This film is not a news story, balance is irrelevant. The film advocates a position against Islamization of the West. Yes, it is inflammatory, but nowhere does it advocate wiping out all Mulsims or Islam itself. What is wrong with opposing the notion that mosques should have a role in government? What is wrong with opposing people who would force their religion on you by the sword? The rhetoric coming from extremist Muslims is akin to Nazi rhetoric in the 1930's in Europe. Germany was not 100% Nazi thugs. But the violent and vocal extremist Nazi party imposed its will on the rest of the German population. In the 1930's, few people understood the threat from Hitler and the Nazi party. Some people in the U.S. even supported them. European governments failed to understand the stakes, and the world was cast into chaos for almost a decade because of it.
In the Middle East, the situation is actually far worse in some ways than Germany in the 1930's. Authoritarian governments throughout the region have used Islam, through mosques, madrassas, and television, to brainwash their populations to support an ideology of violence and hatred. Clearly there are opponents, but in much of the Middle East they face the possibility of prison or death if they speak out. Most of the population doesn't need to actively support the extremist ideology, quiet compliance is more than enough. Like Germany in the 1930's, the extremists openly advocate a war of subjugation against the "others" without any fear of punishment. And we stand idly by watching as their movements grow and their hatred takes seed around the world. And yoiu are exactly right- oppression and poverty are driving issues in many of these countries. The time has come for free people everywhere to denounce Islamo-fascism and stand together with the moderates in the Muslim world to support a vision of freedom and prosperity for everyone, regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. We are already engaged in that task, and brave people from our societies in the West have laid down their lives in hellish places like Iraq and Afghanistan so that those oppressed people might one day taste the freedoms that we have enjoyed our entire lives. On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Vivec wrote: > I'm saying that denying there is a strong and prevalent moderate side, > advocating the destruction of a city and civilisation as some sort of > solution to a problem of an extremist minority, is Genocide, hatred > and in itself Extremism simply on the other side of the divide. > > I've read about the denunciations, I've seen the Clerics and Imams in > Britain speak out against the rioting and the violence during the > Netherlands fiasco. I find it extremely difficult to believe that you > haven't seen and read about these also. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257589 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
