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| West underestimates the evil of Islam |
| 2007-08-20 |
THE West was still underestimating the evil of Islam, an influential Muslim thinker has warned, insisting that Australia and the US have been duped into believing there is a difference between the religion's moderate and radical interpretations. On a two-week "under the radar" visit to Australia, Syrian-born Wafa Sultan secretly met both sides of federal politics and Jewish community leaders, warning them that all Muslims needed to be closely monitored in the West. In an interview with The Australian, Dr Sultan - who shot to recognition last year following an interview on al-Jazeera television in which she attacked Islam and the prophet Mohammed - said Muslims were "brainwashed" from an early age to believe Western values were evil and that the world would one day come under the control of Sharia law. The US-based psychiatrist - who has two fatwas (religious rulings) issued against her to be killed - warned that Muslims would continue to exploit freedom of speech in the West to spread their "hate" and attack their adopted countries, until the Western mind grasped the magnitude of the Islamic threat. "You're fighting someone who is willing to die," Dr Sultan told The Australian in an Arabic and English interview. "So you have to understand this mentality and find ways to face it. (As a Muslim) your mission on this earth is to fight for Islam and to kill or to be killed. You're here for only a short life and once you kill a kafir, or a non-believer, soon you're going to be united with your God." Dr Sultan, who was brought to Australia by a group called Multi-Net comprised of Jews and Christians, met senior politicians, including Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Labor deputy leader Julia Gillard. Private security was hired for Dr Sultan, who left Australia yesterday, and state police authorities were also made aware of her movements in the country. The organisers of her visit asked the media to not publish anything about her stay until she had left the country because of security-related concerns. Dr Sultan said Islam was a "political ideology" that was wrongly perceived to have a moderate and hardline following. "That's why the West has to monitor the majority of Muslims because you don't know when they're ready to be activated. Because they share the same basic belief, that's the problem," said the 50-year-old, who was last year featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Dr Sultan, who was raised on Alawite Islamic beliefs before she renounced her religion, began to question Islam after she witnessed her university teacher get gunned down by Muslim hardliners in Syria in 1979. The mother of three, who migrated to the US in 1989, said the West needed to hold Muslims and their leaders more accountable for the atrocities performed in the name of Islam if they wanted to win the war on terror. But while she considered the prophet Mohammed "evil" and said the Koran needed to be destroyed because it advocated violence against non-believers, Dr Sultan struggled to articulate her vision for Muslims, whom she said she was trying to liberate from the shackles of their beliefs. "I believe the only way is to expose the Muslims to different cultures, different thoughts, different belief systems," said Dr Sultan, who is completing her first book, The Escaped Prisoner: When Allah is a Monster. "Muslims have been hostages of their own belief systems for 1400 years. There is no way we can keep the Koran." |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #3 'nother good one, Zenster. Wot 'e said. |
| Posted by: Brett 2007-08-20 20:33 |
| #2 Finally, the truth outs: ... all Muslims needed to be closely monitored in the West. Since this is virtually impossible it raises the specter of internment or deportation. To avoid citizenship issues, a combination of the two will be the most likely outcome. warned that Muslims would continue to exploit freedom of speech in the West to spread their "hate" and attack their adopted countries, until the Western mind grasped the magnitude of the Islamic threat. Crippled by Politically Correct thought, moral relativism and the Multiculturalist agenda, this probably will not happen soon enough to avoid serious loss of life on our soil. The ensuing backlash against American Muslims will likely involve an even greater death toll. Islam was a "political ideology" that was wrongly perceived to have a moderate and hardline following. There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth. Does anyone still believe that Islam is a religion, much less a Religion of Peace? [spit] That's why the West has to monitor the majority of Muslims because you don't know when they're ready to be activated. As .com warned all of us so long ago, the vast majority of seemingly moderate Muslims represent nothing but a dormant or covert resource pool for jihadist Islam. The overwhelming lack of any active internal resistance by Muslims to Islamism stands as glaring proof of this. the West needed to hold Muslims and their leaders more accountable for the atrocities performed in the name of Islam if they wanted to win the war on terror. None of which has happened. Instead, they have gotten a free ride while those in charge of protecting us persist in hand wringing and appeasement of perpetually aggrieved Muslim sensitivities. Only some serious collective retribution is going to change the course of things. Retaliation must involve suffering that far exceeds our own or it will be to no avail. Our attempts to deal humanely with the most inhuman creed on earth earns us only well-deserved scorn and encourages further terrorist attacks against the West. Muslims have been hostages of their own belief systems for 1400 years. There is no way we can keep the Koran. As a dedicated bibliophile with a personal library that contains many thousands of volumes from every basic category of the Dewey Decimal system, the notion of book-banning is intrinsically abhorent to me. Yes, I even own a Koran. However, for the Koran, I am willing to make an exception. As the essential vehicle of shari'a law, it is the prime mover for widespread human rights violations and cannot be tolerated. Wafa Sultan understands this and should be commended for so actively delineating to us the peril we face if our inaction continues. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-20 20:13 |
| #1 There is no way we can keep the Koran. And that, my fellow kaffirs, is the gist of it. No ifs or buts. Koran (Islam) delenda est. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-08-20 19:57 |