Secretary Kerry Criticizes Islamists

...there is common ground between the Abrahamic faiths, and, in fact, between the Abrahamic faiths and all religions and philosophies...

...As leaders and citizens, particularly people in public life, everybody talks about how we draw strength from the example of our faith communities – but not enough people actually translate those words into actions or policies or life philosophies... I have talked at length with people like King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, or even King Abdullah, Prince Ghazi of Jordan, and others who are engaged in interfaith efforts, all of whom recognize that their religion, Islam, has to a large measure been hijacked by people who have no real depth with respect to what the faith in fact preaches, but who interpret it in ways that lead people to conflict and even to violence. So it’s not really enough just to talk about a better dialogue. I think we have to stand up and deliver one. 

John Kerry
August 7, 2013

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Ceremony That Took Place on the Temple Mount

A Muslim ceremony.

Last Thursday.

And this isn't the Sanhedrin in session:

A bit of what it was:

...third consecutive year of the "revival terraces science in the Al Aqsa Mosque," 

...President of the Foundation of the Far Building and Sanctuaries Jamal Rashid thanked all the students...also thanked them for their effort and time they put into application of science, and also thanked the teachers and centers who have spared no effort to revive This educational process, also thanked the Waqf that contribute always to the success of such events which have an active role in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and then touched on the projects set up by the institution and he mentioned a project courses teaching the Koran, and the project bond Jerusalem schools, at the end of his speech, he stressed move the organization forward in the development of the project and raise the numbers of male and female students.

...In a speech the Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem delivered by Sheikh Yasser Abu Sneineh [he said] "We are not only Overall Fighters in the Land of Flowers, but the central focus of the bond is the Al Aqsa Mosque, which the Rabat appointed sweetness and musk mosque Aqsa crown..."

And there was the head of the Islamic Movement, too: 

Sheikh Saleh stressed in his speech: "O Youth maximize, be consistent as an electric current, you are the stability of the Aqsa Foundation", and concluded by saying, "...Winning is our formula and victorious."

As for that sign, it reads

The Al-Aqsa and Holy Shrines Institution

Project of Revitalizing the Slabs* of Learning

Concluding Event for the 2012 Students

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* Actually the Arabic term is that of a building in a rectangular form, similar to a large slab. In Egypt, there are many from before the period of the pyramids. The project is comparable to a seminar of Islamic studies with an emphasis on the Temple Mount or Haram A-Sharif. (thanks to AZ)

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Islamist Hassling

How Muslims swarm around Jews visiting the Temple Mount, scream and yell, push and shove and get 'in their faces', attempting to provoke a reaction:

Remember the CSI Fannysmackers?

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World Cup Item: Islam and The Ball

The soccer players who are Muslim in the World Cup are to be congratulated.

They have won out over radical, fundamentalist Islamism.

If you go here, you'll learn that

On August 25, 2005, anonymous radical Islamist clerics published in the Saudi daily newspaper al-Watan, an anti-soccer fatwa (ruling)...The fatwa declared that soccer is permissible to play only when its rules are different from the accepted international rules. The ruling is based on a hadith (prophetic tradition) which forbids Muslims to imitate Christians and Jews...one should "not set the number [of players] according to the number of players used by the non-believers", and thus, only a larger or smaller number than eleven players can play together...

There's more there.



(Kippah tip: BC)


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Islamism Explained; America's Fault Revealed

From a book review of Ian Johnson's A Mosque in Munich

Ian Johnson...pursues the development of radical Islam in Europe. Mostly by accident, the veteran journalist stumbled upon one of the largest untold stories of the last fifty years: how, with help from Nazis and the CIA, radical Islam first established its foothold in the West, and planted its roots firmly in Germany...This was a program, Johnson writes, which Hitler “explicitly blessed,” saying, “I consider only the Mohammedans to be safe. All the others, I consider unsafe.”

In the eastern regions of the Soviet empire, where the Nazis were more interested in oil than ethnic cleansing, the Third Reich mobilized Muslims and other ethnic minorities to fight for the liberation of their homelands. The Nazis plucked Muslims from German prisoner-of-war camps: some Muslims became German soldiers; some, members of the SS; some, professional propagandists...

[After WW II] In order to reach the thirty million Muslims living within the Soviet Union, the Americans turned to many of these former Nazi sympathizers. The idea, from the 1940s onwards, was to use Islam to undermine the Soviet system...

...Islamism, a word we often encounter but rarely hear properly explained. Who are all these “Islamists,” really? This is one of the helpful moments at which Johnson breaks his narrative to tell us clearly: “Islamists differ from traditional Muslims because they use their religion in pursuit of a political agenda, via either democracy, or violence...Implicit in Islamism is a rejection of Western society and its values.”...Appeasing Islamists is ill-advised policy. But America continues to support groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood anyway. There are two Muslim Brotherhoods, he argues, one in the West and another in the rest of the world. The former is much more perilous to American interests. Still, out of ignorance and laziness in part, many American bureaucrats and foreign policy-makers turn to the best-looking business-suited Islamist leaders as allies...

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The Traget of Jews, Oops, Muslims Is World Domination

My, oh my.

...The evidence showed that HLF was part of a broad Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy in the United States called the Palestine Committee, which was to serve Hamas with "media, money and men." Those exhibits show the depth of Muslim Brotherhood activity here, which at its height included a think tank in Virginia, a propaganda arm in Texas and Chicago, and a political operation that continues to exert influence today.

It also led to the discovery of a Brotherhood memorandum from 1991 that describes the group's goal in America. It called for a "civilization-jihadist process" and a "grand jihad" that aimed at "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within … so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

Source

On p. 18 of that memorandum, and on top of p. 19, funnily enough, I found this:

2- The priority that is approved by the Shura Council for the work of the Group in its current and former session which is "Settlement".
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5- Presenting Islam as a civilization alternative
6- Supporting the establishment of the global Islamic State wherever it is].

"Settlement"? Isn't that something Muslims believe to be illegal?

Almost. On the next page, 19, it reads:

The Concept of Settlement:

This term was mentioned in the Group's "dictionary" and documents with various meanings in spite of the fact that everyone meant one thing with it. We believe that the understanding of the essence is the same and we will attempt here to give the word and its "meanings" a practical explanation with a practical Movement tone, and not a philosophical linguistic explanation, while stressing that this explanation of ours is not complete until our explanation of "the process" of settlement itself is understood which is mentioned in the following paragraph. We briefly say the following:

Settlement: "That Islam and its Movement become a part of the homeland it lives in".

Establishment: "That Islam turns into firmly-rooted organizations on whose bases civilization, structure and testimony are built".

Stability: "That Islam is stable in the land on which its people move".

Enablement: "That Islam is enabled within the souls, minds and the lives of the people of the country in which it moves".

Rooting: "That Islam is resident and not a passing thing, or rooted "entrenched" in the soil of the spot where it moves and not a strange plant to it".

So, there's a world conquest campaign of religious domination - and the Jews aren't involved. Too bad for those anti-semites.


(Kippah tip: Pam at AtlasShrugs)

Islam and Nazism - Fiction?

In a book review of a French book, the reviewer Leslie S. Lebl tells a tale of " Le village de l’Allemand: ou le journal des frères Schiller", a novel that links Islamism to Nazism.


Extracts:-

...Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal’s Le village de l’Allemand (The Village of the German) [is] a plainspoken masterpiece that boldly uncovers the affinities between Nazism and Islamism...The German of the title is a former SS officer who serves in a number of extermination camps during World War II. After the war, he is smuggled out of Germany to Istanbul and then Cairo. From there, the Egyptian government dispatches him to Algeria during its war of independence in the 1950s. His job: to support the insurrection by training Front de Libération Nationale fighters. He subsequently settles down in a remote village, where he soon becomes the highly respected sheikh.

...Clues among the dead sheikh’s possessions lead Rachel on an increasingly agonizing search to reconstruct his father’s life in places like Auschwitz. Devastated by what he learns about the Holocaust, the son commits suicide to atone for his father’s sins.



The second son, Malrich (from “Malek” and “Ulrich”), is a creature of the banlieues, French suburbs that have become violent Muslim ghettos. His common sense has already helped him reject an attempt by the local Islamist imam to recruit him, but he continues to drift along with little hope for the future, among friends with similarly bleak prospects. Malrich learns about his father by reading the diary that Rachel has left behind. His reaction is to fight back—not against the Nazis, who are in any case long dead, but against the Islamists, whom he sees as essentially of the same ilk.

Malrich realizes that the Islamists are immeasurably more determined, stronger, and better organized than he and his little band of friends...

...The novel is rooted in reality. During his travels in Algeria, Sansal came across an actual village de l’allemand by accident. He then researched the headman’s story, learning along the way that it wasn’t unusual. An estimated 2,000 former Nazis settled in Egypt after World War II. They included Johannes von Leers, formerly Goebbels’s favorite propagandist of annihilation, who under Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser was responsible for anti-Jewish propaganda. Other former Nazis organized police forces or, like Sansal’s headman, served as military trainers.

The sons’ ignorance of the Holocaust is similarly based on sad truths of history. Sansal, in an interview with the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, stresses that the Holocaust is never mentioned in Algeria: “The fact is that never, until today, has Algerian television shown a film or a documentary on the subject, never has an official breathed a word about it nor, as far as I know, has an intellectual written on the theme.”...

...The intertwining of the hatred that once led to extermination of the Jews and the potential of radical Islam is the book’s deliberate theme. According to Sansal, “the border between Islamism and Nazism is very slim.” Or as Malrich comments: “When I see what the Islamists do here and elsewhere, I tell myself that they will exceed the Nazis if one day they come to power.”...The Islamic governments in power in Algeria and elsewhere, Sansal suggests, have much in common with Nazism, starting with the police states they operate. In his magazine interview, Sansal says that Algeria’s own children consider it an “open-air prison” or a “concentration camp.” Algerian youth, he says, have a slogan: “Mourir ailleurs plutôt que vivre ici” (“Die elsewhere rather than live here”). In his view, Islam has already suffered heavy blows from both Islamism and Arab nationalism, blows from which it will be extremely difficult to recover.

, a former career foreign service officer with the Department of State, is principal of Lebl Associates and a nonresident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council of the United States. She is the author of the monograph Advancing U.S. Interests with the European Union. The translations are hers.