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RADICAL ISLAM CRITICIZED Controversial writer Hitchens talks terror
STANFORD DAILY ^ | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 | James Hohmann

Posted on 05/11/2006 8:44:44 PM PDT by Nicholas Conradin

The West needs to take the threat of fundamentalist, militant Islam more seriously, controversial British commentator Christopher Hitchens told a predominately older audience at the Geology Corner auditorium last night. In an hour-and-a-half program, the liberal-socialist contrarian with a wry British wit and a sharp English tongue offered up barbs against Osama bin Laden, Muslims, liberals and Jacques Chirac. In an at-times rambling, back-and-forth exchange with audience members, Hitchens also denounced organized religion. “You don’t have to be paranoid, racist or a bigot to take alarm,” he said. “There is a civil war within Islam. We are not in a war on terror. We cannot be at war with an expression.” Hitchens, an editor for Vanity Fair, described himself as an atheist and issued a sharp rebuke of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. “Of course, he’s not a prophet,” he said. “He’s an epileptic plagiarist.”

(Excerpt) Read more at stanforddaily.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hitchens; iraq; islam; terrorism
I wonder what he means by "a predominately older audience."
1 posted on 05/11/2006 8:44:48 PM PDT by Nicholas Conradin
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To: Nicholas Conradin

29 and above


2 posted on 05/11/2006 8:47:00 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: Nicholas Conradin

older than typical college age


3 posted on 05/11/2006 8:48:20 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Nicholas Conradin

Good article. Factual, descriptive, to the point, no editorializing. I get what I think must be a truthful impression of what the event was like.

You don't see too much of that in today's academic or MSM presses.


4 posted on 05/11/2006 8:57:44 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Nicholas Conradin
Christopher Hitchens, my favorite Trotskyite.
5 posted on 05/11/2006 8:57:56 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
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To: Nicholas Conradin
“Of course, he’s not a prophet,” he said. “He’s an epileptic plagiarist.”

Time to break out the handy fatwa template.

6 posted on 05/11/2006 9:00:32 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
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To: bnelson44
I noticed the Staford Daily (it is a lot like the old Pravda except Pravda had more truth in it) did not attack the logic of Hitchins. Instead, it attacked Hitchins on a personal level.
7 posted on 05/11/2006 9:00:57 PM PDT by cpdiii (Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
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"Staford" should read as Stanford.


8 posted on 05/11/2006 9:02:11 PM PDT by cpdiii (Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
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To: Nicholas Conradin

it's allowed in the USA


9 posted on 05/11/2006 9:07:35 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Nicholas Conradin

Although Hitchens is a died in the wool liberal, I agree with what he was saying during his talk at Geology Corner.


10 posted on 05/11/2006 9:12:11 PM PDT by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: Nicholas Conradin
RADICAL ISLAM CRITICIZED

In other and fewer words, ISLAM CRITICIZED. Since all Islam is radical, qualifying it implys that some is not. I wonder if Diogenese has given up his search yet? I sure hope so, poor fellow.

11 posted on 05/11/2006 9:32:49 PM PDT by Frwy (Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
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thats nice but its wasted effort. The vast majority of Americans I know have forgotten about 9-11...interferes with their bourgeois sandbox. Its going to take another bigger attack to wake people up.
12 posted on 05/11/2006 10:50:13 PM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (Islam Schmislam blahblahblah, enough already!)
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To: Nicholas Conradin; All
I have been covering, ( Or, as Seamole puts it...-backhoe's pseudoblog--... ) pseudo-blogging, this issue for years:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:


13 posted on 05/12/2006 2:36:39 AM PDT by backhoe ("Say I'm Violent? I will *KILL* you!)
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To: Nicholas Conradin
It's time for the

MoHamster Dance!


14 posted on 05/12/2006 6:38:18 PM PDT by rantblogger
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To: Nicholas Conradin

If they say they are going to obliterate Israel and replace our constitution with the quaran, then that is exactly what they plan to do.
They keep telling us this, yet we continue to brush it off and laugh.
They have infiltrated us, in fact the world. Their procedures work. They move to a country, raise families, acquire jobs in all sectors, live in all parts of the target country. They start to make demands based on their their religious beliefs (the quaran). Nativity scenes are offensive, require rooms and time for prayer, imposing their beliefs at the expense of others. Softening the target so to speak. By leveraging political ground gained at every turn. Subjugation in any means,some subtle, some not so subtle. Each appeasement is a victory for them.When their population reaches a critical mass they strike. They plan to do this with in our lifetimes.France may well already be lost. There is no such thing as a peaceful islamist, it simply means they have not been activated.
We must not continue to dismiss them in apathetic arrogance.
We should be prepared to bare arms.

Will it take an American Hiroshima to awaken the majority, to mobilize our masses against the Islamic quest of world domination?
Islam must be crushed. Islam must not be recognized as a religion any more than Nazism was. All Mosques should be declared delinquent of taxes owed retroactive from the day they were built. ANY gathering of Islamics should be PROSECUTED as CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MASS MURDER, found guilty and deported. Country by country, state by state, town by town, foot by foot, inch by inch, the Islamic cancer must be eradicated.



ACT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE:
Dear Representative:
As a registered voter and tax paying legal resident of the United States of America we urge you to provide us with your utmost commitment to providing the citizens of our nation protection of our rights, life, liberties, property, and our hallowed Constitution.

We are under attack by an ideology that demands our demise. We will not stand quiet in the eve of our destruction. And we certainly will not tolerate our elected representative to lead us to the slaughter.

We urge you to introduce a referendum on whether Islam is a religion, or an ideology.

The advantages and protections of tax-exempt status afforded to a religion should not be extended to an ideology determined to replace our Constitution with the Koran.

In spite of what the media reports, the American public is well aware that that the war on terrorism is in reality, our defensive efforts against the Islamic offensive. We are not being provided with the defense of both our rights and the sanctity of our Constitution as long as we allow the enemy to operate freely with in our borders.

Americans are concerned and are in extreme jeopardy and demand you perform your duties as both an American and elected representative.

In Earnest,


15 posted on 05/13/2006 6:21:24 AM PDT by SteveSpeaking
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