Carlos Khalil Guzman: Showing the True Face of Islam (Part 4)
Carlos Khalil Guzman is a “revert” to Islam who is now going about the country, taking pictures of cheerful, fresh-faced smiling Muslims, each of whom is asked to choose a favorite verse in the Qur’an, or a saying by Muhammad in the Hadith, and to explain why he, or she, has made that particular choice.
So far, [Guzman has] taken 52 portraits across about 26 states. His goal is to take 114 portraits, to symbolize the 114 chapters in the Quran. He hopes to finish the project this year, and later turn the entire series into an interactive traveling art exhibit. He said his sense of urgency to complete the project has been spurred on by reports of increasing levels of hate crimes against American Muslims.
He hopes his audience can come to understand that the challenges faced by Muslims in America are connected to the challenges faced by other marginalized groups.
“What affects one oppressed community in this country affects another oppressed community,” he said.
Are Muslims an “oppressed community” in this country? Where is the evidence for this? In the series of manufactured “hate crimes” used to swell the numbers of the latter? In all the examples of smarmy interfaith outreach where Christians and Jews feel they have to defend Muslims and Islam, but never feel they have an obligation to find out first about what is in the texts of Islam, and what Muslims are routinely taught, and especially how they are taught to regard Infidels? They defend the faith, by taking it on faith. If it is claimed by Guzman that Muslims are “oppressed” in this country, he should offer the evidence. What we see is something that hardly suggests oppression: the unseemly haste with which the media rush, after every atrocity committed by Muslims, to defend all the “real” Muslims and Islam, repeating the absurdist mantra that “Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism,” the politicians and writers of editorials focussing after every attack by Muslim terrorists on the “need to reassure the Muslim community,” and holding those Interfaith meetings where Christian and Jewish clergymen stand side-by-side with their Muslim brothers. ” And at the same time the coherent critics of Islam, who carefully adduce the textual evidence from Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira, are cast into the outer darkness as “Islamophobes” and find that both Google and Facebook direct people away from them. In other words, at every step, far from being “oppressed,” the Muslim community finds itself the recipient of very public and uncritical support.
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