Eboo preaches

“Several million Muslims are proud to call America home (a fact illustrated by the theme of this year's convention - "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness") and are actively seeking to make it better”
The question is how? We could get an idea by a memorandum that is being circulated among them by the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan), the parent of most of the Islamic organizations in this country. It says in part:
“The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/rdreher/stories/DN-dreher_09edi.ART.State.Edition1.4235f88.html

From Answers.com

Baha'i

Dictionary: Ba·ha'i (bä-hä'ē, bə-hī')

Dictionary
adj.

Of or relating to a religion founded in 1863 in Persia and emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind.

n.
A teacher of or a believer in this faith.

[Persian bahā’ī, a follower of Bahā’ullāh, the Splendor of God, Bahaullah, from bahā’, splendor, from Arabic.]

Bahaism Ba·ha'ism (bə-hä'ĭz'əm, -hī'-) n.
Bahaist Ba·ha'ist n.

Answers.com ▼
Home PageBrowsePersonalizePrint pageEmail pageTranslate pageWikiAnswers.com ▼
Home PageBrowseRecently AnsweredRecently AskedUnanswered questionsSearchHelp

Search unanswered questions...
Browse: Unanswered questions | Most-recent questions | Reference library.
Enter a question or phrase... All Community Q&A Reference topics
Browse: Unanswered questions | Most-recent questions | Reference library..5min Related Video: Baha'i
Top

Thanks Eboo for sharing this inspiring news with us. I especially liked the part about home being where your grandchildren will be buried. Service to others is good for America, whatever the faith or lack of faith of the person performing it.

Oh FYI for all readers of the comment section, there is no such thing as Bahaists or Bahaism. Just sayin'. (that's a dead give away that someone is uninformed).

I would love to see the 56 intolerant Islamic nations become more tolerant towards non-Muslims

Zebra4 (if that is your real ID),

"Googling" the name and the book resulted in at least one hit, http://www.scribd.com/doc/16510430/Walking-Away-From-Islam

An excerpt:

"Walking Away From Islam
by Syed Kamran Mirza
03 Jan, 2009A shorter version of this interview appeared in Front Page Magazine on 02 January 2009 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Syed Kamran Mirza, the author of
Roots of Islamic Terrorism
and co-author of
Beyond Jihad
and
Leaving Islam-Apostates Speak Out. "

Didn't take long for the haters to crawl out from under their respective rocks in this thread.

If you watched Stephen Colbert's broadcasts done from Baghdad (which I recommend to EVERYONE), you will see that one night, he had on a female soldier and a male soldier who was a Muslim. Colbert asked the Muslim guy why he enlisted. He said that he wanted to counteract the stereotype of Moslems in the U.S., and that he wanted to give back to the country that he loved. By talking to Colbert, that young soldier did more for creating a positive view of American Muslims than anything I've seen so far.

Eboo pontificates thus:
“She hopes that all kinds of Muslim organizations can participate - mosques, Muslim Students Associations, Muslim professional groups, national Muslim organizations. And she hopes that at least 250 of those thousand projects are interfaith service projects, which is another part of the President's Call to service.”

There is an Arab proverb which says “When you wish to miss the mark you increase the size of the stone.” This is exactly what popped in my mind while reading Eboo’s sermon. A more realistic and attainable goal for the Muslim congregants would have been simply to warn their mosque imams and organization leaders against denigrating the other whom they call “infidels” and desist from inciting violence against them, or else they will boycott their mosques and organizations and /or report them to the security authorities.
They could have also sent a message to the Saudis that if they do not allow for tolerance of other faiths in their lands they will boycott the hajj pilgrimage. Is that not much easier than that entire tale told by Eboo which is full of sound and fury but really signifying nothing?

Zebra4 (if that is your real ID),

Commentators continue to "thump"/copy and paste passages from the mostly mythical OT, NT and koran. Said "thumping" has been going on for over 2000 years so our "thumping" of religion reality will continue for another at least 1999 years. Deal with it!!!

Muslims will never contribute anything of worth to the U.S. or the West. Their only goal is to destroy the West.

If Muslims wanted to do something constructive, they would stop using violence in the name of their heinous "religion", Islam, which is something they seem incapable of doing.

fireofhiseyes,

Apparently you still believe in "pretty, wingie, talking, fictional thingies" aka angels and "demons of the demented" aka satans indicating you have a long, reality road yet to travel.

And what is wrong with being a Baha'ist??

To wit:

The top ten reasons why you should become a (Haifan) Baha'i.

10. No nooky!! No way, no how!

9: No booze! No, you might be having fun and you wouldn't want that.

8: No politics. No, you wouldn't want to involve yourself in a good, healthy way that might actually improve the lives
of the people in your community.

7: Suffering. Yes, suffering. No Baha'i gathering is complete without the friends recounting how they have suffered for their faith.

6: Silly Christians go to church. There, through outmoded
'rituals' usually held by a 'clergymen' which Baha'is don't have, they often find themselves enriched and revitalized.
Some even think they have communed with their God. If only they knew that if they were Baha'is they could go to a 19 day
Feasts, a dreary, boring business meeting usually punctuated by some personal arguments. Some go on all night.

5: Ridvan meetings: YES THEY DO GO ON ALL NIGHT. WE WILL GET SOMEONE TO BECOME THE TREASURER WHETHER THEY LIKE OR NOT, DAMNIT!

4: You get to do all sorts of things you don't want to do, like be the treasurer and spend the next year haranging the friends for money.

3: LSA Meetings. They are held at least once a week, they last for several hours.

2: You get hit up for money, you get hit up for money. The new world order needs money, your money, it's an honor to
bankrupt yourself for the Faith.

1: You'll never have to bother your silly little brain by thinking again! All that hard brainwork had been done for you by the great "Babs".

http://www.geocities.com/baahith/Topten.html

Abraham never did teach his children how to play well together.

The United We Serve campaign needs only one service project and that is to clean up the koran deleting all the warmongering, killing all infidels and women degrading passages.

It is also sad that the following "Escape Islam" program was not initiated at the ISNA convention:

Using "The 77 Branches of Islamic "faith" a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a starting point. In it, he explains the essential virtues that reflect true "faith" (iman) through related Qur’anic verses and Prophetic sayings." i.e. a nice summary of the Koran and Islamic beliefs.

"1. Belief in Allah"

"aka as God, Yahweh, Zeus, Jehovah, Mother Nature, etc." should be added to your cleansing neurons.

"2. To believe that everything other than Allah was non-existent. Thereafter, Allah Most High created these things and subsequently they came into existence."

Evolution and the Big Bang or the "Gib Gnab" (when the universe starts to recycle) are more plausible and the "akas" for Allah should be included if you continue to be a "creationist".

"3. To believe in the existence of angels."

A major item for neuron cleansing.

Angels/devils are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations, e.g. Hittites, to explain/define natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc. No "pretty/ugly wingy thingies" ever visited or talked to Mohammed, Jesus, Mary or Joseph or Joe Smith. Today we would classify angels as fairies and "tinker bells". Modern devils are classified as the demons of the demented.

"4. To believe that all the heavenly books that were sent to the different prophets are true. However, apart from the Quran, all other books are not valid anymore."
Another major item to delete. There are no books written in the spirit state of Heaven (if there is one) just as there are no angels/"pwtfft"s to write/publish/distribute them. The Koran, OT, NT etc. are simply books written by humans for humans.

Prophets were invented by ancient scribes typically to keep the uneducated masses in line. Today we call them fortune tellers.
Prophecies are also invalidated by the natural/God/Allah gifts of Free Will and Future.

"5. To believe that all the prophets are true. However, we are commanded to follow the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) alone."

Mohammed spent thirty days fasting in a hot cave before his first contact with Allah aka God etc. via a "pretty wingy thingy". Common sense demands a neuron deletion of #5. #5 is also the major source of Islamic violence i.e. turning Mohammed's "fast, hunger-driven" hallucinations into horrible reality for unbelievers.

Acceptance of these five "cleansers" would guarantee a complete recovery from Islamic ways!!!!