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  RE:Who are the Fascists?
by hakeem on Dec 24, 2007 12:12 AM   Permalink
Hindusim- Fight Kill Burn Loot and Rape even children if they are muslims and then try to convert them to hinduism

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  RE:RE:Who are the Fascists?
by hakeem on Dec 24, 2007 12:14 AM   Permalink
There are unbroken chain of non muslim communities living in the arab lands since the time of isa bin maryam *as*

Best example is the Christians and Jews of Palestine.

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  RE:Who are the Fascists?
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:19 PM   Permalink
The New Islamic Directions Blog> Imam Zaid Shakir

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  RE:Who are the Fascists?
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:14 PM   Permalink
Leaving aside the allegations of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a skillful use of the %u201Cbig lie%u201D technique, let us consider the allegation that so-called Islamic Fascism threatens Western Civilization. This is another big lie. The nature of this lie is revealed by the fact Ayman Zawahari, Usama Bin Laden, and the movements they lead were incapable of posing a significant threat to the Egyptian and Saudi states respectively. Zawahari%u2019s Jihad group was ruthlessly crushed by the Egyptian government during the mid-1990s. Bin Laden%u2019s challenge to the Saudi state in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War was similarly thwarted. Hence, both men eventually ended up in a cave in Afghanistan. The terrorist acts they orchestrated in Egypt and Saudi Arabia proved to be a nuisance, in a strategic sense. However, at no time did those acts constitute an existentialist threat to either state.

While terrorist acts perpetrated by what has come to be known as al-Qaeda may be disruptive, they could never pose a significant threat to the integrity of Western Civilization, neither politically, economically, nor socially. By way of illustration, it took less than two months for the stock markets to rebound to pre-September 11, 2001 levels in the aftermath of the attacks of that day. Today, five years after those attacks, American exports are higher, global trade levels, led by the United States, are higher, world tourism is up, domestic air travel, the sector hardest hit in the aftermath of th

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  RE:RE:Who are the Fascists?
by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:14 PM   Permalink
Those attacks, which occurred under dubious circumstances that have yet to be thoroughly investigated, are unlikely to be replicated and did little lasting damage to this country. This illustrates the overblown threat of the %u201CIslamic Fascist%u201D enemy.

The question here is how could groups that were incapable of destabilizing two middling Third World states pose a mortal threat to the United States, the world%u2019s sole superpower? Moreover, how could such groups ever pose an existentialist challenge to the whole of Western Civilization? The very allegation is so preposterous that we can only describe it as a %u201Cbig lie.%u201D

Closely associated with this lie is the allegation that Bin Laden, and now Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are comparable to Hitler and Stalin. Such an allegation is totally baseless. Both Hitler and Stalin presided over modern industrial states with strategic resources that rivaled and in many sectors surpassed those of Western Europe and even America. Hitler%u2019s Germany was the most advanced state on earth, in terms of military technology. They were the first nation to employ militarily-viable ballistic missiles, the V-2 rocket; a jet-powered tactical fighter aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and at one point were months away from developing an atomic bomb. Stalin%u2019s Soviet Union possessed the largest collection of conventional armed forces on earth, and would eventually preside over a nuclear arsenal of over 20,000 warheads, most of them aimed at the

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by Imaan on Dec 23, 2007 11:15 PM   Permalink
most of them aimed at the major industrial, military, and population centers of the United States. These warheads were situated on sophisticated land, sea, and air-based delivery systems that posed a significant threat to the survival of the United States and Western Europe.

As compared to the resources possessed by those states, the %u201CIslamic Fascists%u201D have nothing. Only one Muslim country, Pakistan possesses nuclear weapons, and that country%u2019s handful of nuclear warheads is neutralized by India%u2019s larger and more sophisticated nuclear arsenal, as well as Israel%u2019s estimated 200-300 nuclear bombs. By all reasonable estimates, Iran is at least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, and possesses no delivery system capable of reaching Western Europe, to say nothing of America. As for non-state %u201CIslamic Fascists%u201D they possess neither a nuclear weapon nor any delivery systems.

As far as the threat of a an agent of an %u201CIslamic Fascist%u201D organization or state getting his hand on a small nuclear devise and carrying it to the United States to be detonated, that threat is less credible than a rogue security operative affiliated with a western power getting his hand on such a devise. Such an eventuality itself is less credible than any random act of terrorism that may emanate from an unimaginable array of actors. As last year%u2019s shootings in Montreal and a rash of school shooting sprees throughout the United States demonstrate, any stray lunatic is capable of engaging in

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