Fjordman’s latest essay has been published at FrontPage Mag. Some excerpts are below:
The self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world with its brutality. The British Prime Minister David Cameron, along with other Western leaders, claims that the Islamic State has “ nothing to do with the great religion of Islam, a religion of peace.” The former British PM Tony Blair states that IS’ ideology is “ based in a complete perversion of the proper faith of Islam.”
Notice that both the current and a previous British Prime Minister say virtually the same thing as Tariq Ramadan. He is a Swiss writer of Egyptian origin and is a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University in Britain. Tariq Ramadan suggests that the Islamic State is “ not Islamic.”
Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Banna’s stated goal was the restoration of an Islamic Caliphate. We now have an Islamic State under the leadership of a Caliph. You could therefore argue that ISIS have fulfilled the original promise of Hassan al-Banna. What Tariq Ramadan is in effect saying is that: “The Islamic State have fulfilled the promise of my pious Muslim grandfather. Yet this has nothing to do with Islam.”
The slick Islamic infiltrator Tariq Ramadan has always reminded me of the deceiving manipulator Grima Wormtongue from Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings. It is no wonder that Western ruling elites are clueless about the true nature of the Islamic threat when we allow people such as Ramadan to be treated as experts on Islam in prestigious Western universities and advise Western authorities on matters related to Islam.
Saying that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam or Islamic teachings is false. ISIS propagandists quote authentic Koranic verses or respected hadith literature in favor of their actions. Yes, texts can be interpreted in different ways, but some interpretations have a stronger foundation than others do. A rubber band can be stretched up to a certain point, but not forever. Likewise, texts can be read in several ways, but they are not infinitely elastic.
Maybe what the militant members of the Islamic State are doing is not the only way to interpret Islamic religious texts. Maybe. What should worry us, however, is that it is a perfectly legitimate way to interpret Islamic texts.
The Islamic State now has many supporters, also in Western countries. Their atrocities resonate with quite a few Muslims who recognize something similar from Islamic history. In the earliest days of Islam, Mohammed and his companions raided and pillaged their opponents, massacred and beheaded non-Muslims, enslaved their children, raped their women and forced them to be sex slaves. Suggesting that it has nothing to do with Islam, when militant Muslims today directly copy the behavior of their Prophet as described in Islamic sources, is not credible.
Read the rest at at FrontPage Mag.
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“Tell the infidels in public we respect your laws and your constitutions, which we Muslims believe that these are as worthless as the paper they are written on.”
“The only law we must respect and apply is the Sharia.”
Tariq Ramadan
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6377-tariq-ramadan-respect
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In my opinion, it´s already time to stop supporting the “every religion can be interpreted, both Q´ran and Bible can be interpreted” meme.
99.9% of chritian and judaic sources are old tales. They can´t involve any doctrine unless they´re interpreted. Christianism and, specially, judaism, are religions that depend strongthly on interpretation, which explains why they have evolved so much through history.
99.9% of Islam in, on the other side, direct commands. They don´t need to interpreted, just obeyed. You can always interpret, but sources are clear and specific enough to get people going back to them and behaving now as they did 14 centuries ago.
Fjordman & Baron B!
– are you ready to fight MURUNA?
The fourth word of deception in the idiotic religion of Pece & Love – next to Taqiyya, Tawriya & Kitman?
10.000 hits on Google but no hit on GoV.
If you try to ignore all his biblical [excrements of bovine male] Walid Shoebats gives a good description of the phenomenon in this video clip. Muruna may now be relevant in connection with ISIS – who seems to practize a resurgent original version of good, old, honest Mohammadanism.
http://youtu.be/9HeK_N-YbQo
Fjordman regularly offers superb lengthy insightful analyses, but sometimes his smaller nuggets are just gems:
“The slick Islamic infiltrator Tariq Ramadan has always reminded me of the deceiving manipulator Grima Wormtongue from Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings. It is no wonder that Western ruling elites are clueless about the true nature of the Islamic threat when we allow people such as Ramadan to be treated as experts on Islam in prestigious Western universities and advise Western authorities on matters related to Islam.”
Ramadan deserves more attention at GoV. Whilst there are welfare scrounging buffoons like Anjem Choudary out there who lay bare for all to see
what a threat Islam is, Ramadan is far more dangerous: poised, presentable, softly spoken and highly articulate in three languages. He is the academic Edward Said of our century, except his grandfather founded the Muslim Brotherhood and he has spent his life taqqiya style implementing his grandfather’s agenda. I commend to GoV readers “Brother Tariq: the doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan” to be truly appalled that man such as this could ever become a professor at Oxford University. His grandfather would be chortling in his grave at the idiocy of the Westerners who fostered his career to enable him to achieve such a respected position.
Julius,
I’ve actually written about Taqiyya Ramadan rather extensively, although it’s been a while. He, Imam Rauf, and similar silver-tongued liars are far more dangerous than Anjem Choudary, who is really just for laughs.
Rauf and Ramadan are among the most effective anesthetizers of our credulous elites. As such, they are our primary antagonists in this information war, at least within the pale of Western culture.
Outside that pale, the video wizards of ISIS are equally adept at the informatiom war in their own way, putting out daily videos that act as a siren call to Western Muslims and deracinated young men who find the possibility of religiously-sanctioned murder, rape, and mayhem inherently appealing.
I’ll have to dredge the GoV archives! And in future I will refer to him here as Taqiyya Ramadan.
Further just watch interviews on YouTube with Ramadan to observe taqqiya at its slipperiest and finest: Ramadan has perfected the art of evasion through fancy post-modern language that when analysed carefully makes no sense at all. Everything must be “essentialised” or not “essentialised” depending on Ramadan’s agenda. Or contextualised or decontextualised, ditto.
Fjordman’s description of him as Tolkien’s Grima Wormtongue is simply inspired. Regrettably Wormtongue is described and despicted as physically repellent, whereas Ramadan is praised for his immaculate dress and good looks. Personally I think the aesthetic dimension plays a large part in Ramadan’s success due to the superficiality of Western visual image- dominated culture.
When I’ve seen Ramadan on TV, he’s come across as so polished and oily I’m automatically suspicious. Are people so naive?
Yes Mark, they are it would seem. I would think an average 8 year old would watch Tariq Ramadan and think: there’s something deeply suspect about this man.
Mark please give yourself a treat and search Ramadan on YouTube and watch him debate Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali etc. It is simultaneously a disgusting but awe inspiring experience.