Fitzgerald: Islam's Trojan Horse, and what to do about it

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:42 pm

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018432.php

Islam's Trojan Horse is also to be seen in the Pentagon. There are within it American generals who have their Muslim aides. There are Saudi generals -- you know, the kind who have never held a rifle in their lives, but are connected to the Al-Saud and thus to the arms buying that is the only way, or the easiest way, the Americans can think of to recycle those petrodollars.

The Trojan Horse can be seen in Congress, where Ellison (of Minnesota) and Meeks (of New York) and Eddie Johnson (of Texas) introduced and got passed a resolution to get the members of Congress to "commend" the world's "1.5 billion" (!) Muslims for their celebration of Ramadan, phrasing the thing so that some Congressmen, if it came to a vote (it is now in committee) would undoubtedly simply sign it, thinking its easier to do so rather than not, and of course what's the harm in praising, they will think, the "celebration of Ramadan"?

There is plenty wrong with it. For every seeming endorsement of anything in Islam is immediately taken, and twisted, and used by those who are extremely clever -- who are full-time practitioners -- of propaganda on behalf of Islam. And when someone signs a petition, or a bill that can be considered in favor of Islam (which is how organized Muslims will take it, and use it) they may then find that they have to defend that signing against those who will attack them, and then the well-known phenomenon of getting defensive, rather than explaining that the vote meant nothing, may lead some to actually convince themselves that, by golly, "there is plenty about Islam to like, and I'll be damned if I'll let people attack me for this." And then someone, who began knowing nothing, and found out nothing, by the mere act of signing something he thought meant nothing, can push himself into a psychological corner where he begins to take the side of Islam and Jihad. It happens. That is why these seemingly trivial endorsements of the "inoffensive" aspects of Islam -- including Bush's idiotic instituting of an Iftar dinner which, one hopes, will be ended with the next president (he, or she, will have to be quietly determined and ruthless about it, with no swerving at all) -- are not trivial at all.

The government needs to hear from those who, like Youssef Ibrahim and Habib Malik, are non-Muslims who grew up in a Muslim society. And why not organize a conference, where Copts and Maronites, and Assyrians, and Hindus who fled Pakistan and Bangladesh, and Chinese from Indonesia, and many others, can speak their peace in Washington? There is an Islam lobby in Washington. There is no lobby of those who endured dhimmitude, which took the form of everything from discrimination, to persecution under the law, to appropriation of property and murder.

That lobbying group should be established. And in it, lobbying for the most just and justified of reasons, should be people who are out not to enrich themselves or some business client, but to prevent this country and the rest of the West from succumbing bit by bit to the influence, the power, the huge sums of money, now being used by Muslims to transform this country's political and legal institutions. That transformation is proceeding not all at once, but slowly. It is proceeding, first of all, by creating among the non-Muslims constant confusion, uncertainties, continuing ignorance about the texts and tenets and attitudes of Islam. And in this is most useful the nice smiling plausible extra-friendly Muslim, the colleague at work, the parent of one of your children's schoolmates. He never will discuss the contents of Islam but, by personal friendliness or charm, wins you and others over and convinces you to forget to ask -- it would be a little awkward, wouldn't it? -- him or her what is in the Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira. If you did, and were responded to with evasions and lies, would you at this point have the good sense to look beyond those smiles, that supposed friendliness? Do you know anything about what Muslims are taught about taking Christians or Jews as friends, or about the reason given for its being licit if it is feigned, and for one purpose only -- to protect and further Islam?

You must educate yourself, about those texts, and tenets, and attitudes, about Jihad-conquest over 1350 years, and about the treatment of all non-Muslims, in the lands conquered, from Spain to East Asia. You are not being asked to go off to Iraq, where every day someone will try to kill you, nor to patrol the mountain passes and valleys of Afghanistan. You aren't being asked to perform any acts of derring-do at all. You are only asked to do what you are doing right now, as you read what is on this screen. Study about Islam, read about Islam.

Make sense of what is going on, and tell everyone you know how, and where, with what books and articles and websites, they too -- whatever their disagreements they may have on everything else (faith or lack of it, taxes, global warming, education, abortion, you name it) -- can go and do likewise.

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:44 pm

Ramadan is the cruelest month...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018427.php

...breeding jihadists out of the dead land, mixing takfir and desire, stirring dull munafiqun with spring rain.

"‘Lyrical terrorist’ stored a library of hate, court told," by Adam Fresco for the Times (thanks to Watling):

A worker at Heathrow airport who called herself the “lyrical terrorist” wrote a poem entitled How to Behead and another on martyrdom, a court was told yesterday.
Police discovered the poems and a library of documents relating to terrorism in Samina Malik’s bedroom in Southall, West London. One document in her handwriting read: “The desire within me increases every day to go for martyrdom, the need to go increases second by second.”

Jonathan Sharp, for the prosecution, told the Old Bailey that Ms Malik, 23, liked to be known as the “lyrical terrorist” or “a stranger awaiting martyrdom”. He said: “She is a committed Islamic extremist, who supports terrorism and terrorists. She had a library of material that she had collected for terrorist purposes.”

Ms Malik, who is British born, was arrested in October last year after an e-mail that she had sent was found on another person’s computer. When her bedroom was searched police found a ringbinder full of documents that included poems and a list of weapons, Mr Sharp said. He added that Ms Malik had joined an extremist organisation called Jihad Way, which was set up explicitly to disseminate terrorist propaganda and support for al-Qaeda....

Let us go then, you and I
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a kuffar beheaded upon a table...