July 18, 2005
The Lady That Osama And All The Other Islamo-Fascists Fear!
The so called "Lipstick Lesbian" Irshad Manji is a Canadian television "Talking Head" who wrote The Trouble With Islam. In the UK Sunday Times she gives an interview with some depth as to her beliefs. This interview needs to be read in its entirety by anyone who is interested in how the west is perceived by radical islamo-fascists. A sample:
If we are at fault for not encouraging Muslims, they fail to “celebrate the precious gift†of British freedom: “Why do they protest against France for making it illegal to wear hijabs, but not against Saudi Arabia for making it illegal not to wear them?â€Â; more Muslims, she contends, have been killed in recent years by fellow Muslims than by westerners.Read the whole thing.Manji thinks Muslims should take tolerant parts of the Koran and ignore the hellfire. Does this, I ask, include Koranic references to “lewd acts†of homosexuality? She offers counter examples of its tolerance but they seem faintly absurd  should it matter what a bunch of people over a millennium ago made of homosexuality, or indeed anything else? She, not unlike the fundamentalists, picks and chooses the bits that suit her.
The state has a dilemma: to encourage moderate Islam  absurdities and all  or shirk from interfering, which will let extremists blossom. Isn’t a key problem of Islam that it has no structure? Any Church of England vicar calling for a jihad would receive a pretty sharp summons to Lambeth palace; imams are autonomous. “Yes, decentralisation would be good if it encouraged people to debate. But instead people just cower to their local imam.â€Â
She excuses Blair glossing over violent aspects of Islam as “he is only trying to divert a backlash against Muslims, bless him†but she despises the Muslim Council for not coming clean. “Even if Muslims are only interested in slick PR, it would be a great move to recognise the problem; it would spread trust. And I am not asking them to do anything Jews and Christians haven’t done.â€Â
A doff of the GM Chapeaux to Glen Reynolds
Posted by GM Roper at July 18, 2005 06:16 AM | TrackBackThe Lady That Osama And All The Other Islamo-Fascists Fear!---GMR
Surely you jest. On-point as Ms.Manji happens to be in her critiques of Islam and particularly of fundamentalist Islamic 'thought', she is a marginal figure at best.
How can you say that someone who is FEMALE, secular, westernized, and oh yes a LESBIAN, in any meaningful way has any influence on the death cult that has infested Islam? Do you have any evidence that she impacts anyone other than sympathetic non-Muslim Westerners,and a narrow minority of secularists within Islam itself?
Islam is NOT disposed by its very nature to be sympatico with secularism . Islam is the WAY, not merely an optional signpost ,and in many Islamic countries Ms.Manji would likely be in serious danger and subject to 'official' Islamic fatwas if not for her 'immorality', then for her 'doubting' of Islam.
I very much doubt that Osama is shaking in his boots over her affect on that 'vast majority 'of MODERATE Muslims. Moderation in Islamic thought is a very relative term,and those 'moderate' Muslims are rapidly approaching the status of mythical figures, as unhappily Ms.Manji herself comes very close to admitting.
Posted by dougf at July 18, 2005 05:25 PM
I think they fear Hirsi Ali a lot more. She knows what buttons to push with them. Courage or foolishness; I admire her.
Posted by Oyster at July 18, 2005 09:45 PM
