Reply #1: More from Tawfik Hamid....'The majority of Muslims are all passive terrorists'...

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This is the transcript from a radio interview. This Walid Shoebat protegee appears not just to have a problem with Muslim extremists, but with most if not all Muslims:

'Hamid: When I joined the medical school, I met with some people from the Jemmah Islamiya or the Islamic Group who talked to me about religion and how Islam should dominate the world. But it just takes you gradually via a brainwashing mechanism that made me at the end really a very bad person in my soul. And I then started to be against all of this. During this period I was with Dr. Al-Zawahiri in the same Islamic group in the medical school, Jemmah Islamiya. Then I thought I am becoming a very bad person and my soul is becoming very evil. So I started to change my thoughts and create a new sect or new way of thinking in Islam. But unfortunately, the vast majority of Muslims were against any peaceful understanding. And they prefer this violent traditional teaching of Islam.

Barry: In what way were you being brainwashed, what were you being told?

Hamid: For example, if you are an ordinary Muslim in the traditional Islamic teaching in the books and in the mosques, they teach you that you have to beat your son to force him to pray when he is 7. And if you are a husband you have to beat your wife to discipline her according to the traditional Islamic teaching. So these are some factors that create elements of violence…and also it teaches you to hate non-Muslims, Christians and Jews. Traditionally, Muslims invaded other people's land to force them on Islam either to become Muslims or pay money for them or to be killed. These were the three options for non-Muslims.

Barry: What were you actually told about Christians and Jews and other religions?

Hamid: What they teach in the mosque, for example, is that Jews are the sons of pigs and monkeys. This is traditional teaching in most of the mosques and the classical teachings in most of the books. And about the Christians, this is what they taught us–they are infidels who will go to Hell and will be tortured forever. And they describe to you the way of torturing these Christians. This just makes you as a Muslim feel bad. These people have no soul. They are not human beings. And it's part of the process of justifying killing them . If God Himself is against them to this degree and they are infidels who will be tortured, why should Muslims care about them and care for their lives?

…There are different degrees of evil . Jemaah Islamiya represents the active evil or active terrorists let us call them who are ready to commit violent acts and all such atrocities. But the majority of Muslim are all passive terrorists. They believe in this evil. They support it either by money or emotionally they are not against it. You can see the number of demonstrations against bin Laden was nearly none in the whole Islamic world.'

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/02/03/tawfiq-hamid-islamic-reformer-who-hates-islam/