But, of course. Resistance "causes" jihadist terrorism, so if the uppity kuffars would just stop resisting, all would be well. In the meantime, as feared, the slow-moving game of "whack-a-mole" appears set to begin between British authorities and the former Islam4UK. "Hate preachers says UK will be new Bosnia," by Dominik Lemanski for The Daily Star, January 17:
Doom preacher Anjem Choudary has warned of a Bosnian-style bloodbath after admitting plans for a new extremist group called Democracy Is Dead.
The cleric forecast that a government ban on his group Islam4UK would stoke hostility between Muslims and white Britons.
Non-white, non-Muslim Britons certainly have a stake in this situation as well. For the gazillionth time, jihad is not an issue of race, but of ideology; Islam is not a race.
He claimed there could be a repeat, on our own streets, of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica in which Serbs slaughtered 8,000 Bosnian men and boys.
But, despite mounting tensions surrounding his views, he admitted that he is already rebranding outlawed Islam 4UK under the provocative new banner.
He said he planned to "launch a new organisation under the title Democracy Is Dead, adding: "You will have to wait and see."
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star Sunday, East London-based Choudary, 42, said: "The Government's decision to ban Islam4UK is a very dangerous one as it will only increase the potential for some very nasty conflict."
"You only have to look at what happened between Bosnia and Serbia at Srebrenica. There could be a bloodbath on the streets."
"I don't think the British people want that but, when you start to suppress ideological movements, you push them underground and there is more chance of conflict.'
You'll want to read this next bit sitting down.
"The Government has created a tinderbox situation by banning us. We were the ones calming things down."
Islam4UK was banned by Home Secretary Alan Johnson after uproar over Choudary's plans to hold a protest march in the Wiltshire village of Wootton Bassett where the public salute the bodies of soldiers brought back from Afghanistan.
But ex-lawyer Choudary was unrepentant, claiming that white Britons do not understand the strength of feeling of the Muslim population.
He said: "In some cities, one in six of the young people are Muslim. People don't realise that there are actually four to five million Muslims in the UK. Many of them do not register to vote so the Government's figures do not reflect the true size of the Muslim population."
"The Government says there are around one million Muslims in the UK but that is nowhere near accurate. Of course, most will remain silent and not complain but a few could be driven to take the law into their own hands."...
Islam means peace & Brits will respond with a group titled 'Islam is Dead', and be allowed to do so with no problem.
Cause too much trouble and the Brits will take that nicely trained army of theirs and wipe out the 5-6 million Muslims.
Unlike Bosnia, Great Britain has an army, knows how to use it, and has killed Muslims already.
Go for it Britain. You have nothing to lose, and only your soul to regain. Teach the infidel Muslim the meaning of the term: Pict and Saxon!
We don't need to fight jihadists, we just need to stop defending them.
Choudhary is a bigoted, two-faced, sly, double dealing fanatic. However, he is also very clever. Witness the way he has completely wrong-footed the establishment. He knew that Islam4UK would be banned and did not give a hoot when it was. He quite rightly surmised that the powers that be would not take punitive actions against him. All he got was a slap on the wrist and told not to be a naughty boy. In regards of the legal actions taken against him once again he made a laughing stock out of the law by, for instance, refusing to stand when the Judge entered the Court and other actions of disrespect. The Judge instead of sending him down for contempt of court opted to let the matter rest. Once again he won. When fined, he and his supporters outraged a large proportion of the population by stating that even if he paid the fine the ultimate payers would be the British taxpayer. He is very good at going up to the line but not quite crossing it. Choudhary is giving other Mools an object lesson in civil disobedience and showing them just how stupid and weak the establishment is - and he is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams. His latest outing is just more of the same. The claim that he is somehow an outlet for the more radical elements of the Muslim community is probably true. What he does not say is that he and many others are whipping up these scum in the first place and it is he that is encouraging these scum as he put it to " take the law into their own hands."... Choudhary has correctly surmised that the law of the land will never act against him in any meaningful way as the politicians want the Muslim vote and will do anything to get it. Any meaningful action taken against him will backfire and make him and his followers martyrs. When eventually he is killed (and I think this will happen) he will once again have won and have provided his footsoldiers with a martyr and another reason to wage war on the filthy kuffars. So the game continues.........
My family (English) gave up four of our members to defend king (a bad choice) and country (a good choice) from totalitarianism.
When they were alive, Choudary would have been either summarily hanged for treason or sentenced to (real) life imprisonment for sedition.
One struggles to imagine what they must be thinking now.
You have summed the situation up pretty exactly except that I do not think Chowdhry will eventually be killed. The prospect of a “British” muslim martyr is so terrifying for the authorities that they will do everything possible to ensure it does not happen.
It is worth mentioning that Chowdhry and his gang were discussed on Radio 4’s “Any Questions” this week. For those not in the UK this is a weekly current affairs programme when a panel of journalists and well-known talking heads go out to town and village halls taking questions from an audience made up of members of public.
They're so PC it's infuriating but I did hear one speakers answer to a question on Chowdhury. I cannot remember what she said word-for-word but the gist of it was,
“Why is this madman given so much publicity? Yes, we should report him but somewhere on an inside page not on every front page in TV news bulletin in the country. He is not a proper Moslem! He does not represent the Muslim community! We do not need hear so much about him!”
Naturally this was greeted with loud and prolonged applause from the audience.
This caused me to reflect that a recent survey revealed that one-third of muslim university students in Britain think it is all right to kill for your religion. If one third of the most educated muslims feel this way how can she be so sure of the vast majority of Muslims many of whom are semi-literate and some (many?) of whom do not even speak English?
Muslims either convert to Christianity or Judaism (We are One in my book) or we have no choice - they must be deported or terminated!!
Un-Christian, No!! - that is How God is going to deal with them anyway, no 72 Virgins, No Allah, just eternal damnation in HELL with their "God" they call "Allah" and whom we all know of as Satan!!
Islam is the Death Cult of SATAN!! Every Muslim is going to burn for eternity, yet so many are good people!! We must reach out to Muslims and teach them The Way!! As for the Jihadists, they are already doomed!!
Anjem Chaudary is a blessing.
He is the only Mohammedan who tells the truth.
The problem is that the establishment, the media and the multicultural nutbags still deny it and crucify those who tell the truth.
I wish there would be thousands of Chaudary's in every city in the dar al Harb, where the soldiers of Allah settled behind enemy lines. The more there are, the sooner the showdown begins.
Nothing is worse than stealth jihad and creeping sharia.
Chaudary is special. Chaudary is surprisingly honest for a Mohammedan, who is obliged to use kitman & taqiyya to further the cause.
We need more like him.
Muslims either convert to Christianity or Judaism (We are One in my book) or we have no choice - they must be deported or terminated!!
Un-Christian, No!! - that is How God is going to deal with them anyway, no 72 Virgins, No Allah, just eternal damnation in HELL with their "God" they call "Allah" and whom we all know of as Satan!!
Islam is the Death Cult of SATAN!! Every Muslim is going to burn for eternity, yet so many are good people!! We must reach out to Muslims and teach them The Way!! As for the Jihadists, they are already doomed!!
The ever witty Pat Condell has a few things to say about Andy Choudary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=winu_C_X5mw
I don't think you are correct in respect of Chaudhary being knocked off. It is very easy to kill someone - even if they are under Police guard as he is. That brings me to another subject. We have a situation where a British subject is preaching sedition and treason. What happens ? He is given protection by the very state that he seeks to destroy. No wonder Chaudhary and his ilk are laughing at us and God knows what the police who are guarding him think.On another subject. The next election will be decided by 1% of the vote (according to the Times) and some of the key marginal seats are in Dar al Islam, Brent, Liecester, Birmingham etc etc. The politicians are lining up to exploit the Muslim vote. This is why we have the constant reassurances that all is well in the polity of GB. Reality is sidelined and consigned to the rubbish bin. However most ordinary people know the reality and are becoming increasingly frustrated and angry with the explosion in immigration, the exploitation of our services by people who pay nothing in but take everything, no housing, a crumbling infrastructure and no jobs. The policians are living in a fools paradise, sooner or later the civil war will come. I don't want it, I don't promote it but facts are facts even if some people want to ignore them.
I think Choudary is hoping the "darcys" and the "wellingtons" of this world will show the very same spirit as they'd showed during the first "Bosnian" civil war run.
Who knows, maybe he's onto a winner.
After all, it seems that rascal Choudary had more than a few willing allies in, say, 1992 to 1995, amongst the "Jihad Watch" subscribers
Has 9 11 put a damper on such enthusiasm? Have you all since burnt your Rambo 3 videos?
Obviously not, judging from recent postings from such "stout" and "hard case" posters as the redoubtable "wellington" and "darcy"
Remember that previously, "Darcy" used a hugely discredited "dhimmi" author as a foundation for her support of BIN LADEN - and Iranian - linked Islamist leardership in Bosnia
and
"Wellington" thinks it's okay to support Al Qaeda linked terror groups if "Europe is sitting on the fence."
( which is a rather bizarre rationale to say the least)
If "Jihad Watch.com" can be such a good source of support for such rascals as Choudary, who knows what the wider world will bring to the cheeky wee iconoclast lad.
All the best.
What are you talking about?
Sedition is sedition. Thinly veiled threats against the state are just that. Should he be detained? Yes. Should he be tried with sedition and treason? Yes.
Simple, logical and straight forward. Except for the politics of the weak and over-sensitive.
And I'm sure that the law that he refers to some of his followers taking into their own hands is none other than that enlightened penal code: shari'a.
@sheik yer'mami
You're right on! I too, fear the stealth jihad much more.
It's simple really, everyone knows that bad people are bad; but those who say 'islam is peace' only to get through the gate, bypassing all security, are the real threat, the real Trojan Horse. CAIR is just one, there are many worldwide. Once they get hold, it's all over. Schools, police, media, government; from there to full sharia law is just a matter of time.
@ewha1
Do you know where you are?
@sheik yer'mami
You're right on! I too, fear the stealth jihad much more.
It's simple really, everyone knows that bad people are bad; but those who say 'islam is peace' only to get through the gate, bypassing all security, are the real threat, the real Trojan Horse. CAIR is just one, there are many worldwide. Once they get hold, it's all over. Schools, police, media, government; from there to full sharia law is just a matter of time.
@ewha1
Do you know where you are?
"War is Deception..."
Choudary is not really the thorn in the side of the stealthers that you think he is. Very likely he is serving as a point man or a diversion, to keep everyone's eyes and ears glued to what he is doing while the stealthers are sneaking around up to their usual chicanery.
There is one way to disable Islam permanently: attack the Koran. Attack it intellectually, attack it critically, attack it historically, attack it ethically. Attack the Koran with essays, books, speeches, debates, jokes, ridicule, and cartoons.
Attack the Koran publicly, and make it an object of scorn. Reduce the Koran to the level of a crude comic book. Then Islam will fall.
This is a great day. Today we have Mr Choudary and his evil minions on the ropes. His mounting hatred for the West is driving him into fantasy and overstatement. His decision to name his new organisation 'Democracy is Dead' is nothing more than an expression of his own increasingly desperate wish-fulfilment and his inflated estimate of the size of his putative Muslim army bring to mind the boastful, empty sabre-rattling of previous would-be dictators and enemies of democracy. We have seen his like before, and fought them, and handed them defeat time after time.
Our enemies always make the same mistake of underestimating democracies. They see us bickering and squabbling in the public spaces of our societies and assume that we are divided and weak. They think all they need do is push us and we will collapse. But in this they are sadly deluded and all they are doing is making the same disastrous miscalculation as did Hitler, Hirohito, Fidel Castro, General Galtieri and Saddam Hussein. Democracies always fight.
When our enemies watch us arguing amongst ourselves and they congratulate themselves that they have sown such seeds of discord amongst us, they fail to see the real truth, that we are merely talking through our various different opinions and getting the arguments out of the way. This is the way that we in the West have always gone about our business, from ancient Athens onward.
We hold the belief that dissent is an essential component of democracy, that everyone has their own opinion and has the right to voice it in open debate and in the face of all men. This is not a weakness, it is one of our greatest strengths, because when a democracy decides the time for talking is over and stirs itself to action, no greater force has ever been unleashed upon the world. And because everyone's opinion has been taken into account it invariably means that when we go into action we always have the most effective battle plan.
Even the briefest review of history should convince Mr Choudary that democracies always fight, and we always win, because when we fight it is our entire culture that we unleash upon our enemies.
To Mr Choudary I say you sicken the world with your twisted fantasies, and I repeat the challenge once thrown down by Winston Churchill, "Do you worst! And we will do our best!"
To my fellow resistors and soon-to-be comrades in arms here in Britain I again repeat the great man's words, "Let us go forward together."
To our friends and allies around the world I say "Hail!" Do not forget us. And I echo the words of another great American hero... "Let's roll."
The real threat is the demographic Jihad - the one that moderate Muslims practice.
Choudary, Hamza, Bakri, Qatada and their kind, are our allies.
I wonder which troll from our past ewha1 is.
“Why is this madman given so much publicity? Yes, we should report him but somewhere on an inside page not on every front page in TV news bulletin in the country. He is not a proper Moslem! He does not represent the Muslim community! We do not need hear so much about him!”
The problem is - he is a proper Muslim whose views represent at least 50 or 60% of the Muslim community.
Me too. What is he talking about ?
ewha1 was probably dancing, singing and handing out sweets on 9/11.
I didn't know that Darcy and Wellington had their own fan club...Maybe it's only one person, but you have to start somewhere...Congratulations...watch your backs...
Bosnia on the Thames...Perhaps some British soccer lads can give Adjem some swimming lessons...
Democracy is Dead...That's just wishful thinking, a child wish fulfillment fantasy...an Islamic wet dream...Choudary should know that Darcy and Wellington will never permit democracy to die...
I fervently wish that your scenario would come to pass. However the war when it comes will not be a war with a clearly defined enemy, except as insofar they be Muslims and thier quisling friends in organisations like the UAF and the EHRC. The war, at the moment and into the forseeable future will be a war of demographics. Put simply, they will outbreed us and with the current rate of entry due to immigration outnumber us. The other factor to take into account is the role of the politicians who will do anything to gain votes even if it endangers the majority population. The real enemy is the enemy within. All other wars have had an external enemy who was clearly defined and thus identifiable. The British people are fed up with the current state of affairs but are even more afraid of being labeled "racist". So they huddle together and complain and bitch and moan but take no action - for the moment. The only political party that offers a clear analysis and solutions is the BNP.
Galadriels_Mirror asked ewha1
ewha1 appears lost &/or confused.
Clue:
wrong address . . .".org"
ewha1 may be referring to The Iconoclast which is a group blog featuring Hugh Fitzgerald, Mary Jackson, Rebecca Bynum, Ibn Warraq etc. and may be referring to discussions about Balkan conflicts at either (or both) JW & Iconoclast .
Lost, just the same.
From "Isabellathecrusader" I wonder which troll from our past ewha1 is.
That beacon of freedom, "darcy", still thinks that helping Mujahideen slaughter
a) ethinic Bosnian Croats ( most of the poor f__kers were ethnic Croats from central Bosnia in the first couple of years of the Bosnian war. They were scalped. If you care to do a bit of googling you can see a couple of videos of god's warriors in action. Ears missing. tongues. That kind of thing.
Dandy or what.
b) ethnic Serbs - after the US forced the Bosnian Croats to form an alliance with the Islamist Bosnian Muslims, most of the Mujhadeen's victims were ethnic Serbs and Secular Muslims from Abdic's forces -
Dig those groovy videos of captured VRS soldiers having their skulls smashed to bits. Really, you can find 'em.
Groovy baby.
"darcy" and "wellington" have no problem with any of this, sweet souls that they are. Though rumour has it those famed anti Jihad Warriors did blub on 9-11. Blub they did.
What's up? Ethnic Croats being roasted alive is just a giggle and ethnic Serbs being impaled is just "their just desserts?"
But Isabel, you are surely aware how the US armed forces were helping retreive about-to-be-obliterated Mujahideed forces in the Summer of 2001 in Macedonia?
That's right, we're talking days before 9 11.
DAYS.
F___ING DAYS.
They'd been stranded there in the Summer of 2001 in the suburbs of the Macedonian capital. The Macedonian forces had regrouped, had aligned their heavy artillery, and were about to give those f----ers the coup de effin' grace. Those pieces of s__t were going to get a very small bit of pay back. But not to worry. the 7th cavalry rode in and saved 'em. Air conditioned buses. Oh and they weren't disarmed. Who knows, maybe the even had pillow rests for their tired shoulder muscles.
These KLA terrorists had been swarming over the Kosovo/Macedonian border in their hundreds throughout 2001. NATO forces, who in 1999 had watched as the entire JEWISH population of Prestina were torched out of their homes by Al Qaeda linked terrorists, helped injured Islamists recuperate in NATO hospitals in Kosovo, bless them.
That's right, this is the same year as 9-11.
Granted, the mujahideen were only torturing poor ethnic Macedonian farmers to death. Not real people, you know like those yuppies on 9 11. Hey, most of the Mujahideen victims didn't even have a share portfolio. Less than human.
Kosovo is now effectively a JEW FREE ZONE. The Iranians give more rights to Jewish people.
Oh yes they do.
Ever lost any sleep over that have you?
You mean you don't know anything about this?
Surely not.
From "Ted" : "Do you know where you are?"
Yes, I do. Do you?
Best wishes.
Lost indeed, ewha1 is definitely on the wrong thread . . . kindly, stay on topic or start/link to your own blog for directed and meaningful conversation of the topic of your interest.
"Democracy Is Dead"
I'm starting to think Mr. Choudary has an agenda...
Seriously, I can agree with several posters, above. Is he being a provocateur? Absolutely. Is he an ugly decoy, and a hard-sell recruiter for an even uglier ideology? No doubt, he is.
Is he our friend, in that he is so free with his opinions? It's hard to tell. Most of the non-Muhammedans who are familiar with his rhetoric probably think he's over the top, and a bit crazy (though every word out of his mouth is his own solid belief).
Well, one thing is certain--when one throws rocks at a hornet's nest, he should be prepared to be stung. It will happen, as eventually he goes too far.
Here is a other interview with Anjem Choudary just posted this morning from the times on line in the UK.
You get the impression that this young woman reporter clearly thinks this guy and his little band of around 5 disorganized of giggling followers really enjoy all this attention there getting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6990857.ece
'Purple haze'...
ewha1...Whew, that must be some good stuff you are smoking...
'Don't bogart that joint my friend, pass it over to me'...
Don't you know smoking pot can give you schizophrenia?
It's OK to exhale now...
There is one way to disable Islam permanently: attack the Koran. Attack it intellectually, attack it critically, attack it historically, attack it ethically. Attack the Koran with essays, books, speeches, debates, jokes, ridicule, and cartoons.Attack the Koran publicly, and make it an object of scorn. Reduce the Koran to the level of a crude comic book. Then Islam will fall.
I'm in agreement with you, JEdgar. We had 'empowered' Islam by accepting their claim of being an 'Abrahamic Faith' along with the other two main faiths of Christianity and Judaism. Nothing is further from the truth, and any critical reading of Koran and Hadiths will make it imminently obvious. They are not of the same cloth.
Do not empower anything in Islam. Do not empower their texts, their religious claims of Abrahamic equivalence, deny their rights to equal protection as a "religion" more a cult, ridicule their many internal textual fallacies, in-your-face criticisms of their cult-worshipping-Mohammad, their cult black-stone worship, and their many forms of 'takiyya' deceits, treat them with indifference in media coverage, and stop giving them special consideration in public institutions, especially in prison. That is the first level.
Then onto the second level. Forcibly educate their youth in our democratic constitutional secular laws and government, both in philosophical thought and social responsibility. Force any who migrate to the West to learn our laws and language, along with our cultural norms in society, especially gender equality. Treat with intolerance and punishment all who preach social hatreds and sedition to instigate replacing our constitutional government with theocratic Sharia. Criminalize common Islamic practices such as 'honor killings', FGM, forced marriage, polygamy, raping of non-Muslim women, attacks on homosexuals, loud call to prayer at mosques, mugging of the elderly, looting and car burnings, and treat all these crimes with severity. Teach Muslim children critical scientific thinking, especially simple logic and arithmetic. They must be forced to evolve socially and mentally beyond the village goatherd mentality if they are to live in the civilized world.
Third level. Teach Islamic children our history from ancient Classical times to modern events, especially focussing on all the good things our society had created and why their parents chose to come here in the first place. Let them understand that there are different levels of civilized societies, and that some societies come to the aid of others with good intent during crisis, while others will take advantage. Compare behaviors of the Western societies in times of crisis versus those of Dar al Islam. Show how 'isolated' Muslim acts of terror are not per their personal wishes but acted out as their collective-social-Islamic philosophy by individuals, so they are individual tools of the Dar al Islam. Finally, encourage Islamic youth to talk to their elders, in the same way school children are taught that smoking is bad and to talk to their parents, about the backwardness of their Islamic belief system in a progressive 21st century world.
This is all to dis-empower Islam at the personal level, where each individual living in the West is made painfully aware of the terrible shortcomings of this primitive 7th century barbarian Islamic cult in the modern world. Within that framework, then it should be easy to round up and arrest those whose criminal activities target them for imprisonment or deportation. Like a rotten fruit falling from its tree, Islam will fold within the West. But isn't this really what it was all about all along? An Islamic 'death wish' of their Last Days? Give it to them. Are you listening Choudary? Islam is dead.
imnokuffar
Thanks for replying and you raise some good points, especially in pointing out that this time the enemy is within. However, although this will make the coming struggle all the more difficult, I believe that whether within or without, sooner or later, we must inevitably always face our enemies.
As things stand right now today, we are faced with another inevitabilty; that unless we as a people take some form of positive action we will, over the next decade or two, be transformed into a Muslim state. But you and I are both Brits and we know the temper of our people. We will not go quietly into the night. No Muslim takeover of our country will go unopposed, no matter how stealthily it might happen.
As I've said in other threads, the growth of the Muslim population in Britain is one line on a graph. The growth in the awareness of non-Muslims to the threat they pose to the rest of us is another line. At some mathematical point in the future those lines will intersect and when they do something terrible will happen. It will happen because it's the only thing that can happen.
But we must beware, for such large-scale social upheaval will undoubtedly impell our government into deploying troops to restore order. In such an event, and in order to preserve the maximum number of human lives, our troops will no doubt be instructed to protect those sections of the community that our leaders perceive to be at greatest risk - the minority Muslim enclaves. We cannot naively assume that our deluded leadership will automatically take our side in any such conflict. We could very well find ourselves staring into the gun barrels of our own armies.
Furthermore, I believe that this assessment would apply to any of the three current mainstream parties in British politics. The only party that would either keep the troops confined to barracks while we clean house, or commit them in support of our team, would be the BNP. There again, with the BNP in power there's every chance they would do the job for us anyway, but any electoral success sweeping Nick Griffin into Downing Street would also likely be against a backdrop of civil unrest, rioting and bloodshed.
These are the calculations we have to make before placing our tick in the box.
choudary is a lawyer, so he knows how far he can go before he crosses a legal line. He's pushing it though. If the legal system in England weren't so dhimmi, he'd be in jail already.
Let him spout his hate, at least that way more and more people around the world get wise about Islam.
I still think that Britain should try him for treason. What an ingrate. A lawyer that refuses to work, and collects 50 grand a year from the British taxpayer. Lowest of the low.
I have to say your first post was less than clear but your second explains everything.
Our "free" MSM alluded to the fact that NATO had helped the muslims but presented them as victims of nasty islamophobic Serbs. The only reference to muslim atrocities I saw was on JW at the time of the trial of Milosovich. I THINK it was posted that one of the witnesses against him was a muslim commander who's unit had raped, bayoneted and burned 20+ Serb women. The irony was that the prosecutor was Canadian and Canadian troops had been traumatized by having to bury the victims.
However the information blackout does not only cover events in the Balkans as this UK government "guidance" circular to the MSM shows,
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/151921.pdf
"ewhat1" wrote:
"darcy" and "wellington" have no problem with any of this, sweet souls that they are.
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I've followed these two posters' comments for years, and have *never* seen anything like what you are claiming. Neither of these people support slaughter—and to claim further that they support *slaughter by Jihadsts* is shear insanity.
Darcy does at times shoot from the hip, but it would be difficult to find a more stalwart anti-Jihadist anywhere. Wellington's comments are always thoughtful and measured—the idea that he would back the mass slaughter of *anyone* is just crazy.
Let's see some links if you want to back up your claims, or else I think we can all agree that your comments are so much idiocy.
Hmmm, your comment is somewhat incoherent, but from your later ones it appears you are from the former Yugoslavia and have a problem with how things have turned out there, specifically with the way the KLA atrocities in Bosia were whitewashed and the Serbs were demonized. I don't think there are many regulars here who would disagree with you. I certainly don't.
In your note you said "Choudary had more than a few willing allies in, say, 1992 to 1995, amongst the "Jihad Watch" subscribers"
I'm not entirely sure when JihadWatch debuted but I doubt if it was that far back. The archives certainly only go back to October, 2003, so you must be referring to comments made something like ten years or more after the events of 1992-1995. But, again, your comment was so incoherent it's hard to understand what you meant.
In any case what beef do you have against Darcy and Wellington that caused you to single them out, not just in this comment, but in later ones too? Darcy and Wellington are two valued regulars here who are as staunch antijihadists as you could hope to find anywhere. If you're going to criticize, then do the right thing and back it up with specifics.
Hard Rain, you very nicely pointed out the strength of democracy. Then ImnoKuffar pointed out the dangers of demography. Both were very interesting informative posts.
I read Lee Harris's "Suicide of Reason" and he points out among other points that the Muslims, when they must, are "tribal actors" unified in loyalty to their "artificial tribe", which is huge and expanding.
They even are often willing to die for their cause. Whereas Westerners are more rational actors who never want to die for any cause and who in majority desire to be only rational and fair and impartial, foolishly expecting all people to be like that.
However, I mostly agree with your assessment trumping that of ImnoKuffar by a small margin. Because I also read Ray Kurzweil's "The singularity is near". There is Artificial Intelligence that like DNA-research and application, and so much technology, including information-technology, that is improving exponentially! It develops at an incredible speed right now!!
At the same time, Non-Muslims and Muslims alike are getting ever better educated. And free, intelligent people just don't want to be ruled, suppressed, not the Muslima's, not even many Muslim-men when they are pressed.
Galloping technology will have it's own impact and it will in Democratic countries probably not allow people to be suppressed.
But in Islamic countries, where there is lack of freedom of speech, under-education and propaganda-education, on the other hand, Islam is still very strong and hard to overthrow.
The crucial part to play is for the Western Muslims and where in the end they will lean to; to support for fellow-Muslims and opposition to democracy in Democratic countries or opposition to Islamic theocracy all over the world, including Islamic countries.
If they did that in majority eventually, then their migration to the really strong Western Democracies would in the end have had a great beneficial effect. Either violently a bit or peacefully.
Demsci
Thanks for replying. All credit to you, you're far more well-read than I am. Sorry for being such a dunce but I haven't read either of the books you mentioned, so I can't really comment on them.
Glad you found some interesting ideas in my chats with imnokuffar. I enjoyed it too. He (or she) and I are in no way at odds. We seem to be in agreement on the core issues, and sharing his (her) slightly different perspective gave me valuable new insights. Indeed, the reason I started posting here was so that I could share thoughts and ideas with other antijihadists, and anyone else who happens to pass this way. Many of the writers who post here are people whose work I've been reading for months and in some cases years. In that time many of them have built up an impressive body of work, with depths of insight, eloquence and scholarship that leave me in awe. I'm not so much a writer as a fan of the writers I read here.
With regard to the Western Muslims you mention, and the question of which way they will lean, I think such considerations are a bit unrealistic. They are not so much Western Muslims as they are Muslims in the West (a subtle yet profound difference). And sadly there is nowhere for them to lean.
I don't think it's possible for a Muslim to remain true to the basic tenets of Islam, with all its rigid constraints on thought and action, while also simultaneously entertaining the fundamental principles of Western ethics, such as critical enquiry and freedom of thought, conscience and speech. These two value systems are so diametrically opposed as to cancel one another out and while Westerners claim as their right the freedom to adopt and adapt any new ideas they deem worthy, this is not the case for Muslims. Islamic law dictates even the opinions they may hold about themselves and the world around them. Such restrictions on thought are anathema to Westerners. To us, embracing Islam is like asking us to embrace that which we hate and loathe the most - the abdication of thought itself.
Any attempt to reconcile Islam with Western philosophy, and trying to fit them into the same intellectual space in any coherent way, would require a level of 'double-think' that would set George Orwell spinning like a dynamo in his grave.
It's no more attractive to Muslims either, for if they were to adopt normative Western thinking on issues such as personal freedoms they would find themselves in clear breach of Islamic law. Voicing their agreement or sympathy with such Western ideals would open them up to accusations of apostasy, which would certainly lead to harrassment and possibly imprisonment or even death.
There are two campfires, one in the West and one in the East. We cannot draw heat from both. We must decide which one warms us the best.