>From: Y C Jow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Why Now?
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:05:04 EST
>
>Matarr:
>Thanks & well said.
>
>I am a deeply spiritual person myself even though I admit to coming around
>full circle as it concerns my devotion to Islam.
>
>However, we should be extremely vigilant about some of the religious
>hypocrisy that goes on within our communities.  I for one, will never allow
>the religious maniacs to piss on our heads then turn around and tell us
>it's
>raining.  For too long, they have used religion and Islam in particular, to
>justify a variety of acts of hypocrisy and wickedness.
>
>Our leaders steal from us, yet the Imams bless them at the mosques and give
>them immunity in the eyes of some.  A rich man helps builds a mosque and
>all
>of a sudden, he or she gets all these blessings from religious leaders.
>Even
>at the grand mosque on Independence drive the Imam at the time would tell
>us
>to pray for Jawara at the end of the Tobaski prayers instead of praying for
>the country.
>
>To compound it all, some of the recent series on Islam we have been
>"graced"
>with out here has been so rigid & uninspiring, I have wondered aloud
>whether
>these folks actually know what they are talking about.
>
>Anyways, I should stop rambling and move on now.  Thanks again & to those
>that spread intolerance, we shall be waiting
>
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