Israel Matzav

Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Third Jihad and political correctness

Jonathan Rosenblum has a great piece in the weekend's JPost on the controversy over the use of the video The Third Jihad for training New York City police officers. Rosenblum argues that the claim of 'Islamophobia' is being used as an offensive weapon to counteract the fight against terrorism.

Far from being an attack on Islam, the opening lines of the film state clearly: “This is not a film about Islam. It is about the threat of radical Islam. Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radical.” Jasser, a devout Muslim of Syrian descent and a former US Navy lieutenant commander, is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.

He distinguishes between Islam as a private faith and Islam as a political doctrine mandating the worldwide imposition of Shari’a law.

So far, Kelly and his boss, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have tried to get past the immediate controversy through now familiar public penance rituals expressing regrets.

It has been left to others, most notably Woolsey and Ridge, to make the substantive case for the NYPD’s anti-terrorist policies. In an op-ed in The New York Daily News (and rejected by the Times), the two argue that the NYPD’s undercover terror prevention program, including intelligence-gathering within the Muslim community, has been one of the prime tools allowing the NYPD to foil several credible threats that have arisen from within the community. And given that even one successful terror attack in New York City could claims tens of thousands of lives, the NYPD cannot afford to decrease its intelligence-gathering activities.

THE TIMES omitted any discussion of the thesis of The Third Jihad. Jasser holds up a 15-page document at the beginning of the film, which we eventually learn is a Muslim Brotherhood manifesto for “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within,” through use of front groups, mosques and Islamic centers. The document was uncovered by the FBI in the course of its investigation leading up to the government’s successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation terrorist funding case.

Terrorism, intones Jasser, is only one tactic toward the Islamists’ goal of imposing Shari’a across the globe – a goal shared by many groups who are not themselves involved in terrorist activity. CAIR, which is specifically mentioned in the document, is one such group. CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case, and the FBI broke off all relations with the group at the time.

Abdul Rahman Alamoudi, the founder of the American Muslim Council, who was invited to speak at an ecumenical service in the National Cathedral after 9/11, is another so-called “moderate” Muslim. He is shown in The Third Jihad boasting, “Either we do it now or we do it in a hundred years, but this country will become a Muslim country.”

The current controversy could itself be a chapter in The Third Jihad, which discusses the manner in which Islamist front groups constantly raise the specter of Islamophobia to suppress discussion of radical Islam.

And it works. Paul Berman writes in The Flight of the Individuals about how Western intellectuals have been induced to remain silent on such awkward matters as the historical link between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Nazis, and the Nazi inspiration for present-day Islamists.

Read the whole thing.

What bothers me most about this film is that its thesis states that "Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radical." I have my doubts that is correct. I would say a large percentage - a very large percentage - of Muslims are radical if we define 'radical' as being the belief that Islam will one day rule the world and the willingness to act on it. As regular readers know, we have a regular commenter on this blog who claims to be a Muslim living in the West (yes, I know in what country, although God only knows if she actually lives there) who makes no secret of her aspirations for Islam to control the world. She has threatened me personally - both on comments I have allowed through on this blog and in private emails. Is she typical? Sadly, I think the answer to that question is "yes." 'Moderate Muslim' is an oxymoron as far as I can tell.

For those who have not seen The Third Jihad yet, you may do so here or click on the widget below.

Labels: CAIR, Global jihad, Islamist, myth of moderate Islam, Zuhdi Jasser

Friday, September 23, 2011

Conference on the Perils of Global Intolerance: The United Nations and Durban III - Part 2

Here are the rest of my notes on Conference on the Perils of Global Intolerance: The United Nations and Durban III. Unfortunately, I missed a chunk in the middle for work....

There was a brief press availability during the conference break. It was especially interesting listening to Zuhdi Jasser describing his Congressional testimony and how they tried to pigeonhole him into a right v. left scenario and how the left got its talking points from the Islamists. None of the speakers really had a definitive answer on why the left is so enthralled with the ‘Palestinians’ and the Islamists generally, who stand for so much that is anathema to the Left.
Douglas Murray speaking – he is hysterical. He says that he picked up the New York Times only because the hotel delivered it. He says that Yasser Arafat after his death gets better coverage than Republicans. Arafat was greeted at the UN by ‘wife beater Idi Amin and Nazi Kurt Waldheim.’ He then reads from Moynihan’s 1975 rejection of the Zionism is racism resolution.
He’s hysterical.
Simon Deng is a Sudanese Human Rights activist. He is furious about UN for ignoring enslavement of southern Sundanese by Arabs – instead the UN is only focused on the ‘Palestinians.’ He himself was tricked into slavery by an Arab when he was 9 years old!
Says he’s been to Israel five times visiting Sudanese refugees. Says they were promised shelter in Egypt but escape to Israel where they find shelter. They have to dodge Egyptian bullets to get there. Deng is blasting the notion that Israel is racist. The room is so silent you could hear a pin drop. He talks about black Jews in Israel (presumably Ethiopians). He says that the people who suffer the most from the UN are not the Israelis but the people ignored by the UN as part of its big lie against Israel.
Deng just announced in the name of the President of Southern Sudan that their embassy will be built in Jerusalem – not in Tel Aviv. They will not be part of Durban.
Jon Voight is next. He praises Deng, and then all the other speakers. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
Jason Kenney, Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism points out Canada’s lead role in boycotting Durban. He explains why.
Mike Huckabee is the last speaker. I will have to leave in the middle.
Obama’s speech yesterday applies to the ills of humanity like a mother kissing a child’s wound when she has no medicine. Obama’s speech won’t resolve conflicts. He doesn’t understand why so many Jews support Obama. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. He talks about the NY9 election last week and says it shows how Obama has no clue what’s at stake in Israel.
Talks about first trip to Israel in 1973. People came to escape tyranny. Israel stands and fights for its very existence. It’s irrational to think that Israel giving up increasing amounts of territory will bring peace, just like it’s irrational to think that a Barack Obama speech will bring peace to the world.
He says that if UN votes on ‘Palestinian state’ US should cut off all funding and kick them out of the US. We have pressured Israel more for building bedrooms than we have pressured Iran on building nuclear bombs. And Obama’s response has been ‘can’t we all just get along’?
How many rockets from Canada would it take for US to react? One. But Israel has taken 4,000. US can’t ask other nations to do what US won’t do. He mentions Fogel family.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Douglas Murray, Durban III, Jason Kenney, Jon Voight, Mike Huckabee, Simon Deng, Zuhdi Jasser