One Arab’s Apology

Posted on September 12, 2006

I found this in the NY Post, by Emilo Karim Dabul, to be well informed and sincere. This is the kind of words that CAIR should be saying.

WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn’t help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However, I was one of millions of Arab-Americans who did the unspeakable on 9/11: nothing.

The only time I raised my voice in protest against these men who killed thousands of innocents in the name of Allah was behind closed doors, among the safety of friends and family. I did at one point write a very vitriolic essay condemning their actions, but fear of becoming another Salman Rushdie kept me from ever trying to publish it.

Well, I’m sick of saying the truth only in private - that Arabs around the world, including Arab-Americans like myself, need to start holding our own culture accountable for the insane, violent actions that our extremists have perpetrated on the world at large.

Yes, our extremists and our culture.

Every single 9/11 hijacker was Arab and a Muslim. The apologists (including President Bush) tried to reassure us that 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam, but was a twisting of a great and noble religion. With all due respect, read the Koran, Mr. President. There’s enough there for someone of extreme tendencies to find their way to a global jihad.

Read the entire thing.
Courageous words. My friend, Lawhawk says it well in the comments at LGF.

Sometimes a movement can start with a lone voice. Let’s hope that his voice is joined by many others. And they’re going to need lots of help - especially against the vicious fundamentalists who hate having the obvious hatred and demonization of other religious viewpoints pointed out about their religious beliefs.

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2 Responses to “One Arab’s Apology”

Ogre on September 12th, 2006 6:28 pm

Indeed — there’s a start!
kerwin_brown on September 13th, 2006 2:15 am

Salman Rushdi is an avowed Atheist if Emilo Karim Dabul is also an Atheist then his confession is not worth much as Atheists are constantly attacking one religion or another. Mind you that the fact Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, announced a fatwa against Salman for libeling Mohamed is a sign that Islam is not a religion of peace. I doubt that The Ayatollah of Iran would see condemning the hijackers in quite the same light.