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Muslim leaders get upset and object loudly when anyone talks about Muslims being terrorists (as in the case of the complaints of Muslim leaders about the new season of 24) - but they never get upset and object loudly when Muslims actually are terrorists. When a Muslim blows up a bus, train, plane, or restaurant, in the name of Islam, these Muslim leaders never speak out loudly against it. They never say that anyone who does that in the name of Islam is not going to heaven and is not getting 72 virgins. They never speak out loudly saying that such a person has acted against Islam. You never hear a word from them, except some generic CYA line about "we are against all terrorism." But if a TV show depicts what's in the news almost every day - i.e. a Muslim blowing up a public place explicitly in the name of Islam - Muslim leaders have plenty of complaints to make about the depiction.
Why aren't these same Muslim leaders complaining loudly about the Imams who were just exposed, via covert videotape, at the Green Lane mosque in Birmingham, England? As shown in this week's British TV documentary, those imams in a large, influential, and supposedly "moderate" mosque in England, were videotaped calling outright for Muslims to "hate" non-Muslims; for Muslims to attack women and gays; for Muslims to look forward to a day when Muslims will get the upper hand and when non-Muslims will be killed; for Muslims to form "a state within a state" until they "take over"; and for Muslims to be unsatisfied living in anything other than "the total Islamic state."
But these Islamic leaders aren't speaking out against any of that this week.
No. Not at all.
Instead they speak out against the depiction on TV of Muslims doing -- what the imams preached in favor of.
Does their silence on those who blow up planes, trains, busses, and restaurants, equal tacit support for such people? It's time to ask them to speak out loudly and object to such people, or to admit their tacit support for them.
Does their silence on the preaching shown in the British TV documentary, equal tacit support for such preaching? It's time to ask them to speak out loudly and object to such preaching, or to admit their tacit support for it.
