extremism bro?
you'd need to find sane people who could define the term before handing them the responsibility to arrest your brothers.
talk about hiring a ravenous fox to investigate the chicken coop - or the wolf to take the sheep out to graze!
the rand report (something the us government relies on) and contest 2 (something the uk government almost passed) speak volumes;
according to these delusional psychopaths - real muslims are "extremist muslims"
and disbelievers with muslim names are "moderate Muslims".
According to a draft of the strategy, Contest 2 as it is known in Whitehall, people would be considered as extremists if:
• They advocate a caliphate, a pan-Islamic state encompassing many countries.
• They promote Sharia law.
• They believe in jihad, or armed resistance, anywhere in the world. This would include armed resistance by Palestinians against the Israeli military.
• They argue that Islam bans homosexuality and that it is a sin against Allah.
• They fail to condemn the killing of British soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan.
In the December 2004 study, Rabasa (lead writer of the rand report) had suggested to exploit Sunni, Shiite and Arab, non-Arab divides to promote US policy objectives in the Muslim world. Echoing this theme, the latest report recommends reaching out to Muslim activists, leaders and intellectuals in non-Arab countries such as Turkey as well as in Southeast Asia and Europe.
The report recommends targeting five groups as potential building blocks for networks: liberal and secular Muslim academics and intellectuals; young moderate religious scholars; community activists; women’s groups engaged in gender equality campaigns; and moderate journalists and scholars.
The report warned that "moderate groups" can lose credibility–and therefore effectiveness–if U.S. support is too obvious.
Effective tactics that worked during the Cold War include
having the groups led by "credible" individuals
and having the United States maintain some distance from the organizations it supports.
“This was done by not micro-managing the groups, but by giving them enough autonomy,” Rabasa said.“As long as certain guidelines were met, they were free to pursue their own activities.”
To help start this initiative, the report recommends working toward an international conference modeled in the Cold War-era Congress of Cultural Freedom, and then developing a standing organization to combat what it called radical Islamism.
The recent summit, termed the “Secular Islam Conference,” in St. Petersburg, Florida, almost coincided with the release of the latest Rand Report. A small group of self-proclaimed secular Muslims from North America and elsewhere gathered in St. Petersburg for what they billed a new global movement to correct the assumed wrongs of Islam and call for an “Islamic Reformation.”
The St. Petersburg conference, held on the sidelines of the Intelligence Summit, was carried live on (Islamophobe) Glenn Beck’s CNN show. Some of the organizers and speakers at the convention were well-known thanks to the media spotlight:
Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble With Islam,
and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliamentarian and author of Infidel
were but a few there claiming to have suffered personally at the hands of “radical” Islam.
One participant, Wafa Sultan, declared on Glenn Beck’s show that
she doesn’t “see any difference between radical Islam and regular Islam.”
Other participants were the now public ex-Muslim Ibn Warraq and self-proclaimed ex-terrorist Tawfiq Hamid.
Surely, the “moderate” Muslim agenda is promoted because these ideas reflect a Western vision for the future of Islam.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, everyone from high-ranking officials in the Bush administration
to anti-Islam authors have prescribed a preferred remedy for Islam: reform the faith.
The Rand Reports about Islam appear to be part of a grand strategy to
“change the face of Islam” as revealed by US News and World Report on April 15, 2005.
The report entitled Hearts, Minds, and Dollars:
In an Unseen Front in the War on Terrorism, America is Spending Millions…To Change the Very Face of Islam–reads:
“From military psychological-operations teams and CIA covert operatives to openly-funded media and think tanks, Washington is plowing tens of millions of dollars into a campaign to influence not only Muslim societies but Islam itself.”
According to the well-planned leaks to US News and World Report,
this strategy for the first time stated that the United States has a national security interest in influencing what happens within Islam.
The report also confirmed that it is, in fact, the US which has been funding an American version of Islam, called “Moderate Islam.”
The Rand reports try to create a fictitious vision of Muslims and of Islam, where it is antihuman, uncreative, authoritarian, and intrinsically against Western societies. It is an ethnocentric view of Islam that dominates current representations of Islam that are reductive, predominantly negative, and encouraging a culture of Islamophobia.
O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you.
They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse.
We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom.
Quran 3:118
