Posted on 04/10/2017 8:25:48 AM PDT by george76
Ronald Reagan's major achievement in his long war against the Soviet Union: presenting communism as a joke -- exposing the lies of the Soviet regime, exposing the misery under which its people were living, and explaining why Western values were preferable to Communist ones. This is exactly what the West, Hirsi Ali explains, should be doing with radical Islam.
Western civilization is a humanist vision in which Christianity integrated Jewish wisdom, Greek philosophy and Roman law, thereby giving Western culture its distinctive character: freedom of speech and of the press, equal justice under law, the primacy of the individual, separation of religion and state, freedom of religion and from religion, property rights, sexual equality, an independent judiciary, and independent education, among other values. This is what radical Islam wants to destroy. That is why terrorists are attacking our churches, the State of Israel and why they are subverting democracy to turn it into Islamic law, sharia.
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Jihad is spreading violence -- and succeeding. "Of the last sixteen years," notes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her new book, The Challenge of Dawa, "the worst year for terrorism was 2014, with ninety-three countries experiencing attacks and 32,765 people killed."
"The second worst was 2015, with 29,376 deaths. Last year, four radical Islamic groups were responsible for 74 percent of all deaths from terrorism: the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Boko Haram, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda.
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According to Hirsi Ali, the West is "obsessed" with terror and this makes it blind to the broader threat, dawa, outreach: the ideology behind the terror attacks.
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The Islamic world is investing in "dawa", or Islamic propaganda. "Since the early 1970s, Middle Eastern charities have distributed $110 billion,
(Excerpt) Read more at gatestoneinstitute.org ...
Doesn’t involve a Goat does it?
Good One!
Got nukes?
Or, hollow points filled with pig fat, FMJs coated with same, bodies sprayed with pig fat or embracing a pig's head,, buried face down with feet towards Mecca, etc.
Yes, this is Hollywood, but it is accurate:
Muslim prisoner freaks out at 2:20.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Self-ping.
And the liberals would make that a hate crime!
So what’s needed is a ghost media, one that can’t be physically attacked. Something that can publish books, run broadcasts and web sites, without an assailable home address, in order to run the counter-propaganda.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Dave Rubin on Political Islam, Sharia Law, and “Islamophobia” (Full Interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrJuHWTZqRg
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