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May 4, 2005
More Jihad Watch: New Duranty Times loves Reza Aslan's new book
Topics: Understanding IslamWhat you need to take away with you from this piece is that "the entire moderate Muslim project today is a fruitless exercise in deception of others or self-deception, and the responsibility can be laid at the feet of every media type who has bought the line about "Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists." Yet, the New York Times, the New Duranty Times, and to some extent the National Review, dhimmis all, consistently beat the drum for Islam, and to their own and our future detriment and demise. As Rober Spencer at Jihad Watch comments, " we will never know why the Times is doing this -- because they will not discuss it. Instead, the Times is energetically boosting the Bright Young Muslim Thing Reza Aslan, whose shallow and distorted depiction of Islamic teachings" are discussed here. The liberal press would have us believe that "The Jihad Is a Civil War, the West only a bystander." But the Jihad is not a civil war, it is a war against Christianity, Judism, the West, and everything that is non-Muslim. We had better realize that now while we can still stop it.
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This is the state of the free press today: if you write a book that
dares to suggest that Islam and the theology and ideology of jihad
might have something to do with today's terrorism (which, of course,
the terrorists themselves insist), the New York Times and the lemmings that follow in its wake will ignore you, unless they are planning a feature on "Islamophobia." So will National Review, at least for now.
Why will they ignore you? Because even to have a public debate with you will be to grant legitimacy to your perspective, and make them have to answer it. Since it is true, they can't answer it, so instead they resort to attempting to delegitimize it by treating it as if it were beneath notice and unworthy of discussion.
This is an extraordinarily irresponsible stance for the New Duranty Times to take. Why? Because it cuts the ground out from under the moderate Muslims they profess to be supporting. By forbidding discussion of the violence in the Qur'an and Muhammad's career, they prevent the moderate Muslims they support from coming to grips with the enormous challenge that the global jihadists have presented to them. The jihadists make recruits daily by referring to Qur'an and Hadith; but the moderates have no convincing response that will keep Muslims from becoming radicalized. And no one is pressing them to try to formulate such a response, because both left and right are pretending that the problem does not emanate from Islam's core texts.
This is one of those very important must reads for all non-Muslims.
For a corrective of the misrepresentations and distortions about Islamic intentions for you, your children, your grandchildren, and your nation, watch for Robert Spencer's forthcoming book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades, which was sent off to the publisher (Regnery) Monday night. It is scheduled to be out August 1. Watch for updates on it here and at Hyscience. Don't expect it to be reviewed in the New York Times.
Posted by Hyscience at May 4, 2005 9:29 AM
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