My apologies Michael. I didn't realize that you posting this article in no way tied into any of the previous posts about Islam, extremism or terrorism.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Michael Dinowitz < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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:292118 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
