Rediff.com |  Feedback  
You are here: » Rediff Home » Discussion Boards » Permalink
  
View : Single Message | Complete Thread | Read complete Discussion
Mr. Syed Kamran Mirza on Islam
by JGN on Feb 29, 2008 03:33 PM

What about those millions of moderate Muslims who are reconsidering their faith after the heinous task of Sep 11 perpetrated by some devout and true Muslims? Many moderate Muslim-origin Americans even feel tremendously ashamed and embarrassed to identify themselves as Muslims. Many moderate or not so strong believers of Muslim descent are trying to hide their identity in the west, or many even declared that they are no longer Muslims. Many youngsters at their early twenties from Muslim background are actively changing their names. The other day in a social gathering, some young men of Muslim origin were declaring very vocally that, they are going to remove some portion of their names. That is they will get rid of "Muhammad, Ahmed, Rahman, Islam, etc." from their names. I read some news in some Bengali weekly papers in which some adult Muslims declared that they have removed the prefix: Muhammad, Ahmed or Islam from their names. Most of all, what benefit do we achieve by getting some erratic human beings (some young whites, or some black prisoners) converted to Islam? Who counts those Muslims, who either convert themselves to Christianity or just give up their faith in Islam silently? Do we still have something left to be proud about Islam? Let us not delude ourselves thinking that Islam is still the greatest religion of Peace. The action of 9-11 by the Arab terrorists in NYC and Washington DC have exposed the true color of Islam. Truth has a peculiar way of emergi

    Forward  |  Report abuse
The above message is part of the Discussion Board:
'Do background check before recruitments