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| 2007-07-05 | ||||
| The sight of a burning SUV stuck at the entrance of Glasgow Airport's passenger terminal had me begging God for reprieve. "Please let it not be a Muslim," I prayed. But the odds were against me. One of the first eyewitnesses to appear on BBC dashed my hopes. "The bloke was on fire and when we tried to approach him, he started throwing punches and shouting 'Allah! Allah!' " said an exasperated Scot. Fortunately, this clumsy attempt by Islamic terrorists failed. But what was extraordinary about this attack was the profile of the accused. Among those arrested were Arab professionals, one a neurosurgeon, the other a physician. These were no inner-city sons of impoverished immigrants invoking their right to fight injustice. These were well-placed, Mercedes-driving, upper-middle-class Muslims responding to the call of jihad against non-Muslims, which is the basis of all Islamic terrorism.
It is also the fault of politicians such as Tony Blair, who, after foolishly entrenching Islamists at every level in British society, then lied about weapons of mass destruction and helped U.S. President George W. Bush launch his illegal invasion of Iraq. Blair set up state-funded Islamic schools and knighted a known Islamist, a person who had defended the death sentence on Salman Rushdie. To make matters worse, Blair endorsed and funded the so-called "Radical Middle Way" for British Muslim clerics. This "middle way" has become a front for all those who provide convoluted academic analysis, explaining the root causes of Islamic terrorism and falsely promising the British taxpayer that they will counter the ideology of hate against secular societies. But its media savvy scholars promote a very narrow view of Islam, carefully avoiding any rejection of the doctrine of jihad, choosing instead to suggest that Britain's foreign policy is at the root of terrorism.
Time has come for this to change. Time has come for ordinary Britons and Canadians to say that if our politicians do not have the spine to stand up to the Islamists, we will. We have to say to those apologizing for Islamists, "Enough is enough," and stand up to the Jihadis and Jihadi-Lites. We should not hesitate to say to those who will not embrace the principles of secular democracies, "shape up or ship out." This victimhood mentality forced on young Muslim men, mixed with the exaltation of martyrdom and the doctrine of jihad, has been at the root of Islamic terrorism in Britain. When prosperous young Muslims use Mercedes as car bombs in London and Glasgow, the groups who instilled in them this frenzy are equally guilty of the crime, if not more. Those who incite young Muslim men in Britain and Canada into believing that western society is satanic and that the West is waging a war against Islam have a moral obligation to take responsibility when these same men become suicide bombers and terrorists.
Muslim organizations must come out and state clearly that the only laws that matter in Canada are the laws of this country, not medieval shariah laws of the ninth century. If they do not reject the doctrine of jihad as an option for Muslims, they should be considered part of the problem, not the solution. Tarek Fatah is founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress and author of Chasing a Mirage: The Islamic state or a state of Islam, to be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2008 | ||||
| Posted by:lotp |
| #10 Blair set up state-funded Islamic schools Exactly what that fool Bloomberg is allowing Dabah al Montaser to do in New York It is also the fault of politicians such as Tony Blair, who, after foolishly entrenching Islamists at every level in British society, then lied about weapons of mass destruction and helped U.S. President George W. Bush launch his illegal invasion of Iraq. Repeating this common Big Lie of the Left invalidates the rest of the article in my view. Not only is the charge false but it is just another example of a blame-the-victim mentality. Besides the Islamists themselves the only other group which deserves blame are the multi-cultis who allowed this movement to infiltrate our societies. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-07-05 19:15 |
| #9 It is also the fault of politicians such as Tony Blair, who, after foolishly entrenching Islamists at every level in British society, then lied about weapons of mass destruction and helped U.S. President George W. Bush launch his illegal invasion of Iraq Some things are well-stated whereas others are pure BS. The statement about lying about WMDs is the mantra of the left. Saddam has WMDs which he used against the Iranians and the Kurds. He tried to develop a nuclear capability in the early 1980s before the Israelis took out the facilities in a pre-emptive strike. He had been working on biological weapons and chemical weapons. Another mantra is that Bush invaded Iraq illegally. Bullshit. Iraq ignored UN sanctions for years. Bush went to the UN and got a UN resolution to invade Iraq. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-05 18:59 |
| #8 Please do not do the green block comments with tiny tiny letters. It hurts my eyes and I will not attempt to read them! There's no need to read them as they are merely excerpts from the body of text. The green color indicates which moderator perceives these passages as being of significance. As to the article, it would have been nice if the author had provided more detail about how people should "stand up to the Islamists". She says, "Enough is enough," and, "shape up or ship out" but neglects to mention if this involves beating the crap out of protestors who openly advocate shari'a law or (gasp!) shipping out offenders via deportation. Much more explicit language is going to be needed to overcome the years of Politically Correct Newspeak that have neutered public awareness of Islam's threat. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-05 16:21 |
| #7 Then don't, #5. Others' milage may vary.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-07-05 15:00 |
| #6 Those who incite young Muslim men in Britain and Canada into believing that western society is satanic and that the West is waging a war against Islam have a moral obligation to take responsibility when these same men become suicide bombers and terrorists. They not only are happy to take moral responsibility, they gloat at the successes. Illegal war, my foot. Show me the law. |
| Posted by: KBK 2007-07-05 14:39 |
| #5 Please do not do the green block comments with tiny tiny letters. It hurts my eyes and I will not attempt to read them! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-07-05 14:34 |
| #4 The reason why no one will stand up (besides lack of a spine) is the fact that if they do, the Islamists will stand right up too and try to behead them. Thus, the apologists rule the land. The war is on people. You will have to fight, or surrender. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-07-05 14:33 |
| #3 Or they quote the 5% of the Koran that is gentle and accepting, ignoring the other 95% as hard as they can. I heard exactly that on NPR this morning, as follow-on to their report on the 45 jihadi doctors plotting mayhem in the U.S. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-05 14:16 |
| #2 Notice that Tarek Fatah does not claim any Quranic argument supports his position. It may be out of ignorance of the theology (probably) or out of embarrassment at the theology (Irshad Manji is an exception to this rule, she quotes the Quran a lot and probably thinks she knows what she is talking about). This is the problem self identifying moslem moderates face. In essense, the terrorists quote the Quran, the moderates run away from it. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-07-05 14:03 |
| #1 As usual, general rhetoric. "Stand Up" in what way? After castrating the war on terror you are a hypocrit. Don't be surprised when this islamist stand right back up and get right back in your face more militant than ever. |
| Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Chusoling1715 2007-07-05 12:55 |