Posted on 06/23/2007 12:10:08 PM PDT by Lorianne
And England is a small piece of real estate many people can overrun and overturn relatively quickly and use it as a stepping stone to America.
A few references
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Islamist
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2073365,00.html
...By the time he attends Tower Hamlets College, he has become leader of the influential Islamic society, bringing hardline homophobic and anti-semitic speakers in to lead debates such as ‘Hijab: put up or shut up’. Husain turns to the more militant Hizb ut-Tahrir: successful, articulate professionals reinforce his nascent views. He spends two years involved with a Hizb cell. Friends who disappear to training camps later become key figures in al-Qaeda.
In the end, it is Islamism’s disregard for Islam itself that moves him to reject fundamentalism. ‘True faith had not touched my heart in a decade,’ he says.
Husain is appalled at the way unelected and unaccountable Islamist groups are portrayed by the media as representative. This captivating, and terrifyingly honest, book is his attempt to make amends for some of the wrongs he committed. In a wake-up call to monocultural Britain, it takes you into the mind of young fundamentalists, exposing places in which the old notion of being British is defunct.
...An ideology is in the business of aggrandising those who subscribe to it, and Husain was soon assured that he was vastly superior to pretty well everyone, all women (“women are the plague”), all Jews (of course), all kafirs (or koofs), and all “partial Muslims”, such as his mother and father (soon to be jettisoned).
...Two events disabused him. One was a killing. “The fucking Christian niggers need to be taught a lesson,” argued a colleague, after a dispute at Tower Hamlets College (the dispute was about the use of a pool table); and Husain duly sees the black boy lying in a pool of blood. The second event had to do with a woman, his future wife: “Of the many faces I encountered on a daily basis there was one belonging to a girl called Faye that did what mine used to do a lot: smile. As an Islamist I had lost my ability to smile.”
Lest I forget again.
...what I learned about Islam on September 1st, 2001....
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Don’t you mean September 11?
Yes thank you - keep reading
read later
jihad bump
FYI
It is finally avalible in America,from all the usual online bookstores.
I’m reading it now and it’s..interesting. I wouldn’t call it a MUST READ, but worth time time spent.
Ed Husain now heads up The Quilliam Foundation. http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/
I hope this guy can buy some protection from the royalties that he makes...
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