[Assam] The Irrationality of Jihad - The Sentinel /Tavleen Singh

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>>>>If anything, Western governments have been too tolerant of radical Islam.
They have allowed mosques to be used as places where disaffected Muslims
gather to attack Western civilization and liberal values. They have granted
citizenship to foreign-born Muslims who hate the West or someone like Faisal
Shahzad would never have been allowed to become an American citizen.<<<

Here is another one that I happened to come by to day.This will give
you cold chills!!
KJD

Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.

In a generation or two, the US will ask itself:
Who lost Europe?'
Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the
Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance
of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission.  All is not well in the old world.
There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be
optimistic.  We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of
Europe.  This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of
Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the
West.  The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization,
facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe.  Then, I
will say a few things about Islam.  To close I will tell you about a
meeting in Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks.  But in all of these cities,
sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is
another world.  It is the world of the parallel society created by
Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim
neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even
seen.  And if they are, they might regret it.  This goes for the
police as well.  It's the world of head scarves, where women walk
around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of
children.  Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three
steps ahead.  With mosques on many street corners.  The shops have
signs you and I cannot read.  You will be hard-pressed to find any
economic activity.  These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious
fanatics.  These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in
every city across Europe.  These are the building-blocks for
territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street
by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe.  With larger
congregations than there are in churches.  And in every European city
there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in
the region.  Clearly, the signal is: "we rule!"

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take
Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden.  In many cities the
majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.   Paris is now
surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods.  Mohammed is the most
popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be
mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that
would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all
pupils.  In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost
exclusively by Muslims.  Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore,
whore'.  Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to
stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed
offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is
increasingly true of Darwin.  The history of the Holocaust can no
longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal
system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without
head scarves.  Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by
Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst
wave of anti-Semitism since World War II.  French is now commonly
spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel.  I could go on
forever with stories like this.  Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe.   San Diego
University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the
population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now.  Bernhard
Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers.  And the numbers would not be threatening
if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate.  But there
are few signs of that.  The Pew Research Center reported that half of
French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their
loyalty to France.  One-third of French Muslims do not object to
suicide attacks.  The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that
one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide
caliphate.  Muslims demand what they call 'respect'.  And this is how
we give them respect.  We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia
in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority.  We have cabinet
members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty
crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and
bus drivers, to small-scale riots.   Paris has seen its uprising in
the low-income suburbs, the banlieus.  I call the perpetrators
'settlers'.  Because that is what they are.  They do not come to
integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into
their Dar-al-Islam.  Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively
against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their
neighborhoods, their cities, their countries.  Moreover, Muslims are
now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the
prophet.  His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be
criticized.  Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like
Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem.
But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had
several marriages - at the same time.  Islamic tradition tells us how
he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had
prisoners of war executed.  Mohammed himself slaughtered the J ewish
tribe of Banu Qurayza.  If it is good for Islam, it is good.  If it is
bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion.  Sure, it has a god,
and a here-after, and 72 virgins.  But in its essence Islam is a
political ideology.  It is a system that lays down detailed rules for
society and the life of every person.  Islam wants to dictate every
aspect of life.  Islam means 'submission'.  Islam is not compatible
with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia.  If
you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or
national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde
force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.  The
public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees
Israel as the aggressor.  I have lived in this country and visited it
dozens of times.  I support Israel.  First, because it is the Jewish
homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including
Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel
is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating
Islam's territorial advance.   Israel is facing the front lines of
jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand,
Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia.   Israel is simply in
the way.  The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel.  It is a war
against the West.  It is jihad.   Israel is simply receiving the blows
that are meant for all of us.  If there would have been no Israel ,
Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its
energy and its desire for conquest.  Thanks to Israeli parents who
send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in
Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers
looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address
the grievances of our Muslim minorities.  But if Israel were, God
forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would
not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their
behavior, and accept our values.  On the contrary, the end of Israel
would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam.  They would,
and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is
weak, and doomed.  The end of Israel would not mean the end of our
problems with Islam, but only the beginning.  It would mean the start
of the final battle for world domination.  If they can get Israel,
they can get everything.  So-called journalists volunteer to label any
and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or
'racists'.

In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees
the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since
World War II.  And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest
threat.  Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the
scenario of America as the last man standing.  The lights may go out
in Europe faster than you can imagine.  An Islamic Europe means a
Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an
intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as
its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs.  With an
Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the
heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem .

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts.  My generation
never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver
platter, by people who fought for it with their lives.  All throughout
Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never
made it home, and whose memory we cherish.  My generation does not own
this freedom; we are merely its custodians.  We can only hand over
this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which
it was offered to us.  We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams.
 Future generations would never forgive us.  We cannot squander our
liberties.  We simply do not have the right to do so.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic
stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.













On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ms. SIngh seems to have hit the right spot here alright.
>
> --Ram
>
>
>
> The Irrationality of Grievance for Jihad
>
> *ON THE SPOT
> Tavleen Singh
> *
> On a hot summer’s day when I was in New York last week, Faisal Shahzad
> admitted in a court in Manhattan that he had tried to detonate a bomb in
> Times Square in May with the intention of killing and injuring innocent
> people. I read his testimony in the New York Times gazing from my hotel room
> window out on a magnificent vista of this most magnificent of cities, and a
> chill run down my spine. This was because the reasons Shahzad gave for
> trying to blow up Times Square were unnervingly similar to those I have
> heard often from supposedly moderate Muslims in India and Pakistan. Faisal
> Shahzad is an educated, upper middle class Pakistani, who became an American
> citizen months before his first terrorist act, and in court he articulated
> eloquently the disconnect between the Muslim worldview and the rest of the
> world.
> He said, ‘‘I want to plead guilty, and I’m going to plead guilty 100 times
> over because until the hour the US pulls its forces from Iraq and
> Afghanistan and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan
> and stops the occupation of Muslim lands, and stops killing the Muslims and
> stops reporting the Muslims to its government, we will be attacking US, and
> I plead guilty to that.’’ When the judge pointed out that the people Shahzad
> had tried to kill in Times Square included women and children, Shahzad
> replied that women and children were being killed in Afghanistan’s villages.
> He said, ‘‘Well, the drone hits in Afghanistan and Iraq (and) they don’t see
> children; they don’t see anybody. They kill women and children. They kill
> everybody. It’s a war. And in war, they kill people. They’re killing all
> Muslims.’’
> Why I found these words particularly chilling was because Shahzad
> articulated a viewpoint that I have heard from many moderate Muslims who
> condemn jihadi terrorism but believe that American foreign policy seeks to
> target Muslims and Islam. In my conversations with moderate Muslims I have
> often heard arguments of the kind Faisal Shahzad made to defend himself in
> that Manhattan courtroom. They come from a sense of grievance that is
> founded on fantasy and not fact, but the sense of grievance is a reality
> across the Muslim world. It is this ideology of grievance that provides
> tacit support for the jihad, and what makes it particularly dangerous is
> that it refuses to acknowledge the other side of the story.
> Whether America’s decision to send troops to Iraq and Afghanistan was
> correct or not, it came after 9/11. If America and Americans had not been
> attacked repeatedly by Osama bin Laden and his followers, there would in all
> likelihood have been no wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The attack on America
> did not begin with 9/11 but with attacks on American embassies and
> institutions in Africa and the Middle East and with an attack on an American
> warship in Yemen. American tourists were targeted in many Muslim countries,
> and a propaganda war against the United States was launched across the
> Muslim world. After 9/11 if President George Bush had done nothing in
> response, he would have lost his job.
> As someone who always thought Iraq was the wrong target, I personally
> believe that if he had concentrated on Afghanistan and Pakistan, jihadi
> terrorism today would have been less of a problem than it is. But it remains
> true that in the face of an attack on New York city he had no choice but to
> respond. Whenever I have discussed this with supposedly moderate Muslims, I
> have come up against the most bizarre theories. The most common of these is
> that 9/11 was not the work of Al Qaeda but of Mossad. I am continually
> astounded by the number of sensible, intelligent, educated Muslims who
> believe this. Another equally bizarre theory is that it was the CIA that was
> behind 9/11 to find an excuse to attack Islamic countries. The last time I
> heard this was from a Pakistani limousine driver when I was last in New York
> some months ago. The conspiracy theories are nonsense but in the Muslim
> quarters of Indian cities it is possible to meet any number of sensible,
> moderate Muslims who have deluded themselves into believing that the whole
> purpose of American foreign policy is to destroy Islam. According to those
> who believe this theory, the Americans have the support of Israel and India
> in this endeavour — so Hindus are considered as much a worthy target as
> Zionists.
>  In India we have a whole other set of grievances that moderate Muslims give
> as reasons for jihadi terrorism. Kashmir, the demolition of the Babri
> Masjid, discrimination in jobs and in finding apartments to rent in Delhi
> and Mumbai — these are all offered as reasons why young Indian Muslims are
> increasingly being lured by the jihad. The visible proliferation of veiled
> young women and bearded young men in Indian cities speaks for how much
> influence radical Islam is beginning to have.
> Inadvertent support for this radicalization comes not just from moderate
> Muslims but from liberal intellectuals who never fail to support radical
> Islamists whenever they get the chance. Sitting in New York last week, I
> read in the Indian newspapers editorials that objected to the fanatical
> preacher, Zakir Naik, being denied a visa to enter the United Kingdom. Naik
> says the most awful things about religions that are not Islam. His
> interpretation of Islam makes it into a religion that treats women like
> secondary creatures and dissent as punishable by death. Why should it
> surprise anyone that the British government does not want him around?
> If anything, Western governments have been too tolerant of radical Islam.
> They have allowed mosques to be used as places where disaffected Muslims
> gather to attack Western civilization and liberal values. They have granted
> citizenship to foreign-born Muslims who hate the West or someone like Faisal
> Shahzad would never have been allowed to become an American citizen. If his
> bomb in Times Square had not been detected and defused before it went off,
> thousands of people could have been killed. In his worldview this would have
> been just revenge against the United States. It is the same worldview that
> inspired those responsible for jihadi terrorism in India. It is a worldview
> that must be fought with all the strength we have because it is a worldview
> based on mostly nonsensical grievances.
> Tavleen Singh
> (Follow Tavleen Singh on Twitter at tavleen_singh)
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