Some interesting observations from Cid Martel:
Here’s some more disingenuous claptrap, this time coming from Belgian professor (international politics) and ‘terror-expert’ Rik Coolsaet. Rik is working at the University of Gent and he is the director of the Royal Institute for International Relations. This is from an interview he gave with the PC Dutch newspaper Volkskrant:Don’t mention ‘Muslim terrorism’ to professor Coolsaet. “I hate that word! In Holland everyone uses it. In Belgium we call it ‘jihad extremism’. It has nothing to do with being a Muslim. That wording, it started with Pim Fortuyn, is part of the problem, not of the solution. You’re implying something you should not imply.”So, according to Coolsaet, Jihad is not a central duty of every Muslim. This sounds like an attempt to whitewash Islam and Islamic history. In my opinion it would be a part of the solution if Muslims acknowledged that violent Jihad is a central part of Islam, that it has always been a part of Islam, and that it has to be eradicated if they want to stop fellow Muslims from killing people in the name of Islam.
There’s more: Coolsaet also blames the West for these attacks, saying that Muslims feel discriminated against.
The Royal Institute for International Relations concluded that the ‘root causes’ on the ground may vary. In Palestine it’s the Israeli occupation. In Egypt it’s the bad social-economic situation young people find themselves in.Coolsaet: “So it’s very different from Belgium and the Netherlands. The second and third generation is mostly from North-Africa. Young Muslims can’t identify with the country from their ancestors but at the same time they’re being shunned for having a strange sounding name. Unlike their peers they’re being discriminated against, like on the work floor. A small part radicalises because of that and an even smaller part resorts to violence.
Now wait a second. Chinese immigrants and children of Chinese immigrants have ‘strange sounding’ names, and they’re not being discriminated against. The same goes for Hindus. And if they are being discriminated against, why are there no Chinese and Hindu radicals trying to kill people and blow stuff up?
Coolsaet paints himself into a corner. In the same interview he says that these terrorists commit terror to ‘free the ummah’. He says there’s this ‘feeling’ among Muslims that they’re being threatened and humiliated by the West. How does that explain attacks in the Middle East, in India, in Thailand, in Indonesia? How does that explain Beslan? Yes, ‘root causes’ may very (Amir Taheri calls them ‘strategic goals’ in his article in the Times Online) but at the basis of this struggle lies Jihad. It’s a struggle against ‘unbelief’, against anything that doesn’t submit or conform to Islam. It’s a struggle against anything that stands in the way of the spread of Islam.
And this struggle is central to a Muslim’s life. It’s that doctrine of Jihad that is passed onto the Muslims living in Europe. It’s that doctrine that needs to be fought and eradicated. And this is a battle Muslims have to fight. Coolsaet is looking for excuses outside of Islam, and he’s not doing anyone a favour.
Indeed.
I just don't know why these professors expend so much energy making excuses for Islam. What's in it for them? What sort of satisfaction do they get from this? What happens to a person that they start thinking like Rik? It's rather disturbing that we have people like him in positions of influence, where they can screw up other minds. I hope my son is safe in his engineering courses at university, that he won't run across dhimmi idiots like Rik. Hopefully this Let's Kiss Islam's Bum line of thinking doesn't get brought up in physics or calculus or other courses my son is taking. I can't see how it can, but you never know these days.
yes - that's it - this is why the civilized world reacts to islamists the way it now does...
it's all because of those funny sounding names
"professor" koolsaet will soon be promoted to new chair of new department of PC - he is obviously a master at convincing people that reality is not as they naturally perceive it
"draw no conclusion that those are muslim terrorists killing innocent women, children, elderly - such acts are only committed from frustration over having a funny name..."
(so european academic standards have fallen as low as those of the USA - and/or the leftist PCniks have overtaken the academia there as well...)
of all the threats and problems facing the west, the one that just brings me to my knees the quickest is the question of why, despite all the glaring, screaming, thundering evidence to the contrary, such a broad swath of theoretically intelligent people in the west JUST DON'T GET IT
when is the little boy going to look at the emperor and say, " but he isn't wearing any clothes"?
Coolsaet is full of sh*t.
On a national newsbroadcast he also stated that the electors of the party Vlaams Belang are objective partners of Islamic radicals.
Because they're the cause of discrimination of the Mulsim community and radicalise the situation further. Which is "what Osama wants".
Unfortunately he's unaware that the VB has warned for the current threats for more than a decade.
That its political policy is not causing radicalisation & terror but a consequence.
Notice the portion : ROYAL.
The Belgian Royalty is very much Multicultural, because they mainly need Muslim votes for 'Belgian/Belgicist' parties, otherwise the country would be doomed and the Royal family would be no more.
I just don't know why these professors expend so much energy making excuses for Islam. What's in it for them?
-feralee
An endowed chair, sponsored by petrodollars, maybe?
Whoever thought it would be soooo easy (and cheap) to buyup influence in America's 2 great (and supposedly incorruptible-by-design) institutions- media and academia?
Shame on the acadhimmis! Even now, horowitz's and Daniel Pipes' "Campus Watch" projects daily expose the sheer scale and depth of the rot in our elite universities....
feralee-
It is truly incomprehensible that Western academics would defend a faith which is explicitly anti-intelligence, since the Koran is militantly anti-freedom of thought, conscience and belief. It demands submission to a creed frozen at 630 A.D. and brooks no skepticism.
Isn't the Western canon built on intellectual inquiry? Doubt of dogma? And endlessly seeking proofs for any idea wishing to be taken seriously?
I guess I missed the course where they declared that at an end.
Are these types that anxious to be beheaded, mentally, if not literally?
They are either short-sighted p.c. pimps of a delusional desire for some Candyland-level of "understanding".
Or a sleep-walking Fifth column.
(I just don't see any advantage in embracing a creed that demands you take two apple corers and stick them deep in your ears, and spin.)