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| 2006-01-17 |
| Setting the tone at the recent conference of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Tariq Ramadan addressed "young Western Muslims" telling them, "If you want to help the oppressed - vote - don’t kill the people, but build a better understanding in your own society." Speaking to the 1,200 Islamist activists December 17 at the Long Beach Convention Center—at least some of whom Ramadan apparently believes might be otherwise inclined to "kill the people"-- Ramadan focused on the "Four Cs" as "what we need for now and the future
. Confidence
. Critical Mind—don’t accept anything without checking
. Commitment, not just international, but domestic
and
Creativity." Ramadan’s words echo the strategy of dead Italian communist Antonio Gramsci and the leading modern-day practitioner of Gramscianism, Noam Chomsky. Gramsci’s "Prison Notebooks", circulating in the US for the first time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, led hundreds of thousands of left-over anti-Vietnam war activists to aim for careers in journalism, politics, the ministry and of course academia in order to undermine America from positions of cultural authority. Ramadan’s parallel strategy calls on young Islamists to instead show, "creativity in every field; culture, intellectual
social commitment (and) economic dynamics. Ramadan decries, "lack of creativity in the way
we deal with ‘the others’". He urges Islamists—instead of "kill(ing) the people" to demand, "society follow its own principles
having said 9-11 is un-Islamic
let us come together
. You have to take from the culture (of the US) everything that is good
(but)
not everything in the culture is good for us
we are selective
we are critical
." A Swiss citizen, Ramadan is currently banned from entering the United States by order of the Department of Homeland Security. His Long Beach speech was delivered by video. In 1996 he was temporarily banned from entering France, suspected of ties to an Algerian terror group. The French newspaper, Le Monde accuses him of organizing a 1991 meeting between al Qaeda's second-in-charge, Ayman al Zawahiri, and Omar Abdel Rahman, who was later convicted in the 1993 bombing of the first World Trade Center. He denies the long history of alleged terrorist associations which follow him like a swarm of flies, dismissing all the accusations as "lies". Ramadan’s books and tapes are popular with young Muslims in the riotous French suburbs who killed, burned and looted to demand that "society follow its own principles" after two criminals electrocuted themselves while evading the police. French-language intellectuals often refer to Ramadan as "the master of doubletalk". A typical example of Ramadan’s doubletalk may be found in his answer to an Italian magazine’s question about whether it is right to kill children and Israeli civilians because they are considered soldiers. Ramadan replies: "I don't believe that an eight year old child is a soldier. These acts are condemnable; therefore one has to condemn them in themselves. But I say to the international community that they are contextually explicable, and not justifiable. What does this mean? It means that the international community today has placed the Palestinians in a situation where they are delivered political oppression, which explains (not justifying it) that at a certain point people say: we don't have arms, we don't have anything, and so we cannot do anything other than this. It is contextually explicable but morally condemnable." Killing Israeli children is "contextually explicable"? Apparently Ramadan believes a few sonorous words against terrorism are enough to make it all OK—and allow him to proceed with a plan to turn wanna-be homicide bombers into today’s social critics and tomorrows cultural and political rulers. Ramadan’s theme ran throughout many of the convention speeches. "How can we live in this country?" asked Dr. Javeed Akhter, President of the International Strategy and Policy Institute, a MPAC member organization. "We will be confident
so that people look at us as an example of how a minority should behave in this country
. The Covenant of Medina sets out the principles that are essential to the functioning of a pluralistic society." The Covenant of Medina, written in 622AD establishes the basis for treating non-Muslim minorities within the Muslim empire which ruled much of world for the next 8oo years. The document signed by the Jewish tribes subject to Mohammed’s rule in Medina, began protected subjugation—dhimmitude--as a way of life for all non-Muslims who fall under Islamic rule. The next few years were years of conquest and subjugation of Jews and Christians, "those who have received Scripture", who did not accept Islam. The spirit of the Islamic conquerors is captured in the Koran, Sura 1X, 29: "Make war upon those who have received Scripture...until they pay tribute, being brought low
." In essence Akhter proposes that Muslims live within the US – as rulers whose idea of a "pluralistic society" is dhimmitude for the rest of us. These so-called "moderate Muslims" of MPAC differ from al-Qaeda only in tactics. Rather than blowing themselves up and taking as many infidels as possible with them, they join domestic leftists in seeking to hamstring America in rules and regulations designed to protect the "rights" of terrorists while undermining America through the unrelenting propaganda focused on Guantanamo "prisoners rights" which is everywhere in the media. Former Army Muslim Chaplain and onetime accused al-Qaeda spy, James Yee, spoke immediately after Ahkter. He continued the theme, telling the convention, "The Prophet Mohammed said
’We should strive and pursue those things which benefit us
.’ "Guantanamo, that controversial prison camp
where in 2003 some 660 prisoners—all of them Muslim faith—were being held
. I was sent down there as a US Muslim Chaplain
. I made great contributions down there
. I was down there as an advocate for humane treatment of prisoners
to uphold the fundamental American value of religious freedom and diversity, tolerance...." Yee did not indicate to whom he "made great contributions." Yee, whose family now resides in Damascus, Syria, continues, "For upholding those fundamental American principles as an American Muslim
I found myself in a situation where I
would quickly be arrested under suspicions that I was a terrorist spy
." Yee, Muslim Chaplain stationed at Guantanamo Bay, was arrested on September 10, 2003 and held for 76 days. On one hand Yee does not question whether the prisoners are up holding the "fundamental values" of Islam. On the other hand he demands that the US uphold his self-serving interpretation of what "fundamental American values" are and sees his role in the military as being, "an advocate for humane treatment of prisoners." "Finally the military and the government came to the realization that they had made a mistake and all of the accusations all of the charges that were brought against me were dropped—they disappeared
. My moral responsibly as an American Muslim
to continue to contribute in the most positive way and what I did was--I simply stood up for justice
to advocate for those fundamental American values of diversity and tolerance and religious freedom
." Note that Yee does not proclaim his innocence while openly declaring his role in the military is to function as an "advocate for
(the) prisoners." Why "kill the people" when Islamists can be much more effective undermining America from within by pretending to uphold the "fundamental value" of coddling terrorist head-choppers? Former Ambassador Joe Wilson, whose lies are the cornerstone to the Bush haters’ "Bush lied" campaign, spoke at MPAC’s fundraising banquet. His remarks are not included in the convention audio but his presence at MPAC’s fundraiser speaks volumes about the unholy alliance between the Democrat media and the Democrat Party leadership and the Islamists who wear a fig leaf of terrorist criticism in order to make themselves credible political activists. The MPAC Convention hosted several other speakers who are eagerly putting Ramadan’s strategy into practice, including Parvez Ahmed whose Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) hosts a "Not in the Name of Islam" petition denouncing terror while at the same time is campaigning against the Department of Homeland Security sniffing for radiation near Islamic sites in Washington, DC and other cities. In other words, America must count on CAIR and its petition signers for defense against terrorism while completely disarming ourselves of even the most basic precautions—because they violate CAIR’s interpretation of "our most fundamental principles". This completely mirrors the status of non-Islamic subjects to Islamic rule where Dhimmis are required to go unarmed amidst the majority Muslim population and rely entirely on the "protection" of Muslim authorities. Other speakers included, Maher Hathout, whose next book, due in 2006, is titled, "In Pursuit of Justice" and Naheed Qureshi, the "Safe and Free Western Organizer" for the American Civil Liberties Union and UC-Irvine Mid East Studies Professor, Mark Levine. Many speakers were officials of the US or UK government. These include: Alina Romanowski the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational & Cultural Affairs, Ron Wakabayashi, a Bill Clinton crony now working in the US Department of Justice office in Los Angeles which handles complaints about the "Do Not Fly" list, Bob Pierce, British Consul General, Bruce Sherman, Broadcasting Board of Governors, State Department, LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, and Faisal Gill Advisor to the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security. Ironically, in addition to Ramadan being banned, another MPAC convention speaker, Waqqas Khan, President of the UK Federation of Student Islamic Societies missed the conference due to being held by the very same Department of Homeland Security for nearly four hours at Los Angeles International Airport. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, (R-CA) was listed on early release versions of the MPAC program as a speaker, but he did not appear. The MPAC convention was held in his distric |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Islamists who wear a fig leaf of terrorist criticism in order to make themselves credible political activists. Aim all kicks squarely at the fig leaf. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-01-17 20:24 |
| #1 Gee, did the conference cite Brussels as an examplar? Maybe next year. |
| Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-01-17 18:31 |