Posted on 08/23/2014 5:01:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ALONG with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad, I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running amok in Islams birthplace.
Lets be clear: Al Qaeda, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Boko Haram, the Shabab and others are all violent Sunni Salafi groupings. For five decades, Saudi Arabia has been the official sponsor of Sunni Salafism across the globe.
What is religious extremism but this aim to apply Shariah as state law? This is exactly what ISIS (Islamic State) is attempting do with its caliphate. Unless we challenge this un-Islamic, impractical and flawed concept of trying to govern by a rigid interpretation of Shariah, no amount of work by a United Nations agency can unravel Islamist terrorism.
Saudi Arabia created the monster that is Salafi terrorism. It cannot now outsource the slaying of this beast to the United Nations. It must address the theological and ideological roots of extremism at home, starting in Mecca and Medina. Reforming the home of Islam would be a giant step toward winning against extremism in this global battle of ideas.
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Dear Ed,
F*** you and the pedophile son of Satan you worship. We are going to kill every last one one of you.
Love,
L
Great. They found one reasonable sounding Muslim to serve as a poster child for the religion.
Sorry, but I’m not fooled. The problem with Islam is that Mr. Husain is the exception that proves the rule. That is, if you even believe he is on the level (and I am not there yet).
I believe that, even with the guillotine, the peoples’ heads had their eyes opening and shutting, and they would try to speak or scream for about that length of time.
By buying Middle East oil, we put trillions of dollars into the hands of cavemen. The result: modern military and economic power in the hands of people whose political, philosophical, and moral development is at an infantile level.
The whole world would have been better off if the West had marched in, pushed the cavemen off the land, and stolen the oil.
The astonishing thing to me is that, after 9/11, we kept up importing Muslims into this country. And that was under Bush. —it has only gotten worse under Obama. The West apparently has a suicidal streak which I just cannot explain.
LIB self-loathing encapsulates it. They hate themselves so much but aren’t strong enough to kill them selves. Unfortunately, the degenerates do it, then, indirectly...taking the rest of us with them.
Almost. The Saudi elite needs to export it to protect itself from the other SAUDIS who don’t live like kings...
I would agree with that...It’s obvious to me..
Same reasoning as the Saudi’s.
Blacks
Mexicans
Insert angry group name here...(...........)
It’s appeasement policy.
I can. It's called liberal progressive dementia. Liberalism really is a mental disorder.
The will to do this won't come until unspeakable calamity is brought to the world by Islam - ISIS might be the spark that starts this fire. The calamity will be beyond belief, it will have to be if 911 was insufficient.
> [Ed Husain] Perceived double standards from our Government and the current green light (from Washington and London) to Israels killing machine will strengthen Al Qaedas metanarrative and radicalize yet another generation of young Muslims. This from an organisation that has spent its entire existence ingratiating itself with the government by claiming that Islamist ideology not foreign policy is the root cause of radicalisation (a term which of course obliterates the distinction between the general politicisation of Muslim youth in response to imperialism and the influence of terrorist groupuscules).
Opinion: Bring Hamas to the table
By Ed Husain
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/opinion/husain-hamas-negotiations-gaza/
> Until recently, the two writers met regularly to discuss Islamism after Mr Husain renounced violent extremism. Their relationship was terminally soured, however, by the outbreak of hostilities in Gaza. Mr Husain used his position as head of the anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation to condemn the actions of the Israeli army. At the time he wrote on Comment is Free: Ive spoken out in support of Israels right to exist. But Israels cold, politically timed killing of more than 300 Palestinians makes me, and millions more rethink our attitude towards Israel.
Melanie Phillips and Ed Husain fall out over Israel
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/21913/melanie-phillips-and-ed-husain-fall-out-over-israel
Britain has a duty to Arabs by Ed Husain
Our rushed withdrawal in 1948 is partly to blame for the crisis in the Middle East, so now we must help create a new Palestine
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast
This is my personal favorite — basically he equates the prosperity of Israel with the boycott of Israel, and blames the ‘abject poverty’ of the Arab squatters on the boycott, rather than on the present and future mass-murderers who run Hamas (which he thinks deserves a seat at the table) Fatah and the rest of the terrorist organizations.
> In many mosques and universities this view might bolster the superiority complex of some academics and Muslim clerics. But the main victims of this boycott are not Israelis, but Palestinians. Israels economy is booming, while Palestinians languish in abject poverty. The decades-long Arab boycott has failed miserably. An estimated 70 percent of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem live below the poverty line.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/global/end-the-arab-boycott-of-israel.html
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