[ARABNEWS] People well-versed with history know well that racism is a blot on the history of Europe.
Whereas the Arabians are well known for their ancient tradition of loving all mankind. What are the various meanings of abd, and whence the Jews of Quraish?
Like many other negatives of now democratized and liberalized regions, racism had so far been confined to history books until recently. The resurgence of racist tendencies accompanied with acts of violence which the United States and Europe had started to think as a thing of the past indicates that the disease had never been completely cured.
The US has its own homegrown version of this problem while Europe has raised the issue of racism with a tinge of hostility toward Islam. Anti-Islam protests and attacks on mosques in various parts of Europe and intensification of discriminatory policies against Moslem Turks, particularly in Germany, have reached unprecedented levels in recent days.
A movement led by the PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West) in Germany is attracting media attention on a daily basis. By raising slogans such as, We dont want to see Moslems in our country in a city like Dresden, where very few Moslems live, this group is inciting violence and terror. This group also wishes to rid Europe of mosques. Increasing attacks on mosques in parts of Europe are common knowledge. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... it is heartening to note that German leaders minced no words in criticizing such elements.
In his Christmas address, the German president, without naming PEGIDA, criticized it in these words: Do not heed the calls of those who are isolating Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... condemned the protests, saying, There is no room here for efforts to arouse hatred and the lies about those people who have come to us from other countries.
The justice minister described the protests as a disgrace on Europe and several politicians have described PEGIDA as Nazis in suits.
While PEGIDAs protests are continuing, churches, political parties and artists have called on people to boycott them. Thousands of people have staged countermarches in various cities.
These statements and actions are commendable, of course, but it is not enough. Merely paying a lip service or making symbolic gestures will not deter these racist elements from promoting their diabolical agenda. There is a great need to counter the situation with effective measures and strong policies. The manner in which the main opposition Die Linke party blamed Merkel for the rise in racist protests last week should also not be overlooked. According to Die Linke, the government has prepared this climate with its policies and messages over the years. A great many people agree with this opinion.
Let me state that racism is a kind of psychological disorder. It results from a flawed psyche that drives an individual to crush the weak. From a religious point of view, when a person or group in sheer arrogance forgets that all human beings are descendants of Prophet Adam or adamantly refuses to accept the truth, and if he is fed on hatred of course, then such a person or group easily falls prey to this sick-mindedness. Overwhelmed with feelings of pride and power, such a person tends to forget that all human beings share the same genes and there is nothing special about his genetic makeup that gives him/her superiority over others. It is very hard to believe in such nonsense, but the idea always provides fuel for demagogues.
Although racists are psychologically ill, other factors that provoke the sickness should not be ignored. If there is such a scourge as Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... in the world, and if it is becoming increasingly deep-rooted, then we need to understand the other factors that are triggering fear and hatred. Sadly, when the word Islam is mentioned, images that pop up in the minds of Europeans are: Beheadings in the Middle East, a poor quality of life and women being treated as second-class citizens. All they get to hear about Islam is filled with hatred. It would not be an exaggeration to claim that the radical elements wreaking havoc in the name of Islam are to be blamed for the growing Islamophobia.
Due to a lack of knowledge, many Europeans equate radicalism with Islam. On the contrary, Islam is a religion of peace that elevates the status of women and has nothing against a pluralistic society. That is because, strangely enough, the great majority of Moslems live far removed from the true teachings of Quran.
This profound ignorance is therefore a huge problem. Yet we also need to state here that those in Europe reacting to the skewed interpretation of Islam are also following the wrong path. They are wrong in declaring war on Islam in the name of opposing radicalism. They are seeking to eradicate with their own hands the only solution to their problems. They fail to understand that the only cure for radicalism is the pristine teachings of Islam. They fail to see that their pitiful protests will just further radicalize the radicals.
It is unrealistic to expect the solution to this problem in Europe to come from Europe alone. We as Moslems have a responsibility. We must first approach with love. We must promote interfaith and communal peace and harmony among us.
We should show the true face of Islam, which promotes love and friendship. It would be foolish to offer hatred and expect friendship.
As far as the ongoing protests in Europe are concerned, the following point is important:
Racist protests are being staged by sick minds for the sake of a better Europe, and some politicians may adopt hostility to foreigners for the sake of winning more votes. But if this continues, they should realize that ultimately Europe would suffer. Racism sparks violence. It is the starting point for categorizing people and communities. It is the main vehicle for class discrimination and moral collapse. It eradicates love and makes communities intolerant toward one another. Children raised in such communities become people of hate. Neither country nor society nor family will mean anything to a child who is imbued with such a way of thinking. It is not hard to predict how such a generation will tear Europe apart.
We dont want to see Europe ruined. The education that Europe needs is not the nonsense of Hitlers era, but true Islam and a belief in love. Indeed, Europe must even export that education to the Middle East. Then they will see that the system works the other way round, and that love promotes love.
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..sort of like Hispanics, as the word Hispania is the name the Romans gave Spain which is part of Europe, but it's assigned to people so they'll not be classified as European, not to be confused with Native Americans (aboriginals) which has a long standing as a separate 'race'.
Compare the (Moslem) Dhaka Tribune's opinion with that of the apologist writing in today's "Daily Beast."
[Dhaka Tribune] There can be no acceptable response to the massacre in Gay Paree on January 7, that took the lives of 12 people at the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... , other than complete and unqualified condemnation.
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Europeans should start canceling visa's and sending non-citizens home. Clearly there is an incompatibility between cultures and it will never be resolved.
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There can be no acceptable response to the massacre in Gay Paree on January 7, that took the lives of 12 people at the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo other than complete and unqualified condemnation.
Shot placement comes to mind as an acceptable response, but then that's just me.
[THEDAILYBEAST] Shooting people is wrong. No! Really?
I want to get this out of the way. When twelve people are killed by violence, How are they killed non-violently? Y'mean like putting poison in their vin gris? If that happens is it okay?
whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste. To murder someone by violence is the greatest crime imaginable -- with the sole and narrow exception of using violence against people who directly and immediately threaten violence themselves.
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[Ynet]. Journalists murdered in Gay Paree were not victims of a battle over freedom of press; they were victims of a war between radical Islam's world view and Western liberalism's world view.
It would be a big mistake to see the terror attack in Gay Paree as an attack on the freedom of the press. Such a statement puts the massacre in the French capital in line with attacks against journalists by members of a Colombian narco mob or the Chechen mafia.
That's not the case. The goal of the attack on the office of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... was not to frighten newspaper editors so that they would not publish one cartoon or another. The goal was to show and prove who controls the streets and consciousness of the French Republic: The Western liberalism or the fanatical Islam.
This is a clash of civilizations, not a gang's intimidation campaign.
Many in Europe are finding it difficult to accept this perspective, let alone agree with it. As far as they are concerned, the Moslem terror in the continent has no supreme goal apart from just sowing terror.
And it's not so complicated to buy those who have no ideological urges with economic means: We'll renovate a few housing blocks, fix a few pavements, open a few kindergartens and voila! There goes terror, along with the threat to the freedom of the press. How convenient.
It hasn't gone, and it won't go. In order to defeat the Islamic terror in Europe, it's not enough to invest in the security and intelligence services and train coppers to so that they will at least know how to shoot. It must be countered with a clear alternative: The ethical liberal system, which is prepared to fight for its future with all its might, not to give up and not to capitulate.
It only sounds simple. The Western popular culture is filled today with half truths, blurred facts and a wrong use of language which is politically correct and objectively false.
The complete exclusion of the Moslem-liberal conflict from the popular discourse in Europe is leading, naturally, to its powerful appearance in other places and in different forms.
When the elite shamelessly lies to the citizens, saying that "there is no problem of Islam here," it is singlehandedly brining about the outburst and reinforcement of the racist, demagogic, neo-fascist moments, which put democracy in danger.
The great Winston Churchill recruited the entire British nation to a war of "blood, toil, tears and sweat" against the Nazis, turning a conflict between powers over Europe's border into an uncompromising battle over the continent's character, values and future.
The current focus on certain cartoons published by the targeted newspaper, as if they can explain the massacre, is the refuge of people who are refusing to open their eyes. They believe that they are better off not seeing reality, in the sense of "if I don't see the evil, perhaps it will go away on its own." Perhaps, but the chance of that happening is close to zero.
The journalists who were murdered in Gay Paree on Wednesday were therefore not victims of a battle over the freedom of the press. They were victims of a war between the world view of the radical Islam and the world view of Western humanism, a war which will go on and increase and claim victims until it is won by one side.
[Ynet]. Gay Paree attack should become a milestone in the war against Moslem terror; but it won't, because the Western world is not physically or mentally prepared to fight the enemies rising up to destroy it.
La Belle France will hesitate on the day after the attack against satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... , and its leaders will say a few words of grief and threaten the Moslem world. The French police will continue searching for the three bully boyz who murdered a dozen people in the heart of Gay Paree on Wednesday.
But La Belle France will not say out loud what millions in Europe are thinking in their hearts: It's either them, the Moslems, or us, the Europeans (most of whom are Christian Catholic).
The Moslem empire struck again on Wednesday, and it will strike the European community, which it envies, again and again. Millions of Moslems have already occupied a significant part of Europe's countries a long time ago.
The Moslem invasion of the continent requires every European politician to consider the many voices of the Moslem population. Even a European politician who despises the Moslems, their religion and their lifestyle would be unwilling to risk making harsh comments, although he is expected to make them, at least today.
The Moslems didn't just murder 12 people on Wednesday, but a cultural movement which has developed in La Belle France since the student revolt in 1968 and has captured many hearts. Even those who do not belong to the left became fond of the anarchistic, uninhibited style of the popular weekly newspaper.
The murder which took place in Gay Paree on Wednesday should become a milestone in the war against Moslem terror. It won't, because the Western world is not physically or mentally prepared to fight the enemies rising up to destroy it.
The Europeans, like the Americans and even like the Israelis, have failed to get to the bottom of the meaning of the Islamic occupation and did not prepare the tools for a war against it when they should have.
Now everyone will ask everyone what to do and will not find the answer. But the answer is clear to everyone, only no one is ready or wants to use it: It's either us the Europeans, the Israelis and all those who support freedom and democracy or them, the Moslems.
The murder of the 12 French people on Wednesday is not even the foreword of the preface of the introduction for them. This doesn't mean, God forbid, that the overwhelming majority of Moslems support murderers. The opposite may be true.
But if they are not destroyed while they are still small and while they are still few of them, we will soon face a new and horribly brutal world.
What do Americans see when they look at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? And do Russians see the same thing? Racism rears its fuzzy-minded little head in the trial of a guy who's much more Caucasian than anyone else in the room.
This week, the court is selecting a jury for Tsarnaev’s trial on charges stemming from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. As any viewer of “Law and Order”knows, Tsarnaev is to be tried by a “jury of his peers.” But, as Masha Gessen points out in a recent New Yorker post, “very few of the twelve hundred prospective jurors resemble Tsarnaev.”
This question of “resemblance” could have real-world consequences. In a recent study, Northwestern University professor Nour Kteily found that participants were significantly more likely to demand harsher penalties for the Tsarnaevs if they believed the brothers were “not white.” (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police after the bombing.)
The bombers’ racial identity has been a thorny issue for some time now. It was a problem even before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev himself had been named in the case. One of the many instructive ironies surrounding the intense speculation about the Boston bombings involves the racial identity of the suspects: from the elusive “dark-skinned male” and columnist David Sirota’s hopes that the bomber would prove to be a “white American” to the identification of the Tsarnaev brothers as the alleged bombers, the American media and blogosphere have puzzled over the extent of the men’s whiteness.
As Peter Beinart asked in The Daily Beast, “Are the Tsarnaevs White?” Beinart does a fine job reminding us that whiteness has long been a historically constructed and contested category in America, one that cannot be reduced merely to skin tone.
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You can argue race about quite a few things without being a total idiot, but playing the race card on a guy from th Caucasus - the homeplace of Caucasians - is just idiotic.
[DAWN] OBFUSCATION, deception and wrongful conflation are the usual tools of the religious right when it comes to attacking any form of consensus on the need for state and society to focus seriously on the fight against militancy. Now, it is the turn of Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... of the JUI-F to try and create doubts in the minds of the public about what the principal internal threat is in Pakistain and suggest that there is some kind of conspiracy afoot against madressahs, conservative Moslems and the religious right here. Clearly, the 21st Amendment is a deeply flawed, undemocratic piece of legislation, and anti-terrorism military courts for civilians are a blow to the democratic project. There are many good and proper reasons to oppose draconian laws on grounds of principle and in practice too. But in criticising the 21st Amendment to the Constitution and an amendment to the Army Act for singling out religious bandidoshard boyz for trial in military courts and threatening to launch a national movement, the JUI-F chief is simply pandering to his base and doing his best to confuse issues.
To be clear, the principal internal threat in Pakistain today is terrorism and militancy in the name of religion simply, the Islamist militancy, terrorism and bad boy threat. In trying to lump other groups carrying out political violence together with Islamist groups waging war against the Pak state and society, Maulana Fazlur Rehman appears to be deliberately trying to dilute the national consensus and create fresh discord between state and society. Political groups embracing separatist or sub-nationalist ideologies inside Pakistain do resort to violence. But, inspired by a sense of disenfranchisement and exclusion from mainstream Pakistain, those non-religious, secular movements need to be won over by political action at the macro level and thwarted in their violent agenda by more effective law-enforcement and intelligence-gathering at the micro level to prevent attacks. To its credit, the wider political class understands the very fundamental difference between the overarching Islamist militancy threat and small-scale, regional groups that have turned to violence to achieve otherwise justifiable political aims of inclusivity and equality. Hence the very specific focus in the new legislation on the much bigger and more potent Islamist threat.
It is fairly obvious that by demanding all forms of armed militancy be treated in the same way ie the new military courts regime be used against all groups that have resorted to any kind of political violence the JUI-F is trying to drive a wedge between state and society and ensure that the effect of the National Action Plan and military courts embedded within that plan is minimal. To do so makes sense for the JUI-F because of an unpleasant truth: the party continues to sympathise with and have allies in the world of Islamist Lion of Islam groups here. The JUI-F is yet positioning itself on the wrong side of a democratic, inclusive, moderate Pakistain.
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[DAWN] THE mosque in Pakistain is now no longer just a religious institution. Instead it has morphed into a deeply political one that seeks to radically transform culture and society. Actively assisted by the state in this mission in earlier decades, the mosque is a powerful actor over which the state now exercises little authority. Some have been captured by those who fight the government and military. An eviscerated, embattled state finds it easier to drop bombs on the TTP in tribal Wazoo than to rein in its urban supporters, or to dismiss from state payroll those mosque leaders belonging to murderous Moslem groups.
Very few Paks have dared to criticise the countrys increasingly powerful mosque establishment although they do not spare the Pakistain Army and the countrys politicians for their many shortcomings. For example, following the Army Public School massacre, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... s promise to regulate the madressahs was immediately criticised as undoable. Had he instead suggested that Pakistains mosques be brought under state control as in Soddy Arabia
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Probably without realizing it (it is The Atlantic, after all) they have laid out the case for the fact that having the stuff and the money isn't what makes a vibrant middle/working class, it's having the middle class culture and values that brings the stuff.
This scenario played out across Africa when the colonial powers left and is playing out now in places like Detroit and these spots in Mississippi here.
It's not about race or ethnicity, it's about culture, and a failed one at that.
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Amazing the number of Marxian excuses in that comment thread. A couple of times the biggest problem was mentioned and then quickly ignored, How many Black 2 parent families are there? That's the foundation of a successful culture.
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Well. It also demonstrates that it's better to live with people who try to recognize and atone for the mistakes of the past -- that's the lesson of the town of Philadelphia.
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Would you like a jalapeno in your martini? No, nothing personal, but I'd probably elect to pass on that one. It's a clash of cultures, neither of which are inherently bad, simply different.
Can you disagree with homosexuality using your own name and not be fired?
Nope.
A fire chief in Atlanta has officially been fired on Tuesday by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed for selfpublishing a book, in which he argued that homosexuality was immoral, GA Voice reports.
This case in Atlanta is an excellent illustration of why the Western Left is so sympathetic and often openly admiring of Muslim radicals. The operating principle for both is the same: a rigid orthodoxy must be enforced no matter the cost to the heterodox. The Western Left presently does not kill people for not obeying, but of course it has done so relentlessly and routinely over the last couple of hundred years, especially since the end of World War One.
So when considering either 9/11 or this week's Paris massacres, the Left will cluck cluck the violence and loss of life, but some of them will (and did) let it be know that the chickens came home to roost and that the murdered did bring it on themselves, after all.
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Well, if you hold to your Christian belief under the new secular Marxist doctrines promulgated by the Democrat Party then yes, you are unemployable.
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I don't care if people are homosexual. I don't care if other people do care. I do care that we have thought and speech police in violation of the 1st Amendment.
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
What do Americans see when they look at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? And do Russians see the same thing?
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