As I read the speech, I agreed with some parts, and I disagreed with others but there were certain portions of the speech that shocked me, yes, shocked me! ! ! ! I had to re-read the speech, because I just could not believe what I was reading. This time around, I used a ruler and highlighter to mark the most shocking portions of Tony Blair’s foreign policy speech.
Below you will find the most shocking of Blair’s statements. If you are a person that has spent a goodly amount of time studying islam and you have come to the conclusion that islam be confronted in whatever manner necessary, you should make sure you are sitting down or maybe stretched out on the bed because I am sure this will make you quite faint.
To read the full speech, go here: http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page9224.asp
Brace yourselves:
1. I also acknowledge - and shall at a later time expand on this point - that the state of the MEPP [Middle East Peace Process-ed. A.I.], and the stand-off between Israel and Palestine remains a, perhaps the, real, genuine source of anger in the Arab and Muslim world that goes far beyond usual anti-western feeling. The issue of "even handedness" rankles deeply. I will set out later how we should respond to Hamas in a way that acknowledges its democratic mandate but seeks to make progress peacefully.
2. I want to stress why this concept of an international community, based on core, shared values, prepared actively to intervene and resolve problems, is an essential pre-condition of our future prosperity and stability.
3. There is an interesting debate going on inside government today about how to counter extremism in British communities. Ministers have been advised never to use the term "Islamist extremist". It will give offence. It is true. It will. There are those - perfectly decent-minded people - who say the extremists who commit these acts of terrorism are not true Muslims. And, of course, they are right. They are no more proper Muslims than the Protestant bigot who murders a Catholic in Northern Ireland is a proper Christian. But, unfortunately, he is still a "Protestant" bigot. To say his religion is irrelevant is both completely to misunderstand his motive and to refuse to face up to the strain of extremism within his religion that has given rise to it.
4. This terrorism will not be defeated until its ideas, the poison that warps the minds of its adherents, are confronted, head-on, in their essence, at their core. By this I don't mean telling them terrorism is wrong. I mean telling them their attitude to America is absurd; their concept of governance pre-feudal; their positions on women and other faiths, reactionary and regressive; and then since only by Muslims can this be done: standing up for and supporting those within Islam who will tell them all of this but more, namely that the extremist view of Islam is not just theologically backward but completely contrary to the spirit and teaching of the Koran.
5. The roots of global terrorism and extremism are indeed deep. They reach right down through decades of alienation, victimhood and political oppression in the Arab and Muslim world. Yet this is not and never has been inevitable. The most remarkable thing about reading the Koran - in so far as it can be truly translated from the original Arabic - is to understand how progressive it is. I speak with great diffidence and humility as a member of another faith. I am not qualified to make any judgements. But as an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, rather as reformers attempted with the Christian Church centuries later. It is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and way ahead of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance.
6. Under its guidance, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands was breathtaking. Over centuries it founded an Empire, leading the world in discovery, art and culture. The standard bearers of tolerance in the early Middle Ages were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian.
7. Which brings me to the fundamental point. "We" is not the West. "We" are as much Muslim as Christian or Jew or Hindu. "We" are those who believe in religious tolerance, openness to others, to democracy, liberty and human rights administered by secular courts.
8. This is not a clash between civilisations. It is a clash about civilisation. It is the age-old battle between progress and reaction, between those who embrace and see opportunity in the modern world and those who reject its existence; between optimism and hope on the one hand; and pessimism and fear on the other.
9. Across the Arab and Muslim world such a struggle for democracy and liberty continues. One reason I am so passionate about Turkey's membership of the EU is precisely because it enhances the possibility of a good outcome to such a struggle. It should be our task to empower and support those in favour of uniting Islam and democracy, everywhere.
10. The extremism is not the true voice of Islam. Neither is that voice necessarily to be found in those who are from one part only of Islamic thought, however assertively that voice makes itself heard. It is, as ever, to be found in the calm, but too often unheard beliefs of the many Muslims, millions of them the world over, including in Europe, who want what we all want: to be ourselves free and for others to be free also; who regard tolerance as a virtue and respect for the faith of others as part of our own faith. That is what this battle is about, within Islam and outside of it; it is a battle of values and progress; and therefore it is one we must win.
Are you OK?!?
Have you recovered ?!?
Amazing is it not?!?
I hereby declare that Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britian is a dhimmi. You are not familiar with this word or what it means?!? Let me help you, below is a defenition of dhimmitude, a dhimmi and dhimmi behavior. You can find more information on this at JihadWatch.org ( http://www.jihadwatch.org/) .
“Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the legal superstructure that global jihadists are laboring to restore everywhere in the Islamic world, and wish ultimately to impose on the entire human race.
If dhimmis complained about their inferior status, institutionalized humiliation, or poverty, their masters voided their contract and regarded them as enemies of Islam, fair game as objects of violence. Consequently, dhimmis were generally cowed into silence and worse. It was almost unheard-of to find dhimmis speaking out against their oppressors; to do so would have been suicide. For centuries dhimmi communities in the Islamic world learned to live in peace with their Muslim overlords by acquiescing to their subservience. Some even actively identified with the dominant class, and became strenuous advocates for it.
Spearheaded by dhimmi academics and self-serving advocacy groups, that same attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, school textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today. To do so would endanger chances for peace and rapprochement between civilizations all too ready to clash.”
1) The Muslim & Arab world’s anger at the West is because of the Israeli – Palestinian issue?!? Could it possibly be because of what Muslims believe and have been taught since the cradle?!?
Qur’an 2:61 “Humiliation and wretchedness were stamped on the Jews and they were visited with Allah’s wrath.”
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YUSUFALI: And remember ye said: "O Moses! we cannot endure one kind of food (always); so beseech thy Lord for us to produce for us of what the earth groweth, -its pot-herbs, and cucumbers, Its garlic, lentils, and onions." He said: "Will ye exchange the better for the worse? Go ye down to any town, and ye shall find what ye want!" They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath of Allah. This because they went on rejecting the Signs of Allah and slaying His Messengers without just cause. This because they rebelled and went on transgressing.
PICKTHAL: And when ye said: O Moses! We are weary of one kind of food; so call upon thy Lord for us that He bring forth for us of that which the earth groweth - of its herbs and its cucumbers and its corn and its lentils and its onions. He said: Would ye exchange that which is higher for that which is lower? Go down to settled country, thus ye shall get that which ye demand. And humiliation and wretchedness were stamped upon them and they were visited with wrath from Allah. That was because they disbelieved in Allah's revelations and slew the prophets wrongfully. That was for their disobedience and transgression.
SHAKIR: And when you said: O Musa! we cannot bear with one food, therefore pray Lord on our behalf to bring forth for us out of what the earth grows, of its herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions. He said: Will you exchange that which is better for that which is worse? Enter a city, so you will have what you ask for. And abasement and humiliation were brought down upon them, and they became deserving of Allah's wrath; this was so because they disbelieved in the communications of Allah and killed the prophets unjustly; this was so because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.
Qur’an 2:64 “But you [Jews] went back on your word and were lost losers. So become apes, despised and hated. We made an example out of you.
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YUSUFALI: But ye turned back thereafter: Had it not been for the Grace and Mercy of Allah to you, ye had surely been among the lost.
PICKTHAL: Then, even after that, ye turned away, and if it had not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy ye had been among the losers.
SHAKIR: Then you turned back after that; so were it not for the grace of Allah and His mercy on you, you would certainly have been among the losers.
The first Jew, a Jewish poet at that, to be killed by a Muslim at the command of Mohammad was K’ab bin Al-Ashraf because he composed uncomplimentary verses insulting Muslim women. Al-Ashraf’s was killed by Muhammad bin Maslama.
2) You want to solve world problems with peoples that share core values?!? What kind of core values do you think the West has with Islam ?!? We don’t have any core values that are similar, even their definition of freedom is different:
a. Freedom, according to Webster’s Dictionary:
i. The quality or state of being free, as:
1. The absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action
2. Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another: INDEPENDENCE
3. The quality or state of being exempt or released usu. From something onerous
4. Ease, facility
5. The quality of being frank, open or outspoken
6. Improper familiarity
7. Boldness of conception or execution
8. Unrestricted use
ii. A political right
1. Franchise, privilege
b. Freedom - Hurriyya, according to Ibn Arabi (d. 1240, the “Greatest Sufi Master)
i. Hurriyya (freedom): “being perfect slavery”.
3) Thinking that the evil act of a Christian person, an act that is against the very foundations of Christianity as laid down by Jesus Christ, is somehow identical to an act committed by a Muslim because Allah has commanded it.
I mean come on, how much more obvious can Blair’s ignorance be?!? He claims he has read or is reading the Qur’an, has he not yet arrived at these passages?!? Is Blair, on purpose, disregarding the violence in the Qur’an?!? Is Blair, on purpose, shilling for Muslims like a good dhimmi?!?
Qur’an 2:216 “Jihad (holy fighting in Allah’s Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims), though you dislike it. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and like a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knows, and you know not.” [Another translation reads:] “Warfare is ordained for you.”
Qur’an 47:4 “So, when you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah’s Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (them based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.”
4) As my excerpts from the Qur’an demonstrate (those are not all that are available), it will be pretty damned difficult to convince Muslims that they have been taught (considering that many Muslims are illiterate and that they actually don’t read the Qur’an but they chant it in Arabic) wrong by their imams, ayatollahs, clerics. The Qur’an is full of hate towards the infidels and anyone that has studied it just a bit would realize it and quickly.
Therefore, Tony Blair is either a dhimmi that is shilling for his Muslim Overlords or he is a liar because I simply refuse to believe that a man that intelligent would not grasp the evil that is at the root of the Qur’an.
5) Once again, Islamic Terrorism is not caused by:
a. Alienation
b. Victim hood
c. Political oppression
Islamic Terrorists are usually:
d. Well educated, or on the way to being well educated.
e. They are usually from families that are considered to be well off, perhaps not by American standards but by the standards of their individual nations they certainly are.
i. Usama Bin Laden
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
ii. Ayman al-Zawahiri
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_Zawahiri
iii. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarqawi
How were these men alienated?!?
In what way were they victimized?!?
Were they politically oppressed?!?
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! ! !
They had good educations, they had money, and they knew very well what Islam called for. It is their foot soldiers, the ones that are illiterate that are not educated and victims of Islam.
Yes, the foot soldiers, the dirt poor Muslims are politically oppressed, and the women ohhh the women are oppressed in so many ways it is almost unimaginable. Not by the West but by Islam. Islam & Allah demand for the people to be slaves; it is Islam & Allah that are the oppressors.
How can Tony Blair stand there and say that the Qur'an cannot be translated enough to understand that it says to kill the infidel?!?
How about waging jihad until everyone believes in Allah?!?
What about subjugating the masses of people that are not willing to convert and must have the status of dhimmi and pay their jizya regularly or their safety would not be guaranteed?!?
How dare Tony Blair speak of the Qur'an as a "reforming book"?!?
Reforming Judaism & Christianity to what?!?
Reforming Judaism & Christianity to a "religion" of 'head choppers' (think Nick Berg)?!?
Reforming Judaism & Christianity to a "religion" of "a woman is only worth ½ that of a man" ?!?
Reform both Christians and Jews into mujahedeen that will wage jihad on Hindus, Buddhists, and other religions of the world that are not Islam?!?
Does he want Judaism & Christianity reformed into a "religion" that engages in the gouging of eyes, chopping off of hands & feet, flogging women that were raped, female genital mutilation, wife beating (because Allah said you could)?!?
Is this what Tony Blair wants when he talks about the Qur'an being a reforming book?!?
What is wrong with him?!?
Is he so ignorant of what Islam really is?!?
Why is Tony Blair shilling for Islam in such a desperate way?!?
There are really only a finite number of reasons for it and diplo speak is not one of them. Tony Blair is a dhimmi or he has converted. Neither one of the reasons bode ill, if he has converted he should be honest about it so people can take what he says and has said with a grain of salt.
If he is a dhimmi, the question arises about whether or not he is now consciously working to prepare Great Britain for further steps in their dhimmification.
http://www.1001inventions.com
The above link to the 1001 Muslim Inventions, I believe is just another step in that dhimmification process, it is making people feel comfortable with Islam trying to make people believe that Islam is not really so bad, because the daily doses of the atrocities committed by Islam's adherents speak loudly and clearly.
How can Tony Blair say that the Qur'an is inclusive when infidels cannot read the Qur'an. Just remember back to the Qur'an incident at Gitmo and how our soldiers had to handle the Qur'an while wearing gloves. The infidel is not good enough to even handle the Qur'an with bare hands.
6) Aye, its conquest by jihad was breathtaking. It was violent, viscious and unrelenting.
Below you shall find a poem excerpted in total from “The Legacy of Jihad, Islamic Holy War & the fate of Non-Muslims” edited by Andrew G. Bostom, MD (page 50 & 51). Read it carefully, the poem contains a wealth of information of how jihad was waged and what was done in celebration a successful jihad campaign.
“A contemporary poem by Solomon ha-Kohen b. Joseph, believe to be a descendant of the Geonim, an illustrious family of Palestinian Jewish religious leaders, speaks of destruction and ruin, the burning of harvests, the razing of plantations, the desecration of cemeteries, and acts of violence, slaughter and plunder:
They were a strange and cruel people, girt with garments of many colors,
Armed and officered-chiefs among ‘the horrible ones’
And capped with helmets, black and red,
With bow and spear and full quivers;
And they trumpet like elephants, and roar as the roaring ocean,
To terrify, to frighten those who oppose them,
And they are wicked men and sinners, madmen, not sane,
And they laid waste the cities, and they were made desolate
And they rejoiced in their hearts, hoping to inherit.
He [God] also remembered what they had done to the people of Jerusalem,
That they had besieged them twice in two years,
And burned the heaped corn and destroyed the places,
And cut down the trees and trampled upon the vineyards,
And surrounded the city upon the high mountains,
And despoiled the graves and threw out the bones,
And built palaces, to protect themselves against the heat,
And erected an altar to slay upon it the abominations;
And the men and the women ride upont the walls,
Crying unto the God of gods, to quiet the great anger,
Standing the whole night, banishing sleep,
While the enemy destroy, evening and morning,
And break down the whole earth, and lay bare the ground,
And stand on the highways, intending to slay like Cain,
And cut off the ears, and also the nose,
And rob the garments, leaving them stand naked,
And also roar like lions, and roar like young lions;
They do not resemble men, they are like beasts,
And also harlots and adulterers, and they inflame themselves with males,
They are bad and wicked and spiteful as Sodomites.
And they impoverished the sons of nobles, and starved the delicately bred.
And all the people of the city went out and cried in the field,
And covered their lips, silent in their pains,
And they had no mercy on widows, and pitied not the orphans.”
http://www.andrewbostom.org/
B.S. The tolerance only existed after the lands were purged of Christians and Jews were invited to take their place because infidels needed to be around in order to support their Muslim overlords and pay their jizya.
7) "WE" are people that have built democracies founded on Judeo-Christian principles, it does not include Muslims because they reject both Judaism and Christianity in total.
Muslims do not even have the same definition for "FREEDOM"! ! ! (See response #2 for definition of freedom found in Islam)
Muslims are SLAVES to Allah! ! !
Jews & Christians are the BELOVED CHILDREN of GOD! ! !
8) I have to agree with Tony Blair on one point:
"This is not a clash between civilizations."
He is correct when he says that this "war" is not a "clash between civilizations" but he is correct for the wrong reasons. Islam has no civilization, it is a death cult and has been since its very beginnings.
Islam is like a parasitic organism that infects its host and over time it kills this host. That's it, in a nutshell. Just take a look at how the parasite that we know is Islam has invaded Eurabia, and has over the last 30 or so years slowly bring it to the shape it is in now.
Read:
a. Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye'or
b. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer
Islam can never embrace modernity because it is founded on what Allah said and what Allah inspired. Those two things are immutable.
I do not define modernity as having two computers, five television sets, several cell phones, etc. those things are creature comforts and not the "embrace of modernity" that Islam and Muslims must do.
9) Democracy in the Middle East will usher in Islamic governments, such as found in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
Click here to see more on this phenomenon that will be ushered in by “Democracy in the Middle East”.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/010115.php
10) Extremism is the true voice of Islam, as the many quotations from the Qur’an have demonstrated above. There is no such thing as a “moderate” Muslim, there are only good Muslims and Apostates. Apostates will remain silent, because Islam calls for their death. See no one leaves Islam once they have once been a Muslim.
The most recent example of the true voice of Islam is the ongoing saga of Abdul Rahman, a Christian convert an Apostate of Islam.
Read the explanation provided by renowned Muslim intellectual Shahnawaz Farooqui of how the death sentence for apostasy is not wrong and it definitely is not extreme:
"Religious aspects Apart from the serious political implications, Rahman's case raises some thorny religious issues, with non-Muslims questioning how it can be acceptable for people of other faiths to convert to Islam, but not the other way round.
"It is more of an ontological debate than anything," said renowned Muslim intellectual Shahnawaz Farooqui. "If somebody tries to practice his religion or faith, Muslim society will not stop him or pressurize him to change his faith. Nobody is allowed to even motivate a non-Muslim to change his religion. However, discourse is allowed. After such discourse, if somebody feels they want to embrace Islam, it is allowed," Shahnawaz said.
However, for a Muslim to change his religion, "he will have to be executed because it is related to an ontological debate".
"If somebody at one point affirms the truth [belief in God] and then rejects it or denies it, it would jeopardize the whole paradigm of truth. This is such a big offense that the penalty can only be death."
Execution for apostasy has been accepted in Muslim society from the times of the Prophet Mohammed, and there is no difference among the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, be they Hanafi, Malaki, Shaafai, Hanbli or Jafari (Shi'ite). "
At the very most, some scholars argue that the person should be given time to rethink, and if he embraces Islam again, he will be forgiven," said Shahnawaz. "
I saw President Bush's statement in which he asked to honor the universal principle of freedom. This is not a question of social liberty or social rights or freedom, this is a question for the affirmation of truth and nobody will be allowed to distort the truth. No society can give people the right to distort the truth or play around with it. As far as execution is concerned, I have the same questions for the West," Shahnawaz maintained. "
Pope Urban II, while standing in a church in 1095, called Islam a satanic religion. He called the followers of Islam wicked and then called that those wicked people should be eliminated. That sermon was the start of the crusade to eliminate Muslims and continued for 200 years in which Muslim territories were attacked and people were massacred. Why was that?
"Because somebody evolved in his mind a philosophy of truth and then reckoned Islam as false and then thought it a threat to spirituality and the universe, so they decided to eliminate it. On the contrary, there is not a single instance in Muslim history in which people were forced to change their religion, and even if there were an isolated incident, it would never be endorsed by Islam or by unified Muslim opinion. "
Having said that, once somebody affirms the truth [Islam] and then goes into its rejection, it would jeopardize the truth and it would also show the spiritual corruption of oneself; therefore the execution," Shahnawaz said.
"Western countries have occupied nations, destroyed their political and social systems and killed thousands of people so that people would conform to their civilization or their pattern of thinking ... While doing so, why did they not bother about 'honoring the universal principle of freedom'?", Shahnawaz asked."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HC25Df02.html
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