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State of Denial: Islam is a Peace-Loving Religion
It’s good to get out now and then. Yesterday, I spent most of the day in the car by myself traveling on business so I tuned in Morning Edition on NPR.
Despite its leftist agenda, even Morning Edition could not water down this story: “Former Member of Radical Islam Questions Faction”
The interviewee was Hassan Butt, a British Muslim from Manchester. If you’ll recall, Manchester was home to many of the members of he Muslim cell who carried out a deadly suicide attack on London two years ago today. I was staying in London that week but my wife and I had taken a day trip up to Oxford when the bombings were executed.
At the time, Hassan Butt was a British jihadist and had even met with Mohammed Sidique Khan, the leader of the July 7 bombings. Butt, was born and raised in Britain but had traveled to his parents’ homeland of Pakistan and sat under jihadist teaching and returned to Britain as a jihadist recruiter and called for martyrdom actions.
Then in early 2006, he made a public break with the jihadi network and provides a very candid look back.
One thing is clear: Islam is not a peace-loving religion.
The interviewer, Renee Montagne, begins the discussion by asking, with some incredulity, whether he was surprised that the latest British terrorists were doctors.
Hassan Butt was not surprised at all. While in the jihadi movement he worked with lots of doctors who wanted to make good salaries so they could give more money to the cause.
He continued:
“What surprises me is how surprised the western world is . . . all you have to look at is Al Qaeda’s #2 is a doctor . . Bin Laden, himself, he’s an engineer, and Mohammed Atta, himself, he even had a PhD in engineering. These people are educated . . . I think this whole theory came in, i.e., being marginalized and people who are disadvantaged, I think it came in as a a state of denial . . . That’s because what they’ve not understood what actually makes someone a terrorist is Islamic theology NOT the fact that they may have had a very deprived life OR a very comfortable life for that matter.”
He backs up his statement later in the interview by pointing out that many verses in the Koran are rather non-negotiable in calling for death to the infidels. Despite Renee Montagne’s assumptions to the contrary, Butt didn’t even shrink from using the word “terrorist” when he was in the movement because there is a verse in the Koran that calls for Muslims to “strike fear into the hearts of the unbelievers and we were quite proud of the fact that we would be called terrorists . . . we would say that terrorism is even part of Islam. This is part and parcel of Islam. We were obliged to terrorize the non-Muslims.”
For an inside look into the minds of madmen mind of a mad religion, listen to the full interview here.
One thing is clear: we will not negotiate our way out of the conflict with Radical Islam. There is no middle ground for people who believe this stuff. We must triumph in the places where Radical Islam is motivating the terrorist’s deadly activity.
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