Posted on 08/19/2010 5:13:49 PM PDT by Man50D
WASHINGTON – A leader of the small worldwide Muslim reform movement is warning the West against wishful thinking as the U.S. government promotes an intensive dialogue with Islam.
"The dialogue is not proceeding well because of the two-facedness of most Muslim interlocutors on the one hand and the gullibility of well-meaning Western idealists on the other," Bassam Tibi said Tuesday in an interview with United Press International.
Syrian-born Tibi, who claims to be a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed and teaches political science at Goettingen University in Germany, appealed for intellectual honesty in these exchanges.
This Is 'Peace'?
"First, both sides should acknowledge candidly that although they might use identical terms these mean different things to each of them. The word 'peace,' for example, implies to a Muslim the extension of the Dar al-Islam – or 'House of Islam' – to the entire world," explained Tibi, who is also a research scholar at Harvard University.
"This is completely different from the Enlightenment concept of eternal peace that dominates Western thought, a concept developed by Immanuel Kant," an 18th-century philosopher.
This Is 'Tolerance'?
"Similarly, when Muslims and the Western heirs of the Enlightenment speak of tolerance they have different things in mind. In Islamic terminology, this term implies abiding non-Islamic monotheists, such as Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, as second-class believers. They are 'dhimmi,' a protected but politically immature minority."
According to Tibi, the quest of converting the entire world to Islam is an immutable fixture of the Muslim worldview. Only if this task is accomplished, if the world has become a "Dar al-Islam," will it also be a "Dar a-Salam," or a house of peace.
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You mean like the GZ mosque Imam.... =.=
Imam Obama certainly meets the main requirement of lying to the Infidels.
The president has two faces????!?
Sounds like McCain
Islam has to lie because it’s weak.
Lying is necessary for those who deny reality. Reality always wins.
Straight from the camel's mouth.
Peace: is the absence of resistance and submission.
Of course it is called the religion of peace; no resistance is allowed.
The political class believes they can control such a military and quasi-governmental movement disguised within Islam, through public manipulation pretending that Islamic precepts are just words.
Yeah, that nice little muslim down the block. Wait, is that someone at the door.........?
And two-facedness and gullibility are both descriptions that are probably too kind. The Muslims are liars and deceivers and the Westerners are self-deluded fools, mostly self-deluded by their great need to be PC and 'inclusive'.
It should be SOP that if you are not able to fully support Western values and by the most terrible oath renounce allegiance to the promotion of the violent political and cultural paradigms of Islam you should not be given asylum in a Western democracy.
Sounds like this person is threatening 0bama.
Because 0bama is, in my opinion, a two-faced Muslim.
"The dialogue is not proceeding well because of the two-facedness of most Muslim interlocutors on the one hand and the gullibility of well-meaning Western idealists on the other," Bassam Tibi said Tuesday in an interview with United Press International. Syrian-born Tibi, who claims to be a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed and teaches political science at Goettingen University in Germany, appealed for intellectual honesty in these exchanges.
I suspect that the gullibility of “Western idealists” is lubricated by baksheesh i.e., encouraged by nice little gifts from the Arabs with oil dollars.
Our trusting moose limbs is like the frog trusting the scorpion.
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