For those of who have heard of the slander being spread about our sister Debbie Almontaser (may Allah protect her honour) in the United States, I urge all readers to help support the defence campaign set up by CAIR here.
You’ll also have seen some support from Muslims on the net publicising various efforts, one of them being this article in the NY Times here – spread it around and make du’a for your sister.
This is not only because she is a good human being (masha’Allah) but your sister in faith, your sister in need and a defender of Arabic language schools which most of us have a vested interest in for our children to learn the Qur’an; anyone involved in da’wah will have probably come across her indeed I know her personally to be a good, pious woman when we met a few years back, and we can at least make du’a that Allah protects His servants in that way which only He can jalla wa ‘ala.
August 29, 2007 at 10:32 pm
“Ms. Almontaser has twice been profiled on Voice of America as an accomplished Muslim American. Her son, Yousif, spent several months on rescue efforts at ground zero as a member of the Army National Guard. Four of her nephews and cousins have served in the United States military in Iraq.
None of these details were exactly hidden under a rock.”
It appears that no matter what you do they’ll never be satisfied (a Quranic Ayat comes to mind, but I wont write it).
Their prejudice seems to overcome their “civilized” reasoning.
It must be really hard to be a Muslim in America. The lengths in which her family went to integrate, yet that still won’t wash with the population ?
I feel sorry for the Muslims suffering such mental torment, and pray for them.
August 30, 2007 at 6:33 pm
“Four of her nephews and cousins have served in the United States military in Iraq.”
Announcing the fact that she had close relatives serve in the same murderous army that is illegally occupying and killing thousands of Muslims in several different Muslim countries, is hardly something to boast about, is it…
…unless your allegiance is with the enemies of Islam.
It just goes to show that no matter how much you do for the non-Muslims, they will never be happy until you turn from your religion.
August 31, 2007 at 12:35 pm
“It just goes to show that no matter how much you do for the non-Muslims, they will never be happy until you turn from your religion.”
Nono – I think Khalid’s point was she as “American” and “patriotic” as is illustrated by this detail but rather than it being something to boast about, like you said, “no matter how much you do for the non-Muslims, they will never be happy until you turn from your religion.”