[lit-ideas] Re: It is Islam, Dummy
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:00:32 -0700 (PDT)
--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Amil Imani's article is from his web site and is
> entitled "It is Islam,
> Dummy". The article is much too long for Andreas,
> Irene and Omar but the
> first two paragraphs follow:
*It's not about length, it's about bullshit allarms.
When I see that a guy yells: 'Get it?", they start
sounding. Anyhow, the article is addressed to dummies,
so I leave it to those who fit this description.
O.K.
> "The terror and death inflicted on humanity is not
> the work of radical
> Islam, neither the political Islam, nor the militant
> Islam. It is Islam,
> period. Get it? And the perpetrators are not fringe
> elements confined to
> brainwashed Saudis, loony Taliban, or a know nothing
> Pakistanis who have
> hijacked Islam and are now in the business of mass
> murder. The latest
> project of the practitioners of the "religion of
> peace" aimed to blowing
> planeloads of innocent civilians to smithereens in
> midair over the Atlantic
> -- ought to finally drive the point home: it is
> Islam, dummy. Get it?
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> "How could people calling themselves sincere
> God-fearing religionists bring
> themselves to even think of acts of such barbarity,
> yet plan them
> methodically and cold-bloodedly proceed to execute
> them? The answer is
> Islam. The life manual of Islam, the Quran, is a
> document of exclusion,
> hatred and violence that shapes the Muslims'
> thinking and behaving. This
> stone-age document is optimally suited for people of
> stunted development.
> People who prefer to follow than to think for
> themselves, to hate than to
> love, and to seek death rather than to celebrate
> life."
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> Those interested will find the entire article at
> <http://www.amilimani.com/>
> http://www.amilimani.com/
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> If Imani's argument is valid, Bush was wise to use a
> euphemism in speaking
> to the entire American public.
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> Lawrence
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ramos
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 11:33 PM
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sustaining our Resolve
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> Lawrence writes
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> > Terrorism is after all a tactic.
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> After Bush declared the "war on terror", a number of
> US generals wondered,
> so we're going to
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> fight against a tactic?
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> You can't fight a tactic any more than you can bomb
> a train of thought.
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> Lawrence is trying to redefine terror to be a
> tactic, so he can then say it
> was okay for the
>
> USA to use terror against the USSR in Afghanistan.
> It's kinda cool to watch
> him change his
>
> position in real time.
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> yrs,
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> andreas
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> www.andreas.com
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