Excellent, thanks for posting.
Great article. Tells it like it is.
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Excellent post and read. Please repost tomorrow afternoon so more people will see it. The duplicate posting nazis can take a pill if necessary.
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It addresses some of the core ideological obstacles the West is facing in the delusion of a "tamed" Islam living in peace within a "multi-cultural" society - as least in the manner contemporary liberals understand multi-culturalism. Islam is simply schizophrenic.
This article also details the growing dissent that scholars like Daniel Pipes is facing within his following. If 75% of Islam is about Jihad and the rest religion, then logically a growing demographic of people in the West who are becoming proficient in all things Islam will start to see the schizophrenia and grow to oppose it.
Thus, we see that Mr. Pipes' argument there is a "moderate" Islam is true, but only a different side of the same coin.
I don't agree with Warner's assertion people are naive about Islam, enough to not make a difference. Our government and institutes of "higher" learning are simply so crippled by political correctness and global business interests as to be incapable to oppose global political Islam. At least right now.
"...It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]
"...That the totalitarian force pitted against freedom wears a religious makes this civil war among mankind all the more difficult to engage. Loving freedom as we do, it seems reprehensible to deliberate against a religion. But this is no ordinary religion as it demands absolute obedience of all to their religion at the cost of freedom itself." [FReeper Backtothestreets]
Thanks Fred.
Islam Faces a New EraToday's Muslim world is also being betrayed by a similar intellectual passivity regarding the Internet, the dynamo of the next Renaissance. While the French fight an uphill battle to prevent English from laying siege to the French-speaking world via the Net, none of the major Muslim languages plays a major role in this huge knowledge machine. Equally conspicuous is the absence of Muslim countries from one of history's greatest scientific endeavors, the Human Genome Project. Islam is not intrinsically opposed to ideals of justice, equality, and human dignity. It is folly to assume that technological sophistication or economic prosperity need weaken, or run counter to, religious belief. Meanwhile, at some distance from the ivory tower lies the grim reality of much of the Muslim world: poverty; mass illiteracy; want of basic hygiene and primary health facilities; lack of fundamental liberties of religion and speech; little protection from state persecution.
by Munawar A. Anees
1999, Civilization Magazine
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Approximately 270 million nonbelievers died over the last 1400 years for the glory of political Islam.
Islam is a self-declared enemy of all unbelievers.
So much for the "Practitioners of the Religion of Peace". If this is true, and it appears it is, then our enemy is Islam and we should keep up our guard and fight against it wherever and whenever it rears its ugly head in our country.
Should we hate the individual Muslim? No, or we should be like them. As Christians, we should love them. But we should stand against and fight their evil political movement with a will and a resolve. We've seen how, although fierce, these people run and hide when met with superior force and a will to win. After Reagan's missile attack on Kaddafy's Libyan compound in 1986, we didn't hear from him again. Much of this has to do with simply enforcing our laws, protecting our borders, and defending our country.
It appears our country is in great peril if we fail to do this.
Hard for me to understand why this thread is attracting so little attention Bump!