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  • American Working In Egypt: True Islam Rejects Violence, Don’t Blame All Muslims For Orlando Shooting

    American Working In Egypt: True Islam Rejects Violence, Don’t Blame All Muslims For Orlando Shooting

    I WORK IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

    My wife convinced me that I needed to share this. Most of you know that I work for Siemens as a Service Engineer in the Middle East. I am currently on a project in Egypt. It is a German project and I believe I am the only American here (definitely the only Texan).
    Over the last two days I have had over 20 people (Egyptians) many I don’t even know personally come and ask if my family and friends were okay. They understand the magnitude of the Orlando shootings and they simply wanted to let me know they cared.

    This morning I went out to site with a smile and a “sabah-al-kheir” (Good Morning) and the supervisor shook my hand then apologized to me for what happened in Orlando. As we talked, even more foreman and laborers began gathering around me shaking my hand. They wanted to let me know that this act is not acceptable to them as Muslims and they were “anah-aswah”…I’m sorry.

    Those who couldn’t speak english asked the supervisor to translate who in broken english let me know that they all wanted to let me know that this upset them and they hoped I would not hold all Muslims responsible. They hoped America would not blame Islam.

    This was impressive enough, but when I went to another area well away from where I was before, the same thing happened. Shaking hands, apologies, and condemnation to the shooter and the shame he has brought upon their religion. From Engineers to the young man who makes us coffee, even the guy who cleans my room; they all wanted to let me know they are angry too.

    I know that after the shootings the news and radio are probably all over this spreading fear and anger, because that is what sells. I want you to know, I spend months at a time living here and in other Muslim countries to include Saudi Arabia and it is the same everywhere. The Muslim people I meet are honest, friendly, caring, and consider you a close part of their lives with a simple shake of the hand.

    So take it from someone who practically lives here; don’t let the media or politicians sway you with their spin to win ratings and votes.

    True Islam does not accept these actions, it condemns them. Don’t hold the majority responsible for the actions of the very, very few.

     

    Source: Edsel Townsend

  • Yasir Qadhi: Stresses In LGBT Lifestyle, Lax Gun Controls, Not Islam, Triggers For Orlando Massacre

    Yasir Qadhi: Stresses In LGBT Lifestyle, Lax Gun Controls, Not Islam, Triggers For Orlando Massacre

    It has now been confirmed, by multiple sources, that Omar Mateen, the shooter in the Orlando massacre, was himself gay. He frequently visited the same club that he committed the massacre in, and he attempted to initiate dates on a famous gay-dating app.  Additionally, he was born and raised in America.

    His wife, father and community have all claimed that he was not religious in the slightest.

    Multiple eyewitness reports indicate that he would get drunk at the very club he committed the massacre in, and would have to be kicked out because of his unruly behavior.

    Colleagues and acquaintances have mentioned that he was a loner, a social introvert, and prone to make violent statements and threats against other people.

    His wife left him because he beat her and was physically abusive.

    Yet, the media continues to ask questions about ‘radical Islam’ and about Islam’s stance on homosexuality. What blatant hypocrisy!

    He wasn’t a ‘radical Muslim’.

    He was a mentally deranged psychopathic American closet homosexual who was battling with his sexual identity.

    Instead of concentrating on his mental issues, and on the easy gun laws that our country is notorious for, politicians and media pundits wish to cast all of that aside, and choose the easier target of questioning his faith, and of Islam’s stance on sexual issues.

    The guy was mental, plain and simple. Islam’s stance on homosexuality is IRRELEVANT to this massacre, period.

     

    Source: Yasir Qadhi