Wearing the Shoe that Fits

Fayed Khan, the president of Chicago's Downtown Islamic Center emphatically states that brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombers, can't be considered true Muslims because of their actions.

Dr. Mohammed Kaiseruddin, a physician and imam who preaches at the Downtown Islamic Center, has become a bit more outspoken than Khan after the revelation surfaced that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were professing Muslims: "We were holding our breath that the suspects or perpetrators would not be identified as Muslim. But it has happened now." (Chicago Tribune, April 21, 2013)

Indeed it has. Dr. Kaiseruddin then went on offense to defend his religion that has deservedly earned a terrible reputation across the world over the past 40 years: "The guy who sent the ricin letter, what faith did he belong to? Sandy Hook. What faith did he belong to? That was never reported. It's becoming a routine drill for us, unfortunately."

With all due respect to Dr. Kaiseruddin, the fellow who mailed the ricin letters--a man named Paul Kevin Curtis--claimed no religious reason for sending his toxic correspondence. And so, his faith is irrelevant to his actions. (Update: Charges against Curtis have since been dismissed.) And that goes for Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook shooter who gunned down 26 people including 20 children at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. back in December.

If Lanza did have a faith, it was Satanism, so maybe Dr. Kaiseruddin and his fellow apologists can initiate a crusade warning against the dangers of Satan worship. But don't bet on that.

Muslims throughout the western world, along with their sympathetic media sycophants, have gone into damage control after the tragic Boston bombings. They claim that they're already being targeted for abuse by ignorant racists and extremists who want to inflict harm on them as payback for the Boston bombings. Certainly, there's some truth to that.

And certainly, the vast majority of Muslims throughout the western world are peaceful and nonviolent. That's because they're cultural Muslims rather than fundamental Muslims. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were fundamental Muslims, as were the 9/11/2001 hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

As were the men who blew up a train in Madrid Spain in 2004; the men who attacked the London subway system in 2005; Richard Reid, the infamous would-be shoe bomber who tried unsuccessfully to blow up a jetliner over the Atlantic in 2001 and Major Nidal Hasan who gunned down 13 people while wounding 29 others at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas on November 5, 2009.

And so, if Fayed Khan and Dr. Kaiseruddin want to make the dubious claim that the people who commit these terror acts aren't "true Muslims", then they might want to consider that the founder of their religion who recorded the Koran, included 109 war verses in that book that encourage Muslims to go out and commit the very sort of violent acts that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev committed at the Boston Marathon.
http://prophecyreviewtoday.blogspot.com/2013/04/eyes-wide-shut.html

If Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can't be considered true Muslims by Fayed Khan, Dr. Kaiseruddin and all the rest of Islam's endless list of apologists, then neither can the Prophet Mohammed be considered a true Muslim. Because he recorded the verses that encourage Muslims to commit murder and mayhem against non-Muslims.

If the Islamic world really wants to stop this sort of violence and stop being blamed for it in its aftermath, then Muslims can either change their religion by removing those inflammatory scriptures from the Koran, or they can renounce their religion and follow the true Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, who came into this world to die not in jihad, but for the sins of all mankind.

And here's what He said: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." (John 3:16-17)