"What do they want?"
Jul. 7th, 2005 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfs"What do they want?" I heard someone on the radio asks that this morning following news of the London bombings and the ongoing assumption that it must have been Islamic terrorists. Indeed, both the signature of the attack and the corresponding claims indicate that, by all accounts, men claiming they're motivadet by the teaching of Islam committed these atrocities.
And, if we are to beleive their own words, they want us all either to worship their god, or die at swordpoint.
Every ideology large enough to warrant a label has a tipping point, on the far side of which they make tolerable enough neighbors. It matters not that we can find moderate Muslims (and as for that, see Dr Ahmad Dewidar, hailed by Time as "the new face of Islam," a man received by our President and by the U.N. Secretary General, who gives us one face and yet who in an interview in Arabic to the Egyptian Brotherhood said "Whether or not these events were planned, or pinned on the Muslims, or something else - [it] provided an opportunity for the American government to legislate dubious laws that restrict the growth and presence of Islam in the U.S. The media - most of which is under Jewish control - has helped to spread this perception." (http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/006995.php)). The tipping point of the Islamic reformation has simply not been reached; there aren't enough willing to repudiate those portions of the Quran that call for the killing of Jews and the apartheid of Christians.
In the meantime, when a website says they intend to kill as many non-Muslims as they can, we should take them seriously.
My heart goes out to the people of London. Welcome to the club. Please don't cower the way the Spanish did. Al-Qaeda has no intention of stopping with Andalusa.
And, if we are to beleive their own words, they want us all either to worship their god, or die at swordpoint.
Every ideology large enough to warrant a label has a tipping point, on the far side of which they make tolerable enough neighbors. It matters not that we can find moderate Muslims (and as for that, see Dr Ahmad Dewidar, hailed by Time as "the new face of Islam," a man received by our President and by the U.N. Secretary General, who gives us one face and yet who in an interview in Arabic to the Egyptian Brotherhood said "Whether or not these events were planned, or pinned on the Muslims, or something else - [it] provided an opportunity for the American government to legislate dubious laws that restrict the growth and presence of Islam in the U.S. The media - most of which is under Jewish control - has helped to spread this perception." (http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/006995.php)). The tipping point of the Islamic reformation has simply not been reached; there aren't enough willing to repudiate those portions of the Quran that call for the killing of Jews and the apartheid of Christians.
In the meantime, when a website says they intend to kill as many non-Muslims as they can, we should take them seriously.
My heart goes out to the people of London. Welcome to the club. Please don't cower the way the Spanish did. Al-Qaeda has no intention of stopping with Andalusa.
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Date: 2005-07-08 02:07 am (UTC)(Leaving aside, of course, the question of how "electing the government that the polls showed you were about to elect and implementing the policy that government had already promised to implement" counts as "cowering." A stupid policy is still a stupid policy even if Al Qaeda opposes it.)
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Date: 2005-07-08 07:32 am (UTC)(And a sensible policy is still a sensible policy if they support it.)