‘The simple matter of fact is there is no middle ground’
The enemy tells it like it is in Australia about their Marxist-like incremental struggle to impose the Islamic totalitarianism called sharia around the world (HT: LGF):
“Islam can never coexist one under the other or one within the other,” Soadad told the crowd. “When the state is established, when people see the mercy of Islam they embrace Islam in droves.”
“On the collective level everyone accepts you have to have one set of laws and no Muslim in this country is demanding today the implementation of sharia law. In this country, yes, we believe this is the best way forward but . . . our current struggle is the implementation of Islamic law in the Muslim world and that will serve as a model for the rest of humanity. [But] if governments want to interfere in the individual, personal affairs of any citizen, they are going to create the conditions of civil unrest and chaos like in France.”
“They must be aware of the plot of the kafir, the plot of the Western society to enforce on them a palatable Islam . . . Secularism is a clear assault on the fundamental belief of a Muslim. Democracy is a clear assault on the fundamental belief of a Muslim also.”
“How do you come to middle ground on whether sovereignty belongs to the people or to Allah? You can’t. Yes, our parents came here. I wouldn’t say they were fully aware of the Australian values and systems, way of life and so on . . . But what’s more important is why did they come here? What were they running away from? Was the country in which they lived not providing for them? What was the cause of the conditions in that country?
“They were running away from the very same values . . . If you are saying they came here so we should accept or follow those values, there’s a clear contradiction. The simple matter of fact is there is no middle ground.”
They are correct, of course. There is no middle ground with an ideological and legal system that kills those who stop believing the party line, hangs gay people, lets little girls burn to death for wearing the wrong clothes, and calls for beheading people who insult them — all while they haven’t contributed two bits to mankind’s psychological or material innovations to create greater well-being. They do create more than their fair share of bombings and threats, however, and maybe that’s something.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Why is it that all fanatics everywhere
1) entertain bizzare conspiracy theories
2) always have a scapegoat for why the world doesn’t conform to their worldview, usually some “omnipotent” enemy.
3) always see the moderate public, not as an ally, but as a bunch of “stupid manipulated sheep”, who have had their lives “imposed on them” by said enemy, rather than chosen of their own accord
4) Disdain for all moderation?
There could be more, but it seems these guys are all cut from the same cloth.
Oh, and yes, they all think that they know everything about how the world works, or at least know everything of value.
September 3rd, 2006 at 7:23 am
[...] The Islamic fundamentalists speak with clarity, power and authority on behalf of their vision of Islam. When they say, “the simple matter of fact is there is no middle ground,” we understand them completely. By contrast, it is much harder to understand those who give fuzzy-wuzzy assurances that these fundamentalists are not real Muslims, or that their interpretation of Islam is somehow messed up, or based on bad exegesis of the Koran. We can’t help wondering if the real reason we have seen no organized, fervent outcry against these fundamentalists over the last five years by the moderate Muslim world is that the fundamentalists have a pretty good case for their interpretation of scripture. [...]