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Panel on perception of Muslims in the United States covers hearings
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2011
A panel of experts on the American perception of Islam spoke in Frist Campus Center on Thursday afternoon to address the congressional hearings currently being run by Rep. Peter King concerning the threat of radicalization within the American Muslim community ...
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George Orwell would be proud.
Concerning Islamophobia...is Richard Dawkins an Islampophobe, or is he just confident enough to speak the truth?
http://freethoughtnation.com/contributing-write...
Wow all four panelists denounced the hearings? Sounds like a really vibrant and balanced discussion. Bravo liberal orthodoxy
There was one opposing view but he was silenced.
http://bigpeace.com/jguandolo/2011/02/23/univer...
Just kidding.
I thought it was "Arabs" fighting for democracy, not "Muslims". Muslims are the ones who will cane a 12 year old rape victim to death and call it Sharia law. "Let not compassion move you" - Qur'an 24:2 as opposed to John 8.
Instead of denouncing the supposed attempt at the "marginalization" of Muslims in America, how about speaking out and condemning those numerous mohammedans who are "twisting" Islam? The deafening silence you hear is because the very tenets and foundations of Islam are violent and fatalistic. If someone is stoned to death, allah must have willed it; if a head is cut off, well, no matter, it's what that kafir, Jew, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Ba'hai, (fill in the blank _______) deserved. It is actually allah's perfect justice.
I'd like to see hundreds of panels of muslims convened to address this "twisting" of their faith. Islam is not a monolith, but golly, an awful lot of muslims seem to get these 7th century ideas from somewhere! To see the Islamic community begin to denounce the violent, cruel and practices and beliefs that come straight from their holy book, would be what it takes to convince me that there are "moderate" muslims.
Amazing! An entire "panel of experts" and an entire article in a student newspaper and not a word about anything that was actually said in the King hearings.
Well, there was a time that the 4 panelists would be found right by all and sundry, say in the 20th century. But since then "Democratic Watchdogs", with many ex-Muslims, study Islamic texts, declarations of Muslim leaders and influential clerics and behavior of Muslims in connection with that. They conclude that Islam does have influence and that it is detrimental for many democratic laws and loyalties.
Let us try to play the collective responsibility-card for both Muslims and people whose main loyalty is to Democracy. Muslims belong to an organisation, the Ummah, upon membership of which no conditions are set, but which has numerous clearly anti-democratic members, like the ayatollahs, al qaida and the Taliban and many dictatorial countries. And they confess utmost loyalty to a faith that has the death-penalty for apostasy, different treatment before the law between men/ women, Muslims-Non-Muslims and which strongly advocates censorship about itself, as an exception to freedom of speech. Among other clear anti-democratic laws. Muslims should realise that with that they forfeit all trust of citizens and cause fear in citizens themselves.
They should form a democratic Islamic organisation, with conditions of loyalty to democratic laws and nations upon membership. Such Democratic Muslims can earn trust from citizens again, default-Muslims deserve very little of it.
Islam is a much greater threat to the well-being of mankind than Fascism, Communism and the Hirdes of Genghis Khan ever were.
Stuart is right of course. This is particularly true in a guilt-ridden society that the West has become where moral inversion is the rule of the day. We cannot blame the poor, poor Muslims just because they’re barbaric, immoral, misogynistic sadists, because we colonized them, or Israel embarrassed them by beating their pants off in five wars, or our imperialist system takes advantage of them. You see, don’t you, it’s all our fault that they slit the throats of UN workers and bomb to smithereens wedding parties, and even funeral processions. It’s not their fault that they do these things even though they have been doing these things ever since Mohammed (dis)graced this planet.
The most recent example of this is the most recent example of Muslims going on murder sprees because some weird pastor burned a Qur'an. And how do western journalists report this event? They insinuate the pastor is at fault for the murders and mayhem. It's not the Muslims who are slitting the throats who are to blame, it's the pastor’s fault for taunting them. We in the West are complicit in what could well be our demise at the hands of these 7th century barbarians.
See here:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/04/priorities-an...
And then there is always this which is a slightly different permutation on this theme of the west helping bring about its own demise:
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=4&...
A phobia describes an irrational fear: and it is axiomatic that fearing the threat of Islamo-supremacism is not irrational; but (on the contrary) very well-founded indeed. If one wishes to speak of “phobia”, one should speak instead of Candor-phobia, the fear of and revulsion toward perfectly legitimate warnings of impending jihadist attacks.
Leftists are definitely apathetic over the global jihad threat-- because candorphobia is their orthodoxy.
It is counter-rational to imply criticism of an ideology is phobic. This implies that the truth of that ideology is already established and any candid opposition is irrational.
16K+ deadly Islamo-supremacist attacks since 9/11 don't lie.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Try harder to remove your orthodox blinkers and think rationally about the global jihadi threat.