What Do Muslims Think?

The American Interest / Able2know.com ^ | May/June 2007 | Amir Taheri

[Valin]

You might want to let Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid (aka Gus Dur) know that he’s not a real Muslim I’m sure he and his 40,000,000 folowers will be glad to know.

http://www.libforall.org/about-us-patron.html

[Valin]

This hasn’t prevented Oodles of Muslim-on-Muslim slaughter, far worse than any caused by the West.

The radical loser (Long Read)
Der Spiegel ^ | 1/12/05 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Contrary to what the West appears to believe, the destructive energy of Islamist actions is directed mainly against Muslims. This is not a tactical error, not a case of “collateral damage”. In Algeria alone, Islamist terror has cost the lives of at least 50,000 fellow Algerians. Other sources speak of as many as 150,000 murders, although the military and the secret services were also involved. In Iraq and Afghanistan, too, the number of Muslim victims far outstrips the death toll among foreigners. Furthermore, terrorism has been highly detrimental not only to the image of Islam but also to the living conditions of Muslims around the world.

The Islamists are as unconcerned about this as the Nazis were about the downfall of Germany. As the avant-garde of death, they have no regard for the lives of their fellow believers. In the eyes of the Islamists, the fact that most Muslims have no desire to blow themselves and others sky high only goes to show that they deserve no better than to be liquidated themselves. After all, the aim of the radical loser is to make as many other people into losers as possible. As the Islamists see it, the fact that they are in the minority can only be because they are the chosen few.

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[nuconvert]

bump

[expatguy]

"I am not seeing where religion comes into an Islamofacist political manifesto..."

I've written a lot in the past on this very subject.

Many in the West don't seem to understand that Islam is as much a political system as it is a religion.

[GOPJ]

Islamic law mandates death as the punishment for male homosexuality, but in practice most Muslim countries prefer a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach punctuated by cringing tolerance—an attitude more or less consistent with Islamic life over the past dozen centuries. Al-Qaeda leaders are the only ones who advocate the mass execution of gay people, a proposition most Muslims think is crazy.

Attention all Liberals...

[Valin]

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