URL - http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/2013/02/so-what-if-john-brenan-is-muslim.html
Names withheld
I agree with you, it
does not suit me to use the expletive, and I humbly acknowledge it.
My apologies to you and others who have expressed their dislike or not.
The note was in response
to the calls, Sean Hannity announces my website and his text goes
out to a million of his followers, many of whom are following me as well
as chasing me. I was getting non-stop calls from all over the United States as
if I am the Pope of Muslims. Nagging questions like, he (Brenan) is a Muslim in
closet, he has connections to God knows, what are you going to do about it....
and did you know he is a Moslem?
My response to that question was the title of the topic, so I captioned the
article to make the point. So what if he is? Actually Collin Powell had used
the same phrase minus the expletive.
Now, to your other
question, perhaps because you don't have the first knowledge of what I do (as a
volunteer); Here is the elaboration of the response I wrote to
my other Indian friends, with whom I connect fairly well and respect.
" (name) ______,
I was equally mad when a council man in Dallas pointed his finger at the
other and said "You people" to a Jewish man. I was outraged and
wrote that in Dallas Morning News in 2005. When Bush did not sign the bill to
allow the Wicca (another religious tradition) Veterans in Arlington
Cemetery to have their own headstone, I went ballistic. When the state Senator
Williams of Kentucky called the Governor names for participating in Bhoomi
Puja in E-Town, I was jumped all over him and wrote in Huffington post, when
the Pastor from Kansas called Jews, Christ Killers and staged rallies in
front of the Holocaust Museum and a few synagogues and Texas Jewish post,
I was there with the Jews protesting against the pastor.. . I have worked with
the Dept of Justice to include Jain symbol in their symbols of religions, have
held the rallies against the Gujarat massacre and held a program about Sikh and
Bangladeshi Genocides…
Yes, we have condemned strongly against the plight of Hindu Pundits of Kashmir
in our Holocaust and Genocides programs...wrote and generated calls to the
Russian embassy in DC to pull back the ban they were working on banning Bhagvad
Gita, challenged Moscow for usurping the Hare Krishna Temple land, condemned
the desecration of temple in Trinidad, condemned and wrote to the Minister of
Malaysia to punish those idiots who threw the head of a bull in the Temple in Kuala
Lumpur... 15 years ago, I got threatening calls from a few right
winger Catholics for defending the bishop in Lisbon who allowed a Hindu
couple to get married in the church and they place Ganesh Icon on the altar,
which got the bishop fired...and I got nasty calls from some of the idiots,
they said, shame on you to defend the idol worshippers. It is easy to back off
isn’t it, that is what most chickens do, thank God; I will not be pushed around
when it comes to standing up for others.
Nanak, no one asked me
to do this, Hindus did not ask, Jains did not ask, Christians did not ask, Jews
did not ask... I did it because it is the right thing to do. It is not just
them, when someone attacks a Muslim for his religion I will fiercely go after
him, and I have gone after Sunnis in Bahrain for being brutal to their Shias, Armadas
in Pakistan, Bangladeshi and Indonesia, even here... We hold a lot of
interfaith dialogues, no one pays me or asks me, but I always include all
religions, Hinduism, your faith is never missed in my writings. Look at Dallas
Morning news – 112 articles, Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Islam, Judaism… are all
weaved in each article.
I hope you will stand up
for every one regardless of their religion, if you have stood up for a Jain,
Sikh, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew, Buddhist, Baha’i, Adivasi, Dalit… please share, we need more people who do that
to change the world.
Here are some of the
links:
After I finish compiling
all others, I will compile what I have done for the oppressed among Muslims. Since it is my religion, I am doing at the end.
Aren’t you and I taught in India, that you feed the guests first and eat in the
end, did not your mother and my mother ate after all the family was fed? I am doing nothing different than that, and I
hope my fellow Muslims understand that.
Unless we stand up for
others, why should anyone stand up for us?
Please share your experience of standing up for Jains, Sikhs, Muslims, Adivasis, Tribals, Dalits, Bahai, Jews, Christians and others... it is good to hear that.
The pope resigned today,
and hopes the new one will be open to all faiths and not be biased against any.
I was going to write about it in Dallas Morning News on Monday, but simply ran
out of time. Some ten years ago, the Baptist convention in Atlanta had said bad
things about Hinduism, I had written to their convention at that time, and I
have faced off with their president from two years ago in defending Catholics
on the national radio.
I request each one of us
not to judge others without knowing or hearing the hearsay.
Thank you.
.... Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, peace, Islam, Israel, India,interfaith, and cohesion at work place. He is
committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on
issues of the day at www.TheGhousediary.com. He believes in Standing up for others and has done that throughout his life
as an activist. Mike has a presence on national and local TV, Radio and Print
Media. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on
national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News; fortnightly at Huffington post; and several other periodicals across
the world. His personal site www.MikeGhouse.net indexes all his work through many links.
