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	<title>Comments on: Soft-jihad: how it works, or: three cheers for the terrier instinct</title>
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		<title>By: Carter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It’s bizarre how Mr. Kimball can repeatedly discuss certain topics without mentioning immigration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s bizarre how Mr. Kimball can repeatedly discuss certain topics without mentioning immigration.</p>
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		<title>By: A. Kievalar</title>
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		<dc:creator>A. Kievalar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Daniel Pipes, the redoubtable and astute commentator on (what he calls) Islamism or militant Islam, has for years warned us about “soft Jihad”, the pernicious incursion of Islam (and eventually Islamism) into Western societies by lawful means.

In other words, for example, if even a tiny fraction of US employers are forced to privilege Muslim employees so that they can perform their prayers 5 times a day at the workplace regardless of job requirements, basically forcing non-Moslem employees to do their jobs for them during these periods of religious observance, that is a victory of sorts for the Islamists.  

A victory because the idea is that eventually, ALL work places in the US will be “mandated” to accept this practice, much as they have been required to accept “affirmative action” in the name of the baneful mantras of “fairness, equality and (ugh) multiculturalism”.

Nevertheless, the danger of Islam, I’ve come to believe, has been overstated or at the very least misinterpreted - badly.  (I believe that Russia continues to  pose a far greater existential danger to the “US way of life”, in the long run, than Islam or Islamism ever could). 

Almost without a doubt, what we are witnessing is not the “rebirth” or the “resurgence” of Islam to any significant degree.  In fact, what we are witnessing are the last days of Islam.  

Islam, for example, is not the fastest growing religion in Africa or anywhere else….Christianity is.  That is to say, new “converts” to Islam are very few and far between.  

True, there are many more Moslems today than 30 years ago (just as there are more mosques)….but that’s also true that there are many more Christians, so it is a false and specious argument to declare that “Islam is growing” without finishing the argument that that is true of every other religion too.

That is not to say that a dying Islam isn’t dangerous.  It is precisely BECAUSE it is disintegrating that it is dangerous, not because it is “growing”.

If you believe this as I do, that leads to all kinds of important ramifications.  For example, it is really a waste of time to “learn” Arabic.  If you want your children to be prepared for the future, they really better become proficient in Russian.

In my forthcoming book (unwritten as yet), I plan to show why the entire Islamic “question” has been out of kilter with what’s really taking place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daniel Pipes, the redoubtable and astute commentator on (what he calls) Islamism or militant Islam, has for years warned us about “soft Jihad”, the pernicious incursion of Islam (and eventually Islamism) into Western societies by lawful means.</p>
<p>In other words, for example, if even a tiny fraction of US employers are forced to privilege Muslim employees so that they can perform their prayers 5 times a day at the workplace regardless of job requirements, basically forcing non-Moslem employees to do their jobs for them during these periods of religious observance, that is a victory of sorts for the Islamists.  </p>
<p>A victory because the idea is that eventually, ALL work places in the US will be “mandated” to accept this practice, much as they have been required to accept “affirmative action” in the name of the baneful mantras of “fairness, equality and (ugh) multiculturalism”.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the danger of Islam, I’ve come to believe, has been overstated or at the very least misinterpreted &#8211; badly.  (I believe that Russia continues to  pose a far greater existential danger to the “US way of life”, in the long run, than Islam or Islamism ever could). </p>
<p>Almost without a doubt, what we are witnessing is not the “rebirth” or the “resurgence” of Islam to any significant degree.  In fact, what we are witnessing are the last days of Islam.  </p>
<p>Islam, for example, is not the fastest growing religion in Africa or anywhere else….Christianity is.  That is to say, new “converts” to Islam are very few and far between.  </p>
<p>True, there are many more Moslems today than 30 years ago (just as there are more mosques)….but that’s also true that there are many more Christians, so it is a false and specious argument to declare that “Islam is growing” without finishing the argument that that is true of every other religion too.</p>
<p>That is not to say that a dying Islam isn’t dangerous.  It is precisely BECAUSE it is disintegrating that it is dangerous, not because it is “growing”.</p>
<p>If you believe this as I do, that leads to all kinds of important ramifications.  For example, it is really a waste of time to “learn” Arabic.  If you want your children to be prepared for the future, they really better become proficient in Russian.</p>
<p>In my forthcoming book (unwritten as yet), I plan to show why the entire Islamic “question” has been out of kilter with what’s really taking place.</p>
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		<title>By: Polemicscat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Polemicscat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The failure to understand jihad didn&#039;t begin with Bush; it is symptomatic of the difference between Islamic and western habits of mind.  Liberals and many others in the West think if we are nice to muslims they will abandon a thousand-year-old cultural mindset overnight.  Trifkovic&#039;s Defeating Jihad has an excellent discussion of this failure of West to understand the roots of jihad. Our multicultural and politically correct nonsense is the manure that jihad needed to sprout to full growth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The failure to understand jihad didn&#8217;t begin with Bush; it is symptomatic of the difference between Islamic and western habits of mind.  Liberals and many others in the West think if we are nice to muslims they will abandon a thousand-year-old cultural mindset overnight.  Trifkovic&#8217;s Defeating Jihad has an excellent discussion of this failure of West to understand the roots of jihad. Our multicultural and politically correct nonsense is the manure that jihad needed to sprout to full growth.</p>
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		<title>By: Chip</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry for the typos in my first post.    

Wouldn&#039;t it be nice if the US media seemed even slightly interested in the biggest threat to free speech since...ever?

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20080723_27859_27859&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;covers&lt;/a&gt; most everything I&#039;ve been worried about for a few years now.

I hope that HTML works.  PJM could use a preview function.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for the typos in my first post.    </p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if the US media seemed even slightly interested in the biggest threat to free speech since&#8230;ever?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20080723_27859_27859" rel="nofollow">covers</a> most everything I&#8217;ve been worried about for a few years now.</p>
<p>I hope that HTML works.  PJM could use a preview function.</p>
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		<title>By: Lefroy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lefroy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t want to be depressing, but let&#039;s just hope these awful bastards don&#039;t get their hands on a bomb. For 50 years we and the Russkies eyed each other off but there was never much risk that the Americans or the Fedora-hatted brutes in the Kremlin were going to press the button.

Psychotic fruitcakes like Bin Laden regard turning New York or London into toast as the highest good. The president of Iran would probably like to help - a global firestorm will hasten the return of the 12th Imam.

Why can&#039;t people like Bin Laden be seen for what they are - sociopaths with a killing fantasy; improving the world by mass-slaughter, just like Hitler and Stalin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t want to be depressing, but let&#8217;s just hope these awful bastards don&#8217;t get their hands on a bomb. For 50 years we and the Russkies eyed each other off but there was never much risk that the Americans or the Fedora-hatted brutes in the Kremlin were going to press the button.</p>
<p>Psychotic fruitcakes like Bin Laden regard turning New York or London into toast as the highest good. The president of Iran would probably like to help &#8211; a global firestorm will hasten the return of the 12th Imam.</p>
<p>Why can&#8217;t people like Bin Laden be seen for what they are &#8211; sociopaths with a killing fantasy; improving the world by mass-slaughter, just like Hitler and Stalin.</p>
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		<title>By: srlucado</title>
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		<dc:creator>srlucado</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unfortunately, this problem starts at the top.  The President set the stage with that &quot;religion of peace&quot; nonsense (Islam is more politics than religion, and violence is its oxygen), and it&#039;s trickled down.  

And sure enough, anyone who doesn&#039;t buy into the idea that this mass-murdering is just the result of some simple misunderstandings is seen as a fanatic, worse than the terrorists.  

Argh.

Scott</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, this problem starts at the top.  The President set the stage with that &#8220;religion of peace&#8221; nonsense (Islam is more politics than religion, and violence is its oxygen), and it&#8217;s trickled down.  </p>
<p>And sure enough, anyone who doesn&#8217;t buy into the idea that this mass-murdering is just the result of some simple misunderstandings is seen as a fanatic, worse than the terrorists.  </p>
<p>Argh.</p>
<p>Scott</p>
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		<title>By: Chip</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Given the headlines of the past few days you&#039;d have to be pretty stupid to consider Muslims to be just like old Methodist women at a pot luck.  But suicidal multiculturalism is nothing if not legally-enforced supidity.  

Notice none of the news stories covering serial bombings in India (dozens), Iraq (several), or Pakistan (several) mention the victims are all civilians or women and children.  The media continues their triumphal coverage of jihadi murders, always reporting the number of killed as if they fight back.  Whereas even remote packs of mujahideen killed in Afghanistan will ususally be described as a wedding or civilians before the truth creeps in days later and without any headlines.  

The media not only supports the global jihad, but is its primary weapon.  The attacks we&#039;ve seen the last few days have little or no tactical and strategic value without the triumphal media coverage.  The media even paints the Muslim attackers as poor victims of economic exploitation just in case someone notice the 11,500+ fatal attacks by Muslims since 2001.

Enjoy the bubble of freedom while it lasts, which won&#039;t be much longer.  Your take on America simply doesn&#039;t hold water in light of the media, higher education, and even the corporate world surrendering to the global jihad, Islamic supremacist and legal division.  Institutions from the Pentagon to the Anglican Church are giving up so fast it make my head spin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Given the headlines of the past few days you&#8217;d have to be pretty stupid to consider Muslims to be just like old Methodist women at a pot luck.  But suicidal multiculturalism is nothing if not legally-enforced supidity.  </p>
<p>Notice none of the news stories covering serial bombings in India (dozens), Iraq (several), or Pakistan (several) mention the victims are all civilians or women and children.  The media continues their triumphal coverage of jihadi murders, always reporting the number of killed as if they fight back.  Whereas even remote packs of mujahideen killed in Afghanistan will ususally be described as a wedding or civilians before the truth creeps in days later and without any headlines.  </p>
<p>The media not only supports the global jihad, but is its primary weapon.  The attacks we&#8217;ve seen the last few days have little or no tactical and strategic value without the triumphal media coverage.  The media even paints the Muslim attackers as poor victims of economic exploitation just in case someone notice the 11,500+ fatal attacks by Muslims since 2001.</p>
<p>Enjoy the bubble of freedom while it lasts, which won&#8217;t be much longer.  Your take on America simply doesn&#8217;t hold water in light of the media, higher education, and even the corporate world surrendering to the global jihad, Islamic supremacist and legal division.  Institutions from the Pentagon to the Anglican Church are giving up so fast it make my head spin.</p>
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