Planck's Constant,
26 Jul 2006,
UK Telegraph pees in pants over Muslim threatMany too, in the United States assume that the Koran is somehow a Holy Book like our Bible and therefore it must be "extremists" who have mis-read the Koran. No. It is the other way around. The extremists "read" the Koran correctly. It is moderate Muslims, usually those brought up who did not study the Koran diligently, that misunderstand the Koran. Moderate Muslims assume the Koran is a book of peace and understanding. This is why you will often see Muslims trying to defend their religion saying idiotic things like "If you only read the Koran you will see we are the religion of peace." Actually it is these poor deluded Muslims who have not really read the Koran. It is an immensely dull and boring read. If these same Muslims had the fortitude to read the Koran and understand its message they would have to join the Jihad in a Mohammed minute. ...
"The whole approach towards Muslim militants was based on appeasement. 7/7 proved that that approach does not work - yet it is still being followed. For example, there is a book, The Noble Koran: a New Rendering of its Meaning in English, which is openly available in Muslim bookshops.
"It calls for the killing of Jews and Christians, and it sets out a strategy for killing the infidels and for warfare against them. The Government has done nothing whatever to interfere with the sale of that book.
"Why not? Government ministers have promised to punish religious hatred, to criminalise the glorification of terrorism, yet they do nothing about this book, which blatantly does both."
Perhaps the explanation is just that they do not take it seriously. "I fear that is exactly the problem," says Dr Sookhdeo. "The trouble is that Tony Blair and other ministers see Islam through the prism of their own secular outlook.
They simply do not realise how seriously Muslims take their religion. Islamic clerics regard themselves as locked in mortal combat with secularism.
"For example, one of the fundamental notions of a secular society is the moral importance of freedom, of individual choice. But in Islam, choice is not allowable: there cannot be free choice about whether to choose or reject any of the fundamental aspects of the religion, because they are all divinely ordained. God has laid down the law, and man must obey.
Well, finally a Muslim has the testicles to tell the truth about Islam and agree with me that it is Islam that is the problem not anything we have done:
to Moonbattery:
Daily Mail,
2 Jul 2007,
By HASSAN BUTT I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical IslamistWhen I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology - I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair's bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
The attempts to cause mass destruction in London and Glasgow are so reminiscent of other recent British Islamic extremist plots that they are likely to have been carried out by my former peers.
And as with previous terror attacks, people are again saying that violence carried out by Muslims is all to do with foreign policy.
For example, on Saturday on Radio 4's Today programme, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said: "What all our intelligence shows about the opinions of disaffected young Muslims is the main driving force is not Afghanistan, it is mainly Iraq."
I left the British Jihadi Network in February 2006 because I realised that its members had simply become mindless killers. But if I were still fighting for their cause, I'd be laughing once again.
Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the July 7 bombings, and I were both part of the network - I met him on two occasions.
And though many British extremists are angered by the deaths of fellow Muslim across the world, what drove me and many others to plot acts of extreme terror within Britain and abroad was a sense that we were fighting for the creation of a revolutionary worldwide Islamic state that would dispense Islamic justice.
For a detailed account of Hassan Butt read A British Jihadist.
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