5 questions Muslims afraid to answer!

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Five questions non-Muslims would like answered
By Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager's nationally syndicated radio show
is heard daily in Los Angeles on KRLA-AM (870). He may be
contacted through his website: www.dennisprager.com.

THE RIOTING IN France by primarily Muslim youths and the hotel
bombings in Jordan are the latest events to prompt sincere questions
that law-abiding Muslims need to answer for Islam's sake, as well as
for the sake of worried non-Muslims.

Here are five of them:

(1) Why are you so quiet?

Since the first Israelis were targeted for death by Muslim terrorists
blowing themselves up in the name of your religion and Palestinian
nationalism, I have been praying to see Muslim demonstrations
against these atrocities. Last week's protests in Jordan against the
bombings, while welcome, were a rarity. What I have seen more
often is mainstream Muslim spokesmen implicitly defending this
terror on the grounds that Israel occupies Palestinian lands. We
see torture and murder in the name of Allah, but we see no
anti-torture and anti-murder demonstrations in the name of Allah.

There are a billion Muslims in the world. How is it possible that
essentially none have demonstrated against evils perpetrated by
Muslims in the name of Islam? This is true even of the millions of
Muslims living in free Western societies. What are non-Muslims of
goodwill supposed to conclude? When the Israeli government did
not stop a Lebanese massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and
Chatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982, great crowds of Israeli
Jews gathered to protest their country's moral failing. Why has there
been no comparable public demonstration by Palestinians or other
Muslims to morally condemn Palestinian or other Muslim-committed
terror?

(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?

If Israeli occupation is the reason for Muslim terror in Israel, why do
no Christian Palestinians engage in terror? They are just as
nationalistic and just as occupied as Muslim Palestinians.

(3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free
country?

According to Freedom House, a Washington-based group that
promotes democracy, of the world's 47 Muslim countries, only Mali
is free. Sixty percent are not free, and 38% are partly free.
Muslim-majority states account for a majority of the world's "not free"
states. And of the 10 "worst of the worst," seven are Islamic states.
Why is this?

(4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by
Muslims in the name of Islam?

Young girls in Indonesia were recently beheaded by Muslim murderers.
Last year, Muslims - in the name of Islam - murdered hundreds of
schoolchildren in Russia. While reciting Muslim prayers, Islamic
terrorists take foreigners working to make Iraq free and slaughter
them. Muslim daughters are murdered by their own families in the
thousands in "honor killings." And the Muslim government in Iran has
publicly called for the extermination of Israel.

(5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other
religions?

No church or synagogue is allowed in Saudi Arabia. The Taliban
destroyed some of the greatest sculptures of the ancient world because
they were Buddhist. Sudan's Islamic regime has murdered great
numbers of Christians.

Instead of confronting these problems, too many of you deny them.
Muslims call my radio show to tell me that even speaking of Muslim
or Islamic terrorists is wrong. After all, they argue, Timothy McVeigh
is never labeled a "Christian terrorist." As if McVeigh committed his
terror as a churchgoing Christian and in the name of Christ, and as
if there were Christian-based terror groups around the world.

As a member of the media for nearly 25 years, I have a long record
of reaching out to Muslims. Muslim leaders have invited me to speak
at major mosques. In addition, I have studied Arabic and Islam, have
visited most Arab and many other Muslim countries and conducted
interfaith dialogues with Muslims in the United Arab Emirates as well
as in the U.S. Politically, I have supported creation of a Palestinian
state and supported (mistakenly, I now believe) the Oslo accords.

Hundreds of millions of non-Muslims want honest answers to these
questions, even if the only answer you offer is, "Yes, we have real
problems in Islam." Such an acknowledgment is infinitely better - for
you and for the world - than dismissing us as anti-Muslim.

We await your response.
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