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| 2006-06-15 |
| In the wake of recent terrorist threats on Canadian soil, understanding the truths and myths of the Islamic faith is more crucial than ever. Last week, 17 Canadians were arrested under Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, in connection with an alleged plot to bomb targets in Ontario. Each of the arrested men are believed to be Islamic fundamentalists who support al-Qaeda. But the actions of one small group should not be misunderstood to be representative of the Islamic faith as a whole. Islamic expert and scholar Buff Pary says Canadians must understand Islam is a peaceful, “global” religion. Shouldn't the quotation marks be around peaceful rather than global? Pary is a professor of Geopolitics and Civilization History who serves as an advisor to Canada’s intelligence agencies. A practicing Muslim, he says Islam is not an innately violent religion and that any religion could have a small group of extremists that mar the name of the entire faith. “All religions have the capacity for terrorism.” In fact, rather than being violent, extremist and primitive, Pary says Islam is in fact peaceful, welcoming, and far ahead of its time and that it is the “most charitable religion, by definition, that there is.” Pary adds that most westerners do not understand the extent to which European civilization owes its development to Mid-eastern culture. Perhaps the most destructive assumption regarding Islam, adds Pary, is that aggressive, senseless violence is part of the religion. Pary says the word ’Jihad‘ is “sorrowfully misunderstood” in the West and has become synonymous with terrorism. Pary says that makes for a great sound-bite, but that the truth is a far different matter. “Jihad means ‘struggle’. All of life is a struggle. [It] has to do with rectifying injustice; how to defend yourself if attacked. There’s nothing in the Koran about how to launch a defensive army against the infidel.” Pary says we must be cautious to jump to conclusions without an understanding of Islamic culture and religion. “All that we get in the west is that which enforces the most negative of images…we must focus on what has gone wrong – how we are mutually assaulting each other as people of civilizations.” |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 Pary adds that most westerners do not understand the extent to which European civilization owes its development to Mid-eastern culture. This constant rewriting of History is very worrying, IMHO, the West has no debt toward islam, quite the contrary; the meditteranean region which was the center of european civilization was under constant predation for centuries, and never recoverd from it. But now, in true Eurabia style, we're told by apologists that we're indebted for everything toward the Great Islamic Civilization, from the beginning to the present day (a recent awarded movie at the Cannes festival is all-about how France was actually freed by muslim troops in WWII, France was reconstructed after it by 12 millions/sic workers doing what french people were too lazy to do, etc, etc...). This is an attack on our roots, simple. The whole notion that we've got to "repay" the "south", since our wealth, culture, art, hygiena (one leftist commenters wrote on a forum that arabs teached us "how to wash ourselves", which is perfectly in tune with the "infidels are impure" line, and pretty funny considering gauls invented soap and romans steam bathes) was stolen from them is a collective multiculti/marxist-enabled suicide. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-06-15 08:23 |
| #2 Islam is not an innately violent religion It just acts that way. Pary adds that most westerners do not understand the extent to which European civilization owes its development to Mid-eastern culture. The extent to which European military technology and organization had to be developed in order to stave off the jihadis, for example. For example, the first cannon-carrying sailing ship was used against a Muslim fleet. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-06-15 08:05 |
| #1 Why are many orientalists and islamologues totally enamored with islam, and blind followers of the cult of the Otherness (where the Other is deemed superior, as more spiritual, more sophisticated,...)? As the general Gallois wrote (in a book I of course didn't read), "the sun of the Orient blinds the West", saying how the elites were intoxicated with false aesthetical notions about islam and the ME. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-06-15 07:46 |