Moral Obligations Of Muslim Immigrants

By far the most difficult experience of Muslim immigrants in the West has been the aftermath of Muslim acts of political violence in their countries of residence. Almost no Muslim immigrant community has escaped this experience. These events have had an adverse effect on the public image of Muslim groups. The majority of people in Western countries who have been the targets of terrorist attacks by Muslim groups look at their Muslim minorities with fear and suspicion. Many have doubts about the loyalties of Muslim minorities and fear that some members of these ethnic groups will join terror groups against their host societies. Western governments and political leaders have called on Muslim community leaders to condemn the violent ideologies that inspire the acts of terror. What are the moral responsibilities of Muslim minorities under these difficult circumstances? Clearly the first and most important duty of these ethnic groups is to condemn terrorism and do whatever they can to prevent any member of their community from engaging in religiously motivated acts of terror against their host country. Indeed loyalty to the new homeland is the duty of any immigrant. Even if an immigrant feels attachment to the culture or well being of the motherland from which he or she or parents have emigrated, he or she can not betray the new homeland because of these attachments. Under the worst circumstance where the immigrant's motherland and host country are engaged in a heated conflict, the immigrant can not betray his new homeland. If one believes that in this conflict one's new country of residence is at fault, one's only moral option is to leave for another country or engage in non-violent political opposition to one's host country's policy. http://www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php?articleid=6133

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