As the title of the article says, it's about the Taliban. The article has nothing to do with Islamic teachings or its use to radicalize anyone. It has to do with the idealizing of an extremist regime by immigrants where the immigrants are emulating these extremists. Emulating in a way that is a public hazard and in ways is criminal but is not examined or acted on. It's not just the young that look at the Taliban from afar and idealize them. Because the article does not have anything to do with Islamic teachings, the recruitment of these 'youths' inside, outside or around the town of a mosque has no real interest other than being a physical location. Also, the extremism mentioned is the idealization of the Taliban, not anything else and not anything specifically about any Islamic teachings. I guess that anyone hearing Taliban automatically thinks that anti-Taliban is anti-Islam or the like.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's a few things that jump out at me about this article. And they seem > to support things I (and others) have said about Muslims and extremism. > > 1) It's building among the disenfranchised youth who are fed up with > bigotry > and perceived 'hard times'. > 2) Recruiters are hanging around outside of Mosques (the Mosques themselves > aren't part of the recruitment as others have stated.) Didn't > > 3*) Extremism (or kill the Jews/Infidels) isn't something that is being > taught as part of religious ceremonies. (As Michael has stated.) > > *note this is my own perception based on comments made within the article. > It doesn't explicitly say this. > > So the discussions we've been having of late seem to be fairly poignant. In > fact I would say that many of the "emotes" as Gruss calls them, seem to > have > hit the nail on the proverbial head. Muslims, especially young Muslims, are > fed up with Bigotry. Those 'normal' (for lack of a better word) Muslims > turn > to extremism when they feel that Western society is against them. > > That's how I read the article anyway. I'm sure some will read it as the > exact opposite. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292088 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
