A Manifesto Slams Islamic Totalitarianism

Atlas Shrugs Blog ^ | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 | Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

A Manifesto Slams Islamic Totalitarianism

Heads are gonna roll...........no pun intended. From Agora;

Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al Slam Islamic Totalitarianism

This just in, stay tuned as the story develops. I think we’ll be seeing people die in the coming days. You know, from "reactions"….

MANIFESTO:

Together facing the new totalitarianism

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.

We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.

The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.

Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man’s domination of woman, the Islamists’ domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.

We reject « cultural relativism », which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.

We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.

We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.

12 signatures

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Chahla Chafiq
Caroline Fourest
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Irshad Manji
Mehdi Mozaffari
Maryam Namazie
Taslima Nasreen
Salman Rushdie
Antoine Sfeir
Philippe Val
Ibn Warraq

Michelle Malkin has their bios here

Attention New Yorkers: rally for solidarity with Denmark this Friday from noon to one.

Address: Outside the Danish Consulate at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 885 Second Avenue.

Posted by Pamela aka "Atlas" on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 06:13 PM in Radical Islam: The War on Jihadism, World War IV | Permalink

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Is there a fixed date for this rally?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hattip to Belmont Club:

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Blowback

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Glenn Reynold writing at MSNBC wonders aloud whether a public opinion tipping point has been reached in the war on terror. But it's not the tipping point you think.

With the Cartoon Wars giving way to the ports imbroglio, Jim Geraghty, blogging from Turkey, wonders if we're seeing a tipping point in Western attitudes toward Islam. Geraghty collects a lot of quotes, and writes of "my sense that in recent weeks, a large chunk of Americans just decided that they no longer have any faith in the good sense or non-hostile nature of the Muslim world. If subsequent polls find similar results, the port deal is dead."

One of the keystones of President Bush's strategy has been to distinguish very carefully between Islam, the religion of peace, the mass of whose adherents we want on our side, and extremists with whom we are really at war. Geraghty is suggesting that public opinion now sees the clash as one of a more general nature: between "us" and "them". Although no one is suggesting the West is yet at war with Islam, twelve public figures have issued a Manifesto calling "Islamism" the new totalitarian threat of our time. Atlas Shrugs has the text of the declaration which says in part:

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See above for the manifesto.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Attention New Yorkers: rally for solidarity with Denmark this Friday from noon to one.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I just have to get this in here.....from the Belmont Club linked above....

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Commentary

If the Left had not been so relentlessly politically correct it might have been able to shape the debate according to its avowed (or should I say "so-called") principles. But they gave that chance up in exchange for the cheap thrill of anti-Americanism. Now even they find themselves decrying the Dubai Ports World deal because -- although they will never put it that way -- President Bush is a fool to trust these people with the gateway into America. They may even be conscious of the tightening of the logical rope around their necks even as they pull on it. But though they've hit bottom they keep digging. The New York Times has announced that it will sue the DOD to force the federal government agency to turn over classified material in connection with its NSA surveillance stories. At one level they may think this is clever, but strategically it is (in my opinion) very, very stupid.

Time will tell whether the war on terror remains within the bounds of limited confrontation with rogue elements within the "religion of peace" or whether -- due to some conceptual fault in the campaign or the persistent obstruction by the politically correct -- it morphs into a more general confrontation between belief systems and civilizations.

posted by wretchard at 7:01 PM

[muawiyah]

Rather than use a nebulous term like "Islamicism" why don't these guys stick to the tried and true "Islamofascism".

Not to be picky, but "Islamicist", the root word from which they draw "Islamicism" has several meanings.

This can lead to the same sort of problem as the misues of the word "port" to mean "gantry".

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Gateway Pundit:

Monday, February 27, 2006
Poland Introduces "Martyrs of Our Time" Ad Campaign

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The Polish Foundation of St. Benedictus introduces its "Martyrs of our Time" ad campaign this week.

Poland is no France...
No rationalizing or mollifying barbaric behavior in Krakow!

Here are a few of the moving posters that will be placed in public transportation vehicles in Poland for the campaign.

George Shahata, thirteen years old, was killed by Muslims in Egypt.

From Eurojihad.Org:

This is an action that was conducted in one of the major Polish cities - Poznan. The action was started by the Foundation of St. Benedictus and was approved by local government. The Foundation's director is Zbigniew Czerwinski who is also member of PiS and president of the Regional Council.

[strategofr]

"We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers."

In addition, they are willing to risk being killed, which is notable.

[strategofr]

"...it morphs into a more general confrontation between belief systems and civilizations."

I think it has already morphed.

[strategofr]

"Poland is no France...
No rationalizing or mollifying barbaric behavior in Krakow!"

Go Poland! Freedom's spearhead! From fighting Soviet tyrrany to fighting Muslim terror!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

At least part of Europe seems to be waking up!

[Marine_Uncle]

Perhaps as time marches on, we shall see more movements willing to address the sickness deep within the bowels of Islam. The ball must be first thrown before a homerun has a chance of developing. I fear however not enough pitchers and batters will step to the mound and plate to provide real action in this endeavour. It would appear a manifesto would require a lot of signatories to provide the impetus required to keep it from not falling along the way side. Boy that's playing it safe.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The game is speeding up...see these:

Sunnis fear US missteps will bolster Tehran's influence

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And:

Monday, February 27, 2006
Russia & Iran Save The Last Dance

[Marine_Uncle]

I suffered through the first URL. Sounds like this Paul McGeough Chief Herald correspondent in Amman, is a Kerryite, or perhaps a Teddyite. Clearly he is totally anti-US, and some of his lame brained analogies and suggestive reasoning on things partaining to the US non-support of Hamas paint him as a Palio symphasizer. He is anti-Israeli, and outwardly conceeds this administrations for invading Iraq where invalid,. He apparently either never followed the UN resolutions, and reasons we invaded Iraq, or he is simply one more clever spinmister, attempting to build up a case against all the US and it's allies are attempting to do in the ME in general. His arguments about our invading Iraq only to find no wmds along with other things he has to say tells me he is of the far left variety, with little need to keep abreast of events. So for me the few things he rattled off about things we all should understand at this point about how Iran operates still does not outway his one sided opposition to how this adminstration is dealing in the ME. He seems so sad that we do not want to support the terrorist HAMAS goons. Tough luck for him.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the analysis, he raised my blood pressure....

[Marine_Uncle]

"Thanks for the analysis, he raised my blood pressure.."
Time for a walk on the beach ah. Be signing off soon so have a good one.

[Tarantulas]

This was originally posted in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper from Denmark, the paper that first published the Mohammed cartoons. The blog picked it up from another blog.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ok, thanks!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

BBC now has this, referencing a French weekly paper.

Writers issue cartoon row warning