Posted on 10/10/2007 9:16:05 AM PDT by ventanax5
Reason: George Bush, not the most conciliatory person in the world, has said on plenty of occasions that we are not at war with Islam.
Hirsi Ali: If the most powerful man in the West talks like that, then, without intending to, he’s making radical Muslims think they’ve already won. There is no moderate Islam. There are Muslims who are passive, who don’t all follow the rules of Islam, but there’s really only one Islam, defined as submission to the will of God. There’s nothing moderate about it.
Reason: So when even a hard-line critic of Islam such as Daniel Pipes says, “Radical Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution,” he’s wrong?
Hirsi Ali: He’s wrong. Sorry about that. Reason: The international corollary to the word tolerance is probably respect. The alleged lack of respect has become a perennial sore spot in relations between the West and Islam. Salman Rushdie receiving a British knighthood supposedly signified such a lack of respect, as did the Danish cartoons last year, and many other things. Do you believe this is what Muslims genuinely crave—respect?
Hirsi Ali: It’s not about respect. It’s about power, and Islam is a political movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Don't feel bad, many people make that mistake.
good read, bookmark
bttt GReat Interview
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A lot of things here get a ‘must read’ label. Very glad I took heed of it here. This man needs a job at the Pentagon and at Foggy Bottom.
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She is not a man:) She is under a death threat by islam for telling the truth about islam and for telling how abused women are under its rule. She was in the US for a short time but had to leave because we wouldn’t giver her protection. She is very brave and tells it like it is.
Wow. My apologies, sincerely. I guess to foggy bottom, her admonitions here look self-serving:
Since, in her opinion, there is no moderate Islam, they should have no fear of extending her protection and asylum. No one there willing, politically, to upset the apple cart with the putatively ‘moderate’ muzzies that sell us oil.
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Islam is the religion of violins,not peas. Mohammed was, at best, a warrior (peas be upon him).
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Are you listening Mr President? Or do you only listen to the sheiks?
I don’t agree with her call for the government to close all Muslim schools in the US.
That said, I don’t disagree with her description of the majority of Muslims as passive, rather than “moderate”, followers of Islam.
While not fanatics themselves, neither do they oppose the fanatics.
Awesome linked interview, THANKS!!!
Unless you allow me to posit that the crushing of Islam within the USA some years hence will contain elements of a CW.
In any event, the interview is quite remarkable and I really hope you will take the time to read it.
Thanks for your forbearance in advance,
Travis/Matt
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