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2007-05-02 Terror Networks

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Posted by ryuge 2007-05-02 08:03|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Zarqawi understood that democracy robs the terrorists of their breeding grounds.

Why don't Reid and Pelosi and the rest of the dhemmi moonbats believe in democracy?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-02 09:01|| 2007-05-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 First: Attack the message -- an ideological offensive by moderate Muslims.

Support more Islam. Yup, that'll work.

Personally I prefer option 2, "Attack the Messenger"

Failing that, option 6: Install Ann Coulter at water treatment plants all round Iraq, blessing their water at source, thereby surreptitiously baptizing the entire misbelieving population.

Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2007-05-02 09:03|| 2007-05-02 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Breaking radio silence here because I think this is too important to not comment. The narrative we have to defeat is embedded deeply in Islamic scripture and history:

1. The "emmigration" to Medina and the 10-year struggle to take Mecca.

2. The world-historical advance of Islam during the time whem the tribes were relatively united as an "ummah."

3. The absorbtion and conversion of various invading Turkish tribes... then actually turning them into Islamic instruments of power, e.g. Seljuks, Mameluks, Ottomans.

4. The 100-year struggle against and defeat of the Crusaders.

5. The 50 year struggle against the Mongols and the _conversion_ of the Khans in Persia and Central Asia.

6. The 150 year struggle against colonialism and the subsequent withdrawal of the Europeans (less the Israelis in the Muslim view).

7. Running the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

8. The current struggle to overthrow the Jahili regimes and their Western sponsors with brave muj fighting against and overcoming terrible odds.

That is the narrative the Qutbists have made their own and which must be countered by every instrument of power we possess.

Posted by 11A5S 2007-05-02 09:26|| 2007-05-02 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 "Why don't Reid and Pelosi and the rest of the dhemmi moonbats believe in democracy?"

Because they tend to loose every fair and honest election.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-05-02 13:50|| 2007-05-02 13:50|| Front Page Top

#5 First: Attack the message -- an ideological offensive by moderate Muslims. Eikmeier says Yemeni Judge Hamoud al-Hitar has a particularly effective theological counter to Qutbism.

Memo to Bush: Mouthing how Islam is "The Religion of Peace" doesn't help at all.

Second: Attack the Messenger -- "Many of Qutbism's proponents are individuals with questionable religious credentials."

If we are going to "Attack the Messenger", it had better be with more than just "Islamofascism" or other counter-propaganda. We need to attack Islam's messengers with bullets. Starting with Islam's entire clerical aristocracy.

Third and fourth: Attack Islamo-fascism's supporting institutions, and support mainstream Islamic institutions -- mirror images. Attack al-Qaida's educational, financial, and informational structures. Support those of Muslim moderates.

Moderate Islam is so ephemeral and marginal as to be negligible. Crippling the halawa network, expelling CAIR and all of its members, freezing all transactions with and aid to terrorism sponsoring countries, halting immigration from those same countries while destroying terrorist media outlets like al-Jazeera and al-Manar are what is needed.

Fifth: Inoculation. Eikmeier says this requires education regarding the Qutbists' "anti-human rights and religiously intolerant agenda." Eikmeier says the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S. Bill of Rights are the alternatives.

If you're serious about human rights, start by banning sharia law. This one act will serve to delegitimize fundamentalist Islam more quickly than any other measure. Any inability to do so renders all other actions mere window dressing.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-02 18:00|| 2007-05-02 18:00|| Front Page Top

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