Re: A British Perspective of Islam
Posted by:
Bob James
()
Date: August 28, 2007 11:43AM
Re: Fairfax MF---er
Thank you grasshopper for the enlightenment. You are right: I should have provided attribution and not inferred generalities. (I do think that you were overly harsh in calling me an “idiot.”).
id•i•ot
n.
1. A foolish or stupid person.
2. A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
I would have been more factual to address the second largest world religion, and soon to be the second largest religion in America (sic, USA), with better documentation and cited recent editorials. You may wish to read Robert Spencer’s book THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE ™ FOR ISLAM (AND THE CRUSADES).. And I would sincerely hope that your Islamic friends are not attending the local schools as described by Daniel Pipes in the NEW YORK SUN on March 29, 2005.
“Then there are four leading Islamic schools in the Washington, D.C. area:
• The Muslim Community School in Potomac, Md., imbues in its students a sense of alienation from their own country. Seventh-grader Miriam told a Washington Post reporter in 2001, "Being American is just being born in this country." Eighth-grader Ibrahim announced that "Being an American means nothing to me."
• A textbook used at the Islamic Saudi Academy of Alexandria, Va., in 2004, authored and published by the Saudi Ministry of Education, teaches first graders that "all religions, other than Islam, are false, including that of the Jews [and] Christians." An ISA class valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, was recently indicted for plotting to assassinate President Bush.
• The U.S. government revoked the visas in 2004 of sixteen people affiliated with the Institute for Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, of Fairfax, Va. In the words of the Washington Post, "That decision followed accusations that the institute, a satellite campus of al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, was promoting a brand of Islam that critics say is intolerant of other strains of the religion as well as Christianity and Judaism." In addition, the IIASA is under investigation for ties to terrorism.
• The Graduate School of Islamic Social Sciences of Ashburn, Va., referred to as a "purported" educational institution in an affidavit justifying a raid on the school, had its financial records seized in 2002 on suspicions of links to terrorism.”
And, finally, I mean no offense to the many millions of moderate True Believers that do not condone nor practice terrorism or hate against non-believers—nor follow the biblical precept of an “eye for an eye.”