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An appaling piece of the "Right Wing" corporate media..., May 1 2004
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This book is nothing but the author's sheer ignorance close to 10 billion muslims living worldwide. Extremism is not something that is ingrained in one religion or faith. If it so that were the case, then should we be prostelyzing the Hindu faith, for what a group of people who were involved in the massacres of thousands of people in the state of Gujarat in India in the name of religion?, the late Rev. Jim Jones who commited suicide, and had thousands of others do the same in the name of religion, the David Kuresh scandal in Waco,TX..so hence should we blame Christianity? Then on the Israel/Palestine conflict, it is not simply put it an Islamic issue..but an aparthied like situation, where there is a "global" outcry of socially conscious individuals who respect freedom, democracy, but also human rights, and a tolerance for all humanity regardless, which race, religion, or ethnic background..
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Required Reading for every American, April 27 2004
Most American's think that Muslim's hate America due to its support of Israel. That could not be farther from the truth. Even if America were not pro-Israel, they still would have the USA.American's are non-believers and for that, they are infidels. Being an infidel is one of the worst things in Islam. This is a horrifying book since it is so close to home.
The facts are real.
The Arabs don't deny it.
15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia, and they don't even apologize. Every American should read this book, and then write their congressman to take action against the dangers of Islam.
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Militant Islam Reaches America, April 22 2004
A cri de guerre in which the noted scholar (Conspiracy, 1997, etc.) again urges that militant Islam is an enemy and must be treated as such. The fundamentalist, ahistorical (but not anachronistic), and uncompromising face of Islam does not have much to do with the faith of Muhammad, writes Pipes. By far the great majority of Muslims reject the "Islamicist" program, which resembles fascism and communism more than any flavor of religion, and which, though cloaked in populist garb, is the ideological offspring of "money, education, and privilege"; though it rejects westernizing cultural tendencies, what Pipes brands "Islamicism" in fact is oddly reliant on the West, if only because the West provides a convenient bogeyman. Islamicist regimes, Pipes writes, are far more dangerous than are the "odd shipwrecks" of leftist regimes in the Arab world and, for this reason, must be combated at every turn. Pipes urges that the overarching goal of US foreign policy in the Islamic world be to prevent Islamicist parties such as Hezbollah and, for that matter, the Taliban from coming to power. Echoing Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, Pipes also urges that the West simply refuse to engage in dialogue, private or public, with any militant Islamic group, and that it shun any action that might be construed as giving in to or appeasing any Islamicist power or party. Although not all Muslims hate the West, Pipes allows, and although militant Muslims constitute perhaps only 10% of the Muslim population worldwide, he suggests that the US government keep a watchful eye on immigrant Muslims-for, though "American politicians from George W. Bush on down have tripped over themselves to affirm that the vast majority of Muslims living in the United States are just ordinary folks," that population still harbors a significant body of people who despise America and intend it harm. Highly controversial, at times inflammatory-but worthy of attention and debate in a time of crisis.
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