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Ian McEwan: I despise militant Islam
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2174813/Ian-McEwan-I-despise-militant-Islam.html ^ | Nicole Martin,

Posted on 06/22/2008 8:03:25 AM PDT by ventanax5

"As soon as a writer expresses an opinion against Islamism, immediately someone on the left leaps to his feet and claims that because the majority of Muslims are dark-skinned, he who criticises it is racist," he said in an interview in Corriere della Sera.

"This is logically absurd and morally unacceptable. Martin is not a racist. And I myself despise Islamism, because it wants to create a society that I detest, based on religious belief, on a text, on lack of freedom for women, intolerance towards homosexuality and so on - we know it well."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: eu; europe; islamofascism; tribunal; uk; ukmuslims

1 posted on 06/22/2008 8:03:25 AM PDT by ventanax5
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To: ventanax5
The author said he "despises Islamism" because of its views on women and homosexuality.

What a schmuck this guy is! Their views on homosexuality? How about their reluctance to allow non-Muslims to continue breathing?

ML/NJ

2 posted on 06/22/2008 8:14:46 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ventanax5
McEwan recognised that similar views were held by some Christian hardliners in America.

"I find them equally absurd," he said. "I don't like these medieval visions of the world according to which God is coming to save the faithful and to damn the others. But those American Christians don't want to kill anyone in my city, that's the difference."


Wow, a British leftist who at least partially gets it. I'm amazed.
3 posted on 06/22/2008 8:14:58 AM PDT by Heatseeker (I'll vote McCain for President if I can vote Cheney for God)
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To: ventanax5
(The Fifth Generation Warfare).......Edited by Jeffrey Norwitz; U.S. Naval War College, June 2008, chapter 28.]

[snip] The United States and the West cannot win the war against radical Islam merely with the most sophisticated military strategies. Winning requires understanding the role of shari'a and the Muslim Brotherhood in developing a global ideological and political movement supported by a parallel "Islamic" financial system to exploit and undermine Western economies and markets. This movement is the foundation and the major funding source for the political, economic, and military initiatives of the global Islamic movement.1

[snip] Shari'a finance is a new weapon in the arsenal of what might be termed fifth-generation warfare (5GW).2 The perpetrators include both states and organizations, advancing a global totalitarian ideology disguised as a religion. The end goal is to impose that ideology worldwide, making the Islamic "nation," or ummah, supreme.3

[snip] Rising oil prices and the West's dependency on Middle East oil, combined with willful blindness and political correctness, provide a surge of petrodollars, making financial and economic jihad so much easier to carry out. Moreover, according to shari'a, Muslims hold all property in trust for Allah.4 Therefore, under the shari'a, all current and historic Muslim acquisitions everywhere, including the United States, belong to the ummah, in trust for Allah.

Warnings, warnings, and more warnings.....this is an excellent summer read.....don't stick your head in the sand like Obama.

4 posted on 06/22/2008 8:17:33 AM PDT by yoe ( Socialism/Marxism with Obama who is history and geographically challenged about America .)
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To: ml/nj

How about their reluctance to allow non-Muslims to continue breathing?”

there it is, bottom line. moreover, their resolute, single-minded commitment to DISallow all “infidels” to continue breathing.


5 posted on 06/22/2008 8:26:16 AM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: yoe
...don't stick your head in the sand like Obama.

...head in the sand? I think he's very much in concert with islamists.

6 posted on 06/22/2008 8:26:20 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ventanax5

The head-choppers and their cheering section on the left should both be deported.


7 posted on 06/22/2008 8:26:55 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: ventanax5
It really amazes me that Liberals totally support the Muslim Theocracies around the world which totally despises them, they're ‘don't judge me’ and ‘live and let live’ attitudes.

Liberals totally ignore the stone-age treatment of Muslim women and intolerance of everyone and anything not islam.

8 posted on 06/22/2008 8:27:17 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: ventanax5

Maybe these high priests of PC could define “racist” or “racism” so we little people know how to properly bow and pay our repsects.


9 posted on 06/22/2008 8:33:15 AM PDT by junta (It's Poltical Correctness stupid! Hold liberals accountable for their actions, a new idea.)
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To: yoe

Excellent analysis! I have long that that the oil was the Muslim/OPEC weapon of sharia law. We simply cannot live with those people and their evil ways.


10 posted on 06/22/2008 8:39:48 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: ml/nj

“What a schmuck this guy is! Their views on homosexuality? How about their reluctance to allow non-Muslims to continue breathing?”

You don’t have to work so hard to prove your anti-homosexuality. Nobody is keeping score.

He gave valid illustrations of his reasoning and added “and so on”. It’s wasn’t the entire list. He was under no obligation to rant on for an hour listing every grievance civilized men can have against Islam, or place them in an order you approve. The point is he gets it.

I’m pleased he has figured out what side is wrong and what side isn’t. That’s all that counts. Quibbling over whether he expressed it just as you would demand, or considers factors you wouldn’t, is petty.


11 posted on 06/22/2008 8:45:05 AM PDT by tlb
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To: onedoug

I didn’t mean to indicate he isn’t....he is very much in concert with Islam. Read the book or if you like I can send you via FRmail the 18 pages I have that tell how the WOT has become a war to deep six America in part through the price of oil.


12 posted on 06/22/2008 8:50:18 AM PDT by yoe ( Socialism/Marxism with Obama who is history and geographically challenged about America .)
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To: ventanax5

Good for Ian.


13 posted on 06/22/2008 9:02:45 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: tlb; ml/nj
He gave valid illustrations of his reasoning...

Except that McEwan's information is wrong. Islamic culture is exactly what a culture becomes following McEwan homosexual lifestyle.

"And I myself despise Islamism, because it wants to create a society that I detest, based on religious belief, on a text, on lack of freedom for women, intolerance towards homosexuality and so on - we know it well." - Ian McEwan

Excerpt from: The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror
Socially segregated from women, Arab men succumb to homosexual behavior. But, interestingly enough, there is no word for "homosexual" in their culture in the modern Western sense. That is because having sex with boys, or with effeminate men, is seen as a social norm. Males serve as available substitutes for unavailable women. (snip)

McEwan is the pot calling the kettle black!

14 posted on 06/22/2008 10:34:34 AM PDT by donna (Just trying to get by without shoving.)
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To: ventanax5

I despise Islam, its pagan god Allah, its tyrannical pedophile Mohammad, and all of the sick pukes who use it as an excuse to hurt others. At its very best, Islam is a vile, vulgar religion, created by demons. Call me what you want. I am right about Islam, and right to despise it.


15 posted on 06/22/2008 10:42:14 AM PDT by pallis
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To: ventanax5
Militant Islam is just another form of fascism ...little different than that of Mussolini or the Nazis except that it is sold under the guise of religion.
16 posted on 06/22/2008 10:46:32 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: ml/nj

In McEwan’s case there is an a element of self-interest there. The rest of us get the tripartite choice: convert/accept dhimmitude/die. As a homosexual who who is not identifiably one of the ‘people of the Book’ since he sneers at all scriptures, McEwan gets the choice convert and go celibate/ die.


17 posted on 06/22/2008 1:11:15 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: ventanax5
And I myself despise Islamism, because it wants to create a society that I detest, based on religious belief, on a text, on lack of freedom for women, intolerance towards homosexuality and so on - we know it well."

McEwan recognised that similar views were held by some Christian hardliners in America.

"I find them equally absurd," he said. "I don't like these medieval visions of the world according to which God is coming to save the faithful and to damn the others. But those American Christians don't want to kill anyone in my city, that's the difference."

Christian hardliners in America advocate lack of freedom for women? Really! That's absurd..........intolerance towards homosexuality? No, intolerant of their lifestyle being forced down our throat

18 posted on 06/22/2008 1:22:25 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: ventanax5

“intolerance towards homosexuality “

Someone better tell the Islamists their ashnas aren’t kosher.


19 posted on 06/22/2008 2:23:06 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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