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| WSJournal covers secular Islam summit |
| 2007-03-06 |
| ht to Instapundit; WaPo, NYTimes and other dailies are apparently not covering it but Al-Jazeera and some other arab media are At this landmark Summit on Secular Islam, there are no "moderate" Muslims. There are ex-Muslims: People like Ibn Warraq, author of "Why I Am Not a Muslim," who doesn't want an Islamic Reformation so much as he does a Muslim Enlightenment. There are ex-jihadists: people like Tawfik Hamid, who, as a young medical student in Cairo, briefly enlisted in the Gamaa Islamiya terrorist group and who remembers being preached to by a mesmerizing doctor named Ayman al-Zawahiri. There are Muslim runaways: People like Afshin Ellian, who in 1983 fled Iran -- and the threat of execution -- on camelback and is now a professor of law at the University of Leiden in Holland. (Now threatened by European jihadists, he lives with round-the-clock police protection.) There are experts on Islamic law: People like Hasan Mahmoud, a native Bangladeshi who, as director of Shariah at the Muslim Canadian Congress, was instrumental in overturning Ontario's once-legal Shariah court last year. There are even a few practicing Muslims here, such as Canadian author Irshad Manji. Ms. Manji, whose documentary "Faith Without Fear" airs on PBS next month, describes herself as a "radical traditionalist" and draws a sharp distinction between Muslim moderates and reformers: "Moderate Muslims denounce terror that's committed in the name of Islam but they deny that religion has anything to do with it," she says [wonder if LH agrees with that definition]. "Reform-minded Muslims denounce terror that's committed in the name of Islam and acknowledge that our religion is used to inspire it." The difference is not trivial. For more than... [and Irshad should have also defined secular muslims who only know a half dozen verses of the koran and believe the terrorists are making stuff up as well as tayikka/kitman muslims who tell infidels one thing and muslims another] |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #2 Your Paki friend resembles a number of moslems I know. They (the moslems I know) say that they fear that eventually the Islamoterrorists will provoke the west to nuke Mecca or something. But I think what they really fear is that Islam will come to the west and ruin the good life they have here by ruining the good life for everyone. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-03-06 16:50 |
| #1 I have a Paki doctor - retired, been here in the US over 25 years - who lives in same golf club community as mine. He is even a member of the RNC and has studied "comparative world religions". He is Sunni and doesn't have much time for Shias - which I understand is not unique. But he also doesn't have much time for the dhimmis and those opposed to WoT. He strongly believes that Islam is more at risk than western civilization and Judeo-Christian values. But since I played golf with him yesterday I know he isn't there but probably should be. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back 2007-03-06 14:45 |