The Taqiyya Matrix
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. -- Morpheus, The Matrix
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The CAIR-Terror Connection
ReplyDeleteSpencer:
ReplyDeleteWhen I argue with self-proclaimed moderates in the United States, it is not because (as Akyol tentatively implies in his response here) that I do not favor their enterprise; it is because I know in the first place that Islam sanctions religious deception (taqiyya; see Qur'an 3:28 and 16:106), and because I know that any sincerely reformist presentation must answer radical arguments, which moderates hardly ever do. So I try to determine if these self-proclaimed moderates are genuine, and if their arguments will truly hold up from the perspective of the radicals.
Tariq Ramadan: Master of Islamist doublespeak
ReplyDeleteBut closer scrutiny of what he actually says - and perhaps even more importantly, does not say - suggests the talented Mr Ramadan is an Islamist wolf in moderniser’s clothing. To the Islamic world he says one thing; to credulous Western audiences quite another in language that is slippery, opaque, manipulative and disingenuous.
Tariq Ramadan:
ReplyDeleteRamadan says that resistance is a key concept and that he is promoting Islamic socialism. In his book Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, Ramadan says global capitalism and neo-liberal economics must be resisted. He says he will respect Western laws only up to a point. "I will abide by the laws, but only insofar as the laws don't force me to do anything against my religion ... If any given society should take this right away, I will resist and fight that society," he has said in a recorded speech ......
The first message condemns terrorism. The second message lavishes praise on the theoreticians of terrorism .
Tariq Ramadan is a problematic figure skilled at projecting moderation to Western audiences, while engaging in apologetics for various forms of Islamist extremism, including terrorist attacks and conspiracy theories about 9/11,
Dr Ali said it was a common problem among Arabic scholars such as Professor Ramadan to alter their messages for different audiences.
When asked by Sarkhozy in 2003, whether he opposed the stoning of women, Ramadan could not give a straight answer and squirmed in his seat as Sarkhozy pressed the question
Here is Warraq’s conclusion:
ReplyDeleteFourest has rendered an invaluable service. She demonstrates with great skill that Ramadan is a dangerous radical who, far from modernizing Islam, is in fact attempting to Islamize modernity. Of undoubted ability and charisma, but with no respect for or allegiance to Western values of liberty, Ramadan is poisoning the minds of young Muslims in the West. He spreads his message through personal appearances and Ibn Warraq Reviews Caroline Fourest’s Exposé on the Cultural Jihadist Tariq Ramadan
with the sale of tens of thousands of cassettes through Tawhid, an Islamist publishing house with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Under Ramadan’s influence, Islamist youths develop a hatred for Western values and dream of creating a totalitarian Islamic theocracy, not only in the heart of Europe, but eventually the entire globe, until, in the words of al-Banna, “the Islamic banner . . . waves supreme over the human race.”
Ibn Warraq Reviews Caroline Fourest’s Exposé on the Cultural Jihadist Tariq Ramadan
ReplyDeleteFourest has rendered an invaluable service. She demonstrates with great skill that Ramadan is a dangerous radical who, far from modernizing Islam, is in fact attempting to Islamize modernity. Of undoubted ability and charisma, but with no respect for or allegiance to Western values of liberty, Ramadan is poisoning the minds of young Muslims in the West. He spreads his message through personal appearances and with the sale of tens of thousands of cassettes through Tawhid, an Islamist publishing house with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Under Ramadan’s influence, Islamist youths develop a hatred for Western values and dream of creating a totalitarian Islamic theocracy, not only in the heart of Europe, but eventually the entire globe, until, in the words of al-Banna, “the Islamic banner . . . waves supreme over the human race.”
Fitzgerald: Taqiyya: A quiz
ReplyDeleteIs The American Muslim even capable of telling the truth?
ReplyDeleteThis has nothing to do with me; it is indicative of a pattern -- a pattern that few Western analysts seem aware of or willing to consider in its implications. The mendacity of some of the self-proclaimed moderate Muslim spokesmen never ceases to amaze me. The lying is quite sophisticated, persistent, and unflappable -- witness Steve Emerson's contretemps with the thoroughly truth-contemptuous Edina Lekovic.
And The American Muslim is one of the worst offenders, as it also publishes the work of Robert Crane, the convert to Islam who has claimed to expose the "errors" of my book The Truth About Muhammad. Crane, you may recall, claimed that I misrepresented Qur'an 8:67, which says that "it is not for any prophet to have captives until he hath made slaughter in the land." I present in the book Islamic traditions showing that this was understood by the early Muslims as meaning that they should slaughter their enemies, not take prisoners of war. Crane says, on the other hand, that this means that "the taking of booty is legitimate but the proposed execution of the prisoners would have constituted an awesome sin and warranted a 'tremendous chastisement. Spencer uses these ahadith to show the opposite."
Sounds terrible, right? Sounds as if, blinded by hatred, I am willfully misrepresenting the texts -- unless you happen to know what Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad's first biographer, says about this incident, quoting and interpreting Qur'an 8:67: "God said, 'It is not for any prophet,' i.e. before thee [Muhammad], 'to take prisoners' from his enemies 'until he has made slaughter in the earth,' i.e. slaughtered his enemies until he drives them from the land. 'You desire the lure of this world,' i.e. its goods, the ransom of the captives. 'But God desires the next world,' i.e., their killing them to manifest the religion which He wishes to manifest..." (Pages 326-327).
Did you catch that? God desires that the prisoners be killed in order "to manifest the religion which He wishes to manifest." Crane, on the other hand, claimed that the same passage meant that "the proposed execution of the prisoners would have constituted an awesome sin," and that it was I who was wickedly twisting the meaning of the text.
This is a sophisticated manner of deception. Most non-Muslim and probably many Muslim readers would never realize there was any deception going on at all. It does not speak well of The American Muslim that they engage in this sort of thing. Caveat emptor -- although all too many are willing, even eager, to buy, as if they are eager to be fooled.
MPAC's Lekovic caught out yet again
ReplyDeleteBut when Steve Emerson caught her out a few days ago on CNBC's Kudlow, exposing her as the editor of a Muslim student paper in the 1990s that praised Osama bin Laden as a great mujahid, she responded swiftly in a letter to Emerson filled with the insults, slurs, distortions, and victim-playing that will be familiar to longtime readers of this site as often coming from Islamic spokesmen.
CAIR exposed:
ReplyDeleteAt last the whole truth is coming out about this malignant group.
"CAIR Exposed: Part 1: As IAP Offshoot, CAIR Followed Pro-Hamas Agenda From the Start,"
From the Hamas ties of its founders in 1994 to its solicitous stance toward accused terrorists today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demonstrated that its actual mission is far removed from the civil rights advocacy it claims to pursue.
Still standing as perhaps the clearest evidence of CAIR's insidious role, two key leaders of the group attended a 1993 meeting in Philadelphia called by Hamas members and supporters to devise a strategy for torpedoing the Oslo Accords aimed at Middle East peace ...