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An open letter to the Muslim community,

I ask my fellow Muslims to read this important article:

"Muslim Youth Radicalization or Politically Correct Islamophobia?"
by Reem Salahi, a member of the National Lawyers Guild, and the President of the Muslim Bar Association of Southern California

This is of great importance especially in light of what is happening between the Muslim community in Canada and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). I ask my fellow Muslims to reflect extra long and hard about this -- specifically, how some of our "leaders" have chosen to deal with this matter. May Allah (swt) reward her for being so strong in her intellect and in her ability to dissect the matter. Not to mention summoning the courage to hold our leaders accountable for their actions or lack thereof. An act that can easily get you isolated. It is absolutely sad that more non-Muslims are passionate about the issue of CSIS infiltration in the Muslim community as opposed to some Muslims who think the matter is of little importance. Even when it has reached to the "mainstream" level in Canada as well. We need to do our best to change this and develop a countercurrent, insha'Allah. I could not have said it better than she did. A big thanks to all of our leaders who do speak out and manage to think rationally about this issue in the manner that this sister has displayed.

If you're too lazy to read, just take this paragraph in:

"Rather than critically question the media's premise of radicalization, Muslim organizations and their leaders jumped on the bandwagon and now seek to put an end to "Muslim youth radicalization," whatever that means. But seriously, what does that mean? House Resolution 1955 defined violent radicalization as "the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change." In other words, the (unexplained notion of) adopting or promoting an (undefined) extremist belief, which could potentially facilitate (in unclear terms) ideologically based violence is violent radicalization. Now if that doesn't clarify radicalization, I don't know what does. According to my reading, this definition of radicalization could encompass everything from violent acts to civil disobedience to even voicing an unpopular stance."

In the spirit of resistance,
Critical Mood
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