Stephen Schwartz, a Sufi Muslim convert and head of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, has nailed it again. This time, Schwartz writes about the CAIR-sponsored Islamophobia project at UC Beserkely. Schwartz's article is cross-posted from American Thinker and Campus Watch. It is well worth a read.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/berkeley-cair_islamophobia_report_no_there_there.html
I have already written about this chauvinistic victimization project going on at Beserkley under the leadership of radical professor Hatem Bazian. I only wish I could say it like Schwartz does. Schwartz himself is a Muslim, yet he is the kind of Muslim our government should be reaching out to instead of the likes of CAIR.
I note that Schwartz himself is a Beserkley grad, one of the minority of people who don't come out of that institution as Cool Aid drinkers.
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Gary you will find this debate in Qatar about Muslim extremism relevant: http://www.thedohadebates.com/debates/player.asp?d=4
Matan,
Thanks. I will watch it.
From a holy, authoritative hadeeth of Islam:
"Allah's Apostle said, ‘You Muslims will fight the Jews till some of them hide behind stones. The stones will betray them saying, "O Abdullah (slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him."'"
Bukhari:V4B52N177
The authority of this hadeeth, attested to by the definitely non-Muslim Anonynazi, is confirmed by the fact that the first four Rashidun caliphs, the Ummayad caliphs in both Damascus and Cordoba, and the Abbasid caliphs, welcomed the freely offered aid of Jewish resident to aid in the conquests of Jerusalem, Spain, and other territories where they had been viciously persecuted by Christians, and fostered schools of Talmudic studies in Bagdhad. It took until the Almohades, five centuries later, and the Fatamids in Egypt, to even begin putting anything like this haddith into use -- wherever it came from.
But moving on to the video Matan offers (albeit three years old), I appreciate the work all four panelists are doing, which suggests that the question has not been framed properly. Once again, I do not find the word "extremism" very helpful.
I would note that the panelists failed to give a proper answer to the woman who framed suicide bombing as an inevitable response to F-16s. The proper response would begin, establishing a world wide caliphate is not a liberation movement, it is another form of oppression.
The elephant in the room was also ignored: Saudi Arabia. That is the source of jihadi propagation, but we need their oil, and in a modest sense they are our "ally" for "stability." How to deal with that is a mess worse than how to deal with Pakistan.
Siarlys Jenkins
The video was interesting just in that an Muslim-majority audience voted nearly 4:1 that extremism is not being dealt with seriously and/or appropriately by Muslims themselves.
This is a cry for help, and something that Gary and others have asked - where is Muslims condemning X, Y, and Z - and here is Muslim panelists (one associated with CAIR, sure to blow Gary's mind) asking the same questions.
I hope he has watched it and will also blog on it.
What have you done, Anonymous? I meant really done, as distinct from talking and typing on the net?
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