Muslim spokesmen explain away support for suicide bombing among young Muslims. Note that none of them say, "This is a problem we must deal with by working to refute this ideology in our schools and mosques, and expelling from them those who spread it."
"Young U.S. Muslims face mistrust," by Eric Gorski for AP:
A show of sympathy for suicide bombers among some young, American Muslims has raised new concerns about homegrown extremism, but also is highlighting calls to engage the nation's growing Muslim population.
Ah yes. It's all because of non-Muslims, you see. If non-Muslims would only "engage the nation's growing Muslim population," this support for suicide bombing would evanesce.
A Pew Research Center poll released late last month found that, while U.S. Muslims are largely the picture of assimilation, about a quarter of Muslims ages 18 to 29 said the use of suicide bombing against civilian targets to defend Islam could be justified, at least on rare occasions.The finding was described by some as a trouble spot, and even a hair-raising statistic, but many Muslim scholars had another reaction to the Pew report: What did you expect?
"Given what's happened in Iraq and Palestine, I would be shocked if there wasn't discontent," said Omid Safi, professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"The issue is how the discontent is going to be expressed, and whether it's a juvenile romanticization of suicide bombing or whether it's going to be done by participation and transformation of the structures."
Here Omid Safi demonstrates the clarity of thought for which he is justly renowned, and which he previously manifested in his class on "Islamophobia." In that he cheerfully flouted any pretense of training his students to think for themselves, and instead filled their heads with propaganda and hit-and-run smears of (among other people) scholars and writers that Safi himself can never hope to equal, including Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington, Fouad Ajami, Leo Strauss, Daniel Pipes, Alan Bloom, David Pryce-Jones, Bat Ye'or, Niall Ferguson, Robert Kagan, Dore Gold and Ibn Warraq.
But since propaganda rules this day in the academy, this didn't earn Safi the scorn and ridicule it so earnestly invited, but instead, apparently, sprung him from the academic wilderness of Colgate University and gained him a plumb spot in Carl-Ernstville, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the more energetic purveyors of detours and nonsense about Islam and jihad.
In this case, Safi waves away support for suicide bombing among young U.S. Muslims, joining those who are saying it's all our fault: "Given what's happened in Iraq and Palestine, I would be shocked if there wasn't discontent." Then he adds: "The issue is how the discontent is going to be expressed, and whether it's a juvenile romanticization of suicide bombing or whether it's going to be done by participation and transformation of the structures." Now, I know what it's like to speak to reporters, and I spoke to this same one myself, so I'm sure Safi said more than this, and perhaps the rest of what he said made this statement clearer. On the face of it, he is dismissing the support for suicide attacks as a "juvenile romanticization" -- a characterization belied by the abortive JFK Airport and Fort Dix plots -- and positing as an alternative "participation and transformation of the structures." So apparently he is calling for Muslims in the U.S. to engage in political action rather than suicide attacks. This is well and good, although at least in this article he offers no program for how to get from Point A to Point B. And his remarks make one wonder why it is that so many young Muslims, confronted with the alleged American outrages of Iraq and Palestine, didn't apparently think of political action as a suitable response in the first place. On why "discontent" translates to any support for suicide attacks at all, Safi at least here has nothing to say, and no recommendations for an antidote.
From the American Muslim perspective, the nearly six years since the Sept. 11 attacks have been a time of dealing with widespread mistrust of all the Islamic faithful, particularly the young. A report on Muslim youth released Thursday by the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council cites prejudice and discrimination against Muslims as a "root cause" of radicalization.
Ah. I see. So prejudice and discrimination breeds jihadists. One wonders then why so many other populations in the U.S. and elsewhere have never turned to suicide attacks despite facing profound prejudice and discrimination. Here again MPAC places the responsibility to end jihadist sentiment among Muslims on non-Muslims, instead of where it belongs. We are told that prejudice and discrimination are what breed jihadists, despite the fact that CAIR has to go hunting to find genuine incidents of prejudice and discrimination against Muslims in America, and pads its "hate crimes" report with exaggerations, fictions, and self-inflicted damage. This contention echoes the jihadist recruitment in other countries, with its laundry lists of alleged American and Israeli atrocities. MPAC says nary a word about jihadism or support for suicide bombing as being always an unjustified response, no matter what the provocation. It says nothing about the supremacist elements of Islamic theology, and the imperative to subjugate unbelievers, which is part of what gives jihadism its appeal.
Will an end to prejudice and discrimination, real or imagined, really extinguish that supremacist impulse? On that MPAC talks a good game but proposes solutions that aren't really solutions:
The report urges "fighting bad theology with good theology" and proposes solutions from forming a U.S. government advisory board of young Muslims to placing Muslim chaplains on every American college campus.
How does the U.S. government listening to young Muslims and the placement of Muslim chaplains on college campuses fight bad theology with good? For that we would need programs teaching against Islamic supremacism and jihad violence in every mosque and madrasa in the country. On that, however -- MPAC is silent.
A closer look at the Pew report, meantime, shows that of the 26 percent of young Muslims who expressed sympathy for suicide bombers, nearly half of them said it is justified only in rare circumstances.Muqtedar Khan, an assistant professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, said it's important to consider how the question was framed: whether suicide bombing could be justified "in defense of Islam," a powerful phrase for a community that believes the West is waging a war against Islam.
They believe that here, Muqtedar? Even after all of Bush's efforts to convince them of the contrary? Interesting.
"When you ask people these questions, people are not just answering, they're answering to suit their politics," Khan said. "They do not want to extend any legitimacy to the U.S. war on terror."
So support for suicide bombing comes from believing the war on terror is illegitimate? There is no other way to express this belief?
Khan also blames the Internet for fueling younger Muslims' empathy for radicalism, and a report to Congress last month backs up that concern. Prepared by a panel of experts, it found extremist Islamic groups are exploiting the Internet for communications, propaganda - even recruitment and training.
Ah. At last a sensible and accurate statement -- that is, that jihadists use the Internet. Blaming the Internet for this, rather than the jihadists and the young Muslims who seek out their websites, is just more silly diversion from the real problem.
The Pew survey also found young adult Muslims are more likely to attend mosque services and identify themselves as Muslims first before Americans, begging the question of whether a correlation exists between greater religiosity and tolerance for terrorism.Amaney Jamal, an assistant professor of political science at Princeton University and an adviser on the Pew survey, doesn't see a connection. On questions of religious practice, the poll found young Muslims are less likely to pray, fast and give to charity. To young Muslims, the mosque is not just a worship hall but a community center, a place to hang out, he said.
So what the poll exposed, he said, was a subtle but important difference: stronger religious identity among young Muslims, but not greater religious observance.
"The youth by and large also have felt the effects of 9/11 more so than any other segment of the population," Jamal said. "This youth has grown up where all things Muslims are treated suspect, that Muslims are the enemy within. They've experienced it at public schools, campuses, places of employment. Maybe they're trying to broadcast to a mainstream audience that we're proud to be Muslims."
And there is no other way to express this pride? Wouldn't one expect patriotic American Muslims who feel put upon after 9/11 to be all the more intent on demonstrating their patriotism?
The suicide bomber finding, he said, should not be viewed as an endorsement of attacks on the United States, but in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where the tactic is common.
Understood. And I guess this is supposed to make it all right?
Eboo Patel, the 31-year-old founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, which promotes pluralism by teaming people of different faiths on service projects, sees building trust as a major issue for young Muslims."We don't need more FBI agents poking around in the youth sections of mosques," he said.
"Do we need to spend a whole lot more time involving young Muslims in positive ways to build a better world? Absolutely yes, a hundred times over."
Don't defend yourselves. Rather, work to appease this population -- perhaps by throwing Israel to the jihadist wolves -- and all will be well.
Those who take a darker view of Islam, seized on the Pew findings as evidence of a legitimate threat, pointing out that it takes only a few disgruntled souls to exact horrific damage."That it's younger people indicates there has been a tremendous tendency toward a recovery of more radical aspects of the faith," said Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. "In the past, immigrants were encouraged and inclined to assimilate."
Others point out that Americans as a whole, not just Muslims, have shown a willingness to sacrifice civilians' lives under certain circumstances.
A December 2006 survey by the University of Maryland's Program on International Attitudes found 24 percent of Americans believe "bombings and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are often or sometimes justified. The poll found no significant variance based on age.
This has become a common trope: non-Muslim Americans support attacks on civilians in greater numbers than Muslims do! The only problem with it is that it's false. When CAIR's Ahmad al-Akhras hauled out the same University of Maryland survey, Patrick Poole observed:
It is important here to note what's going on behind the curtain: Al-Akhras is engaging is the very moral equivalency that he and his CAIR colleagues constantly deny that they ever make, equating suicide attacks with conventional and internationally recognized methods of warfare. Most Americans would agree with the atomic bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the bombing of German industrial centers during WWII. But what Al-Akhras has in mind are Palestinian suicide bombers blowing up Israeli pizza parlors. The two are substantially different in the minds of most Americans. I would also note that it is US policy to never intentionally target civilians in combat.
The Gorski article continues:
Asma Gull Hasan looks at the Pew findings and sees the impact of experiences shared by young Americans across the spectrum, including exposure to violence through entertainment.The 32-year-old Muslim author and speaker from Denver said young, immigrant Muslims feel more alienated and exposed to prejudice than their parents are. Because most U.S. Muslims are raised conservatively - and won't consider rebelling through sex or drugs - many experiment with their faith, she said.
"To express my teen and 20s desire to be different, to rebel, I explored my religion," Hasan said. "Christian children ride motorcycles. A percentage of Muslim youth say suicide bombings are justified. Chalk it up to youthful rebellion and telephone survey bravado."
Yeah, blowing yourself up in a pizza parlor is just like joining a motorcycle gang. Chalk it up to "telephone survey bravado."
In reality, since the survey participants had to give their names and addresses to get paid, it is much more likely that their answers were more moderate than they actually believe. After all, you never know who may be listening.
"'Given what's happened in Iraq and Palestine, I would be shocked if there wasn't discontent,' said Omid Safi, professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
-- from the article above
Omid Safi made it out of Pittsburgh, did he? He'd been trying desperately to claw his way onwards and upwards. Leila Ahmad tried to smuggle him into Harvard Divinity School (William Grahama and Diana Eck being her dutiful accomplices) but the faculty wasn't buying -- someone was on the qui vive, thank god, and if only someone had been on the qui vive at Harvard Law School when plausible Feldman presented his plausible, conventionally-wonderful resume, someone who actually knew what Joseph Schacht would have made of the likes of Noah Feldman, with his "After Jihad" (the title itself gives him away), and the support he received from, inter alia, John Esposito, Roy Mottahedeh (many cuts above Esposito, but not up in the firmament, not even close, with Schacht and Snouck Hurgronje), and the Two Noble Sanctuaries Adjunct Professor of Islamic Law at Harvard, whose name I have forgotten.
Safi didn't get to move to Francis Avenue, but apparently he's made it out of Pittsburgh to Franklin Street in beautiful Chapel Hill. And here's how: Carl Ernst must have pushed and pushed and pushed. Carl Ernst, the one who thought the bowdlerized simpering version of the Qur'an by Michael Sells was just the sort of "introduction to Islam" that University of North Carolina freshmen should be required to read: "The Lyrical Suras" which, perhaps, even its composer, Michael Sells, must surely be having second thoughts about.
Oh, it's a closed circle of apologists, hiring and promoting each other, and keeping out with care and cunning all those who might upset that MESA Nostra applecart.
In such cases, it is up to the Dean and the President to keep careful watch -- and for other departments, such as that of History, to be careful to mind the who's-teaching-about-Islam store. We can't let this MESA Nostra business continue too much longer; it is now almost impossible to teach, or be taught about, Islam in a sensible no-nonsense fashion, one that Schacht and Snouck Hurgronje and a hundred other great scholars of the past would recognize as the real thing.
So, if you are the kind of alumnus to whose phone calls the Develoment Office will urge the President to reply, or if you can organize a group of such unhappy alumni, do so. Force these Administrators hiding behind the idea of "faculty autonomy to get out and get under, get out and get under the scandalous vehicle for misrepresentations of Islam all over academic America, and not only where Saudi and other Arab money has set up "centers" and endowed well-upholstered chairs -- King Abdul Aziz This, Two Noble Sanctuaries That -- in order to keep young, ignorant, easily impressionable American students still ignorant, and impressed...with the Received Version of Islam that the Omid Safis and Carl Ernsts (the man who fell in love with Sufism on his own Spiritual Search) present -- and keep out the real version as best they can, and they are well-practiced at this, and have so many willing collaborators.
"... for a community that believes the West is waging a war against Islam."
Curious war, especially since the West is letting so many Muslims in ...
"Khan also blames the Internet for fueling younger Muslims' empathy for radicalism, and a report to Congress last month backs up that concern." --from the AP article.
Blames the internet? Internet searches are self-determined. The material that is available for reading or viewing is self-selected by the user. In this case, the "radical" sites are produced by Muslims and read by Muslims.
Gang leader convicted
The man believed to be one of the Oslo area's most powerful gang leaders was sentenced this week to nine years of special custody and he effectively lost his house. He allegedly ran a virtual torture chamber in the basement of his home.
Arshad Mahmood, age 38, was sentenced to the special custody known as forvaring, which is designed to protect the public from the country's most dangerous criminals.
A court in Romerike, northeast of Oslo, also seized Mahmood's Mercedes and NOK 890,000, which means he also has to give up his house in Ullensaker, where police found several badly beaten hostages last autumn. The judge clearly didn't believe Arshad Mahmood's story that his hostages had threatened him.
Mahmood is the purported leader of Oslo's so-called "A-gang." He's been convicted numerous times for violence, assault and making threats. Psychiatrists claim he has a split personality, which makes it unproblematic for him to commit violent crimes while at the same time maintaining a seemingly normal family life.
His children, wife and relatives were inside the house at Ullensaker when it was raided by police last September, while the hostages were found chained in the makeshift torture chamber in its basement.
The relatively harsh sentence against Mahmood is seen as an important part of police efforts to crack down on gangs in Norway.
Released in Norway, wanted by Interpol
Norway's special unit for economic crime Økokrim released seven Norwegians linked to the massive raid on laundered gang money in Brazil after questioning them.
The luxury Mercedes belonging to one of the freed suspects, parked in central Oslo.
PHOTO: HANS O. TORGERSEN
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Brazilian police will now ask Interpol to get the seven suspects in Norway who were allowed to keep their assets and not remanded in custody.
The coordinated raids in Norway and Brazil were designed to seize the assets of the Pakistani-Norwegian B-Gang. Brazilian police are reportedly extremely dissatisfied with Økokrim after the release of the seven, and have asked Interpol for help to extradite them.
"That is correct. Police in Brazil will make a request via Interpol for the extradition of the seven Norwegians," Økokrim police captain Rolf Bjerke confirmed.
This means that the seven will be wanted around the world but can walk freely around in Oslo without fear of arrest.
"Even if they are free they are still charged in the case. On the basis of the legal request we received from Brazil we carried out a search and seizure. We have also confiscated the passports of a few of them," Bjerke said, and confirmed that the seven cannot leave Norway without running the risk of being nabbed by Interpol.
Norway does not extradite its citizens, and they must be tried and serve sentences in Norway, even if they committed crimes in another country.
Yep, the old motorcycle rider vs. suicide bomber predicament. What should I do, Harley Davidson or semtex that is the question. No really, I struggled with that same thought process in my yout, thankfully im not an islamist so no one was blown up. Get em out of here, America is a sovereign nation. While we may disagree with this policy or that policy, real Americans don’t blow up other Americans because they don’t agree with the direction we are going. This is proof that they will never put Americas interests before the interests of their former ME filth pits. Go back and fight us like men, we don’t need no stinking suicide bombers lurking in our midst. Look, these people are the furthest thing from an American we could find worldwide. Why the gubment has allowed them in is beyond me, we boot ex Nazis out of the country all the time yet there the gubmet is sitting down to tea with those that want to blow us up. And the gubment wonders why they have zero credibility. We need to stop calling them Americans, insurgents describes them much better.
"Given what's happened in Iraq and Palestine, I would be shocked if there wasn't discontent."
Given what happened in Beslan, London, Spain and New York, Shouldn't Muslim scholars be shocked that there isn't more discontent and mistrust among Western peoples?
Perhaps Muslims should be urged to engage Western peoples more.
Motorcycle riding is a bad thing? Thank Allah that pious Muslims would warn us about that. Maybe we should warn them about suicide bombers to return the favor.
But you know what would be really impressive? If someone would kill themselves first and then go off and explode the bomb never the "enemies of Islam". We would have to admit that Allah is on their side. Any volunteers?
"The suicide bomber finding, he said, should not be viewed as an endorsement of attacks on the United States, but in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where the tactic is common."
Does 9/11 ring a bell? What about the many attacks carried out since then by "young people" in states from sea to shining sea who, by sheer coincidence(!), were Muslim? More "youthful rebellion"?
If plowing a car through a group of students on a college campus is "youthful rebellion", then I'd rather bring back the 1960s. LSD seems tame, by comparison.
"To express my teen and 20s desire to be different, to rebel, I explored my religion," Hasan said. "Christian children ride motorcycles."
There they go again. We're Americans, not Christians and Jews. Islam is the only faith that sets itself apart even in a secular society.
"The issue is how the discontent is going to be expressed, and whether it's a juvenile romanticization of suicide bombing or whether it's going to be done by participation and transformation of the structures."
Really what he is saying is fast jihad or slow jihad by participating in academia, media and politics.
If they feel worse here,,GO HOME!!!!!!!!
--A report on Muslim youth released Thursday by the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council cites prejudice and discrimination against Muslims as a "root cause" of radicalization.---
As Robert pointed out in the past Irish, Italian, Eastern european, African americans, Indian americans (Dot busters) faced discrimination. How come these demographic groups did not turn to radicalize?
--The report urges "fighting bad theology with good theology" and proposes solutions from forming a U.S. government advisory board of young Muslims to placing Muslim chaplains on every American college campus--
Why should government pickup the tab? Is there no separation of church and state? When so many demographic groups have been able to solve their problems why not this group? Recently there was ISLAMIC GAMES conducted in NJ. What is islamic about games? Did any other ethnic group conduct CATHOLICH GAMES, LUTHERAN GAMES, HINDU GAMES, TAOIST GAMES. Why then ISLAMIC GAMES? Why the branding always degenerates to the lowest common denominator?
--Khan also blames the Internet for fueling younger Muslims' empathy for radicalism, and a report to Congress last month backs up that concern. Prepared by a panel of experts, it found extremist Islamic groups are exploiting the Internet for communications, propaganda - even recruitment and training.---
This is very sad. Next the blame will be on JAVA, .NET, WEBSERVERS because they enable internet. Wow!!!!!
The "root cause" of Islamic terrorism, Islamic
supremacism, Islamic violence against unbelievers,
and all the rest is ...? Can you guess?
The provessor advances a line that is typical of Muslim anial-crainial thinking.
The linkage between us being in Iraq and their discontent if real, will further weaken their cause. We are going to be there for a long time. The supremacist attitudes of Muslims will get their "Religion/Theocracy" in trouble with the suspicions of the american public.
We are seeing, as with the border compromise, that the american people have been hoodwinked for a while but their voices are being heard. The position of at least one of our elected leaders on this subject will lead to the end of his quest for the White House.
The most intelligent thing that I've heard a Muslim say is that the current state of Islam will lead to its downfall in the U.S. He also said the Muslims will be worse off for it. How's that for an introspective view of their beliefs?
Too bad the other questions, such as 40% don't believe that 9/11 was committed by Arabs, or that 38% would not allow a relative to marry an Infidel, didn't highlight significantly in the media coverage of this poll. As it is, the CYA exercise being indulged in here doesn't have much C for the A.
Don’t worry John boy Edwards is going to send in the islamofascist peace corp to cuddle up with the enemy and they will fix everything for us. I personally think it is a good idea, on one hand we get rid of leftard islamopologists, on the other hand we temporarily appease the islamists with fresh meat. Hey John, do us a favor go ahead and join up yourself, set an example for the rest of us and take the rest of these traitorous suicidal imbeciles with you. My question, Edwards, Graham, what the heck happened to the Carolinas, do you people just see a pretty face and leave your mark on your ballot next to their name? Islamocrats or illegalcrats it doesn’t matter, they are all idiots, but idiots get others killed all the time.
http://www.nysun.com/article/56127?page_no=1
I can almost feel the love myself.
"From the American Muslim perspective, the nearly six years since the Sept. 11 attacks have been a time of dealing with widespread mistrust of all the Islamic faithful"
In the years before 9/11, my Muslim co-worker would spontaneously express opinions on the inferiority of women, non-Muslims, and so on. In fact, every Muslim I have ever worked with or encountered at school has been eager to express such hateful opinions. Given such behavior, Muslim complaints of "suspicion" and "mistrust" should be met from all segments of society with mockery and contempt. Muslim leaders should stop whining about how Muslims are seen, and start changing what Muslims do and say and think.
To think, that after we locked up their families during WWII, the Japanese young men managed to put together the Nissan Brigade that proved to be one of the most decorated military formations in the US military of all time. That wasn't suicide bombing, but rather fighting the facist enemies of their country, even if many of them were first and second generation immigrants who'd faced discrimination far worse than the muslims have ever faced in this country, oh, and even though they killed more US civilians on 9/11 than the Japanese killed military and civilian at Pearl Harbor.
Please remind our muslim victims of this at every opportunity. I am so sick of muslim victim-hood. I'm an American currently working in Germany and based on CAIR's/MPAC's views, I've been so badly treated at times that I should be blowing up things here in Germany, but some how, I live with it and think that some people, a very small minority, are just idiots. That's better in my mind than killing, but maybe I haven't been indoctrinated enough. Oh, and that discrimination includes anti-German/white comments from muslims/turks (I think) when I made the mistake to wander through the "wrong" neighborhood.
Karl
tg
Edwards, Gramm, Thormund, Hollings - gifts that they are of the Carolinas - sure beat our own Boxer and Feinstein - wouldn't you say? Although to her credit, Boxer redacted an award she had given CAIR, and voted against this bill, while Feinstein voted for. I still think I agree with Dennis Miller that Boxer's one of the biggest morons in the Senate, but of late, I've found it hard to fault her.
IP,
Yes, but we have an excuse, this is the peoples republic of California. Plus, I rarely hear them doing or saying anything and they never call me names. Boxer, now that was a shock you good people must have set her ears on fire complaining. Feinstein, not enough English speaking educated able to think for themselves constituents in her area. Smell A county is a big fat empty bubble for the most part. I just think of it as not having representation in the senate when I am mad its my representative or the president that I contact.
Although, Lately I have been thinking about the fact that bin laden has targeted LA and a number of other cities for nuclear attack. Check the list, they are all sanctuary cities. Coincidence? I don’t think so it is much easier to plan and execute an attack in a city that really doesn’t care who is living there. Besides the illegals have a second home and the survivors will just go home afterwards. Now you might say, we can’t survive that as a country. Well I believe that it will be tough for awhile but not having to worry about these criminal sanctuary cities because they have been vaporized will actually help the country more than it will hurt it. Harsh but true sadly, however they picked their destiny and eventually they will have to pay the butchers bill. So all you people who live in these sanctuary cities you better get on the ball or you have got a world of hurt coming your way. And remember, in the aftermath there is going to be very little tolerance or pity for the sanctuary people who brought this on us all. I wouldn’t want to be them not for a billion bucks.
Do you live in one of these cities? You might want to think about leaving while you still can.
http://images.chron.com/photos/2005/12/01/ImmigrantSanctuar-Converte/ImmigrantSanctuar-Converte.gif
And again, ban muslim imigration to the U.S. I can't live in saudi arabia without donning a mega tent in 110 degree weather.
Surely they know that "Western mistrust & hostility" occurs subsequent to the egregious jihad-style attacks they favor; yet somehow they consider the CONSEQUENCE ("mistrust & hostility") as being the CAUSE of their violent actions?
(--Isn't that a violation of the space-time continuum?)
"I want to smite them and make them fear me! Blood and death to these stupid Infidels, Allah be praised! Waah, they're taking it PERSONALLY! They mistrust me! Waah! That's sooo UNFAIR! Why don't they understand I'm PEACEFUL!?"