“Is Islam a Religion of Peace?”

This question has arisen as the subject of debate in the West. “Is Islam a Religion of Peace?” These conversations are often one-sided. Dominated by either political right-wing extremist (former House speaker Newt Gingrich or the Bill O’Reilly types), apologetic “Westernized” Muslims’ seeking their entry into the”law of acceptance” (fill in the blanks) at any cost or self-deprecating ex-Muslims (Ayaan Hirsi Ali (a born again self hater) and Irshad Manji (an alleged homosexual) whom are well financed by the West to spew their personal pain and hatred toward Islam. Well, they never invite me to these debates so I am inviting myself. Here is my brief retort.
First, to answer this tedious question “Is Islam a Religion of Peace”? I have been a Muslim most of my physical life and all of my religious life and for sure and I have not killed anyone…yet. That’s all the energy I will give that question
However, I grew up in a Christian country, the great (lower case) U.S. of A. My ancestors’ were from the African continent. This is a historical fact. It is also a fact that upwards to 75% of them was practicing Muslims’. They were brought here and enslaved for 310 years by Christians. The Christians beat them, killed them, sold them between each other like chairs and horses and raped the female Muslims repeatedly (see President George Washington and his daily sexcapades on his plantation away from Martha and also President Thomas Jefferson whom started raping his slave girl (Sally Hemmings as early as 12 or 13 years old). I will use this forum to make a posthumous “citizens’ arrest” for rape and child molestation of Sally Hemmings. Pres. Jefferson….you are now under arrest. Step away from the grave and place your hands where I can see them. These same Christians were the authors of a worthless document called the Constitution of the United States of America…I mean, is this not the document which states (its’ still there by the way) that Black people are 3/5 of a human being? Where was it when slavery was going on? Where was it for nearly 100 years of the “Jim Crow” South when they were “poll taxing us at the voting booth and hanging us from trees? Where was it when the U.S. government was conducting the “Tuskegee Experiments? Where was it when the C.O.I.N.T.E.L.P.R.O was being launched by the F.B.I. that led to the murder of Chairman Fred Hampton and others’ by the U.S. government? I would add to my retort, that Black Americans’ (and I use that term lightly…Malcolm X said…’just because a cat has biscuits in the oven don’t make them kittens) did not choose the religion of Christianity no more than they chose to eat the guts’ of hogs’ (chitterlings’ or chittlins’ if you are keeping score at home). Christianity was forced upon them whit a whip and shackles. The aforementioned President Washington was purported to have beaten his slaves everyday of there lives. Reparations please…NOW!
1. Tell you what…I will give you a break and not discuss the wonton slaughter and genocide led by Christopher Columbus of the Native North Americans Nations…the Choctaw, Iroquois, Blackhawk, Cherokee, Seminole, Sioux, Arawak, Apache etc…by whom? You guess it…Christians. My retort would end with this. America and the West can cry about “terrorism” while I will cry about “State Sponsored Terrorism”. I would start with the murder of over 100,000 Iraqis citizens’ in two illegal oil wars’ and the chasing of twenty-five percent of their population across the border as refugees in Syria. The “State Sponsored Terrorism” that cause Pres. Ronald Reagan (it hurts me to say his name) to drop a bomb in Tripoli and murder the 2 year old daughter (Hanane) of the President of Libya. The “State Sponsored Terrorism” that allowed the U.S. to support and fund Apartheid South Africa for over four decades. The “State Sponsored Terrorism” that allows U.S. tax dollars to flow freely into the hands of Israel so they can murder, terrorize and occupy Palestinians. The “State Sponsored Terrorism” of Pres. Reagan’s drug cartel/crack cocaine funded Contra’s in his war against Daniel Ortega in Nigaura. The “State Sponsored Terrorism” that directly resulted into the assassination of President Patrice Lumumba in the Congo and the overthrow of the first President of Ghana Osegeyfo Kwame Nkrumah. The “State Sponsored Terrorism” that led to the death of General Rene’ Schneider in Chile. The “State Sponsored Terrorism” that led to as many as twelve assassination attempts (see the “Bay of Pigs” and “Operation Mongoose” both C.I.A. documented operations) on Pres. Fidel Castro of Cuba. The “State Sponsored Terrorism” that led to the CIA’s involvement in the murder of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. And finally, the biggest terrorist meeting ever held in the history of the world “The Berlin Conference” (1884-85), where the West sat down and carved up the world and embarked on its’ imperialistic mission that affects the geopolitics’ of our lives today.
In conclusion, I simply ask two intelligent questions in my retort, “Who is the real Terrorist”…and “Is Christianity a religion of Peace”?

Malik Aziz
Co-Convener, Darfur 23
http://www.darfur23.org/