Comments on: Ever wonder why the innocent are locked up and the guilty are free?

By: Manas Shaikh

Manas Shaikh — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:12:40 +0000

Dear bro MR,

We need to put a stop to this somehow. If these guys are just looking to create trouble, for reasons only Allah is fully aware (and some others to some extent, perhaps), we need to contain them, for the safety of the Ummah.

It is not only the fellows the entrap that they endanger. These are then used against all of us.

By: Humza

Humza — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:43:56 +0000

Some people are just slippery enough to stay out, and others seem like they’re bad, and the goverment captures them.

By: Abu Ibrahim

Abu Ibrahim — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:13:18 +0000

There's another story out of Georgia of innocent Muslims being imprisoned. I hope we don't forget about the case of Ehsanul Sadequee and Syed Haris Ahmed.

By: Akhee

Akhee — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:40:57 +0000

@just someone – This dunya is for the criminals. The next is for believers.

By: Here's why they're protected

Here's why they're protected — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:24:47 +0000

You see MR, I was watching a CNN news story on these idiot guys who call themselves “Muslim” and they were outside a Masjid who is predominantly Indonesian. Now you see these guys would come every Jummah and tell people that America is this and that and that bin laden is a hero. Blah blah blah. One guy who was a Jew but converted to Islam said “Wallahi I love bin laden”. The FBI put spies to watch them. That’s all. Now CNN brought in their legal analysis guy and Anderson Cooper asked him “why doesn’t the FBI arrest these guys?” The legal analyst explained: If they say “Shoot and kill the President” it’s not a crime, but rather if they say “Shoot and kill Barack Obama” then the secret service/FBI have a right to arrest them. You see the difference here? So Anderson Cooper in the end said “These people are protected by the rights of a country that they deeply hate” Chilling.

By: Atif C.

Atif C. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:31:31 +0000

Chris is absolutely right…we have already identified (and God knows many of our brothers and sisters are intimately familiar with) our problems, now it’s time to start coming up with solutions.

Take the problem of authoritarian ruthless regimes for instance. People like Dr. Afia are only locked up because they live in countries where the government could care less about the well-being of their own people, much less the well-being of the ummah at large. I don’t know how or when it will happen, but one day Muslims living in such authoritarian regimes must have the courage and willpower to throw off the shackles of their oppression and forge their own destinies. It doesn’t have to be an American or Western style democracy (indeed for some countries it just might not work), it just has to be govern wisely and justly for the people.

For us American Muslims, I feel that if we want to change societal perceptions of us and our faith, a good place to start would be our own communities. This means investing in our communities and helping all those in need. This means having a sense of civic duty and truly valuing our identity as American-Muslims. Finally, this requires having the courage and willpower to stand up to divisive and hate speech from our own ranks.

Look we can’t really control what Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or those legions of ignoramuses spew…but we can and must confront hate speech from our own ranks. We have the power and responsibility to say no to hate wherever we find it and, as Sincerity said, guide any potential naive Muslims back into the path of peace, tolerance, and love.

By: Atif C.

Atif C. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:13:06 +0000

Wow that CNN video was beyond words..these ignoramuses are practically preaching anarchy and frothing at the mouth with hate, yet they know the law just well enough to not cross that razor thin-line into “incitement” and thus protect themselves from any (dare I say, just) censorship and prosecution. They take full advantage of the right to free speech, only to use voice their virulent hatred of the very nation which gives them that right in the first place. They enjoy all the freedoms and liberties guaranteed by this country and express ideologies which would outright get them “disappeared” in most authoritarian Muslim countries, yet still believe it’s this country which is the “decadent” one. The irony is overwhelming…

By: Sincerity

Sincerity — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:29:52 +0000

U have to be a fool to not be able to answer that! I mean cmon, when I saw rev. Muslims on Cnn, I prayed that they do not succeed in trapping innocent, naive young Muslims..
What they preach is blatantly wrong and one doesnt even need to be a scholar to figure that out yet somehow, they remain freee and able to preach..Hmmm

By: this might explain it...

this might explain it... — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:06:06 +0000

keep in mind i’m not condoning them, but media have looked into WHY these types of people stay free: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vU9lwJ_5JY – this agrees with what Atif C. said as well.

But yeah I still don’t get why then sr. Afia and all the other people mentioned are targetted then. Allahu a’lam, but I wouldn’t jump to conclusion based on this by calling people munafiqoon (a heavy charge indeed) and stuff like that.

oh, and I think there’s a reason MR didn’t mention which two websites

By: just someone

just someone — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:29:24 +0000

ever wonder why good people have disease with no cure, yet there are criminals out there who are healthy as ever. hmm, i wonder why God don’t put diseases on them, yet the people who are trying to do good deeds and obeying God, end up with a disease that just keep deteriorating. that is a mystery isn’t it…..????