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>Let the anti-Islamic remarks begin.

Nice try trying to co-opt the thread. Just one question, if this is mainstream islam rather than Solmon Rushdie islam, what is this guy doing writing in Jewish newspaper in Australia? I mean if there is even a 3% chance this guy is within 10 miles of the islamic mainstream should not he be teaching in Pakistan or publishing in the Arab News?

The very circumstances of the publication is a clue that islam is NOT what he says it is- a religion of peace hijacked by a few extremists.

Did you read the whole article. The author does not minimize the role of the Islamic extremists. In fact, he argues that 80% of all mosques in the West are controlled by extremist-related entities that are extremely dangerous because they are successfully propagandizing a whole generation of Moslems. The author also makes the point that these organizations are mainly funded by the Saudis who are attempting to export Wahhabism throughout the world

We would like to advise our government, our congressmen, that there is something big going on and people do not understand it. You have many mosques around the United States.... So the most dangerous things are going on in these mosques that have self appointed leaders throughout the United States. The extremist ideology makes them very active.

"We can say that they took over 80 percent of the mosques in the United States….This means that the ideology of extremism has been spread to 80 percent of the Muslim population, mostly the youth and the new generation."

Sheikh Kabbani is trying to show Westerners the reality behind the deceptive facade. The great majority of all mosques in democratic countries–not only in North America, but in most of western Europe as well–are controlled by extremists.

Looking at two organisations in specific, the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim Brethren front organisation in the United States that lobbies against journalists and scholars who dare to write anything about Islam at variance with the Brethren’s Islamist agenda, such as advocating diversity in Islam. Notwithstanding CAIR’s evident connection to Hamas, it is accepted by the US government as a legitimate representative of the Muslim American community. Likewise, the American Muslim Council (AMC) is another branch of the Muslim Brethren. According to Khalid Duran, "The AMC’s most remarkable feat was to obtain the monopoly on the training of Muslim chaplains for the US Army (which is like Teheran entrusting the training of its Revolutionary Guards to the US Institute of Peace)." Thus, while non-Islamist Islamic organisations like the Association for Islamic Charitable Projects are more or less ignored by the US government, Muslim American soldiers receive spiritual assistance from Islamist chaplains.

The very circumstances of the publication is a clue that islam is NOT what he says it is- a religion of peace hijacked by a few extremists.

Yes indeed, peaceful Islam, if it exists, is a tiny minority, as Salman Rushdy's case proves.

A religion of hijackers with a few peaceful extremists?