Awhile ago the Muslim Public Affairs Council released a handbook for dealing with Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, centered around these six tips:
The guide includes information about the need for student groups to:
* demonstrate Islamic ethics and restraint
* support free speech
* not respond
* contact campus administrators
* talk to other student groups
* report hate crimes and hate incidents
Last night I was on Radio Islam out of Chicago with Salam Al-Marayati of MPAC, and I think he may want to add a seventh:
* engage in character assassination of your opponents rather than respond to the substantive points they raise.
For when I spoke of the need for peaceful Muslims to counter actively Salafist efforts at recruitment, which proceed by appealing to the Qur’an and Sunnah, he responded by likening me to Osama bin Laden.
Of course, he has done this on many radio shows we’ve been on together in the past, and perhaps nothing better can be expected from a colleague of Edina Lekovic, who has lied about me on national television and ignored my requests for a retraction.
As long as Al-Marayati and his allies continue to engage in this kind of mudslinging instead of dealing with the issues at hand, more and more people will wake up to his utter intellectual bankruptcy, the hollowness of his calls for dialogue, and the unhelpfulness of his organization in the struggle against Islamic supremacism. Nice going, Salam!