Winds of War: It’s Time for American Muslims to Act

Farha Ahmeds the general counsel for the Muslim American Republican Caucus says Muslim Americans "feel embarrassment, frustration, anger on a daily basis." He says 99 percent of Islam's adherents are nonviolent, but "that doesn't seem to be enough."

He’s correct. It’s not enough. The time for fence sitting is coming to an end for American Muslims. Life for Muslims in this country is drastically different after 9-11 and being a Muslim in America isn’t what it used to be. These are the facts of life after 9-11 and no amount of wailing from peaceful Muslims is going to change non-Muslim feelings about them. The government can plead and even protect Muslims as much as they want. Muslim organizations can wringing their hands over the allege prejudice that they claim to se daily against Muslim in America. But none of that will change the growing mood in this country that we are at war with enemy that feeds its hate for us from a religion that preaches peace.

We’ve seen how the public mood dictates government action before. In this case, the internment of German-American, Italian-American and Japanese-American citizens and immigrants for both our safety in WWII and theirs. I fear that if we have a successful terrorist attack or attacks again within this country, the fear level of American Muslims will rise drastically and the general population will demand action form the government.

Its time for action, not just talk from the Muslim community to prevent this from happening.

Muslim Americans need to distance themselves from the radical elements in their community that preach sedition and hatred for America with more than just words. They need to do the following:

1. State loud and clear as individual Muslims that they are Americans first and Muslims second by stating that their allegiance is to the American nation and not the nation of Islam (the ummah) and that our secular laws supersede the Shari when and if t heir is conflict between the two.
2. Muslim need to monitor their clerics, neighbors and even family for those that would preach sedition and report these people to the authorities.
3. Muslims should volunteer as interpreters for the government and security institutions to help them decipher any possible threats to the nation.
4. Like the Nisei Division in World War II that was comprised of 100% Japanese-Americans, they should join the arem3d forces and create similar all Muslim Division that will go and fight in Afghanistan to take back their religion from the Taliban and Al-Qaeda who they claim have hijacked their religion.
5. All Muslim organizations should take the same actions that individual Muslims should take supporting and ecnougaing them to take actions that will prove to that they share the same values of non-Mulsims and can function in a rough and tibble secular society protesting peacefully and shouting down the seditious elements of their community who protest in support of the radical Islamists..

I assume others can add to this list and then, and only then, will there “seem to be enough”.