Muslim
fundamentalism:
the
false
comfort
of
illusions

	The United States is not at war with Islam; Bin Laden is not representative of Islam; Bin Laden is an extreme form of Islam; Islam is a tolerant peaceful religion; most Muslims are opposed to Bin Laden; Bin Laden represents an extreme variant form of Islam. There is not a clash of civilizations. True or false? False. These statements are part of the conventional wisdom concerning Islam. A conventional wisdom resembles an infantile regression to a primitive defence against a seemingly overwhelming threat commonly expressed in the plaintive question” why do they hate us? Bernard Lewis seminal analysis “The Roots of Muslim Rage” (published 1990) www.theatlantic.com/issues/90/sep/rage.htm provides the historical backdrop to the phenomenon of Muslim fundamentalism. It is not a new phenomenon. Islam promotes theocracy, abolishes the distinction between church and state, does not recognize civil society as all of life is permeated by the teaching of the prophet, is eschatological and dualistic (the Muslim world and the world of darkness) monist and opposed to pluralism, militaristic in the sense that the prophet Mohamed was not only a prophet and teacher but head of a polity, ruler and soldier. Secularism and modernism as symbolized by Big Satan (The US) and Little Satan (Israel) are central to the clash of civilizations-first termed by Lewis- ‘...This is no less than a clash of two civilizations.….the historical reaction of an ancient rival against our Judao Christian heritage, our secular present and the world wide expansion of both.’ Daniel Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) published New York Post, 22 October 2001 examines the reasons for the widespread approval of Bin Laden: ‘Muslims love Bin Laden’. He surveys pro-Bin laden demonstrations and riots in the Southern Philippines, Northern Nigeria, Pakistan, and notably Palestine. Pipes estimates that Bin Laden enjoys the emotional support of half the Muslim world. ‘The wide and deep Muslim enthusiasm for Bin Laden is an extremely important development that needs to be understood, not ignored.’ The prospect of a threat of clash of civilizations is being used as a form of blackmail to prevent counter action against Muslim fundamentalism - the third and contemporary form of totalitarianism, after Nazism and communism. Political correctness, tolerance, ritualistic multiculturalism and pacifist pleas for accommodation to totalitarian Islam which is a chiliastic political religious transformist movement, at best, ambivalent, but most commonly deeply hostile to Western values and institutions, will not solve the problem of terrorism. The most rational response to terrorism is counter – terrorism; a war against terrorism. See "terrorism(Al-Hirhab)" at  www.khilafah.com.pk/fullstory/fs_011al_irhab.html, the site of Al Hirhab, an extreme Islamic terrorist organisation . Al-Irhab is a noun derived from the verb Arharba (to terrify).

Previous editorials
20th June 2004		Lakemba's terrorist connections: The 'axis of evil' in Australia
9th May 2004		Australia’s Mufti Sheikh Hilaly meets Hezbollah in Lebanon
23rd April 2004		Pakistan-born Faheem Khalid Lodhi, aka Abu Hamza, charged
12th April 2004		Lakemba, Australia: A great place for transnational terrorists
15th February 2004		Sydney’s Sheikh Feiz and his students
7th January 2004		The Al Qaeda CI /CE challenge
16th December 2003		ASIO management and Willie Virgil Brigitte’s dark terrorist network in Australia
11th November 2003		Australia’s Islamic fundamentalist Sheikh Mohamed Omran’s Mystery Train
13th October 2003		Al Qaeda and Islamic rules on espionage
22nd September 2003		REVIEW: INSIDE AL QAEDA: How I infiltrated the World’s deadliest terrorist organisation
9th September 2003		ANDREW WILKIE: ONA and Australia’s Progressive Intelligence Officer
16th March 2003		Al-Jazeera –‘Taqiyya Television’- Begins in Australia
4th March 2003		Yosri Fouda of Al Jazeera meets Saddam Hussein and the Director of Iraqi Intelligence: Why? Fouda - A contaminated source
17th March 2003		Yosri Fouda and Al- Jazeera- Journalism as terrorism by other means
2nd December 2002		Taqiyya and kitman: The role of Deception in Islamic terrorism
6th November 2002		A noted Anglican theologian discusses the ‘Terrorist Threat’
31st October 2002		Implications of the Washington ‘sniper case’: A scenario for US-Iraq war-time terrorism
19th October 2002		Bali and Australian Intelligence Failure: ASIO / ONA / DFAT / DIO Directors should be dismissed
6th October 2002		Terrorism with a return address: The nuclear suitcase bombs threat
23rd September 2002		In the name of Allah, the wise and the merciful
19th August 2002		Intelligence  (mis)management :  The Platitude Masters versus intelligence analysts
10th May 2002		Record of conversation between (deleted) Australian Intelligence Officer and USIO
10th March 2002		The Assassination of Daniel Pearl:  Islam hates “The Other”
11th February 2002		Australia's most sophisticated Anti-American Elite Organisation: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
15th January 2002		The neutralisation of intelligence: The rise of the legal mystique, the decline of intelligence capability and the rise in terrorism
25th November 2001		Interview with Professor I C Comfort, Professor of Multicultural Law and Inter Ethnic Jurisprudence
10th November 2001		Lakemba's Sheik Hilaly:Australia’s anti-semitic multicultural Mufti with many masks
26th October 2001		Muslim fundamentalism: the false comfort of illusions
19th October 2001		One thousand Bin Ladens: Inflammatory Australian Muslim Web Site - pro Bin Laden and pro Taliban
15th October 2001		Psycho-linguistic warfare and Terrorism: the use of ‘BUT’
12th October 2001		The methodology of theories of conspiracy
7th October 2001		The Australian Broadcasting Commission’s  Propaganda:  War by other means
30th September 2001		Bin Laden in Australia
26th September 2001		BIN LADEN'S war against the United States of America and the West
21st September 2001		Australia: elite anti US opinion

 

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