Author: Amil Imani
Publication: Canada Free Press
Date: August 4, 2011
URL: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/39145
On July 27, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel,
in Richardson, Texas, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Dallas chapter,
featured Dr. Tariq Ramadan, a highly controversial Islamic scholar, for their
annual fundraising to Support Religious Freedom & Sharia Awareness.
ICNA, an offshoot of the Muslim Students' Association (MSA), was founded by
Muslim immigrants from the Indian subcontinent, and its members are mostly
South Asian descent, primarily Pakistanis, Bengalis and Indians. Among many
of its goals, "shall be to seek the pleasure of Allah through the struggle
of Iqamat-ud-Deen [establishment of the Islamic system of life] as spelled
out in the Quran and the Sunnah of [Muhammad]."
Steven Emerson and the Investigative Project
on Terrorism (IPT) have documented the fact that ICNA is a militant Islamic
fundamentalist organization, and supports terrorism. The Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) has accused ICNA of inviting extremist and anti-Semitic speakers to
its conferences that serve as platforms for extremist views. ICNA has also
put up huge billboards, festooning major highways, such as the one along Highway
101 and Tully Road in San Jose, California, with crafty messages. Bold letters
on the billboard proclaim: Islam You Deserve to Know. A toll-free number,
1-877-WhyIslam and website, WhyIslam.org beckon the public to get the real
scoop about the "religion of peace" with its ceaseless violent record
from its inception to this day.
Dr. Ramadan's presence could have gone relatively
unnoticed in the Dallas Metroplex, except for the man's lengthy record of
subversive campaigns and activities. Tariq was banned from the United States
for six-years (a visa restriction lifted last January by Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton).
Why is he welcomed again in this country?
Has he mended his ways? Not a chance. Secretary Clinton, for whatever reasons,
has decided to let the man come and carry on with his dangerous work.
Tariq Ramadan is a faithful flag bearer to
the violent Islamic order of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded by his grandfather,
Hassan al-Banna. Tariq's U.S. visa was originally revoked due to his connections
to Islamic terrorism. A devoted champion of the religion of peace that he
is, Ramadan is uncompromisingly committed to the elimination of the State
of Israel, and not necessarily by peaceful means. This religion of peace that
Ramadan and his ilk promote, rides at the tip of the sword. Peace, in Islamist's
terms offers no room for negotiations or live and let live.
The tumultuous road to get into the event
aside, the star performer, Ramadan, at the meeting, lived up to the expectation
of the rabid rank-and-file Islamist by exhorting the faithful to carry out
their duty of what I call "Soft Jihad," and others term it "Cultural
Jihad," in the United States. Soft Jihad is practiced where the sword
jihad is not advisable, where Muslims are not strong enough to unsheathe their
sword, where the true nature of Islam is exposed and when the general public
would likely stamp them out.
A critical tool of soft jihad, Ramadan outlined,
involves penetrations of the American educational system, by use of means
such as Da'wa-a religious duty of each Muslim to convert non-Muslims in order
to strengthen the Islamic Ummah.
Freedom of belief is a treasured feature of
enlightened societies where different views clash in the marketplace of free
ideas and vie for acceptability without resort to deception, dissimulation
or violence. Ideas and beliefs sink or survive on merit as judged by the public.
In Islam, that is not the case. To Muslims,
there is no need for various ideas and beliefs to contest on merit. Muhammad
has brought the perfect belief system directly from Allah. A flawless belief
that is the best and good for eternity. To Muslims, people are like children.
They are incapable of deciding these weighty matters and they should accept
the faith of Allah like a patient should take a medicine prescribed by an
infallible physician, no matter how unpalatable the medicine may be.
Sugarcoating of Islam is, therefore, universally
practiced, these self-described doctors of Islamic religion. They keep ranting
about the importance of accepting things on faith, denigrate reason, dangle
carrots and sticks, and demand unconditional surrender in return for guaranteed
bliss and salvation. The masses toe the line, support the clergy's lavish
parasitic lifestyle and the charade continues. It works like a charm. Use
the Jihad of the Sword when it can and use the Soft Jihad until the sword
can be unsheathed to finish the job. And don't forget, the end justifies any
and all means, Ramadan and company keep on preaching to the hordes.
Islam is the most successful fraud in the
history of humanity and it is a great success. Millions of mullahs and imams
keep the fraud going and over a billion and a half of the faithful pay for
it. They pay in funds, labor and even life, for the IOUs issued to them by
the likes of Ramadan who glide through life without breaking a sweat for earning
their daily bread.
Ramadan and his co-lice, should be given credit,
not only for their part in this well-acted play, but also for demanding their
flock to play; namely, deception, dissimulation, a laundered version of Islam,
and even outright lies.
Ramadan, for instance, never presents the
naked face of Islam. He never speaks of the Islam that thrives on hate, throws
acid in the face of women who fail to don the hijab or girls going to school;
flogging people for sporting non-Islamic haircuts, stoning to death, violators
of sexual norms and other forms of Islamic brutalities such as Honor Killing.
He never talks about institutionalized pedophilia in Islam. The fact that
Muhammad "married" a six year old and consummated the marriage when
Ayesha was only nine, when he himself was pushing sixty.
Confronted with this repulsive behavior of
the founder of their perfect religion, a few exercise the defense mechanism
of denial and say it did not happen, dismissing their own most trusted historical
record. Some say that it wasn't exactly marriage. It was a politically expedient
act, an act of the perfect emissary of Allah. Then we have numerous instances
of the same child molestation happening in the Islamic world ever since the
example set by Muhammad. Marriage of pre-pubescent girls to older men. Just
the other day Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi
Arabia's highest religious council, issued a fatwa proclaiming that there
is no minimum age for marriage, and that girls can be married "even if
they are in the cradle."
This is only one of numerous shameful and
barbaric provisions of the Islamic Sharia that Ramadan and other Soft Jihadists
want to transplant to America. Islam is a great deal for the savage sexually
driven male while a true bondage for women who seek their right to equality
with men.
To this day, the state of Saudi Arabia, the
custodian of the twin holy cities of Islam and purportedly a shining example
of an Islamic society, forbids women from driving automobiles. And now this
is the cult that Ramadan and company want to import to America and impose
it on all of us, as they have successfully done to parts of Europe.
Misogynist practices aside, Islam Sharia provisions
make any civilized human recoil with horror.
He defends Islam with the same mantra of "We
against Them," "We the righteous against the heathens," "We
the servants submissive of the Great Allah against the rebellious enemies
of Allah." To Islam, a non-Muslim is a combatant against Allah and he
is fair game to be subjugated and killed. Ramadan conveniently sidesteps this
and other features of this discriminatory cult.
Tariq Ramadan claims Muhammad was the most
perfect man, the kind of saintly man that each and every Muslim should adulate
and aspire to follow. On the top of his list is the desire to lead their lives
in such a way that would please Allah, if they can.
Ramadan speaks of Muhammad's perseverance
in preaching to the Meccans' his dogma that seemed more like a confused verbiage
of a hallucinatory man that revelation from the one and only super-god Allah.
Ramadan asked the Muslim community to spread the word of Islam in America,
even if they face stiff resistance as the Prophet Muhammad faced stiff resistance
in Mecca, at first. Muhammad, during his Mecca years, was ridiculed for his
confused sayings by his own tribe of Quraish. He was called "shaeron
majnoon"-crazed poet.
The death of his first wife and wealthy employer
Khadija left Muhammad even more vulnerable to the ridicule and harassment
of the Meccans. He fled from Mecca for Medina and in the relative safety of
that city with a large tolerant Jewish community, Muhammad found more people
willing to join his clique.
Once in Medina, Muhammad hit on a most powerful
formula for success. He justified everything by claiming that Allah wants
it this way. And Allah was nothing to trifle with. He held the key to the
most magnificent paradise as well as to a dreadful hell. The duty of every
good Muslim became unquestioning obedience to everything that Muhammad said
and wished. Muhammad became Allah's gatekeeper to paradise and hell.
Muhammad's formula worked magic with the Bedouins
of Arabia who thrived on robbery and killing. His religion spread like a pandemic
disease in no time at all.
As Muhammad gathered more and more followers,
he turned on the Jewish community of Medina, killed the men, plundered their
belongings, and captured their women and children as slaves. That was the
birth of Soft Jihad. Be meek and deceptive first, until you gather enough
power then unsheathe the sword. It worked then and it is working today.
And here we are in the 21st -century facing
the onslaught of the Islamists and a "cultural jihadist" like Tariq
Ramadan. Tariq Ramadan and other Islamic apologists cover a wide spectrum.
Ramadan said, "Enshallah, our future in the West is going to be positive.
We are not here by accident. We are here to reassess the essence of our religion."
He blamed Tea Party activists and conservatives for giving Islam a bad name.
You don't need the Tea Party, Ramadan, to give Islam a bad name. Islam is
its own bad name and mired in bad deeds.
It is repugnant, yet understandable that Ramadan
goes around and sings the praises of Islam in low and high notes and every
other note that he can disguise and improvise. He makes a very good living
at it. What is baffling is some very high-ranking non-Muslims, for whatever
reason, helped launder Islam and present it as what it really is not. Former
President George W. Bush, for one, did a great disservice on several occasions
by exonerating Islam from the crimes of radical Muslims by attributing the
horrific violence committed under the banner of Islam to a small band of extremists.
The President's assertion was either based on ignorance of the facts about
Islam or his attempt at political correctness. In any event, truth was sacrificed
and the public continued to cling to the false notion that Islam is a peaceful
religion. People who dare to disclose the true nature of Islam run the risk
of being castigated as bigots and hate-mongers. Some businesses are subjected
to boycotts and individuals are sued.
Ramadan should know better, and he most certainly
does: the so-called small band of Islamic extremists is the true face of Islam.
Hence, it is a fact that Islam is misrepresented,
as Ramadan likes to claim. It is misrepresented by people like himself as
well as by non-Muslim individuals and institutions who are generously rewarded
by the modern day Islamic conquerors. This time around, Muslims are using
the immense petrodollar they extract from oil-addicted non-Muslims. The sword
is temporarily replaced by just as deadly a weapon-the petrodollar. Before
long, the Muslims aim to add a more deadly modern version of the sword-the
Islamic bomb.
Lastly and most dangerously, Islam has a powerful
unwitting ally in the masses of good-hearted gullible Americans who bend over
backwards protecting the long cherished principle of religious freedom. And
it is this magnificent provision of our society that makes Hillary Clinton
reissue a visa to likes of Ramadan to come and exploit the benign provisions
of a benevolent system for establishing Islamic enslavement.
"Freedom is never more than one generation
from extinction," said Ronald Reagan. We do well to remember that.
Amil Imani
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Amil Imani is an Iranian-American writer,
poet, satirist, novelist, essayist, literary translator, public speaker and
political analyst who has been writing and speaking out about the danger of
radical Islam both in America and internationally. He has become a formidable
voice in the United States against the danger of global jihad and Islamization
of America. He maintains a website at amilimani.com. Imani is the author of
the riveting book Obama Meets Ahmadinejad and the upcoming thriller Operation
Persian Gulf.
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