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Updated May 07, 2010My Fellow Muslims, We Must Wake Up!By Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser - FOXNews.com We, Americans, especially American-Muslims, must show Islamists that their ideology is beyond being simply ‘dangerous,’ or ‘violent.’ It is in fact treasonous and punishable as a capital crime against the state as an act of war. When will the United States learn that our current behavior and lack of a

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Who is the enemy our armed forces are fighting?The majority opinion, held by nearly all mainstream media opinion leaders in America and Europe, most Democrats in America, most Muslims in America and Europe and nearly all European politicians is that the enemy is a group of common criminals who share a religion. The better informed segment of the majority opinion describes the enemy as a jihadist

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I didn't write any of this confidentially and don't care whether you post it, but if you do please use this version which includes one very minor copy-editing correction. And I would add one final comment: When people like Spencer want to attack Muslims they treat Bosnia as a major source of jihadism, infiltration of Western Europe, etc., but when it is shown that Bosnia contributed an important

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The main concern that motivates my criticism of Islam is the effect Islamic law has on non-Muslims. To the exact extent that Islamic law becomes recognized as a part of our civil and criminal law my status as a citizen is diminished. Islamic law is antithetical to my rights as a non-Muslim because it extends the assumption of moral superiority found in all religions into the political and

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Patriot: “A person who loves, supports and defends his country.” American Heritage Dictionary Patriots disagree with one another about what their country should do. There was a time when, if you wore a gray uniform, it was patriotic to kill other Americans who wore the blue uniform. The definition of patriotism changes over time and I wonder what the definition is now. Let’s assume that in

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I am a Libertarian. For me, that means leaving others alone to live their lives as they see fit. I am 72 years old and this is the first time I have ever suggested scrutinizing the way other Americans live their lives. Islamic terrorism has caused me to go against a lifelong habit. We know some things. Osama bin Laden, Major Nidal Hasan and many other Muslims, American citizens and otherwise

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A friend recently sent a video with clips of Obama that support the idea that he is a Muslim. Whether or not he is a Muslim, and I doubt it, that is the wrong part of him to be concerned about. A good magician will get his audience to look at what he wants them to see while he does what he must to make the trick work. That’s misdirection.In the Cold War, some Americans, who were not members of

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Islamic law of the Shafi school of jurisprudence (according to Reliance of the Traveller, pp. 607-09) describes the conditions which non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state (AHL AL-DHIMMA) must accept:--Pay the Jizya (non-Muslim poll tax); 4.235 grams of gold per person per year--Wear special identifying clothing--They are not greeted with the traditional greeting accorded Muslims—“as-Salamu

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A STRATFOR piece on Iraq starts: The United States invaded Iraq on the assumption that it could quickly defeat and dismantle the Iraqi government and armed forces and replace them with a cohesive and effective pro-American government and armed forces, thereby restoring the balance of power. http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100419_baghdad_politics_and_usiranian_balance?utm_source=GWeekly&

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Refah v. TurkeyThe opinion that sharia (Islamic law) is incompatible with democracy and advocates the forcible overthrow of democratic governments has been confirmed by rulings of the Turkish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights. In 1998, the Turkish court banned the Welfare Party (Refah Partisi) because the rules of sharia promoted by Refah “were incompatible with the

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Some American Christians, reading the Bible, came to the conclusion that slavery was allowed. Other Christians came to the opposite conclusion after reading the same book. A Civil War resulted.Some Muslims, reading the Koran, believe that Islamic law, the body of man made jurisprudence that has grown out of the Koran over many centuries, is the correct interpretation. Other Muslims believe

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Daniel Pipes' position:During the question and answer session, Mr. Pipes pointed out that those who argue that Islam itself is the problem leave the West with no solutions, adding that, to truly reform Islam, Western governments must begin to empower genuine moderates.Wafa Sultan, Hugh Fitzgerald:Ms. Sultan began her argument by quoting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who says that

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Speaking of Geert Wilders, Charles Krauthammer says:What he says is extreme, radical, and wrong. He basically is arguing that Islam is the same as Islamism. Islamism is an ideology of a small minority which holds that the essence of Islam is jihad, conquest, forcing people into accepting a certain very narrow interpretation [of Islam].The untruth of that is obvious. If you look at the United

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I am a critic of Islam and frequently hear this complaint: Why do some non-Muslims find it acceptable to criticize Christianity, Judaism, etc. but not Islam? The answer is: They resent anyone who points out the ideological incompatibility between Islam and the West that could cause a religious war. They are more afraid of the prospect of open warfare than they are of the slight chance of

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There are three different views of what is happening between Islam and the West. The official view of most Western and Islamic governments (Iran, Turkey, Hamas, Hizballah and Sudan excepted) is that Islam and the West are integrating, but some Muslim criminals are causing problems.The majority of Muslims who live in the West believe that they have integrated but are being persecuted by

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The American people and the government officials charged with national security are deeply divided on the question of how to deal with the American Muslim community, especially since Ft. Hood. It's clear that we need some way to distinguish between Muslims who are not a threat and those who are. What follows is one possible step in that direction. If we put more effort into prosecuting

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Over time, we have tried many sources of authority for governing ourselves. The desire for legitimate authority has been intensified by the expanding need for government. One driver behind this need is the constantly rising population density we create. So far in our history, we have found that the denser the population, the greater the need is for more intrusive government. Proponents of

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The manner we choose to describe the war we are fighting in Afghanistan depends on which view of the future we have. If we agree with Samuel Huntington that the world is becoming more and more defined by cultural, religious and ethnic differences, we define the war as part of a conflict between the Islamic and Western civilizations.If we agree with Francis Fukuyama that liberal democracy is

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Most adult Americans have an opinion about the connection between Islam and the attacks by Muslims that have been carried out against Americans in America over the last several years.The majority opinion, among Muslim and non-Muslim Americans, is that these attacks have been carried out by criminals who all just happen to be Muslim. These Americans, including President Obama, believe that the

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By Jan McDanielWe Americans arrived, not as immigrants, but as European colonizers of the North American continent that was already inhabited by an indigenous race, whose ancestors were colonizers from Asia.This bit of history was recently mentioned by an Israeli columnist who remarked on the irony of President Obama lecturing Prime Minister Netanyahu on where Israel can build settlements, while

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Kevin Murray is suing our Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve Board. Mr. Murray, represented by David Yerushalmi and the Thomas More Law Center, claims that the government is violating the Establishment Clause of the Constitution by allowing AIG to sell sharia compliant insurance products. AIG is 80% government owned now, so AIG actions are government actions. The suit claims that in

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Over and over, I see and hear the statement that America cannot do something or other because that will make us no different from our enemy. Absurd.We will always be different from our enemy, even if we betray our best standards, even if we stoop to conduct the enemy uses routinely. Our history is full of examples—detention of Japanese-American citizens springs to mind. We will always be

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If Muslims and non-Muslims ever accept the fact that there is a state of war existing between them, a promising option opens up. Sunni-Shia fighting is continuous in the Islamic world. The conflict between Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan is about the supremacy of Islamic law. The Persian-Arab divide is explosive. The Syrian Alawites are occasionally attacked as heretics because of their

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A consistent fact worth noting: Jihadists in the dock are invariably unrepentant, proud of their criminal deeds and aggressive toward the justice system that is judging them. They appear quite certain that their behavior is correct and that those judging them have no right to do so. They frequently wear a calm smile, as if they are in on something and no one else in the courtroom has a clue.

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"Guantanamo is used by al-Qaida as a symbol of American abuse of Muslims and is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.Andrew Taylor, Associated Press, 5/20/09It must be obvious that we are losing the propaganda war to al Qaeda. We have been backed into a corner with few options. Capturing enemy combatants can never meet the legal

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Tony Blankley,washingtontimes.com, 5/19/09, commenting on a Pew poll of Palestinians that showed they did not believe they could live side by side with a Jewish Israel, 77% to 16%: Keep in mind, also, that after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a Sinai peace treaty with Israel, in October 1981 he was assassinated during a military parade in Cairo. A fatwa authorizing the assassination had

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Deny and keep denying. That’s the tactic some Muslims use today when faced with the chasm between modern human rights standards and the standards of traditional Islam. They also use it to disguise the fact that Islamic law constitutes an open-ended declaration of war against all non-Muslims. Here are some of the traditional Islamic teachings that we non-Muslims are now being told we have

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Words matter. They matter more than usual when defining an enemy in a war. Our enemy has had no problem defining the enemy. Their enemy is everyone who opposes the spread of Islam. The West is high on that list because of its military and economic power and because it is the engine of globalization. Globalization is the organism that carries the pathogens that will transform or destroy

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Proponents of free markets, limited government, limited immigration, individual liberties, national pride and patriotism have been painted into a corner and described as opponents of multiculturalism. We should stop wearing that label for the following reasons:• We don’t in fact oppose multiculturalism. No one has a problem with the fact that America has more than one cultural group. We settled

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We see many instances of the West’s contradictory efforts to respond to the assault from traditional Islam. Traditional Islam has the same problem. The Saudi government—a family leading a tribe with a flag—is not always on the same page as its Wahhabist clergy. Pakistan is an example. The Saudi government has been building and staffing schools in Pakistan for some time with the goal of

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“Don’t you think German women dress better now, since the war, M. Daladier?” “Why, yes indeed I do, Mr. Chamberlain.”Two Christian Science Monitor articles Illustrate the optimistic wishful thinking prevalent today in some circles.In an attempt to show that Islam is changing, the Monitor’s editorial board points out in its 5/11/09 article, The Unseen Burqa Revolution, that:[…] it's so important

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NYTimes.com:OPINIONMAY 11, 2009Op-Ed Contributor: A Table for TyrantsBy VACLAV HAVELThe absence of competition in the election for the United Nations Human Rights Council suggests that states that care about human rights simply don’t care enough. In his NYTimes article, Vaclav Havel correctly identifies the problem in the Human Rights Council. The fox is guarding the hen house. The major rights

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Every time I turn around, someone is telling me that George Orwell was right, words do matter, and we have to agree on what the important words mean. Right now there is a significant disagreement on what the word “multicultural” means. It is in a category of words that have been drained of meaning and turned into clubs. “Fascist” is another word in that category.Samuel Huntington, Ibn Warraq,

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My reaction to 9/11 followed a path familiar to millions of Americans. Grief, rage, frustration. After Pearl Harbor, we spent a long time in Europe because it was circling the drain, but we always knew where we would wind up. In Japan. After 9/11 we had no return address for our response.We killed a lot of enemies, unfortunately not bin Laden, in Afghanistan and Iraq. We captured some more and

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We are very late coming to the game that Islamists in America have been winning since 9/11. They started their accusations of racism and bigotry early on and have not let up. It is well past time for us to stop playing defense and start playing offense. Full court press.There certainly were inexcusable and criminal bigoted attacks on innocent Muslims after 9/11. I hope the perpetrators of these

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In American criminal law, the Smith Act of 1940, 18 U.S.C. paragraph 2385, says that it is a criminal offense for anyone to “knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise or teach the duty, necessity, desirability or propriety of overthrowing the Government of the United States or of any State by force of violence, or for anyone to organize any association which teaches, advises or encourages

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Geert Wilders is having problems exercising his right to free speech when that speech is critical of Islam. His problems are part of a larger problem for all of us.Commenting on Mr. Wilders, Gary Fouse wrote:[…] In America, everyone can practice their religion freely, including Muslims. It is when it becomes a political ideology preaching hate that we draw the line. […]Mr. Fouse touches on the

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The Islamic assault on free speech has become considerably more sophisticated since the death sentence on Salman Rushdie. A court in Jordan is seeking jurisdiction and an Interpol arrest warrant to try the creators of the Danish cartoons. Geert Wilders, the creator of the film Fitna and member of the Dutch Parliament, is being prosecuted by Dutch authorities on hate speech charges.The British

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