http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016198.php
Another substanceless objection David Horowitz, of whose <http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/> Freedom Center Jihad Watch is a part, has alerted me to an ad in the Emory University campus newspaper, the Emory Wheel. While their statement makes serious -- one might say defamatory -- charges claiming that <http://www.terrorismawareness.org/print-ad/> our ad "aims to intimidate, threaten, or reductively portray a religious group with the intent to antagonize or demean its members," it fails to explain how our ad does this, or in what way it is inaccurate. This kind of undocumented smear constitutes a kind of hate speech itself. Our ad notes that "the goal of jihad is world domination," that "jihad demands the suppression of all infidels," that its battle cry is "death to America," and that it is a war against Christians, Jews, women and gays. Does the Emory Religious Life Staff deny that all around the globe there are movements - united under the banner of "jihad" - devoted to exactly these goals? We are well aware that there are within Islam other understandings of jihad, but that does not negate the fact that those who are pursuing the agenda we outlined call what they are doing "jihad." It is demeaning, not empowering, to peaceful Muslims to deny or minimize this fact, for denying it robs them of an opportunity to work for reform within their own community, refuting the understanding of jihad put forward by bin Laden, Nasrallah, and their ilk. One cannot address a problem while simultaneously denying the existence of that problem. Like the <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015447.php> letters that appeared in the Emory Wheel after the publication of our ad, the Religious Life Staff ad contents itself with impugning our motives, without offering even one specific rebuttal of anything our ad asserts. Likewise, <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015486.php> a Muslim writer who claimed to find my letter to the Wheel "full of glaring errors" was unable, in several windy posts, to come up with even one -- and <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015565.php> showed himself to be utterly dishonest in framing his alleged refutation. If anyone in the Emory community is willing to discuss the specifics of the problem of jihad terrorism and what can be done about it in a mutually respectful manner, dealing in substance rather than in disingenuousness and defamation, I would be happy to do so. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
