I'm no fan of HT (Hizbu-Tahrir), ever since their heyday in the early 90's when their minions would subversively crash the MYNA EZ conferences, wreaking havoc in the minds of countless young Muslims.
So in my critique of this NY Times article, I am more offended by the subtle inferences made by the author than the fact that she chose HT as the object of her drive-by smear job.
To start with, the top picture shows the back of a group of scarved sisters with the following caption: "An audience segregated by gender applauded defenders of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamic party, during a conference in London."
So the writer Jane Perlez seems to be associating 'segregation by gender' with 'a radical Islamic party'. Nice start.
"An international radical Islamic party...launched a frontal attack on its critics at a carefully stage-managed conference"
Typical objective journalism by our friends over at NY Times. 'Launched a frontal attack'??? Couldn't she find a more nuanced metaphor?
Here's one for her: 'The blood-thirsty Muslims held a political orgy featuring a cut-throat presentation defending their Al-Qaeda-like ideology'
"...that attracted several thousand relatively well-heeled Muslims."
Its important to mention that the audience was not made up of uneducated hooligans and easily dismissible ruffians. Ms. Perlez wants her audience to know that this new group of terrorists are educated, affluent, and very indistinguishable. This will be a recurring theme in her article.
"it was held at the Alexandra Palace, a 19th-century entertainment complex in grand gardens in northern London, and drew a largely professional audience — IT managers, bankers, teachers"
Yup, your co-worker who sports a beard or dons the scarf and shows all signs of normalcy may have been present at the extravagant Alexandra Palace. These rich, yuppie terrorists must be exposed!
"A strictly run cell-based organization, the party does not announce membership numbers."
Hmmm...what other well-known group is 'a strictly run cell-based organization'?
"“If you look at the political structure in the Muslim world, it’s a police state,” said Mohammed Baig, 28, a second-generation British Indian who is an asset manager specializing in corporate governance"
Not sure why his career of choice was important to mention. Oh yeah, I forgot. We're trying to create a new profile for the terrorist next-door – Muslim doctors, engineers, IT managers, bankers, teachers, etc.
"Why did Hizb ut-Tahir not work for the goal of the caliphate in Britain, asked someone in the audience during a question-and-answer session.
“We focus our work where we can get the quickest results,” said Mr. Abuzahra, the academic."
Mr. Abuzahra, the academic.
Very telling last words for a very telling article.
WAW
2 days ago
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Naeem, you can take solace in the fact that most Americans are too dumb to read the NY Times and also in the fact that if they do, they won't remember it the next day due to the many preoccupations that have been made available to them so that they never question what the elitists are doing on their behalf.
LOL..very true.
This is called gradual killing. First,
they will go after the hardcore Muslims, then the moderates and then the liberals. Check what happened to those liberal Muslims in Bosnia during the genocide.
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http://muslimeurope.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/islamophobia/
There was a genocide of Muslims in my home country. How could this happen? Well, to understand how and why you have to look at the rhetoric of Serb politicans on the eve of the war. I’ve seen footage of Radovan Karadzic where he, in a speech, spreads propaganda about how you cannot live with Muslims citing examples of Muslim-Christian conflicts in the world. This was classic fear-mongering. And you can’t play the
fundamentalist card on this one, because the Bosnian Muslims were some of the most liberal Muslims in the world and still that wasn’t enough.
We embraced democracy and assimilated almost totally into the non-Muslim culture. In fact, when the war happened we looked and acted like the
Serbs so much so that you couldn’t tell us apart. If a Serbian soldier ran into someone without knowing his name, the only way he could find out if this was a Muslim was by ordering him to let down his pants so he could see if the guy was circumcised or not. So even though we were liberal and like them in so many ways (Muslims naively embraced the Yugoslav Communist slogan “brotherhood and unity”) they still wanted us gone.
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This strategy is also used by the Nazi and also by Cenghis Khan , the Mongol ruler.
Check this link for more insight.
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http://icssa.org/article_detail_parse.php?a_id=1115&rel=830,829,828
http://shabanamir.com/koonj/2007/08/02/email-from-pakistan/
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One of the greatest dilemmas of our generation, and the generations to come, is, and will be, that they do not know their own history. So let us learn two great stories of history:
He moved from one place to another to avoid Genghis’s wrath and sent diplomats and wrote letters to Muslim rulers around the world to convince them that he can defeat Genghis only if they can extend their support to him. But Genghis was a military as well as a political genius. He had already convinced all the Muslim rulers from the Caliph in Baghdad to the Sultan of Delhi in India that Jalal-ad-Din is a “terrorist”, a destroyer of peace and the enemy of human race and he, Genghis Khan, and his army only wants to kill or capture Jalal-ad-Din and he has no animosity against Islam.
So all the Muslim rulers gave a deaf ear to Jalal-ad-Din’s requests for help. The immediate result was that history lost Jalal-ad-Din to oblivion. But the eventual and long term result was that Genghis Khan and his descendants butchered everything between Mongolia and Syria including Baghdad within three decades. The Caliph, who was a “friend and an ally” to the Great Khan was killed mercilessly along with his subjects. The bloodshed then could not bring Jalal-ad-Din back who could have defeated the Great Khan only if the Muslim rulers have forgotten their racial, linguistic and sectarian conflicts just for once.
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www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/
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who-are-the-illuminati.blogspot.com/
mass immigration of muslims to the West. One of the reasons was to use them as a weapon of terror against the natives, as some of these would start reacting, finally realising they were being transported to the slaughter house. Muslim leaders would keep these masses quiet, with the real prospect that in "a few years we will be the majority and will take the power".
Hi Muslims !
Don't get bamboozled by the terrorism.
Visit the links below and discover the truth.
http://www.ken-welch.com/Reports/
Zawahiri.html
http://www.ken-welch.com/Reports/
Bombers.html
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/
2007/08/researchers-ana.html
Sahra, that may be true, but I fear that the seed is being planted and the 'watering process' will only become stronger.
The fruits, I fear, will not be very tasty. :-(
Don't get "bamboozled?" Oooooook.
Salaam Naeem,
Have you seen this article by Reza Aslan? http://www.slate.com/id/2171752/?gt1=10346
AA- Amy,
Thanks for the Reza Aslan link...interesting article.
But Aslan says nothing really new as everyone and their brother has been saying how Bush and Bin Laden are singing the same tune with the 'us vs them' attitude.
However, I do like how the books referenced by Aslan point out the lack of substance on the part of al-Qaeda.
But then again, so many legitimate Muslim scholars (as well as laypersons) already knew that...
What did you find so interesting in the article?
Check how they are planting the seeds
to provoke a Muslim holocaust.
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If the the authorities fail to recognise the damage they are doing to community relations in this country by promoting charlatans and their agendas, and if the media continues to tread the all too easy path of shoddy journalism, then I fear the hasty arrival of a day on which we will witness the unthinkable – a Muslim holocaust in Europe - which no amount of debate about theological covenants will be able to prevent. The repercussions of such a future are utterly bleak in the global village we all now call home.
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Look how these Muslims still believe in the authorities !!. Those political leaders are simply the front-men of the Satanic elite.
AA Naeem,
I guess I just find it strange to constantly hear people saying that Muslims are so divisive and Muslims hate "us" (americans or whomever) when the rhetoric is really coming from somewhere else.
No joke, I was given instructions on how to answer the "Why do you/they/Muslims hate us?" question when trained to speak for ING and the masjid too... it's so common for people to ask, they just assume thing that aren't true. I just thought it interesting to read it I guess. Not shocking or anything.
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