From The Heart of an Honest Muslim
Dr. Tawfik Hamid
"I am a Muslim by faith, a Christian by spirit, a Jew by heart,
And above all I am a human being."
Dr. Hamid is an Egyptian scholar and author of the following article...
I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam.
After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.
And above all I am a human being."
Dr. Hamid is an Egyptian scholar and author of the following article...
I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam.
After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.
I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward non-Muslims.
We Muslims are the ones who need to change.
Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.
We Muslims are the ones who need to change.
Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.
We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called jazzier.
We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the mosques.
We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the mosques.
What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "descendants of the pigs and monkeys"? [Yet, both Arabs and Jews are descendants of Ibrahim (Abraham)!]
Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate?
Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate?
I have been into [Christian] churches and [Jewish] synagogues where they were praying for Muslims.
While all the time, we curse them, and teach our generations to call them "infidels", and to hate them.
We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammad when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, ..we are proud with the story in our Islamic books that he married a young girl seven years old [Aisha] when he was above 50 years old.
While all the time, we curse them, and teach our generations to call them "infidels", and to hate them.
We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammad when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, ..we are proud with the story in our Islamic books that he married a young girl seven years old [Aisha] when he was above 50 years old.
I am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.
Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathies with their cause.
Until now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Sharia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam.
Until now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Sharia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam.
Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the hijab (head scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders. It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts.
We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East .
As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East .
We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jews-free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have their own nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel, women cannot be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights.
I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and notbecause of Israel.
It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world.
On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel, its 'enemy.' If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening.
On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel, its 'enemy.' If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening.
We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind.
Our religious leaders have to show a clear, and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religion, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on
non-Muslims to spread Islam.
Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion..
Our religious leaders have to show a clear, and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religion, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on
non-Muslims to spread Islam.
Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion..
Dr. Tawfik Hamid
Please pass this on as far as possible and help spread this paradigm shift in Muslim thinking.Maybe it will germinate & grow.
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Here is some reason in the midst of hatred and bigotry. I will add this comment. As a person who knows many Arab Christians, they are quite consistent in saying that Israel is no paradigm of virtue either. They occupy the West Bank in direct violation of Helsinki and they treat Arabs as second class citizens in their own land. That Arabs find work in Israel more acceptable than living in abject poverty in the West Bank, is not too surprising. Talk with Arab Christians and you will hear a consistent testimony: Israel forces non-Jews through economic coercion to leave Israel for places like America. This is not to say any Muslim country would be better to live than Israel. The entire Middle East has serious problems, but to paint Israel as the only virtuous nation is to deny the civil rights violations that President Jimmy Carter wrote about in his book on Israel and apartheid.
Is it really fair to compare Israel to the United States or other western cultures? If you must compare Israel, you should compare it regionally. I can't blame them for not fully integrating the arabs as they continue to sneak in suicide bombers and murderers into the country to destroy them. It's also an isolated country surrounded by enemies that want them destroyed and it's citizens are bombed on a regular basis. Considering what they go through, the arabs have unprecedented freedom living there. They are living in a war zone and the war has been raging for about 70 years and we americans are as responsible for that as anyone since we so often have condemned them defending themselves and offer aid to their enemies and teach the younger generations that they are victims in our universities. We are trying to make war "civilized", but if we were able to roll back time and allowed Israel to defend itself and destroy it's attackers ending the war once and for all, just imagine how many lives it would have saved over the last 70 years.
We've created our civilized articles of warfare like the Geneva Conventions with good intentions, to make warfare less cruel, but the end result is we've made war more common and more palatable, so now we go to war at the drop of a hat like with syria (latest example). We claim Assad is so bad that he must be destroyed, yet he was elected by his people. We claim he attacked "his people", but it seems to me that he simply put down islamic forces trying to overthrow the government. Maybe he is good, maybe he is bad, but why is that our choice to make??? and what gives us the right to arm people in that country with weapons our own government doesn't even trust us with while fully knowing they will be used to overthrow a democratically elected government and replace it with one based on Islam (sharia law).
As horrible as it sounds I think we'd be better off without the geneva conventions or any rules of engagement and...
Never Go To War unless the objective is important enough that we are willing to kill every man, woman and child to obtain those goals.
If you find that statement to be shocking, or so unpalatable that it should never be said, then perhaps you should focus on just the first four words and repeat them over and over again, because if war really was that ugly, then we wouldn't be having them and we'd have much less death and suffering in the world. If we continue to make attempts to "contain" isis, it will be a war that lasts as long as Israel's war, or we could kill them all and not leave a blade of grass standing and I'm sure people with think very hard before considering attempts to revive another state hellbent on world domination.
There was a time when we would cheer if a victim beats up an obvious bully, but today the victim is only a victim if he allows the bully to beat him up and if he wins the fight he was forced into, he's labeled as a bully. If I was commanding Israel's defense the next time a bomb is fired into my country I'd hit the launch site with as much explosives as I had at my disposal, even if the launch site was amid civilians. War cannot be tolerated and it wouldn't be if it was again seen as something to be avoided at all cost.
Do Not Go To War Do Not Go To War Do Not Go To War Do Not Go To War
Do Not Go To War Do Not Go To War Do Not Go To War Do Not Go To War
Another way of saying this is from a favorite quote of mine;
" You can never solve a problem on the same level it was created." - Albert Einstein
He was a practical kind of guy. To him it was simple. He brings a fist, you bring a bat, he brings a gun, you bring a Claymore mine, he brings a bazooka, you break out the tank, and so on until someone gives up.
You must step up to the next level when responding to aggression or any other form of action. That is the only way to solve a problem.
He was talking mostly about solving celestial conundrums, but the theory is sound.
I wouldn't be surprised if he is killed or forced into hiding over speaking the truth.
exactly, and until the day when all muslims denounce sharia law, they are incompatible with us and must never be allowed to make our laws or execute them.
Or sneak them into "protected" areas of our soil.
It's much worse with Islam. Look at what they did to Salman Rushdie, and brave people like Pam Geller have to hire full time security to protect them.
FINALLY AN HONEST MAN ; NICE JOB DOC .
The whole World suffers cause of zionisreal
This may be one man's opinion, but it does not negate the violent acts of a few, or the silence of so many. One man's voice is not enough to make me feel safe from the influx of refugees into this country. Are you aware that there are plans for 117 mosques to be built in Florida alone? Here is the list and don't you find that an excessive amount of mosques being built? I don't see 117 churches or synagogues slated for construction anywhere in this country. Why would there be a need for 117 mosques. The especially dangerous ones are the Dawah centers. But if this man's letter is all you need to feel safe and okay with the Muslim community in this country, so be it. Here is the list:
Mosque Name Address City State Zip Contact
Al-Iman Mosque 500 Se 9th St . Belle Glade FL 33430 561-996-6411
Masjid Al-Hidaya 320 Charley E. Johns St . Blountstown FL 32424
Islamic Center of Boca Raton 3100 Nw 5th Ave. Boca Raton FL 33431 561-395-7221
Alhuda Islamic Center
Florida Islamic Educational Center 831 E. Palmetto Park Rd. Boca Raton FL 33432 561-361-7033
American Islamic Center of Florida 807 N. Federal Hwy Boca Raton FL 33432 561-900-4330
Assalam Center of Boca Raton 1499 Nw 4th Ave. Boca Raton FL 33432 561-391-8285
Bonita Springs Islamic Center 25221 Bernwood Dr. Unit 8 Bonita Springs FL 34135 239-821-3969
Al-Amin Center of Florida 8101 South Military Trail Boynton Beach FL 33436 551-859-2296
Islamic Center of Brandon 613 E. Morgan St . Brandon FL 33510 321-243-0693
Albanian Islamic Cultural Center 225 N. Fort Harrison Ave. Clearwater FL 33755
Bosnian Muslim Association 120 N. Main Ave. Clearwater FL 33765 727-466-6215
Islamic Center of Clermont 15128 Lost Lake Rd. Clermont FL 34711 407-267-8320
Islamic Center of South Lake County 1208 Bowman St. Sunnyside Plaza Clermont FL 34711
Nur Ul Islam Masjid
Nur Ul Islam of South Florida 10600 Sw 59th St . Cooper City FL 33328 954-434-3855
Islamic Center of Daytona 347 S. Keach St . Daytona Beach FL 32114 386-252-3501
Masjid Al-Hakim
Islamic Society of Central Florida 1350 Gilpin Ct. Deltona FL 32725 386-860-9663
Masjid Al Salam 1218 New York Ave. Dunedin FL 34698 727-733-5090
Dar-E-Panjetan Center 5541 N. State Rd. 7 Fort Lauderdale FL 33319 954-328-3841
Musallah Assultan Salahuddin
Association of Islamic Charitable Projects 2820 Griffin Rd. Fort Lauderdale FL 33312 954-986-1373
Masjid Al Iman 2542 Franklin Park Dr. Nw Fort Lauderdale FL 33311 954-581-6295
Islamic Center of Broward 8658 Nw 44th St . Fort Lauderdale FL 33351 954-741-4214
Islamic Center for Peace 2056 Linhart Ave. Fort Myers FL 33901 239-671-1761
Masjid Ibrahim
Islamic Center of Sw Florida 3337 Broadway St Fort Myers FL 33901 239-939-0292
Center for Islamic Culture Awareness 2371 Crawford St . Fort Myers FL 33901 941-332-7833
Islamic Center of Fort Pierce 1104 West Midway Rd Fort Pierce FL 34982 772-465-9200
Islamic Center of Fort Walton Beach 6-A Hollywood Blvd. Sw Fort Walton Beach FL 32548 850-664-0373
Masjid Tawhid 1557 Nw 5th St . Ft. Lauderdale FL 33311
Islamic Center of Muslim Friends
Muslim Friends of Florida 2181 N. Bridge Plaza Ft. Pierce FL 34950 772-462-0242
Hoda Center 5220 Sw 13th St. Gainesville FL 32608 352-377-8080
Islamic Center of Gainesville 1010 W. University Ave Gainesville FL 32601 352-372-1980
Islamic Jaffaria Association 10554 Nw 132Nd St . Hialeah Gardens FL 33018 305-557-6835
Islamic Movement of Florida 3201 Nw 74th Ave. Hollywood FL 33024 954-894-9110
Masjid Al-Muttaqeen 1010 Sw 196 Ave. Hollywood FL 33029
Masjid Ul Mumineen 12850 Sw 268 St. Homestead FL 33032 305-246-5814
Islamic Community of Bosniak 2131 Art Museum Dr . Jacksonville FL 32207 904-683-8427
Masjid Al-Ansar 9801 Old Baymeadows Rd. Bldg 2 Apt. 17 Jacksonville FL 32256 904-997-9487
Masjid Al-Salaam 1625 N Pearl St . Jacksonville FL 32206 904-359-0980
Islamic Center of Ne Florida 2333 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S Jacksonville FL 32211 904-646-3462
Jacksonville Masjid of Al-Islam 2242 Commonwealth Ave Jacksonville FL 32209 904-387-6910
Masjid Al-Maalik 800 Emma St . Key West FL 33040 305-295-8350
Masjid Al Noor
Al Bir Islamic Association 3496 Polynesian Isle Blvd Kissimmee FL 34746 407-879-0807
Masjid Taqwa
Islamic Center of Osceola County 2417 N. Central Ave. Kissimmee FL 34741 407-944-4353
Masjid Assunah 1535 Pleasant Hill Rd. Kissimmee FL 34746 407-935-0337
Jaffaria Islamic Center 1500 Old Vineland Rd. Kissimmee FL 34746
Masjid Al-Bir
Al-Bir Islamic Association 4870 Old Tampa Hwy Kissimmee FL 34758 407-879-0807
Masjid Darul Uloom
Islamic Center of Kissimmee 2350 Old Vineland Rd Kissimmee FL 34746 407-390-1100
Masjid Aysha
Islamic Center of Lakeland 1161 Blossom Cir S Lakeland FL 33805 863-686-4713
Masjid Al-Hamza
Clearwater Dawah Center 560 Clearwater Largo Rd. N Largo FL 33770 727-585-9737
Leesburg Islamic Center 2201 Montclair St . Leesburg FL 34748 352-255-4708 <https://>; ;
Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen 3222 Holiday Springs Blvd Margate FL 33063 954-575-3872
Islamic Society of Brevard County 550 East Florida Ave. Melbourne FL 32901 321-984-4129
Masjid Al-Furqan
Islamic Center of Central Brevard 190 Grant Rd. Merritt Island FL 32953
Masjid Al-Ansar 5245 Nw 7th Ave Miami FL 33127 305-757-8741
Nigerian Islamic Society 2410 Nw 93Rd St . Miami FL 33147
American Muslim Assoc of North America 183 Ne 166th St. Miami FL 33162 305-945-0414
Ershad Center 6669 Sw 59Th Place Miami FL 33025 305-661-2822
Masjid Al-Fayza 36 Ne 3Rd Ave. Miami FL 33132 305-358-1268
Masjid An-Nour 11699 Sw 147th Ave. Miami FL 33196 305-408-0400
Masjid Al-Ihsaan 10180 Sw 168th St . Miami FL 33157 305-259-0042
Masjid Ibrahim 6301 Nw 6th Ave. Miami FL 33150
Shamsuddin Masjid And Library
365 Ne 167th St. Miami FL 33162
786-428-0005 <https://>; ;
Masjid Miami
Muslim Communities Assoc of South Florida 7350 Nw 3Rd St Miami FL 33126 305-261-7622
Ummah of Miami 7904 West Dr. Unit 6 Miami Beach FL 3 33141
Masjid Al-Hijrah
Caribbean-American Islamic Association 6128 Sw 27th St . Miramar FL 33023
Islamic Center of Naples 2520 Davel Blvd. 2Nd Fl. Unit E Naples FL 34104 239-732-7136
Islamic Center of New Port Richey 4715 Grand Blvd New Port Richey FL 34652 727-834-9200
Isalmic Center of Palm Beach 101 Castlewood Dr . North Palm Beach FL 33408 561-630-6899
Masjid Darul-Islam of Ocala 6915 Sr 40 Ocala FL 34482 352-873-9959
Masjidu Tazkiah
Foundation of Lights 120 Floral St. Ocoee FL 34761 407-592-5457
Miami Gardens Masjid
Muslim Communities Association of S. Florida 4305 Nw 183Rd St. Opa Locka FL 33055 305-624-5555
Islamic Center of Orange Park 116 Foxridge Rd. Orange Park FL 32065
Masjid Al-Quddus
Islamic Society of Central Florida 312 S. Paramore Ave Orlando FL 32807
Jama Masjid
Islamic Center of Orlando 11543 Ruby Lake Rd. Orlando FL 32836 407-238-2700
Masjid Al-Rahim
Islamic Society of Central Florida 4962 Old Winter Garden Rd.
Orlando FL 32811 407-523-7882
Masjid Malik
Islamic Society of Central Florida 2018 Rouse Rd. Orlando FL 32817 407-277-0133
Islamic Education Center of Florida 2221 Harrell Rd. Orlando FL 32817 407-325-3647
Masjid Al-Rahman
Islamic Society of Central Florida 1089 N. Goldenrod Road Orlando FL 32807 407-273-7750
Masjid Al-Haq
Islamic Society of Central Florida 545 W. Central Blvd.
Orlando FL 32801 407-835-9600
Masjid Al-Aziz
Islamic Society of Central Florida 9501 Satellite Blvd. Suite 110
Orlando FL 32837
Bay County Islamic Society 3312 Token Rd. Panama City FL 32405 850-785-8085
Darul Uloom Masjid 7050 Pines Blvd Pembroke Pines FL 33024 954-963-9514
Al-Islam Dawah Center
1550 W. Barrancas Ave. Pensacola FL
32504 850-435-7238 <https://>; ;
Islamic Center of Northwest Florida 3445 E. Johnson Ave. Pensacola FL 32514
American Islamic Center 7400 62Nd Terrace North Pinellas Park FL 33781 727-520-6615
Bosnian Islamic Center 4255 73Rd Ave. N Pinellas Park FL 33781
Masjid Ebad Ar-Rahman
Islamic Society of Pinellas 9400 67th St. N Pinellas Park FL 33782 727-546-3162
Musala Asalam
Islamic Center of South Florida
507 Ne 6th St . Pompano Beach FL 33030
954-946-2723 <https://>; ;
Islamic Community of Sw Florida
25148 Harborview Rd. Port Charlotte FL
33980 941-625-8855 <https://>; ;
Masjid Al-Salam
Islamic Society of Central Florida 2917 S. Orlando Dr .
Sanford FL 32773
Husseini Islamic Center
5211 Hester Ave. Sanford FL 32773
Islamic Society of Sarasota & Bradenton
4350 N. Lockwood Ridge Rd. Sarasota
FL 34234 941-351-3393 <https://>; ;
Masjid Al-Jabbar
Islamic Society of Central Florida 5186 Shumacher Rd.
Sebring FL 33872 386-860-9663 <https://>; ;
Islamic Center of Hernando County
6307 Barclay Ave. Spring Hill FL
34609
Islamic Center of St. Augustine
1760 Sr-207 St. Augustine FL
32084 904-826-1991 <https://>; ;
Masjid Al-Muminin
3762 18th Ave. South St. Petersburg FL
33707 727-327-8483 <https://>; ;
Masjid Al Sunnah
Islamic Society of St. Petersburg 2401 6th St. S St. Petersburg FL 33705
Stuart Masjid 2981 Se Dominica Terrace Stuart FL 34997
Islamic Foundation of South Florida 5457 Nw 108th Ave. Sunrise FL 33351 954-741-8130
Masjid Al Nahal 115 Bragg Dr . Tallahasse FL 32304 850-576-6555
Al Ansar Mosque
Islamic Center of Tallahasse 1020 W. Pensacola Ave Tallahasse FL 32304 850-681-9022
Masjid Al-Furqan
Islamic Center of Tallahassee 3617 Old Bainbridge Rd. Tallahassee FL 32303 850-514-0100
Masjid Al-Qassam
Islamic Community of Tampa 5910 E. 130th Ave. Tampa FL 33617
Masjid Al-Ansar 4334 W. Waters Ave. Tampa FL 33614
Islamic Education Center of Tampa 6350 Rockpointe Dr . Tampa FL 33634 813-884-0847
Masjid Omar Al Mokhtar
1307 W. North St. B Tampa FL 33606
813-217-5531 <https://>; ;
Mas Youth Center
Muslim American Society 12226 N. 56th St.
Tampa FL 33617 813-899-2267 <https://>; ;
Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area
7326 E. Sligh Ave Tampa FL
33610 813-628-0007 <https://>; ;
Madinatul Ilm Islamic Center
5013 Garden Lane Tampa FL 33610
813-368-1717 <https://>; ;
Islamic Center of Gunn Hwy
4119 Gunn Hwy Tampa FL 33618
Masjid Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq
11130 N. 30th St . Tampa FL
33612 813-495-5436 <https://>; ;
Dar-Us Salaam
Islamic Society of New Tampa 15830 Morris Bridge Rd.
Thonotosassa FL 33592
Masjid Al-Mumin
Islamic Society of Central Florida 1011 S. Washington (Us 1)
Titusville FL 32780 321-268-1833 <https://>; ;
Indian River Islamic Center
2015 E. 9th St. Sw Vero Beach FL
32962 954-732-6667 <https://>; ;
Islamic Center of West Palm Beach
Muslim Community of Palm Beach 4883 Purdy Lane West Palm Beach FL 33416 561-969-1584
New Africa Muslim Community Center 3100 El Camino Real West Palm Beach FL 33409
Islamic Center of Polk County 1763 Unity Way Ne Winter Haven FL 33881 863-299-6840
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