Mar 01 2006
The Manifesto Against The New Islamic Totalitarianism
I want to sign up to this, but I cannot because of one line. And that one line is now in the manifesto to be used as is. It is the classic confusion between “Islam” and “Islamists”:
We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of “Islamophobia”, an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.
After years of being told by dear friends that the wife and I and our kids are going to burn in hell because these friends had found their evangelical God, I am not going to sit here and claim all Islam failed because it touts itself as the one true way. Everyone touts that. Whether people are some variation of Christian, Jew, Muslim, Atheist or whatever, trust me when I say they believe their’s is the one true way.
The manifesto was perfect until that critical slip. Islam is not the source of the evil, anymore than Christianity was the source of the Inquisition, the Crusades or suppressing women’s rights. To this day I have issues with the Catholic church because they discriminate against women being able to lead. No religion is perfect and all of them could use a good modernizing view of the world. I am spiritual, not religious, because religions have all these flaws.
So it is not Islam I am against, it is Islamists who twist the religion for their own personal power trips, and who condone violence against others simply so they can be deemed ‘right’ through the process of elimination.
Sorry, but our war is not against Islam, and neither is the cartoon war. It is against radical, violent people we refer to as Islamists so that we can distinguish between them and those who do not see or preach violence against others.
Manifesto against Islamic totalitarianism (AM UPDATE)…
Excellent. Via Jyllands-Posten:
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for …
I don’t understand your point. Maybe I’m not reading the manifesto or your reasoning correctly.
I take it that the sentence in question is a pre-emptive deflection of being labeled with the term “Islamaphobic” and is a rightful attempt to criticize aspects of Islam as a religion, not Muslims in general.
How would that interpretation jibe with your rationale.
AJ–
I am sorry to be off-topic, but you don’t have any current Able Danger stuff.
On the Able Danger Blog a guy claims that some “mystery woman” has been identified.
He doesn’t give her name or the name of the official who is saying this.
I think this is a very sketchy claim.
Next thing you know, some “mystery woman” will be making all kinds of bogus claims.
All of this stuff is very poorly sourced.
I don’t understand your point. Nor do I get your reference to past catholic history.
I do not believe it’s pertinent.
I believe it was the muslims who actually started the crusades, not the past history of Catholicsms shortcomings.
Regardless when the past is still present and moving towards the future we all should worry.
I am sorry that you cannot see that nothing has changed in their culture.
Where as for the most part catholics have grown, We have our faults but murder, arson, slavery and rampant riot and destruction is not one of them.
Be Well
If anything there were more moderate Muslimis in past history than there are now.