Are people finally learning?

I heard this morning on NPR that Sudan has chosen to distance itself from Osama Bin Laden and this follows the Hamas-led Palestinian government doing essentially the same. Hamas has suggested that it would do better to better their relationship with the West, and Sudan has just blatantly said “No thank you” to Bin Laden’s hateful rhetoric.

I’ve long wondered what it would take for the Muslim world to start denouncing methods and ways that can only bring harm onto themselves. Anyone who stops for a moment and considers what Bin Laden and his followers have achieved will see immediately that his motivations and speeches are no different than Adolf Hitler claiming the Jews were the cause of the problems.

How do Muslims, a largely passive and respective group, allow such a farce to go on for this long? If I were a Muslim and some hateful person used his malicious views of my religion to further violence to an indiscriminate number of people, I would be seriously outraged.

The number of Muslims in this world greatly outnumber the total number of followers of any other religion and further the vast majority of them co-exist with people of their own and other faiths with nary an issue. The small handful of people that are mitigating acts that drag down the name of Islam as a religion should be singled out, ridiculed and kept shut.

Here’s hoping that the steps taken by Sudan and Hamas is just the beginning of the end of Al Qaeda.

Cheers

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