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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

"It is Islamism, which deserves our combined energies in critique and ideological deconstruction. Muslims, however, who are anti-Islamist and practicing a modern moral Islam are the key to its defeat."

That's how Zuhdi Jasser (last written about here) concludes his lengthy examination of Islam vs. the Islamists at Family Security Matters: Islamism, not Islam is the Problem. A snip:

...It is important to be academic about this assessment and not assume that what appears to be the silence of the majority of Muslims equates to agreement with the Islamist leadership who exerts a stranglehold over the community. We are doing our national counterterrorism efforts and Muslims a disservice if we assume that the ‘lowest hanging fruit,’ which comprise all currently Islamist organizations (CAIR, MPAC, or ISNA - to name a few) and their proportionally limited membership speak for all American Muslims. Their silence on the need for reformation and the need for Muslims to lead an anti-Islamist effort from within our faith community represents their own Islamist agenda of the members and donors but does not represent the general Muslim population.

In debate, it can become easy to lose the focus of the argument when resorting to criticism based on identity rather than on ideology. For example, so many Islamists locally and nationally resort to attempting to demonize me as an individual rather than deal with my anti-Islamist ideas as a Muslim and as an American. Our Islamist enemy dreams about uniting all Muslims under one nation—the transnational Muslim ummah. To declare our ideological battle against Islam is to hand them the easiest tool toward that unification (ummah-tization) strategy for which they dream and to dismiss our most potent weapon against the jihadists—anti-Islamist Muslims who can lead a counter-jihad from within the Islamic community. Only anti-Islamists Muslims can de-ummahtize the Muslim community and articulate an Islam, which inspires morality but leaves national politics to the governments of our nations...



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la connaissance de la verittee le dire vrai c'est pas (ideological deconstruction). c'est vrai que les muslimans sont autre islam.mais pas tous.l'occupation et l'occident sont contre l'islam, moi memme je suis pour nous memmes arabes et musilmans. notre terre arabe. l'holaucauste pas vrai. c'est un ment. hitler etait juif.

Hitler was a Jew? News.

hitler etait muslim.

l'holaucauste pas vrai.
Few historical events have been as thoroughly documented in written word, images and oral history as the Holocaust, and much of this documentation by the Nazis themselves. Just consider the massive archives at Bad Arolson ( en Français) recently opened to scholars and the ICRC's International Tracing Service. Yet you say it's not real. Thank you for illustrating how the Big Lie works -- say something outrageous and patently false often enough and people may come to believe it.

Here's a big lie...

Islam means Peace.

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