September 11, 2016
The Wisdom Fund

9/11: Muslim Leaders Violate Tenets Of Islam When They Fail To Examine Opposing Views, And 'By Well Reasoned Argument ... Remove The Grounds For Dissent'

by Enver Masud

On this, the 15th anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, 3000 plus military and intelligence personnel, pilots, engineers, architects, and other professionals have spoken out against the official account of 9/11.

The evidence against the official account of 9/11 is overwhelming.

America's wars, justified by 9/11, have killed more than one million Muslims; thousands of Americans. Many more have been maimed, wounded, and made homeless. About 20 veterans commit suicides daily. Civil liberties have eroded. The wars have contributed significantly to our $19 trillion debt.

Polls show America, along with Israel, is considered the biggest threat to world peace.

While Muslims are the biggest victims of 9/11, American Muslim leaders have not only failed to speak out against the official account of 9/11, they have prevented Muslims who do from being heard. They have failed to examine the evidence, and/or enter into dialogue with those who have and are speaking out.

The internationally recognized Muslim scholar, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, has written that "putting a curb on dissent or criticism, or upbraiding dissenters, is not the Islamic way. The method of Islam is to listen to opposite viewpoints and then attempt, by well reasoned argument, to remove the grounds for dissent."

The vice-president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA -- largest Muslim organization in North America) has, without examination, accepted the official account of 9/11.

ISNA's position is supported by officials of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) -- organizations often cited by mainstream news media.

"Dissent," a quote attributed to historian Howard Zinn, "is the highest form of patriotism".

By failing to examine dissenting views, and "by well reasoned argument ... remove the grounds for dissent", Muslim leaders are violating tenets of Islam. They are collaborating in America's unjust wars.

One of the foremost authorities on Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, has written: "According to Sufism, the supreme goal of human life is to attain Truth, which is also Reality, the source of all reality, and whose attainment, as also stated by Christ, makes us free, delivering us from the bondage of ignorance."

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"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them . . . he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form."--John Stuart Mill (1806-73)

FREE BOOK 9/11 UNVEILED in Arabic, Chinese, English -- "best, short summary"

Charles Kurzman, "Islamic Statements Against Terrorism," kurzman.unc.edu

Enver Masud, "Fear Paralyzes U.S. Muslim 'Leaders'," The Wisdom Fund, August 3, 2010

"American Patriots Question 9/11," The Wisdom Fund, September 11, 2011

"Why They Hate Us," The Wisdom Fund, December 19, 2015

[According to Sufism, the supreme goal of human life is to attain Truth, which is also Reality, the source of all reality, and whose attainment, as also stated by Christ, makes us free, delivering us from the bondage of ignorance.--Seyyed Hossein Nasr, "The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition," HarperOne; Reprint edition (September 2, 2008), p30]

Enver Masud, "9/11: Have U.S. Muslim Leaders Failed the Ummah (Community)?," The Wisdom Fund, September 11, 2018