Tariq Ramadan: A Viper in Our Midst (Thanks to Hillary Clinton)
Islamic scholar and stealth jihadist Tariq Ramadan is on the move again, having been welcomed to our shores as an apostle of moderation and a harbinger of reconciliation between Islam and the West. Ramadan had been banned from the U.S. under the provisions of the Patriot Act for having contributed to the Holy Land Foundation, an Islamic charity with ties to Hamas which is listed on the U.S. State Department calendar of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Under an exemption issued by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ramadan is now free to bring his message to the American people from within their own public institutions, addressing Cooper Union and CAIR-Chicago.
Later this month, Ramadan will be revisiting Canada, mounting his carefully calculated charm offensive in Montreal and Ottawa, explaining how Islam can be seamlessly integrated into Western culture. Ramadan is especially fond of Ottawa, Canada’s capital, a city with six official mosques, another 22 university and student mosques, and yet another four mosque-building projects currently on the books. What’s not to like? But this is only a sign of what’s to come. Under cover of Ramadan’s glabrous rhetoric, the Muslim Brotherhood’s campaign to subvert the West from within takes another giant step forward. And we are going along with it.
We have simply not understood — or stubbornly refuse to understand — that Islam is our “world-historical” antagonist. But it is also more than that. The welcome we extend to those who would subdue us is also an indication of what is wrong with us. How else to explain the warm reception we give to a crypto-Islamist like Tariq Ramadan, who passes himself off as a Muslim reformer but strongly implies in Western Muslims and the Future of Islam that Islam will envelop and, so to speak, outperform Judaism and Christianity? How else to explain how the author of an arguably anti-Semitic tract entitled Critique des (nouveaux) intellectuels communautaires can be celebrated by Time magazine as an intellectual innovator and invited by Notre Dame University to assume the Henry R. Luce chair in its International Peace Studies program? Ramadan has recently been appointed to the Sultan of Oman chair of Islamology at the University of Leiden, which does not appear to have objected to Ramadan’s presenting himself on the bookflap of his Radical Reform as “teaching in the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University” — there is no such position in Islamic Studies in the Oxford Faculty of Divinity and Ramadan has no formal appointment there.
Ramadan believes that Islam can infiltrate and conquer the West by initially peaceful means, continuing immigration, and the “duty for Muslims … to take Islam from the periphery of European culture to the centre,” to cite from an interview in the New Statesman. The warrant here is clearly Koran 9:33 in which Allah sends forth his apostle “to make the true faith supreme over all religions” — a mandate which may be dissembled but cannot go unheeded. Ramadan coquettishly advances toward his goal of disarming resistance via the rhetoric of ethical harmony and doctrinal alignment between the various faith communities. He even goes so far as to refer to Islamic philosophers like Avicenna, Averroes, and Ibn Khaldun as “European Muslim thinkers … who … confidently [accepted] their European identity” — a proposition as staggering as it is absurd. A cursory perusal of Robert Spencer’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, a kind of Islam for Dhimmis, would quickly torpedo Ramadan’s strange notion of cultural, religious, and jurisprudential consonance. (In her last book, The Force of Reason, Oriana Fallaci also calls attention to the new and concomitant Islamic “design based on gradual penetration rather than brutal and sudden aggression.”)





What should we expect from the our Muslim President and the ‘Dhimicrats’?
One way to place Tariq Ramadan in historical perspective is to imagine a European colonist trying to convince Native Americans of the 18th Century that Europeans were in North America to become assimilated into Indian culture.
Ask yourself the question–are the committed and activist Muslims of America and Canada here to assimilate or to colonize? If they are colonists following Mohammed’s example (the Hijra), what should our response be?
I invite anyone interested to read my observations on how Tariq Ramadan misreads Islamic history at:
http://staringattheview.blogspot.com/2009/11/tariq-ramadan-in-footsteps-of-prophet.html
well… hmmm… my brain’s twisted… A known funder of terrorism gets a supervisa of a state secretary in order to promote his point of view which is the destruction of the guest state? What’s so wrong with this world that the brain cells of the ruling class are decreasing at such a high rate nowadays
We are intended to be the frog in Islam’s gradually heating pot.
“…Islamic reconquest of Europe …” Excellent article, but careful about that ideological sabotage! Islam never conquered Europe, though the Muslim beast tried many many times to do so, annihilating Spain and Byzantium in the process. Of course we all know that Spain fought back fiercely and finally expelled the cancer, but Byzantium was lost to the West forever along with all the intellectual treasures, legacy, and loot withal. The Muslims squandered that stolen treasure from the West, and within 400 years were little more than a rotten hulk again. Tragically for the World oil was discovered under their undeserving feet throughout Arabdom, and the Jihad, freshly refueled by trillions in unearned wealth, began again in earnest. Parasite Islam is feeding on us again, and unless we expel Muslims from the West as Spain did, we will suffer the fate of Byzantium.
Did Tariq flatter Hillary ?
She has been beleaguered of late, getting ragged on for trying to orchestrate abortion policy in Canada, pronounce on the disposition of the Falklands, mixing it up with Netanyahu and Karzai…
In warming up to Tariq, is she doing her President’s bidding, the guy who continues in the agenda of placation ? (just recently striking “Islamic Radicalism” from government-ese. The phrase can join “war on terror” overseas contingency operation, and “terrorism”, man caused disaster)
Oriana Fallaci also calls attention to the new and concomitant Islamic “design based on gradual penetration rather than brutal and sudden aggression.”)
Oriana was my hero(ine).
When it comes to “submission” plans of soft jihad for the west, we seem overly eagar to bend over and spread ‘em for Tariq, CAIR and the entire convoluted crowd.
Islam is a rather boring religion, as religions go. But on determination, those folks get an A+.
Hillary and Barack seem right on board to assist the agenda.
…The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all
the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is
a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western
civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their
hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s
religion is made victorious over all other religions.
My ego doesn’t like admitting that anyone else is smarter than I am. That’s utterly illogical, of course, but there it is. The thing is, when I listen to Tariq, I get this little pain in my brain, this feeling of fatigue. Why? Because I’m to stupid to keep up with the guy. There, I said it. Tariq Ramadan is triple-platinum brilliant and I could never beat him in an argument, because my brain is not as good as his is. Hey, this is kind of liberating. He is the Mozart of lying. Beware.
I meant to say I was “too stupid”, not “to stupid”. Guess I made that point pretty well.
Any intellecktewals out there who fall for Tariq’s blather about Islam being so reasonable “…there is in fact no confusion between the restraining authority of the religious and the civic independence of the individual, between the realm of dogma and that of reason.” are being conned, in the spirit of the Useful Idiot.
I think we have quite a few predominatly Muslim countries in the world, Tariq, including but not limited to Egypt where your grandfather founded the Muslim Brotherhood, that don’t exactly bear this out in practice.
The “religious” in Islam would not only restrain, but constrain your every living, breathing “civic” act and thought. Not to mention regulate your every day behaviors in the privacy of your own home.
“the immigration policies of Western countries and their social and urban policies,” which give “rise to vexatious, discriminatory, and unjust administrative measures.”
Wow, Saudi Arabia never does any of that, eh ?
Islam is the most mindlessly brutal, suffocating, dictatorial, misogynistic religion ever conceived — it is a religion of a thousand rules, that cover everything from how many times per day you must pray — to the exact sequence in which you must wash your body parts — to what foods you can or cannot eat — to the length of beard one must wear — to whom you may or may not associate — to what kind of businesses you can enter — and even in what manner your forehead must be pressed to the floor during prayer — just to name a few things.
It is unbelievably authoritarian — it demands the complete abandonment of all personal, private judgments about EVERYTHING. The rules that are issued are called “fatwa”. At IslamOnline, they have over 4,000 of these fatwa’s published. Go here and see for yourself:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?cid=1118742803355&pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar%2FPage%2FFatwaCounselE&iPage=1
It is absolutely no wonder to me that this religion is able to produce a seemingly unlimited number of homicidal maniacs to carry out suicide bombings and other terrorist acts. If I had to live under those kinds of mind-numbing rules, I’d probably go into a homicidal rage myself.
The notion that Islam is prepared for some sort of peaceful co-existence with the West is an utter and total lie. Only complete fools — like the ones that make up the administration of our Apologist-in-Chief — would entertain such a notion.
Morton Doodslag writes, “Of course we all know that Spain fought back fiercely and finally expelled the cancer, but Byzantium was lost to the West forever along with all the intellectual treasures, legacy, and loot withal.”
Spain did not just expel “the cancer” of Islam; Spain also expelled its most productive sector – its Jews. (Portugal did likewise a few years later.) And while the fall of Byzantium did result in “loot with[draw]al”, its intellectual treasures fortunately were not all lost. They simply moved west, especially Italy, thus adding intellectual fuel to the Renaissance.
While I totally agree that the expulsion of the Jews was a crime, its importance in Spanish history has been badly overstated. Much more important was the suppression of the Cortes and of autonomous local government by Charles V/Carlos Primero, which centralized Spanish government and made it unprecedentedly tyrannical, and the sudden formation of a worldwide empire – conquest of Mexico, of Peru, of Italy, annexation by marriage of the Burgundian lands, etc – by a society that was simply not prepared to deal with them. (Incidentally, the result of Carlos Primero’s destruction of Spanish local institutions was that the administrative model exported to the Spanish Americas was not the polycentric and moderately representative one of pre-1519 Castile, but the absolutist and tyrannical one of later Spain. The catastrophic results of this can be seen to this day.) From 1492 to the decline, every gifted Spaniard (and there were many) was drawn to military, political and ecclesiastical activity, and trade and manufacturing decreased instead of increasing. The empire then proved a kind of trap in disguise, because its defence – against Dutch insurgents, French aggressors, Venetian and even Papal intrigue, Turks, Barbary raiders, and even the occasional English pirate – cost more than the country could afford. That the conquest of the empire impoverished rather than enrich Spain is purely coincidental with the expulsion of the Jews and the Muslims, although of course it does nothing to contradict the Old Testament verse: “I will bless those who bless thee, and curse those who curse thee.” As a matter of fact, nearly every country in Europe expelled its Jews, or specific communities, sooner or later; the most relevant exception being the kingdom of Rome, ruled by the Pope. There Jews were harassed, but not persecuted, and as a result the Bene Romi community is the most ancient surviving Jewish community in the world, with families that claim descent, father to son, from the days of the Roman Empire.
There are two enemys within this subject. The CFR, and Islam. Both hate the Nation State of America based on Christian values.
MR. REHAB OF CAIR/Chicago RESPONDS TO POSTING ABOUT MR. RAMADAN
— On Wed, 4/7/10, Ahmed Rehab wrote:
From: Ahmed Rehab
Subject: RE: WEBSITE CONTACT FORM: UPDATE to prior note on that guy Ramadan
To: “golaysteve@ [ ]
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 3:17 PM
David Solway? Who’s that? Pajama’s Media is a ridiculously biased website. You should know better.
Ahmed M. Rehab
Executive Director
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago)
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Chicago, IL 60604
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From: CAIR-Chicago [mailto:info@cairchicago.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 4:55 PM
To: Ahmed Rehab
Subject: FW: WEBSITE CONTACT FORM: UPDATE to prior note on that guy Ramadan
Mr. Ramadan, you need to answer David Solway. Line by line. Word by word. Come clean. Use your appearance in Chicago to ‘fess up.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/tariq-ramadan-a-viper-in-our-midst-thanks-to-hillary-clinton/
Cordially Stephen of California
DEAREST ALL
Many statements adhere to unfounded and rhetorical misconception towards Islam. Judgmental as it is but scarce of facts about Islam and taking from distorted sources that mingles to distort Islam to the media. Thus many comments are irrelevant to Islam as Islam is put to justify the wrongs of others.
Comment must be mindful with intellectual standards and without ghastly emotion to provide wishful argument. None like these that we seek happened so far. We called ourselves civil, educated intellect, modernize and merits for civilization but just poise and ponder through in all the Pajamas TV comments, many are out of position to discuss with common sense but nonsense without factual reasoning only hypothetical thought with distinctively rouse emotion.
When looking at things not in proper perspective but wearing a dark spectacle and looking at it, evaluation towards it will be according to the view of the dark spectacle. That’s the Islam that you seek, your viewpoint is tainted.
Thus a summary with valor to ALL
Meditation in God is my capital.
Reason and sound logic is the root of my religion.
Love is the foundation of my existence.
Enthusiasm is the vehicle of my life.
Contemplation in God is my companion
Faith is the source of my strength.
Sorrow is my friend.
Knowledge is my weapon.
Patience is my garb and virtues.
Submission to the Divine Will is my pride.
Truth is my salvation.
Worship is my habit.
And in prayer lies the coolness of my eye and peace of mind
The best of God’s servants are those who when seen remind you of God and the worst of God’s servants are those who spread tales to do mischief and separate friends, and look for the faults of the good
What bullsh*t!
You better start following Mohammed, or call yourself something elce. Plus, there is only one G-d, and he was murdered for mankinds sin, then rose from the dead. Only through Christ can a person live forever, not through works.
CAIR is an enemy of America, and so is Islam.
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