... a Swiss intellectual), and Keith Ellison (a US congressman) represent Islamism 2.0. The former kill more people but the latter pose a ... a thousand times larger. However, a review of the past three decades, since Islamism became a significant political force, finds that violence alone ... , Egypt, and Syria have recognized the potential of lawful Islamism and largely renounced violence. One also sees a ...

Dr. Zuhdi Zasser is a physican and a Muslim whose relentless work against Islamism I respect very much. After the Fort Hood massacre, Dr. Zasser was ... to call Al Qaeda, is it? The point here, though, is that the danger in America from Islamism, which can led to Islamic martyr attacks, is very real: Revolution ... New York City.For reference, Sharia law is part of Islamism. screen shot taken 11/19/09:

The Los Angeles Times reports that homegrown Islamism is on the rise in America.  As predicted by the New York Police Department in an August 2007 report, " ... driving the recent Swiss vote to ban minarets; Muslims in Switzerland have been quiescent to date, but fear of Islamism is all over Europe.   Bottom Line.  Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano has finally gotten the message.  ...

... exploring their world and befriending their leading figures. Their story sprawls from forgotten English seaside towns to the jails of Egypt's dictatorship and the icy mountains of Afghanistan – and back again. Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent Blogged with the Flock BrowserRobert Hooker supports these messages. Kind of.

Does the Administration Truly Understand the Threat of Islamism? This article by Pamela Meister  is interesting in that it questions President Obama’s crass, callous, offensive and dismissive treatment of the massacre at Fort Hood where a Muslim killer shot and killed 13 people and an unborn baby and wounded another 31.  She points out that when he finally did become involved in this ...

... 's article in The Independent, "Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again," is the result of his interviews ... jihad, then very publicly abandoned and began to battle against Islamism. Some interesting passages. This one, about the impellers that led ... continue to poison all levels of discourse about Islam and Islamism in our society, The Quilliam Foundation is a badly-needed ...

Stanford University Press has just published Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam, edited by Richard C. ... Donald Emmerson argues for an inclusive use of the term “Islamism” in order to rescue the term from its misappropriation in the media. This is followed by my essay, in which I argue that the term “Islamism” is as tainted as “Mohammedanism” and ...

Islamism is a serious problem. The world would be better off if Islamism were defeated, robbed of its power. I don't think anyone seriously disputes that. The argument, then, comes down to the means. There are two possibilities:We could bomb the fuck out of brown people until they are dead or acknowledge the West as their betters and masters, orwe could not be rampaging dickheads and steal ...

... transnational and that generally reach into many academic, economic, and political sectors. Village Malays are only just beginning to build such networks of trust.Melayu Ketuanism and Islamism From Nationalism to Islamism. Before any one goes into an incoherent rage about the statement 'religion being the opium of the masses', please read the last part of this essay. I was expecting these ...

I promise that I won't be publishing Chris Matthews or Hardball segments very often, but I wanted to feature Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, the chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a devout Muslim: The Left has long feared a phantom Christian Theocracy. Dr. Jasser outlines the reality of an Islamist Theocracy desired by a good percentage of even American Muslims. Here is the A.I.F.D. ...

[...] As children and teenagers, the ex-jihadis felt Britain was a valueless vacuum, where they were floating free of any identity. Ed Husain, a former leader of HT, says: "On a basic level, we didn't know who we were. People need a sense of feeling part of a group – but who was our group?" They were lost in liberalism, beached between two unreachable identities – their parents ...

By Ishtiaq Hussain The Quilliam Foundation Download full PDF version Background Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam is an Abrahamic faith and a Monotheistic religion. Its followers are called Muslims. Islam was founded in Arabia in the 7th century by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) fought against oppression, injustice and corruption. During his lifetime he was

Between 1939 and 1945, shortwave radio transmitters near Berlin broadcast Nazi propaganda in many languages around the world, including Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and Persian programs in Iran. English-language transcripts of the Arabic broadcasts shed light on a particularly dark chapter in the globalization of pernicious ideas.for more click here

It is hard these days to keep track of how to be open-minded, open-hearted, tolerant and kind. It is hard these days to remember those school-yard lessons of acceptance, of outcasting, of shaming and of helping. These days it gets harder and harder to remember what we meant when we said imagine a world... Today(or yesterday), over 50% of the citizens in Switzerland supported a ban on the ...

Submitted by: Kurt J Fitsch Jihad and Poverty.pdf File: Jihad and Poverty.pdfDownload File This will make a good reference for analysts.   Bill Gawthrop “…the technique of organizing is prior, in logical order, to that of administering. A sound organizer may be a poor leader or administrator, because his temperamental qualities may not fit him for the later task” James ...