As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, like Falwell and Robertson and Rabbi Lapin, announce that this clerical aggression is a punishment for our secularism. And the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, hitherto considered allies on our 'national security' calculus, prove to be the most friendly to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.
Tag: democracy humanism george-w-bush islam secularism terrorism algeria afghanistan leftism pat-robertson egypt jihad national-security pakistan taliban working-class september-11-attacks islamism jerry-falwell al-qaeda central-intelligence-agency daniel-lapin federal-bureau-of-investigation saudi-arabia
سياسة الدولة في الإسلام جزء من تعاليمه، والإسلام دين بقدر ما هو قانون، و عقيدة بقدر ما هو نظام كامل للحياة.
محمد سليم العواDo you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?
Qur'anوتأمل أحوال الرسل صلوات الله وسلامه عليهم مع الله ، وخطابهم وسؤالهم، كيف تجدها كلها مشحونة بالأدب قائمة به :
قالُ إبراهيم الخليل صلى الله عليه وسلم: { الَّذِي خَلَقَنِي فَهُوَ يَهْدِينِ (78) َوالَّذِي هُوَ يُطْعِمُنِي وَيَسْقِينِ (79) وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِ (80)} ، ولم يقل: "إذا أمرضني" حفظاً للأدب مع الله".
وقال آدم عليه السلام : { رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَا أَنفُسَنَا وَإِن لَّمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الخَاسِرِينَ } ، ولم يقل: "رب قدرت عليّ وقضيت عليَّ".
وقول أيوب عليه السلام : { مَسَّنِيَ الضُّرُّ وَأَنْتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ }الأنبياء:83، ولم يقل: "عافني واشفني".
وموسى عليه الصلاة والسلام، حيث قال: { رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ} ، ولم يقل: أطعمني.
Tag: islam
Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (The Nation, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin Laden 'hopes to bring a "judgmental" monotheism of his own to bear on these United States.' Chomsky's recent version of this is 'considering the grievances expressed by people of the Middle East region.' In my version, then as now, one confronts an enemy who wishes ill to our society, and also to his own (if impermeable religious despotism is considered an 'ill'). In Chomsky's reading, one must learn to sift through the inevitable propaganda and emotion resulting from the September 11 attacks, and lend an ear to the suppressed and distorted cry for help that comes, not from the victims, but from the perpetrators. I have already said how distasteful I find this attitude. I wonder if even Chomsky would now like to have some of his own words back? Why else should he take such care to quote himself deploring the atrocity? Nobody accused him of not doing so. It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
Christopher HitchensTag: war religion united-states emotion propaganda islam 1998 theocracy terrorism despotism osama-bin-laden middle-east monotheism war-crimes september-11-attacks noam-chomsky islamic-terrorism al-shifa-pharmaceutical-factory the-nation
A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
Birds without trees can never feel free.
Tag: life freedom freedom-of-thought freedom-of-choice islam tree rule freedom-of-religion bird fly
ربِ طرقنا بابك و طمعنا في حسن أسمائك و صفاتك وتعلقنا في أطراف جميل وعودك لعبادك .. فثبت حجتنا وأحكم قبضتنا ~ نعوذ بك من أن نفلت أو نهوى
شيماء فؤادTag: islam شيماء-فؤاد
Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.
Marc CooperTag: politics war democracy united-states fascism islam iraq secularism iraq-war pluralism islamism united-states-army mahdi-army muqtada-al-sadr
No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.
Nick CohenTag: politics murder religion islam islamism islamophobia
The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part.
Christopher HitchensTag: war united-states delusion islam debate iraq-war war-on-terror jihad islamic-terrorism bush-doctrine preemptive-war preventive-war
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