Tag: Muslims

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2008-11-27 “The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has insisted that the terrorists were based outside the country. The Indian media has echoed this line of argument with Pakistan (via the Lashkar-e-Taiba) and al-Qaeda listed as the usual suspects.
But this is a meditated edifice of official India’s political imagination. Its function is to deny that the terrorists could be a homegrown variety, a product of the radicalization of young Indian Muslims who have finally given up on the indigenous political system. To accept this view would imply that the country’s political physicians need to heal themselves.
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Why should it be such a surprise if the perpetrators are themselves Indian Muslims? Its hardly a secret that there has been much anger within the poorest sections of the Muslim community against the systematic discrimination and acts of violence carried out against them of which the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in shining Gujarat was only the most blatant and the most investigated episode, supported by the Chief Minister of the State and the local state apparatuses.
Add to this the continuing sore of Kashmir which has for decades been treated as a colony by Indian troops with random arrests, torture and rape of Kashmiris an everyday occurrence. Conditions have been much worse than in Tibet, but have aroused little sympathy in the West where the defense of human rights is heavily instrumentalised.”
-- Tariq Ali, author
2008-07-03 "I'm not saying that every Muslim in the Netherlands is a criminal or a terrorist."
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"We know the majority is not. Still, there is good reason to stop the immigration, because the more we have an influx of Muslims in the Netherlands, the strength of the (Islamic) culture will grow, and the change of our societies will increase."
-- Geert Wilders, Dutch MP, in an interview with Diana West
2008-07-03 "Unfortunately, they are both strong"
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"But cultural relativism is the biggest problem."
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"Multicultural society would not be that bad -- I don't really believe in it -- but it would not be that bad if, at least, we would be strong enough to say that our culture is better and dominant. But when you combine multicultural society with a dominant sense of cultural relativism, you are heading in the wrong direction. You are committing suicide when it comes to your own culture."
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"I am not advocating a monocultural society. I just want what the Germans call leitkultur (leading culture). I want our own culture to be dominant -- not the only one, but to be dominant. I have a big problem with the cultural relativists who say every culture is equal. I don't believe every culture is equal."
-- Geert Wilders, Dutch MP, in an interview with Diana West
2008-06-23 "There are now 13,000 religious schools [in Egypt] that produce terrorists, like the Taliban madrassas in Pakistan. At religious schools they teach children that Muslims who do not pray should be killed."
-- Dr Sayyed al-Qimni, one of Egypt's best known liberal writers and historians
2008-03-29 The Britain-based Liveleak.com said it had removed anti-Islam film "Fitna" by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders after receiving threats to its staff amid protests by Muslim nations and the UN chief.
2008-03-28 "On behalf of the European Parliament I fully reject the interpretation contained in the film that Islam is a violent religion.
The film's content seems conceived with the purpose of offending the religious senses of the Muslims in Holland, in Europe and the world.
The mutual respect and tolerance are the preconditions for Muslims, Christians and people of other faiths or without any to be able to live together in peace.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental value of the EU and must go side by side with the respect for the profound religious beliefs of the others".
-- Hans Gert Poettering, European Parliament President, in comment to yesterday's release on the Internet of the film 'Fitna'
2008-03-27 In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, aka the anti-Islam politician, on the Internet his highly charged and much-anticipated anti-Koran 17-minute film titled “Fitna”, Arabic for civil strife.

The first 10 minutes of the film consist of a compilation of video fragments showing the victims of terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London. This is interspersed with translations of verses from the Koran and recordings of Islamic leaders calling for violence against non-believers.

In the last five minutes, Wilders focuses on Islam in the Netherlands. There are images of blocks of flats dotted with satellite dishes, policemen removing their shoes before entering a mosque, recordings of preaching and a selection of newspaper headlines.
2008-02-27 The Islamic movements dominated Muslim political discourse in the 20th century. Political models coming from the west, such as representative democracy and accountable governments, were at best seen as tools to achieve an Islamic theocracy or at worst dismissed as unIslamic. Meanwhile monarchies, dictatorships and tyranny were able to thrive in the name of Islam. Much of the last 100 years has been spent politicising Islam rather than working for a just polity: the rule of law, equal citizenship and democratically accountable governments. The 21st century will see Islamist ideas dismantled by Muslims and western political models incorporated. Parallel to this, however, will be the Muslim challenge to present ideas emanating from the west as not un-Islamic but rather universal - a job in the past made difficult by colonialism and now by the west's "war on terror".
-- According to Abdelwahab el-Affendi, Sudanese-born thinker, author of 'Who needs an Islamic State'
2008-02-27 "I believe it may be necessary to work towards a more modest objective: the creation of a leading Muslim state. The function of such a state would be to play a role similar to that being played by the United States as a leader of the west. This is much less ambitious than a caliphate and falls well short of the building an EU-type union of Muslim states, but could lead to it eventually."
-- Abdelwahab el-Affendi, Sudanese-born thinker, author of 'Who needs an Islamic State'
2008-02-27 "We [Muslims] sound a lot sillier today when we claim that the Muslims should be a light unto mankind, and show exemplary conduct and moral leadership. Now it would be more realistic to just say we wish that Muslims would stop blowing themselves up and get innocent people killed in the process".
-- Abdelwahab el-Affendi, Sudanese-born thinker, author of 'Who needs an Islamic State'












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