Dear President Obama
It is my pleasure writing to you.
Since I am a strictly observing Muslim, I have to follow what the Muslim scholars have to say. I am not allowed to use my critical thinking nature. Using intellect to criticize religious edicts is not allowed according to them. I simply have to follow blindly, otherwise, people will start accusing me of being an infidel.
In the meantime, I am one of those human beings who strive to live their lives according to some moral and ethical values. One of those values is not to be a hypocrite who applies double standards in different situations.
Therefore, since the United States is a country of Christian majority, I hereby ask you to issue a Federal order that bans the construction of any new mosques on this land. I also ask you to ban the renovation or rebuilding of old mosques in cases such as fires, water floods or arson. This is the only way I can live with my values without being a hypocrite, since my religious scholars tell me that the Christian minorities in my home country (Egypt) are not allowed to build Churches or even renovate their deteriorating ones.
Moreover, I ask you to issue another Federal order that gives a grace period of three days to any Christian who converts to Islam to rethink his mind and convert back to Christianity. If after three days he still insists on becoming a Muslim, he must be executed. Again, this is the only way I can live by values. Muslim scholars teach us if a Muslim leaves Islam to another religion, he should be given three days to repent. Otherwise, he must be killed.
Finally, please never listen to the outcries of Muslims around the US to observe the Muslim holidays in the public school system. Never even come on CNN and tell us Eid Mubarak or Ramadan Kareem. I am not allowed, according to those scholars, to great my Christian and Jewish workmates, neighbors and colleagues during their holidays.
If Muslims in the US are not happy with these new laws, they can just leave to Egypt, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia.
Bottom line, since I am a good Muslim and those scholars tell me that the only path to paradise is to listen to them, I have to follow what they say. Yet, I cannot live with the guilt of being a hypocrite.
P.S. To be frank with you, Mr. President, not all Muslim scholars are following this school of thought. Other scholars have resolved all of these concerns in a way that does not conflict with the principals of Islam. Yet, they do not have the louder voice and we cannot simply follow them without being accused of being too liberal, infidels or loose Muslims.
Sincerely yours,
Wael Abd-Almageed
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