Originally posted by: Yankees
Only few have the guts to denounce the actions of the extremist bunch within the Muslim religion.
Not so much denounce, as addressing the ideology behind the terrorism, because if you do, then you have to talk about religion, and then you'd get labelled an Islamophobe, racist, bigot etc if you do. 😆
That's why I love people like Tarek Fatah, a writer, author and columnist, he is completely fearless, and doesn't give a shit about offending anyone whilst speaking the truth. 😆 He was in India recently, and was invited on a lot of news channels, they didn't know how to handle him, a Canadian Muslim of Pakistani origin, who is an Indian by heart, and takes pride in his Hindu heritage. For the first time ever, we were seeing taboo topics being debated on news channels, like does terrorism have any connection with Islam etc.. he had the Mullahs squirming. 😆 He's the one who spearheaded the idea of changing the road name "Aurangzeb Road" to "APJ Abdul Kalam Road". 🥳
We need true secular liberal Muslims and reformists like Tarek Fatah, who are not afraid to have these discussions. There is also Tufail Ahmad, another Indian Muslim, and Hassan Nisar from Pakistan.
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Edited by Heisenberg. - 9 years ago
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