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New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot

May 11, 2008 8:21 am By Robert Spencer

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Altered Face? Really?

The New York Times, true to the New Duranty Times moniker Hugh Fitzgerald has given it, has run a gushing profile of Ali Ardekani, the young Muslim filmmaker who made “Who Hijacked Islam?,” (linked in the picture above) among other shorts designed to stir up righteous indignation against the venomous Islamophobes who misrepresent Islam as anything other than a Religion of Peace. “Who Hijacked Islam?,” as you can see, is a herky-jerky, hectoring, eye-rubbing affair, but it has been wildly popular — and now the Times has anointed Ardekani as the alternative to the “bloodthirsty zealots” and defensive bowers-and-scrapers who supposedly dominate the public image of Islam in the West. (Which of those two categories do high-profile, ubiquitous Muslim spokesmen such as Ibrahim Hooper and Edina Lekovic fit into? But I digress.)

Anyway, there is just one problem, as The Posthumous Luger has pointed out: Ardekani is not quite the benign Bill Cosby figure that Neil MacFarquhar and the Duranty Times suggest that he is. Instead, he appears to be an avowed Islamic supremacist, at least from the evidence of lyrics from the album 1924 by the now-disbanded rap group Soldiers of Allah. The name “1924” refers, of course, to the year the secular Turkish government abolished the caliphate, which is to modern jihadists the year all their troubles began, when the unity of the umma was broken. The group was founded by Ardekani and was connected to the jihadist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir. Some samples of the lyrics:

Standing together
Kafirs worst nightmare
Muslim united
And not scared
Following only Qur’an
& and the Sunnah
an Ummah
who loves Allah
More than this dunnyah

BRING BACK ISLAM
BRING BACK THE STATE

Put Khilafah back on the MAP
ITS TIME TO BRING ISLAM BACK

Even if all the kafirs got together…
They still couldn’t stop this Ummah!
We love Islam More than we love life

No more kufur system to be run
All of these belong to one land
Part of once mighty Islamic span
More than 52 nations we fall
One nation strong we stand tall
Waiting for the Ummah’s call
Once again and for all
Reestablish Islam to rule all

over a billion
But oh so weak
We need to rise up
And get back on our feet
We”ve been fooled too long
This what happens
When we let kafirs lead

The giant is in a slumber
Islam is complete
yet the Ummah looks up
to democracy for its needs

Defeated mentality
Left us in a gutter
The giant used to
Take care of the world
Now asks the kafirs to usher
Remember the battle of Bader [sic]
They doubted us from the start
Muslims had Islam
In their minds and their hearts
They know they fear us
Injecting poisons venom
so they tear us a part
This is just a reminder
Take it straight to the heart
Let us get back in the lead
Shake the giant to wake
Flourish and rejuvenate
Implement only Islam
to revive and renovate

An Ummah
who use to lead this world
Is now begging the kafir please
Have mercy
Can’t you see?
They want us to Act like them
think like them and be like them
But we act based on Islam
Like Allah declared in the Quran
Because we know
Who is in command
Islam will have the upper hand

Huu”¦I thought we were one UMMAH
Look at us Now”¦

Jordan Arabia Iran
Egypt Indonesia Sudan
Tunisia Algeria Amman
Iraq Kashmir Philistine
Albania Bosnia Kurdistan
Spain Half France Hindustan
of
Somalia Lebanon Azerbaijan
Melesia Libya Kazakhstan
Bangladesh Chechnia Afghanistan
Turkey Cypress Pakistan
Kuwait .. Ch…explosion”¦”¦..

Educate our minds with Islam
And Inshallah his disease of nationalism
Will disappear

NSA government agents
Classified information
Planning out their step by step covert operations
Working for the elite
duponts, rockefellers, and masons
Replaced our Muslim leaders
With U.S. and British Agents
Throwing the ones who call for revival of Islam
In prison cages
A hidden agenda with their affiliation
Occupying our land
with their false peace relations
Muslim land is under invasion
Using their puppets to cause deviation
Under FBI covert operations
Ummah has been segregated and separated
While our lands have been raided
By UN peacekeepers
Who are really peace-fakers
And mass-murderers and rapist
Too scared that Islam will be implemented
So they blow up buildings and blame us

Causing false accusations
Claiming we”re dangerous
Insha-Allah when the state is established
They won’t be able to tame us

Peace in the Middle East
Never was
And never will be
Until kufur regimes slap their head on the ground bowing down to Allah

The best nation ever to rise up from mankind [cf. Qur’an 3:110]
With political minds
Peacekeepers of old times
Politics, meant taking care of the people,
When Islam comes back to dominate, no sequels!

But you’ll see none of this, of course, in the Times article: “Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face,” by Neil MacFarquhar in the New York Times, May 8 (thanks to The Posthumous Luger):

LOS ANGELES “” When Ali Ardekani started fishing around on the Internet a couple of years ago for video blogs about Muslims, he did not like what he found: either the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims were depicted as bloodthirsty zealots, or they were offering defensive explanations as to why they were not.

“Arabic sounds foreign and scary “” you don’t know what is going on,” Mr. Ardekani said in an interview at his small Sherman Oaks apartment, its walls decorated with Koranic verses. “Or they show a woman with the veil, who doesn’t speak, and it is assumed if she did speak she would say, “˜Help me!” ”

So Mr. Ardekani, a 33-year-old Web designer, cast himself on his video blogs as Baba Ali, an outsize character with a serious religious message who both dissects and lampoons the lives of American Muslims.

Mr. Ardekani is among the most visible of a new wave of young American Muslim performers and filmmakers trying to change the public face of their religion. His most popular video posting “” “Who Hijacked Islam?” “” has garnered more than 350,000 hits on YouTube since July 2006. Of course the uphill battle such efforts face is reflected in the comments section. One viewer remarked darkly, “It’s Muslims that do the hijacking.”

The person who wrote that was a fool! As Neil MacFarquhar and all right-thinking people know, it’s venomous Islamophobes, not Muslims, who link Islam with violence! Venomous Islamophobes like bin Laden, al-Zawahri, Omar Bakri, Abu Bakar Bashir, etc. etc. etc.!

These video pioneers” arena of choice is mostly YouTube and similar Web sites, which young Muslims extol as a new way to take their arguments public. The role model is Bill Cosby, who young Muslim filmmakers believe changed the perception of African-Americans by depicting them as ordinary.

For the moment, the filmmakers suspect, most of the hits they attract are generated by other young Muslims.

“They are deprived of any type of representation in the media which isn’t a terrorist or an extremely pious Muslim,” said Lena Khan, 23. So whenever an image to the contrary is seen “on YouTube or the Internet or on a TV show, it just spreads across the Muslim community like wildfire, because everyone wants to support it.”…

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