victories. Yamin dwells on the crimes of a few soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prison. His logic is this: If the world would just accept Islam, his "boys" wouldn't have to kill everyone. Therefore, it's our fault. Islam's hands are clean.

The torture and murders carried out at the command and pleasure of Saddam, a Muslim, is never addressed. The videos of arms and legs being hacked off, tongues being cut out, and men being thrown off four story buildings, are never mentioned. However, discussed at great length is the fact that some Muslim men had underwear put on their heads. Yamin insists that the Geneva Convention was ignored but the Geneva Convention apparently does not apply to the terrorists. It is their right to behead members of the Iraqi National Guard and innocent civilian hostages. The Quran says so.

Yamin ignores that the American soldiers involved in those prison crimes will collectively spend decades in prison. Pay no mind to the tens of thousands that went into that prison under Saddam and were never seen again. Don't look at those mass graves full of infants buried alive under their executed mothers or view the pictures of the thousands of gassed Kurds. No, pay no attention to the crimes of a Muslim. Muslims never commit crimes. All is justified in the name of Allah.

This Muslim decries the fact that uncivilized Americans fire on mosques! We even have blown up a few of them. The fact that they are anything but holy places is ignored. When a mosque becomes an ammo-dump where terrorists hide, even under the rules of the Geneva Convention, it is fair game. When snipers hide in the towers, I assure you that tower will soon be rubble. What Yamin seems to forget is that we Christians leveled churches in World War II that had become havens from which the enemy chose to wage war.

All of us will someday stand before God and have to answer for our sins. Only God will decide in the end if encouraging and directing men to kill innocent people is as great a sin as the actual killing. My final sentence in nearly every e-mail message to Yamin Zakaria is this one: "Can you see the blood on your hands yet?" This is a question I will now put to every Muslim who reads this column. If you condone the actions of the men slaughtering people all over the world in the name of Allah, can you see the blood on your hands yet? It never comes off and when you stand before God, he will ask you how it came to be there.

  See response by Yamin Zakaria

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Barbara J. Stock

Barbara is a retired Registered Nurse after over 35 years in the field. She is pro-life at both ends of life's journey. Mother of two, Grandmother of two, she is pro-America and anti-progressive. Absent from writing for too long, she is back and determined to make a difference.

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