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| The Missing Moderate Muslims |
| 2007-06-22 |
| Posted by:BrerRabbit |
| #8 Maybe he needs to make money from the T-shirt rights! I'll buy one and get my photo done standing ned to those RoPers here in Blairistan. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-06-22 20:08 |
| #7 Thanks, zenster. I'll pass that along. And he does enjoy being politically provocative at school, but I try to make sure he always gets his facts straight. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-06-22 20:02 |
| #6 xbalanke, please give my sincere regards and heartfelt encouragement to your son. Even if I did not agree with him, I would still be obliged to commend his own attempts at critical analysis. It is something that's sorely missing in today's youth. I'm confident that you understand how I mean this only as the highest praise. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-22 19:30 |
| #5 Not off-topic, but tangential at best: This is rather timely for me: my 15-year-old son has a page on deviant-art.com where he posts his artwork (often quite good). Anyway, he drew a picture of a winged demon with a beard and wearing a turban (looks like the iconic OBL photo) hovering over an oil derrick and some burqa-clad women who look quite frightened, all with flames as a backdrop. Above the demon he wrote "Islam" and "submission" in Arabic script. [He's obviously paid attention to my not-infrequent rants.] Well, it only took a couple of days for the raft of sh*t to unload on his comments section. Most were just drive-by insults ("hate-filled racist" and the like) or patronizing kumbaya swill, but one girl took it very personally and decided she needed to "educate" him since he was so obviously "ignorant of Islam." While asserting she didn't follow any religion, she spewed all the typical "moderate muslim" cant: the Crusades, tiny majority of extremists, all religions are open to abuse, hatred of an entire population, racist, Islam is a religion of love [I LOLed at that one], Sikhs are most likely to wear turbans, yadda3. He responded that he was speaking from knowledge, not ignorance, which just invited more crap. The only time she actually answered a specific point he made (to find koranic verses enjoining love of your fellow man) she replied that the word love appeared 69 times in the koran. Well, she's right - but the vast majority of those have nothing to do with agape love. Most are love as in strong attachment (love of warfare being one example) or allah loves the righteous or allah does NOT love the sinners (a LOT of those), or love in the context of marriage and family. I honestly could not find a single unambiguous example of agape love. She finally decided to report his picture as inciting hate in an effort to get it removed. Before he shut down the comments he posted one final thought: that there are at least half a dozen countries in the world where he could be legally sentenced to death for that picture: QED. All-in-all it was quite an educational experience for him. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-06-22 17:41 |
| #4 Moderate Muslim = a Muslim with a gun barrel stuck to his head. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-06-22 16:35 |
| #3 It is a sad state of affairs when our semi-literate ancestors could diagnose and address the problem - the solution is called a Crusade - while we post-industrial sophisticates offer our daughters for rapine and our necks for the knife. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-06-22 12:28 |
| #2 The Koran says, "Jihad is prescribed to you." Muslims read and obey. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-06-22 05:03 |
| #1 Outstanding article, BrerRabbit. Absolutely spot on! … the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe and the “moderate Muslims” are either actively supporting them, placing the blame on the West, or simply looking the other way. But where are all the peace-loving moderate Muslims that supposedly are in great majority? The Muslims who are neither jihadists themselves, nor do they support them? I and others, time and again, have been calling upon them to stand up and show the world that they oppose the fanatical Islamists. It is small comfort even if the vast majority of Muslims are not fanatic radicals, when they do nothing to demonstrate their position. It is instructive to recall that it is invariably a minority, and more often than not a very small minority, that launches a campaign of death and destruction. Except in this case there are untold millions of these “moderate Muslims” directly financing Islam’s campaign against the West through tithing. All extreme systems operate outside of the constraints of checks-and-balances and according to the principle of negative feedback loop. That is, once it starts, the extreme becomes more and more extreme until self-destructs and takes the larger system down with it. The author accurately realizes that any consequences that Islam faces are wrought by their own hand, no matter who ends up applying them. Dozens of Islamist shooting wars of lesser and greater bloodletting are presently raging in the world, aided and abetted by the “moderate Muslim” majority. The so called moderate Muslims, even if they exist, are complicit in the crimes of the radicals either by providing them with funds, logistics, and new recruits or by simply failing to actively confront and unequivocally renounce them. After a while, silence is no longer consent, eventually silence becomes a lie. The Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood poses a clear threat in Egypt with its large block of representatives in the parliament, but also wages its deadly campaign through its hundreds of well-established and functioning branches all over the world. I hope that you’re reading this, Liberalhawk. Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is the enemy. Treating with them will only embolden this foe and give them greater stature in the eyes of our other Islamic enemies. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-22 02:03 |