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"Michael Laudahn eOpposition" <ch8050zh@yahoo.com.mx> skrev i en meddelelse
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> "Pakistan is one assassination away from having Islamic fanatics in
> charge of a functioning nuclear weapon, which they may not mind
> using".
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http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article1868548.ece
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> ""One of the great untold stories of al-Qa'ida is that they are all
> these men who fuck little boys. They all have these disciples who
> they're ostensibly training in the way of the warrior, but they're
> also enjoying. ""
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> Rushdie has looked down the barrel of Islamism, smelt its cordite,
> and survived. So he is perpetually being asked - how do we lift the
> collective fatwa on our transport systems, our nightclubs, our cities?
> How do we scrape meaning from his misery?
> "When people ask me how the West should adapt to Muslim sensitivities,
> I always say - the question is the wrong way round.
> The West should go on being itself.
> There is nothing wrong with the things that for hundreds of years have
> been acceptable - satire, irreverence, ridicule, even quite rude
> commentary - why the hell not?
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> "But you see it every day, this surrender," he says. He runs through a
> list of the theatres and galleries that have censored themselves in
> the face of religious fundamentalist protests. He mentions that the
> entire British media - from the BBC down - placed itself in purdah
> during the Mohammed cartoons episode. "What I fear most is that, when
> we look back in 25 years' time at this moment, what we will have seen
> is the surrender of the West, without a shot being fired. They'll say
> that in the name of tolerance and acceptance, we tied our own hands
> and slit our own throats. One of the things that have made me live my
> entire life in these countries is because I love the way people live
> here."
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> "He fears that many people are wilfully misunderstanding the new
> Islamist virus that has spread through this new world. "People have
> been so knocked off balance by what's going on that their normally
> well-functioning moral sense seems to have lost its footing." After 18
> years in the Islamist cross-hairs, Rushdie wants - needs - people to
> understand that this new Islamic fundamentalism is not simply the lump
> sum of all the bad things the West has done to Muslims, reflected back
> at us."
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> At the time of the fatwa, Rushdie was widely known as a fierce and
> fearsome critic of US foreign policy, a man who condemned Israel's
> "monstrous" occupation of Palestinian lands, a man who damned Margaret
> Thatcher as " Mrs Torture" and warned that "British society has never
> been cleansed of the filth of imperialism". He risked his life
> traipsing through the jungles of Nicaragua to expose Ronald Reagan's
> illegal funding of a horde of neo-fascist guerrillas trying to topple
> the country's elected government.
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> It made no difference. He had questioned the Official Story of Islam,
> trying to open it up to the mixed, metaphorical dream-worlds of the
> modern metropolis - and for that, he had to be butchered. "It's one
> thing to criticise the way in which the American government is
> behaving, or the British government, and I have a lot of criticisms of
> that - in fact, nothing but criticisms," he says now. "But it's
> another thing to fail to see that an enemy actually exists and is
> extremely serious about what he wishes to do.
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> "If tomorrow the Israel/Palestine issue was resolved to the total
> happiness of all parties, it would not diminish the amount of
> terrorism coming out of al-Qa'ida by one jot. It's not what they're
> after," he adds, his foot tapping against mine as he leans forward.
> "Yes, it's a recruiting tool, rhetorically. Many people see there's an
> injustice there, and it helps them to get people into the gang, but
> it's not what they want. What they want is to change the nature of
> human life on earth into the image of the Taliban.
> If you want the whole earth to look like Taliban Afghanistan, then
> you're on the same side as them.
> If you don't want that, you're not.
> They do not represent the quest for human justice. That, I think, is
> one of the great mistakes of the left."
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> He senses soft racism in the refusal to see Islamic fundamentalists
> for what they are. When looking at the Christian fundamentalists of
> the United States, most people see an autonomous movement of
> superstitious madmen. But when they look at their Islamic equivalents,
> they assume they cannot mean what they say.
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> It horrifies Rushdie that so many people in his natural political home
> - the left - don't get it. They seem to imagine that when people call
> for a novelist to be beheaded for blasphemy, they are really calling
> for a return to the 1967 borders, or an independent Kashmir, or an end
> to the occupation of Iraq.
> But... but I remember after 9/11 that a lot of people did finally get
> it, and I remember thinking - it's a shame that 3,000 people had to
> die for something pretty obvious to get through people's heads."
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> No third-world immigration to the western world! Many danes think the
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http://www.dendanskeforening.dk/index.asp?id=27 .
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> Don't surrender, keep on fighting !!!
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