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| Scholar says Muslim fury is against US |
| 2006-05-29 |
| DOHA The fury of Muslims is directed not against the "West" but rather it is against America, Americans and those in the West who choose to ally themselves with America, according to Louis J Cantori, a noted US-based scholar and researcher. Cantori, was speaking at a session on the forum on "Islam and the West" which concluded at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday. "It is the American and Americans who provide the provocation for the acts of violence carried out by extremists who themselves don't speak for or act in the name of majority IslamÂ…. Therefore the claim that this fury is directed against the West and western culture is patently false as is the assertion that it is "Islam" that is the author of violent acts," he said. While a militant minority may be engaged in a sustained attack upon America and Americans, it is also the case that the moderate majority of Muslims are themselves engaged in the pursuit of democracy, he noted. "The question of democracy is not only a matter of difference of meaning, but also by the fact that democracy is also a means to the spreading of American control and hegemony. This can be termed "democracism" that is the use of the ideology of democratisation in order to achieve domination and control," said Cantori. He said, democratisation in the Middle East is proceeding on two simultaneous levels. "There is the level of American force and policy pressure and there is the level of tyrannical regimes "protective coloration" in the face of American pressure and far more important and widespread, there is the level of Islamic political oppositions and Islamic intellectuals," he added. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #21 "We will win the war on terrorism, and the United States and India will win it together - because we represent good, and terrorists are evil incarnate. God will make it so." -I like that. However, God will only make it so if we down here still have the nuts to see the job through. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-05-29 23:49 |
| #20 It should be mandatory that every article has a comments section attached so late arrivals can read how stupid the article is before they read it like here at RB. That would cure the MSM ricky ticky. I recently filled in one of those republican party surveys, and under 'What is the greatest challenge facing America today ?' I wrote: Islam has declared war on us as we sleep. The survey didn't have the words Islam nor Muslim in it anywhere. The clueless are still in DC, but after giving border control to Foxy, their days may be numbered. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-29 21:17 |
| #19 Anyone with a little knowledge of terrorism knows this idiot is full of it. The Internet is rapidly making these clowns irrelevent. You can read newspapers from all over the world, unfiltered by editors at AP, AFP, BBC, CNN. Blogs are rendering newspapers themselves irrelevent. Knowedge is power and even the powerful get their information from the net: This is Former Deputy National Security Advisor Robert D Blackwill: While I was preparing for my Senate confirmation hearing in early 2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I started to read regularly the Indian press. It was then that for the first time I encountered the devastating fact of terrorism against India. Sitting in my office at Harvard, I began to keep a daily count of those killed here by terrorists. Three on Monday. Seven on Tuesday. Fourteen on Wednesday. Five on Thursday. Two on Friday. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. India’s death toll from terrorism mounted as the snow fell and melted in Cambridge, and that New England winter turned to spring. And I became more and more angry. Innocent human beings murdered as a systemic instrument of twisted political purpose. Terror against India that rose and fell with the seasons, year after year after year. By the time that I left the United States for India in the summer of 2001, this very personal death count that I was keeping had reached hundreds. And, for me, these were not abstract and antiseptic numbers in a newspaper story. Each death, I forced myself to remember, was a single person — an individual man, woman, child — with family, loved ones, friends. They each have a name. Just like us, they each had a life to lead. These are our mothers, our fathers, our brothers, our sisters, our babies, and our friends. Each had laughs to laugh. Tears to shed. Loves to love. Meals to eat. Accomplishments to record. Setbacks to overcome. Places to go. Things to do. Prayers to offer. All snuffed out by the killing hand of terror. On September 11 in America. Nearly every day in India. No respectable religion could excuse these merciless acts. No moral framework could sanction these abominations. No political cause could justify these murders of innocents. And yet, they go on. But, my friends, these terrorist outrages against my country and against yours will not continue indefinitely. We know this from the Ramayana, and many other holy books. Good does triumph over evil, although it sometimes takes more time than we would like. We will win the war on terrorism, and the United States and India will win it together - because we represent good, and terrorists are evil incarnate. God will make it so. |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-29 20:12 |
| #18 I wonder what they think of his ideas in New Delhi. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-05-29 18:40 |
| #17 6. Jimmuh Carter ans Noam Chomsky. Like SR-71 back in #7, I believe you can tell how well you are doing by who is against you. The names on this list make be proud to be an American. P.S. I know it is bad manners to correct someone's spelling, but I believe you spelled 'anus' wrong. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-05-29 15:37 |
| #16 NATO has been toothless for years. French nukes matter, but the French are becoming dhimmi. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2006-05-29 15:30 |
| #15 Read his bio -- he's our tax dollars at work, my friends: http://www.islam-democracy.org/cantori_bio.asp |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-05-29 11:23 |
| #14 Another anti-American wackademic - who'd a thunk it. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-05-29 11:12 |
| #13 France has nukes. France can veto NATO actions. France still matters, therefore. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-05-29 11:04 |
| #12 I agree, the French are enemies. France has never been a friend of the USA. They only used us when it suited their interests. But they are not particularly relevant now since their goose is being cooked by their own Islamonuts. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2006-05-29 10:50 |
| #11 Much worse than "full of crap" this so-caled scholar must be deranged. I can't do the whole globe at the moment, but if it is all the US what do attacks on places like Bali, MAdrid, Beslan, Mindanao, Thailand, India, mean ? How does the so-called scholarregard the Islamisation of Europe or the de-Bhudda-station of Thailand Afghanistanindonesiamayalasia and the rest of the PAcific rim play into his onedimensional theory ? |
| Posted by: Gene the Moron 2006-05-29 10:46 |
| #10 Terms such as "scholar" have become completely devalued. It's a bit like antibiotics. Penicillin is now a basic food group for many biotics. People who mumble semi-articulately, whether it's halfwit drivel or fundamental profundities, are "experts" and "scholars" now. Perhaps it will evolve semantically as "star" has. Everyone's a "star". Super, Mega, Ultra, Hyper, etc are needed to make a point anyone will note. Ginormously Stupenderiforous Holysmokusmonsterian Scholar [insert twit here] InstasagelyWisdomified today that, well, we asked for it, that it's all our fault, especially Bush, and that we. the GreatSatanCrusaders should just do the sheep thing. Other MegaSuperUltraHyper Experts agreed, according to Wellplacedandconnected sources. |
| Posted by: Cregum Clease2029 2006-05-29 10:32 |
| #9 JFM, IIRC Mitterrand (loathsome little toad of a man who was french president from 1981 to 1995) had a similar view, stating that the "real ennemy" was in fact the USA. Of course, he was an ex-Vichy collaborator and a socialist, while Yacoub Ben Shiraq once sold himself as an atlantist free market conservative... Btw, regarding France, Mitterrand, who was a wise man, despite his moral rot, supposedly said "we are partying on a plane which is soon going to crash". How prescient. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-29 10:31 |
| #8 8 Jack Chirac and Dominique de Villepin No joke. Chirac's attitude tpwards US goes far beyond De Gaulle's movements of independence: his biographer gives prophs that Chirak looks the US as an enemy |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-05-29 10:22 |
| #7 Good. You can tell a lot about a country by looking at who its enemies are. If true, this speaks well for the USA. 1. Various head cutting, primitive Islamo-facists. 2. Iran, the Mullahs, and Ahmadinnerjacket. 3. Czar Putin, (closet) dictator of Russia. 4. Expansionist Red China. 5. Chavez and his fellow socialist nutjobs. 6. Jimmuh Carter ans Noam Chomsky. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2006-05-29 10:16 |
| #6 Is Cantori's office next to Howard Zinn's? Sure looks that way from the crib lines he stole... |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-05-29 09:54 |
| #5 *Yawn*. Wake me up when something besides baseless propaganda comes out. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-05-29 09:18 |
| #4 Oh makes sense. All those people they kill in India must be American citizens as well. |
| Posted by: sludge 2006-05-29 09:02 |
| #3 A mark of the steadily declining standards of scholarship. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-05-29 07:33 |
| #2 Oh really? Were Salman Rushdie and the Danish cartoonists on the State Department payroll? And how many Americans were killed in Bali? And what did bin Laden mean when he said that Spain is an "apostate nation". And why are mullahs getting kicked out France for spreading jihadi ideology there? This guy is an agent for the Islamists, driven by anti-American hate. When muslims elect pro-American governments, as in Indonesia and Afghanistan, they are being "controlled" by the US through the "ideology of democratisation". |
| Posted by: Apostate 2006-05-29 05:17 |
| #1 Louis J Cantori is full of crap. It's in their book Read their book. We have 1400 year of experience to go by. It's not "Just the US." We really have to set this imbecilic talk aside and deal with the facts. Very few on the left have proven themselves capable. Louis J Cantori is a prime example. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-05-29 03:59 |