Excellent article…Thank you Shaykh Yasir.

I am really stunned at the continuing inability of the government to uncover any real plots.

With all the resources devoted to anti-terrorism, this is the best these people can do?

If there weren’t so so many people suffering, it would be funny.

How long can they cry wolf at these press conferences before no one believes them. Look into what they’ve done to Jose Padilla and what it was based upon if you want to be physically sick. Then think what has any Muslim individual or group done to come to Mr. Padilla’s aid.

Think of all the brothers at Guantanamo. What they have done to Muhammad Salah here in Chicago. All the charities shut down without any proof or evidence at all. Imam Jamil Al-Amin.

The list goes on and on.

At the same time, we have Muslim orgs either overwhelmed by the amount of cases and lack of resources or just scared because of the relentless attacks on them so that have to rush to condemn whoever the government accuses rather than coming to their aid.

As I said, I really am not sure what the government’s strategy is. If there really are, as everyone tells us, so many Muslims plotting to carry out such attacks, how come they can’t find any of them and instead they spend all their time and resources ‘creating’ these plots and spouting all this nonsense?

As I said, I’m still trying to figure out exactly what to do, but Muslim organizations have got to realize that there is a war/political struggle going on here and it is not against terrorism. We all condemn terrorism, but in terms of this other struggle, in terms of what is really going on, one cannot either ignore it or not take a side.

The reason I say it is a “war/political struggle” is that we have to realize that this is not being conducted like a criminal issue. People are being arrested, killed, persecuted not for any crimes they may have committed and not for being terrorists, but for their religious and political beliefs. This is not a case of a few individual mistakes but this is a systematic, organized campaign.

When people are political prisoners or prisoners of war, the issue cannot be handled in the same ways as if they were accused criminals who just need the right to a fair trial.

The implications of this for the mainstream Muslim orgs and their strategy of being super-Americans are important and possibly complex.

We have to stop allowing the government to separate us from people simply by accusing them of “terrorism”. The government has just named CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT has co-conspirators in terrorism for aiding Hamas so I hope that these orgs will realize it does no good to try to placate these people.

Without losing focus on our larger goals, we have to let the government know we will stand by members of our community in the fact of such accusations. And especially when what they are being accused of is nothing to be ashamed of.

When the government first announced it was banning humanitarian aid to Hamas, large numbers of Muslims should have held a big press conference and publicly donated to Hamas for purely humanitarian purposes and challenged the government to arrest all of us.

If we don’t take such a stand, they will continue to pick us off one by one, and we will continue to try to separate ourselves from the accused, hoping that somehow this will save us.

Allaah knows best.

Assalaamu Alaikum,

I also can’t help but think to myself every time:
Please don’t let it be people who call themselves Muslims.”
I know it is shallow but these UN-Islamic terrorists are making life much harder for us normal muslims. I agree with Unique Muslimah. We have to go out everyday and through our daily actions and interactions prove this is not Islam and those terrorists do not speak for us or represent us.

May Allah make it easy for us. ameen

Sh. Yasir that was great! JazakAllah khair!

See you at ICNA! :-D

Also another point….be careful of what you call Muslims. Ya3nee….it’s one thing for the media to say something – and it’s another for a Muslim to say about another Muslim (who we don’t know much of besides what the media has told us – and we all know how the media distorts everything negatively for the Muslims). Yes, judge by the apparent, but how much is apparent to us? Not much.

“I am soooooo sick of all these ‘terror plots’ being ‘discovered’ and ‘foiled’ every few months.”

“So you’d rather they succeeded???”

Andrea, is that an Italian girl’s name?

Anyway, would you rather that the Zionist idiots in the secret service carry on inventing new threats?