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New AFDI ad highlights uselessness of “moderate/extremist” distinction

Sep 10, 2014 1:55 pm By Robert Spencer

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Our human rights advocacy group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), today unveiled a new advertising campaign designed to point up the uselessness of the distinction between “moderate” and “extremist” Muslims, and to call upon law enforcement agencies such as the New York Police Department to drop plans to discontinue controversial programs of surveillance in Muslim communities.

The ad depicts two photos of Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a London-based Muslim who pursued a career as a rap artist until he turned to jihad and went to Syria to join the Islamic State. The first photo shows Abdel Bary as a rapper; the second just before he beheaded American journalist James Foley. Abdel Bary’s face is masked in the second photo, but British intelligence has identified him as the murderer of Foley. The ad bears the legend, “Yesterday’s moderate is today’s headline.”

AFDI’s President Pamela Geller said in a statement: “The United States and other Western nations have based numerous foreign and domestic policies on the assumption that moderate Muslims all reject and abhor jihad terror and favor secular government, democracy and pluralism. They have paid insufficient attention to the fact that Muslim communities in the West have not made any concerted effort to expel supporters of jihad terror from their midst, and have done nothing at all to teach against the jihadist understanding of Islam, even though they ostensibly reject it. This has the effect that we see illustrated by the trajectory of Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary: people taken as ‘moderate’ turn out to be ‘extremist.’”

“As this is happening,” Geller continued, “the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies are winding down surveillance programs in Muslim communities, under pressure from Islamic supremacist groups with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. This is unconscionable, and endangers Americans.”

AFDI stands for:

  • The freedom of speech – as opposed to Islamic prohibitions of “blasphemy” and “slander,” which are used effectively to quash honest discussion of jihad and Islamic supremacism;
  • The freedom of conscience – as opposed to the Islamic death penalty for apostasy;
  • The equality of rights of all people before the law – as opposed to Sharia’s institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.

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  1. mortimer says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 3:29 pm

    This ad basically asks the question: “How do we tell the difference between a moderate and an extremist Muslim?”

    The answer is: “WE DON’T.”

    • ibn Muslim says

      Sep 10, 2014 at 4:47 pm

      You are waging war against ISIS, which is modern day Che Guevara. Islam is an atractive revolutionary ideology. Now only if UN got renamed into Worldwide Caliphate…

      • TH says

        Sep 10, 2014 at 7:43 pm

        Islam is much more dangerous cocktail than Che Guevar’s Maxist ideology. The reason is that yihadis appeal to religous motives to justify their savagery. Besides that, religious fanaticism is the worst type of fanaticism. Che could not appeal to the authority of any god or prophet to justify his killing of innocent people. However, all jihadis, be they IS or any others, quote verses from the Qu´ran to justify their killing by behaeding and other methods, this method being actually recommended in theiir “holy book”, it being a copy of the eternal book which Allah has with him in heaven.
        Besides, jihad has been the cause of the death of some 270 million people, according to some estimates, but perhaps more, during its 1400 years of exitence. For the muslim, if Mahommad did it, then it is perfect behavior. According to the official islamic narrative, Mahommad beheaded between 700 and 900 Jews in one day.

        I have never seen a debate with muslims without them introducing red herrings as well as other logical fallacies such as circular reasoning and attacking the messenger. The reference to Che Guevara is exactly that, the logical fallacy of the red herring.

        Perhaps muslims are so insecure in what they try to defend that they have to have recourse to violence, victimism, and logical fallacies to defend their indefensible positions. Of course they also have recourse to bare faced lies, as takyiia is also part of jihad. So, they seem to take the rest of us a idiots incapable of reasoning.

        • Eric Johnson says

          Sep 11, 2014 at 1:26 pm

          Of course they take us as idiots what with drivel on the “religion of peace” spewing for the lips of western leaders.

    • Elliott says

      Sep 11, 2014 at 1:35 pm

      Sorry to appear pedantic: The answer is: “THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!!!”

  2. wvkaiser says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 4:52 pm

    A moderate Muslim is one who has not fulfilled his Islamic duty yet, i.e. kill a non-believer.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    “Extremist” and “Moderate” in photographs
    https://www.facebook.com/LibertyGBParty/photos/pb.376566465793805.-2207520000.1410381632./613750525408730/?type=1&theater

  4. Ragai Mitry says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 7:15 pm

    I think the following is a nicer, catchier sound bite:

    MODERATE TODAY. TERRORIST TOMORROW.

  5. ECAW says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 4:29 am

    Oh dear. British Intelligence only identified him as the likely culprit and they were closing in on a definitive identification. There was a report in the media recently (can’t remember where) that there are now increasing doubts about it.

    I hope AFDI don’t end up with egg on their face.

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