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Multiculturalism, Islam and the destruction of Western civilisation

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“Only one faith on earth may be more messianic than Islam: multiculturalism. Without it – without its fanatics who believe all civilizations are the same – the engine that projects Islam into the unprotected heart of Western civilization would stall and fail. It’s as simple as that.” So right-wing US commentator Diana West claims.

As a result of the efforts of these multiculturalists, with their “masochistic brand of tolerance”, we “prevent ourselves from looking full face at the danger to our way of life posed by Islam. Notice I didn’t say ‘Islamists’. Or ‘Islamofascists’. Or ‘fundamentalist extremists’. I’ve tried out such terms in the past, but I’ve come to find them artificial and confusing, and maybe purposefully so, because in their imprecision I think they allow us all to give a wide berth to a great problem: the gross incompatibility of Islam – the religious force that shrinks freedom even as it ‘moderately’ enables, or ‘extremistly’ advances jihad – with the West. Am I right? Who’s to say? The very topic of Islamization – for that is what is at hand, and very soon in Europe – is verboten.”

Washington Times, 15 July 2005

Over at Jihad Watch, Rebecca Bynum urges us to “read it all”. Dhimmi Watch, 15 July 2005

Muslim leaders condemning terror to deaf?

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“Why don’t Muslims denounce terrorism? This has been a persistent drumbeat on talk radio, one that was echoed last year by syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin after CAIR took on a radio host in Boston. The organization, she wrote, ‘won’t condemn Muslim fanatics, but it has declared war on outspoken Americans who will’.”

Mark Woods points out that repeated denunciations of terrorism by US Muslims are systematically ignored by right-wing pundits.

Florida Times-Union, 13 July 2005

Muslim communities must be treated as allies, not enemies

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To Be a European Muslim“Our best chance lies within the Muslim community itself – in its own capacity for reform and renewal. That’s precisely why the Sun‘s front page on Tuesday demonising the Muslim thinker Tariq Ramadan was so inexcusable.

“Here is a man who commands respect across the Muslim world. Here is one of those rare thinkers who can help us plot a way forward for a self-confident Islam securely established in Europe. He is a crucial figure in reaching audiences that non-Muslims cannot, yet the Sun wilfully twisted old quotes to depict him as a supporter of terrorism who should be banned from the UK, a call echoed by the Daily Telegraph yesterday.

“This is irresponsible journalism at its scaremongering worst.”

Madeleine Bunting in the Guardian, 14 July 2005

Muslim scholar to press on with lectures

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Tariq Ramadan 5Britons of all races must pull together to promote a common understanding, a leading Muslim scholar said yesterday. Professor Tariq Ramadan said only a shared dialogue between Britain’s different communities could isolate extremists. He told the Guardian that he intends to press ahead with his lecture visit to London and Birmingham despite calls yesterday from the Sun for him to be banned from the country.

Guardian, 13 July 2005

No place for an apologist for atrocities

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“Reports that an Islamic academic, banned from America and France for justifying terrorism, has been invited to speak in London will leave people of all faiths aghast. Egyptian-born Professor Tariq Ramadan is due to address young Muslims in the capital later this month, his visit funded by the Metropolitan Police and the Association of Chief Police Officers… in other words, taxpayers. It seems incredible that anyone with sympathetic views on how and why suicide bombers kill should be heading here just days after terrorist atrocities which claimed dozens of lives.”

Yorkshire Evening Post, 12 July 2005

What is truly incredible is that any serious journalist should parrot accusations from a witchhunting article in the Sun without making the slightest effort to check the facts.

Daily Mail attacks multiculturalism and Tariq Ramadan, applauds Irshad Manji

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“The foreign media are awash with references to ‘Londonistan’, describing how this country has become a safe haven for Islamic extremists – ‘a crossroads for terror’ according to the New York Times. They also voice incredulity that the malign impact of multiculturalism and political correctness has for years seen Britain segregated into inward-looking communities that eschew British values while the forces of law and order walk on eggshells, desperate not to offend.

“The Americans have a point. As extremist clerics preach a gospel of hate, we wring our hands but do nothing. Should we then be surprised when impressionable young men heed their words and act, with horrific results?

“Far from silencing the extremists, we welcome them. Tariq Ramadan, an Egyptian academic who has justified acts of terrorism is coming to this country – invited by the Metropolitan Police! It’s beyond parody. This is the same force whose Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick said after the bombs: ‘As far as I’m concerned Islamic and terrorist are two words that do not go together.’…

“The author Irshad Manji wrote wisely this week that moderate Muslims must condemn terrorism, abandon the ‘myth’ that Islam has nothing to do with the atrocities, and reject Islamic infallibility.”

Editorial in the Daily Mail, 13 July 2005

Britain’s biggest Muslim group were Al-Qaida admirers – Robert Spencer

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Robert Spencer has words of advice for Tony Blair: “I’m sure many Muslims in Britain are indeed decent and law-abiding. But I see no indication that Blair has considered the implications of the New York Times’ January 2005 assertion that the now-disbanded jihadist group Al-Muhajiroun was Britain’s largest Muslim group.”

Perhaps that is because Blair’s advisers, unlike this self-styled expert on jihad and Islamic terrorism, are not so gobsmackingly ignorant as to believe that Omar Bakri’s tiny band of Al-Qaida admirers was ever anything of the sort.

Dhimmi Watch, 13 July 2005

Update:  For Spencer’s reply, see here.

‘Mullah who’s not mad enough’ – Daily Star on Tariq Ramadan

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Mullah who’s not mad enough

By Stephen Rigley

Daily Star, 13 July 2005

A fiery Islamic cleric due to preach in London 17 days after the terror attacks has been blasted by Muslims for being “too liberal.”

But Professor Tariq Ramadan’s views are nothing compared to the hate-fulled rants of a string of mad mullahs already in our midst.

Yesterday a row erupted after it emerged Prof Ramadan will preach to young Muslims later this month at taxpayers’ expense.

The Egyptian-born Swiss citizen, 44, has been banned from entering the US and France for allegedly backing terrorism.

But his £9,000 visit to the capital’s Islamic’s Cultural Centre on July 24 is being funded through Scotland Yard and the Association of Chief Police Officers.

Last night the centre’s publication manager Abdul Haq al-Ashanti, 28, said: “Professor Ramadan is not an extremist or militant at all, in fact he’s the complete opposite. He is a real liberal, in fact he is too liberal and I don’t agree with him.”

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