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- call Bush a terrorist The following letter from Muhammad Al-Hashimi, president of the Islamic Institute for Economic and Sociological Research, recently appeared in The Washington Times: In a Feb. 16 article, you reported that 74 percent of the American Muslim vote cast in the last presidential election went to George W. Bush. The impression given by your article is that this vote represents a bloc vote of the American Muslim community. This impression may be misleading. First of all, an estimated 40% of the American Muslim community is African American. It is a well-known fact that the overwhelming majority of African Americans, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, deeply distrust Mr. Bush. More than 90% of the African-American vote went to former Vice President Al Gore in the last election. This necessarily implies that African-American Muslims were not a significant part of the 74% bloc vote for Mr. Bush. It also may imply that the 74% figure is inflated. Second, there is the question of what the 74% bloc means in terms of actual numbers. Many eligible Muslims are not registered to vote because they see voting in a non-Muslim system as hostile to Islamic beliefs and principles. For example, the president, according to the Constitution, is the commander in chief of the American armed forces. Many Muslims, therefore, have determined that voting for anyone for president who is non-Muslim is problematic because of that individual's lack of sensitivity to killing other Muslims. The attitude is well-founded, as we recently witnessed the killing of three innocent Muslims in Iraq as a result of air strikes ordered by Mr. Bush. To be quite honest, many Muslims view Mr. Bush as an international terrorist as a result of this act of aggression. A closer look needs to be taken at the purported 74% American Muslim bloc vote for Mr. Bush. Our comment: What makes a gang of people a nation is an agreement on what is right and wrong. Because Muslims hold a different view of what is right and wrong than Jews and Christians do, Muslims who do not adopt Judeo-Christian moral ideas are a grave threat to our ifreedom. To learn more about how Islam differs from America's founding philosophy, visit our friends at Islam Review. |
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