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The Washington Times ^ | 1/20/04 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 01/20/2004 4:59:23 AM PST by Mrs. Obelix

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:12:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Adi Suryana, an Islamic teacher in Indonesia, has just been arrested on terrorism-related charges. Commissioner General Erwin Mappaseng of the national police detective department said, "We have long been looking for him. He is the planner of terror, including the plan to bomb the headquarters of the national police and the Jakarta police headquarters." Referring to an Indonesian terrorist group, Mappaseng said that Suryana "is sort of their manager." In Syria, meanwhile, investigators have just discovered that an Islamic cleric known only as Fouad is referred to by radical Muslims as the "gatekeeper" to Iraq, and coordinates suicide attacks there that are carried out by Muslims recruited in Europe. Also, Scotland Yard last week warned the Jewish community in Britain that the terror threat "remained high." Why? Because Mohammed al-Garbuzi, a Moroccan imam who has been linked to last May's bombings in Casablanca, is apparently on the loose in Britain. And in Norway, Mullah Krekar, a Muslim cleric from Iraq, was recently arrested. Norwegian authorities claim that he is or was the leader of the Iraqi radical Muslim group Ansar al-Islam, a charge he has repeatedly denied. But last month he was identified several times as the Ansar leader on Al Jazeera TV and offered no correction. He also acknowledged on Al Jazeera that Ansar al-Islam was responsible for a suicide attack in Iraq last March. In Kenya, authorities have begun to investigate Muslim schools (madrassas), which they have reason to believe have become hotbeds of Islamic radicalism and veritable breeding grounds for terrorism

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1 posted on 01/20/2004 4:59:24 AM PST by Mrs. Obelix
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To: Mrs. Obelix
That whole thing about "separation of church and state" only applies to Christianity. Liberals actively promote Islam as their "state sponsored" religion. Like the education system, most churches have been taken over by Liberals. So, it follows that churches would turn a blind eye to Islam.
2 posted on 01/20/2004 5:16:31 AM PST by Destructor
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To: Mrs. Obelix
Adi Suryana, an Islamic teacher in Indonesia, has just been arrested on terrorism-related charges.

Commissioner General Erwin Mappaseng of the national police detective department said, "We have long been looking for him. He is the planner of terror, including the plan to bomb the headquarters of the national police and the Jakarta police headquarters." Referring to an Indonesian terrorist group, Mappaseng said that Suryana "is sort of their manager."

In Syria, meanwhile, investigators have just discovered that an Islamic cleric known only as Fouad is referred to by radical Muslims as the "gatekeeper" to Iraq, and coordinates suicide attacks there that are carried out by Muslims recruited in Europe.

Also, Scotland Yard last week warned the Jewish community in Britain that the terror threat "remained high." Why? Because Mohammed al-Garbuzi, a Moroccan imam who has been linked to last May's bombings in Casablanca, is apparently on the loose in Britain.

And in Norway, Mullah Krekar, a Muslim cleric from Iraq, was recently arrested. Norwegian authorities claim that he is or was the leader of the Iraqi radical Muslim group Ansar al-Islam, a charge he has repeatedly denied. But last month he was identified several times as the Ansar leader on Al Jazeera TV and offered no correction. He also acknowledged on Al Jazeera that Ansar al-Islam was responsible for a suicide attack in Iraq last March.

In Kenya, authorities have begun to investigate Muslim schools (madrassas), which they have reason to believe have become hotbeds of Islamic radicalism and veritable breeding grounds for terrorism — as they have long been and continue to be in Pakistan.

It's the same story in the United States: al Qaeda continues to recruit in prisons — with a little help from Islamic clerics who have easy entree to both federal and state prisons.

Day after day, all around the world, evidence mounts that Islamic radicalism is a cleric-driven phenomenon. The radical Islam that inspired the destruction of the World Trade Center and innumerable other terrorist attacks around the world is born in the theological arguments used by Islamic teachers in mosques and madrassas.

All this is yet more evidence of the hollowness of the still-prevailing view that Islamic radicals are a tiny minority that has "hijacked" the religion.

One would think, from listening to some Muslim spokesmen in America, that all these clerics' immersion in the Koran would calm their souls and make them tolerant, peaceful individuals.

The fact that just the opposite is happening — on a global scale — is still a taboo subject in most of the American media, and certainly unspeakable in Western Europe.

Conservative and liberal media outlets alike would prefer on the whole to pretend that this is all just an accident, that given the right circumstances there could be Christian terrorist groups around the world waging war in the name of their religion, and that to scrutinize the role of Islam in all this is somehow racist.

In fact, however, such a view, as common as it is, does a grave disservice to Muslims as well as nonMuslims, and leaves analysts with a huge blind spot in evaluating the true dimensions of the threat from jihadist groups.

It is no more bigoted to say that there are elements of Islam in need of reform than it would be bigoted to point out that American Catholicism needs to undergo a period of introspection and change in the wake of the priest scandals.

That elements of Islam are being used by terrorists as recruitment tools should by now be obvious to any person of good will.

In light of this it should be the highest priority of self-proclaimed moderate Muslim groups to formulate a comprehensive internal response to this phenomenon: to root out these elements of Islam and to teach Muslims, not nonMuslims, that this form of Islam must be relegated to the history books once and for all.

This is not happening, and those in authority who should be calling for it are instead pretending that it need not be done, and that it is safe to assume that the overwhelming majority of Muslims abhor terror and have no attachment to the doctrines of violent jihad invoked by the radicals.

Analysts who dare to point out evidence to the contrary have been driven out of the academy, as well as out of government, and are generally ignored by the major media.

This is why America could find that, despite her overwhelming technical and military advantage, she could end up losing this war after all.

3 posted on 01/20/2004 5:17:28 AM PST by Savage Beast (Whom will the terrorists vote for? Not George Bush--that's for sure! ~Happy2BMe)
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To: Destructor
"Liberals" and radical Islamists have much in common. To begin with, both are radicals. Furthermore, both hate the status quo in the West, Western Civilization, Christianity, and The Great Satan. "Liberals" would love the Taliban if they could set the rules. Both groups are at present in alliance, dedicated to destroying the status quo in the West. Once the West is conquered, they assume that they'll deal with each other. But, who knows? Maybe they'll agree on dogma, and the two groups will merge.
4 posted on 01/20/2004 5:22:48 AM PST by Savage Beast (Whom will the terrorists vote for? Not George Bush--that's for sure! ~Happy2BMe)
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To: Mrs. Obelix
ping
5 posted on 01/20/2004 5:42:36 AM PST by dennisw (“We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.” - Toby Keith)
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To: dennisw; Valin; tubavil; Stopislamnow; SJackson; BayouCoyote; nuffsenuff; Helms; Taiwan Bocks; ...

Unsettling alliance


By Robert Spencer

Adi Suryana, an Islamic teacher in Indonesia, has just been arrested on terrorism-related charges. Commissioner General Erwin Mappaseng of the national police detective department said, "We have long been looking for him. He is the planner of terror, including the plan to bomb the headquarters of the national police and the Jakarta police headquarters." Referring to an Indonesian terrorist group, Mappaseng said that Suryana "is sort of their manager."
    In Syria, meanwhile, investigators have just discovered that an Islamic cleric known only as Fouad is referred to by radical Muslims as the "gatekeeper" to Iraq, and coordinates suicide attacks there that are carried out by Muslims recruited in Europe.


    Also, Scotland Yard last week warned the Jewish community in Britain that the terror threat "remained high." Why? Because Mohammed al-Garbuzi, a Moroccan imam who has been linked to last May's bombings in Casablanca, is apparently on the loose in Britain. And in Norway, Mullah Krekar, a Muslim cleric from Iraq, was recently arrested. Norwegian authorities claim that he is or was the leader of the Iraqi radical Muslim group Ansar al-Islam, a charge he has repeatedly denied. But last month he was identified several times as the Ansar leader on Al Jazeera TV and offered no correction. He also acknowledged on Al Jazeera that Ansar al-Islam was responsible for a suicide attack in Iraq last March.


    In Kenya, authorities have begun to investigate Muslim schools (madrassas), which they have reason to believe have become hotbeds of Islamic radicalism and veritable breeding grounds for terrorism — as they have long been and continue to be in Pakistan.
    It's the same story in the United States: al Qaeda continues to recruit in prisons — with a little help from Islamic clerics who have easy entree to both federal and state prisons.


    Day after day, all around the world, evidence mounts that Islamic radicalism is a cleric-driven phenomenon. The radical Islam that inspired the destruction of the World Trade Center and innumerable other terrorist attacks around the world is born in the theological arguments used by Islamic teachers in mosques and madrassas. All this is yet more evidence of the hollowness of the still-prevailing view that Islamic radicals are a tiny minority that has "hijacked" the religion. One would think, from listening to some Muslim spokesmen in America, that all these clerics' immersion in the Koran would calm their souls and make them tolerant, peaceful individuals. The fact that just the opposite is happening — on a global scale — is still a taboo subject in most of the American media, and certainly unspeakable in Western Europe. Conservative and liberal media outlets alike would prefer on the whole to pretend that this is all just an accident, that given the right circumstances there could be Christian terrorist groups around the world waging war in the name of their religion, and that to scrutinize the role of Islam in all this is somehow racist.


    In fact, however, such a view, as common as it is, does a grave disservice to Muslims as well as nonMuslims, and leaves analysts with a huge blind spot in evaluating the true dimensions of the threat from jihadist groups. It is no more bigoted to say that there are elements of Islam in need of reform than it would be bigoted to point out that American Catholicism needs to undergo a period of introspection and change in the wake of the priest scandals.
    That elements of Islam are being used by terrorists as recruitment tools should by now be obvious to any person of good will. In light of this it should be the highest priority of self-proclaimed moderate Muslim groups to formulate a comprehensive internal response to this phenomenon: to root out these elements of Islam and to teach Muslims, not nonMuslims, that this form of Islam must be relegated to the history books once and for all.


    This is not happening, and those in authority who should be calling for it are instead pretending that it need not be done, and that it is safe to assume that the overwhelming majority of Muslims abhor terror and have no attachment to the doctrines of violent jihad invoked by the radicals. Analysts who dare to point out evidence to the contrary have been driven out of the academy, as well as out of government, and are generally ignored by the major media. This is why America could find that, despite her overwhelming technical and military advantage, she could end up losing this war after all.


6 posted on 01/20/2004 5:44:42 AM PST by dennisw (“We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.” - Toby Keith)
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To: Destructor
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment or religion, or prohibiting the free excercise thereof, except that no religion shall be allowed, that assumes any of the Constitutional powers of the State, or limits the freedoms and powers reserved to the people;
7 posted on 01/20/2004 5:52:17 AM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: dennisw
In light of this it should be the highest priority of self-proclaimed moderate Muslim groups to formulate a comprehensive internal response to this phenomenon: to root out these elements of Islam and to teach Muslims, not nonMuslims, that this form of Islam must be relegated to the history books once and for all.

This has not happened. In fact the opposite has occured.
There has not been any significant statement by influential muslim clerics that has not been outright lies and a contradiction of common experience and reality. It is as if arabic allows the total contradiction of reality by means of language.

8 posted on 01/20/2004 5:56:40 AM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: Mrs. Obelix
Good post, but highly unreadable. If you need some practice go to the Free Republic HTML Sandbox.

Or if you're using IE, right click on the text, then click, "view partial source" and you'll have the article with all the HTML and it's just a matter of copy and paste.

SB: thanks for the good version.

9 posted on 01/20/2004 6:11:11 AM PST by metesky (Patriots 28 - Panthers 17)
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To: dennisw
Thanks for the ping.

Global affairs are often compared to a chess match or a game of high stakes poker. Our and European Leftists then, using this analogy, are trying to play these games with themselves, totally ignoring presence of an opponent. In reality the opponent is quite real, with his own goals and even with his own understanding of the rules. This opponent is not necessary smarter then us, BUT, if we play our side without any regards to the opponent, we can be rudely surprised.

10 posted on 01/20/2004 6:13:27 AM PST by Tolik
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To: Publius6961
I guess we need to start a Free Republic campaign to have volunteers go out and read that passage to liberals. Obviously, they can't read it for themselves!
11 posted on 01/20/2004 11:05:54 AM PST by Destructor
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