Posted on 11/26/2006 12:51:22 PM PST by SmithL
THE DAY after the 9/11 attacks, MIT professor Noam Chomsky wrote of the need "to understand what may have led to the crimes, which means making an effort to enter the minds of the likely perpetrators." What struck Daveed Gartenstein-Ross about Chomsky's response was that "Chomsky made no real effort to enter the minds of the perpetrators. Instead he simply projected his own grievances against the United States onto them."
Gartenstein-Ross had a much stronger idea as to what motivated the 9/11 attackers. After converting to Islam in college, he held a job at the Ashland, Ore., office of Al Haramain, a Saudi-funded charity that sent money to al Qaeda.
In a fascinating memoir due in stores in February, "My Year Inside Radical Islam," Gartenstein-Ross describes how he was drawn to Islam because he saw it as a religion of peace.
Over time, however, he watched himself and those around him seduced into a fanaticism that required them to loathe not only non-Muslims, but also Muslims who belonged to the wrong sect, listened to music or shaved. He had expected an open, accepting religion, only to hear sheikhs arguing that Muslims who leave the religion should be killed, that it is acceptable to kill civilians for jihad and that good Muslims should work to replace democratic governments with Shariah law.
The hate chased Gartenstein-Ross from Islam, but only after it sucked him into believing that unacceptable actions were holy.
The book's message is not that Americans should distrust all Muslims. "The message is the exact opposite of that," he told me over the phone. Gartenstein-Ross understands that America needs to enlist moderate Muslims to fight the extremists. More important, in the course of his journey he saw the many benign stripes of Islam as he befriended good people whose faith...
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placed them one sermon away from commiting mass murder in the name of satanallah.
It is NOT a noble religion. It IS satanic! What loving God would command his slaves to murder? BTW islime does NOT mean peace. It means submission/slavery.
Thie is more evidence, that when we reject the truth, we will believe a lie! "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:" (John 16:13a).
"He had expected an open, accepting religion, only to hear sheikhs arguing that Muslims who leave the religion should be killed, that it is acceptable to kill civilians for jihad and that good Muslims should work to replace democratic governments with Shariah law."
These actions are in the Quran...Muhammad claimed that God commanded the killing of Apostates, and that killing of non-Muslim civilians (or taking them hostage as slaves) was acceptable. Everyone in the West needs to know that "radical Islam" is true Islam as it was preached and practiced by Muhammed. When Al Quaeda beheads infidel hostages, according to their prophet, they are guaranteed a reward in heaven.
The knuckleheads in S.F. better wake up and figure out that their REAL ENEMY isn't President Bush and the U.S. military.
Would you infiltrate a cult to get them to change? Would you encourage moderate believers to join the cult in order to soften its harshness?
It's bigger than most, but it quacks like a cult. Change from within is not the best prescription. Time is not on our side. Neither is the oil.
"Once when a local reporter visited Al Haramain to write a piece on Ramadan, a co-worker refused to shake her hand, launched a defense of sorts of Algerian terrorists and lambasted a French policy that prohibited schoolgirls from wearing the hijab in class. The comments never made the story."
A huge part of the problem.....let's not say anything negative....
I do not fear islam, I despise it. I despise all that it stands for. I despise it's practitioners and is goals. I despise it's false prophet, and the culture of death that he and his follwers have spawned.
Right there with you, brother.
Ditto your tag line.
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