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- The Word Radical Islam Doesn't Cut It
Now that the words Radical Islam is being bounced about more and more in more quarters, I propose that the words are not good enough. Jihadism is fine. It defines the ACT of violent beliefs in Islam. But the word Radical Islam is not enough. It doesn't...
- Islam Is Represented By Radical Islamist Aggression As Much Simon Legree Represented The South
"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil." Robert E Lee, 1856 "Our duty as Muslim scholars is to respond to those who attack our religion through sound logic...
- It Can’t Stop
While on Arab forums continuously until a year or so ago (I still visit occasionally) … while perusing MEMRI , and other sites, while observing the results of the true desires of the peoples of various Muslim majority...
- Another Cassandra Moment For This Blog - Ft: ‘the Muslim Brotherhood Cannot Be Trusted’
There has NEVER been any doubt about the mission of the Hassan Al Banna, and Sayd Qutb’s Muslim Brotherhood and its branches (such as HAMAS) and philosophical descendants, and friends in KSA, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Maghreb, etc.They...
- Is There A Point To All This?
Jihadwatch points to this story of another poor bastard sentenced to death under islamic (this time Hanafi School) blasphemy. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing...
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America’s Middle East Mistakes Keep Multiplying - an article WELL WORTH 5 minutes of your time
Robert W. Merry is political editor of The National Interest and the author of books on American history and foreign policy. His most recent book is Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians.
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He got a lot right, but misses the conclusions and directions.
Takes 5 minutes, and thought provoking ...but....
Brilliant article and STILL wrong. Just as the Khawarij came out of the 7th century as takfiri, there is nothing which would have prevented this outbreak of BOTH Shia supremacy (1979) and Salafi supremacy (Soviet Afghanistan) expressed at its outset by Sayd Qutb after visiting the USA. The fact is that the ascendant form of Islam IS a religious/political civilizational level aggression. Period (as a recent prez said). This is not the first rodeo.
An invasion of Iraq, and an attempt to “jeffersonize’ by tribe or local political unit an Afghanistan are BLIPS against this movement such as this. Nothing would have stopped EITHER what happened in Iran OR the children of the Muslim Brotherhood
Worse still, to a people whose day to day life includes the iron hard knowledge that their personal responsibility before god is to get rid of us (those who make up laws out of their own heads, and are therefore sovereign instead of God), and that to act in that faith guarantees forever in paradise with 6 dozen Victoria Secret ladies, no ‘warnings of horrendous retaliation for any attacks on America’ would have meant ANYTHING.
THAT is the problem. The ascendant form of Islam does not respond to political instruments WE recognize in this way. Not agreements (Hudabiyah), not war (Trench), not humanity (Khaibar). We cannot bargain with them as if they were some kind of religious George Meany.
These people are not Islam, but they are the form of Islam that matters during our lifetime.
Why do you think we haven’t seen a 100,000 Americans who happen to be Muslims out in the street telling these freaks to go to hell?
Why do you think we haven’t seen a 100,000 Americans who happen to be Muslims out in the street telling these freaks to go to hell?
- The Word Radical Islam Doesn't Cut It
Now that the words Radical Islam is being bounced about more and more in more quarters, I propose that the words are not good enough. Jihadism is fine. It defines the ACT of violent beliefs in Islam. But the word Radical Islam is not enough. It doesn't...
- Islam Is Represented By Radical Islamist Aggression As Much Simon Legree Represented The South
"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil." Robert E Lee, 1856 "Our duty as Muslim scholars is to respond to those who attack our religion through sound logic...
- It Can’t Stop
While on Arab forums continuously until a year or so ago (I still visit occasionally) … while perusing MEMRI , and other sites, while observing the results of the true desires of the peoples of various Muslim majority...
- Another Cassandra Moment For This Blog - Ft: ‘the Muslim Brotherhood Cannot Be Trusted’
There has NEVER been any doubt about the mission of the Hassan Al Banna, and Sayd Qutb’s Muslim Brotherhood and its branches (such as HAMAS) and philosophical descendants, and friends in KSA, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Maghreb, etc.They...
- Is There A Point To All This?
Jihadwatch points to this story of another poor bastard sentenced to death under islamic (this time Hanafi School) blasphemy. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing...