People Are Going to React

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2007-07-19 06:38

A quote from Ed West in Catholic Herald, 18 July 2007

[Robert] Spencer’s popularity would not be possible without that other great fixture of our age: the internet. “The percentage of internet sales for my books are significantly higher than most,” he says, “many bookstores don’t sell them and people are afraid to talk about it, but there’s this whole underground on the internet that I would liken to that in the Soviet Union. Whenever there’s a straightjacket that stifles freedom of thought, people are going to react. The internet has shifted public opinion because it’s given the opportunity for the truth to be known.”

[…] “There will be civil war in Europe,” he says. “The European citizenry, for the most part, are not ready to accept Islamic law and there will be armed conflicts. Across Europe there seems to be one opinion among the elite and one among the people; the mainstream political parties are going to have to start representing this, otherwise they’re going to be shunted aside by the neo-fascists.”

armed conflict ,requires

Submitted by mahatma coat on Fri, 2007-07-20 07:21.

armed conflict ,requires arms and our political elite have decided we can't be trusted to bear them.I suspect the reason they think so is the exact same reason the US constitution regards it as a right .They'd prefer we can't defend ourselves against them. 

Struggling With One's Nafs

Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Thu, 2007-07-19 23:52.

Quote:

(C)ritics suggest that by presenting jihad as the authentic voice of Islam,Spencer undermines the religion's more moderate strains.

 

Question:

What do these critics mean by this statement? Are they suggesting that Jihad is NOT the "authentic voice of Islam",and where are we to find these "more moderate strains"? Perhaps they are alluding to Sufism.

 

Quote (A):

The Sufi branch of Islam has enjoyed spectacularly good press in the West.Hailed as peaceful mystics who believe Jihad is a spiritual quest,nothing violent or unpleasant...

 

Quote (B):

 

The Prophet (s) said: ...[The fighter against unbelief is he who fights against his ego in obeying God].

 

Quotation (A) comes from an article entitled,"Sufi Jihad?"

 

http://americanthinker.com/2005/05/sufi_jihad.html

 

Quotation (B) comes from a website which attempts to provide the inquisitive reader with an overview of Sufism.

 

http://www.uga.edu/islam/sufismstruggle.html

 

Read and compare both articles and I think you'll agree with me that somebody isn't telling the truth here.Put another way,somebody is struggling with their nafs,and their nafs are clearly winning.

People Are Already Reacting

Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Thu, 2007-07-19 13:02.

Here's a recent article written by Theodore Dalrymple entitled,"The Case for mistrusting Muslims".It is an indisputable fact that an increasing number of non Muslim Brits feel the same way.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-dalrymple8jul08,0,6...

Part Quote:

Mistrust of Muslims in Britain has developed quite quickly and could develop much further [...] The fundamental problem is this: There is an asymmetry between the good that many moderate Muslims can do for Britain and the harm that a few fanatics can do to it...