09 July, 2007

From one Indian Muslim to another

In an excellent post, Lalbadshah addresses the Glasgow terrorists:

Dumb fuckers!! WTF were you thinking? Sardar shabashi dega?? That you’ll go straight to heaven?? Man! Not only did you fuck yourselves, you’ve got the eternal curse from every foreign visa aspiring Muslim who actually wants to do well in life. And just when I was beginning to realise that as Indian Muslims, we are doing pretty well upholding our credentials as peaceful folk, you had to go and fuck it all up!! You imbeciles don’t even know what Jihad means.. wait.. I think you used the Oxford dictionary for the meaning. You see, the Oxford dictionary is for the meaning of words like ‘cricket’.. ‘Jihad’ is not even an English word! Go frikkin read the Quran to know what jihad is first before defaming your religion so.. idiots! Jihad is not a war against non-believers, it is the act of fighting back when your religious rights are oppressed beyond tolerance.

See here for an excellent explanation of what Jihad means.

You weren’t part of the armies attacked by the crusaders. You weren’t in Iraq where your family would have been blown to pudding. You weren’t in Lebanon where you wouldn’t know if your roof would be torn apart the next second. Heck you weren’t even in the country that banned Headscarves! You had everything going for you.. I mean wife, kids, parents, well to do families.. you bastards threw it all away! And for what?

Go hang yourselves! (Links in original.)

Bravo. And I’m certain that every Muslim I know, in my admittedly limited circle of acquaintances, feels the same way. But because of the actions of a few extremist fools, they all get branded as suspect. Thinking in categories?

By the by, Lalbadshah pointed me to his open letter in response to my post from a few hours ago, “A strange cocktail of contradictions.”