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Enlightenment sometimes reveals itself from an unanticipated direction.
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It does doesn't it
I was pretty much focused on what Bakri and Choudary were saying and didn't really pay much attention to the others...
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What I found interesting is that the basic ideas, goals and objectives {Sharia} of the Taliban, or say AQ, are no different from those championed by the Islamic Circle of North America, or the Hizb ut-Tahrir.
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/real/ht/HT.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jbnn2qKJ3o
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org...pub_detail.asp
The same totalitarian political ideology that seeks to exterminate us culturally and physically, espoused from the mouth of Bakri and Choudary, are no different from the ideological stance Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf embraces and advocates.
Terrorism is an intrinsic and inseparable part of Islam and the only option for defeating it, or keeping it in check, is to undermine it by a slow process of ideological warfare, similar in the way we undermined communism and Nazism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT8s1a1E4nk
IMO, Self flagellation, apologia, and appeasement didn’t work in the past, and it won’t work now - it only serves to embolden.