Reformist Arab Writers
“The following are some (excerpts) of the recommendations by reformist Arab writers.:
Whoever thinks he can be comfortable near a wolf and can turn him into a domestic puppy will be astounded when one day it falls upon his flock.In the past, we told you: ‘Stop them!’ Today, we tell you: ‘Expel them.’”
Extremist websites must be censored, and it must be understood that “the source of intellectual danger today is the media, including the Internet.”
“The time has come for us to declare resolutely that the claim heard whenever Muslims stage a terror attack - ‘George Bush made me do it’ - is a stupid one.
But not enough is said about the so-called intellectuals, who are in effect no more than justifiers of terrorism
In Egypt there is now a group of writers and editors and even politicians past the age of 50, who take political Viagra and feel intoxication and lust when they curse the U.S. and applaud the terrorists
Since 9/11, I have been reading and hearing the Egyptian media, and I cannot name five writers who condemn terrorism unequivocally
Cheap television [programming] is the incubator of terrorism, and the workshop for the creation of a terror discourse
When a mosque becomes a place where firebombs are made, it ceases to be a mosque, and should be treated as the scene of a crime…”
It is regrettable that Western media channels, particularly CNN and the BBC, host Islamist activists who support terrorism and treat them as experts and analysts…
There is no such thing as ‘moderate Islamists.’ There are ordinary Muslims who lead ordinary lives, and there are terrorists and people who are likely to become terrorists in the future
We did not heed the Prophet’s explicit instruction that the Muslims must kill only combatants, not women and children. Anger blinded us, and we enjoyed the analyses that claimed Israel was facing its most difficult challenge since the October [1973] war.
Turning to these (suicide) operations was a great moral mistake, and turning away from them is a good virtue
“The terrorists deliberately distort the precepts of Islam and the image of the Muslims, and thus are necessarily the enemies of Islam and the Muslims. Why, then, isn’t a clear and honest religious position towards them taken… like the hostile positions that these sheikhs take against some of the Muslim schools of religious thought and their followers.
The religious discourse has not educated the people of the Islamist movements to adopt leniency, mercy, and tolerance for the other - but rather has educated to hatred of the other and plans to murder and uproot the other
Then, there is a need to discuss intensively the issue of abolishing chapters in the Koran [naskh] and [a need to examine] whether it is true that the verse of the sword [Koran 9:5] abolished all mercy, leniency, and forgiveness in the Koran
“These human weapons are designed and shaped by a constant flow of anti-Western propaganda from Arab satellite television, the so-called Islamic associations, and countless madrassas (Islamic schools) and mosques throughout the world, including London itself…
Moreover, they disseminate hatred against Muslims who do not walk in their own path, treating them as unbelievers - distinguishing between murdering a Muslim and murdering a non-Muslim, and preaching that it is permitted to murder a non-Muslim but forbidden to murder a Muslim
they see the people of the West as unbelievers who are of no use whatsoever to Islam… and also see them as ‘parasites’ that must be gotten rid of, or converted to Islam - that is, to transform Dar al-Harb into Dar al-Islam…
“the war on terror … requires intensive and ongoing intellectual, political, and educational activities, in order to fight the extremist and terrorist Islamic Salafi thought and the Salafi da’wa that calls to establish a fundamentalist Islamic regime …”
And all this time we thought it was Kool-Aid the leftards were drinking, but now it sounds like it could be political viagra. Lets hope the ideological compatiability between the Arab progressives and the Western conservatives translates into a synchronicity greater than that of the alliance between the media, the western left and the radical islamists.
