"Peaceful Muslims? I Do Believe They Exist"

 

I always get a lot of grief when I mention Muslims. If I condemn Muslim terrorists, I hear that I'm "Islamophobic" or some such nonsense. And if I say I still like Cat Stevens music though he is now "Yusuf Islam," I'm gullible and deceived. Anyway, I will never stop sharing my opinions and here is something I wrote about MUHAMMAD ALI 5 years ago, 2015, before he died and before I started THIS blog....

I was not ALWAYS a fan of Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali, but I have been since 1978 and what he did today, as the most famous Muslim in the world, has added to my admiration of him. He is RISKING HIS LIFE by speaking against "Muslim Murderers" but Ali has ALWAYS been a true man who is willing to pay the price for taking a stand, like when he received a five year jail sentence and was denied the right to box (in his prime) rather than to fight in VIETNAM....a war he did not believe in.

Here is Ali’s statement:

"I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world. True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.

"We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda. They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.

"Speaking as someone who has never been accused of political correctness, I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people's view on what Islam really is."

You may think this is a sham, you may think he's trying to FOOL us but we've been clamoring for a Muslim to CONDEMN the barbarians. and Ali has done that.

You may say that “the last paragraph condemns TRUMP” (The Drudge Report AGREES with you, if you think that), but Trump is NOT a “political leader”.....not yet, anyway.

You may say Ali is wrong, it is NOT the job of political leaders to help bring understanding of ANY religion, and I agree 100%.

But friends, we’ve been asking “Are there any PEACEFUL Muslims?” and I believe Muhammad Ali is ONE. He was peace-loving when he wouldn’t fight in ‘Nam, and this former boxing champ is peace-loving NOW.

I was won over to Ali when it looked like Leon Spinks ended his career, but he came back to BEAT him seven months later (1978). I cried when Ali got Parkinson's, but I cheered when I read this statement. I don’t see Ali as a MUSLIM, primarily....I see him as a MAN who is willing to risk everything to stand for what he believes in. And I love the guy as much as a man can love a man, and still BE a man.

I pray he’ll get SAVED from Islam one day, and have his sins forgiven through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Too bad that, at THIS point, Ali seems to stand ALONE regarding Muslims who speak out plainly, but he has proven to me that he is to Muslims what he was to other boxers.

“The Greatest.”

And, to me at least, Ali proves that peaceful Muslims DO exist.