KATE EXPLAINS why she hates them.
Why don’t we hear more of this kind of thing from feminists?
(Via Suburban Blight).
UPDATE: Meanwhile Amir Taheri points out why they hate us:
September 4, 2003 — ‘IT is not the American war machine that should be of the utmost concern to Muslims. What threatens the future of Islam, in fact its very survival, is American democracy.” This is the message of a new book, just published by al Qaeda in several Arab countries.
The author of “The Future of Iraq and The Arabian Peninsula After The Fall of Baghdad” is Yussuf al-Ayyeri, one of Osama bin Laden’s closest associates since the early ’90s. A Saudi citizen also known by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad, he was killed in a gun battle with security forces in Riyadh last June.
The book is published by The Centre for Islamic Research and Studies, a company set up by bin Laden in 1995 with branches in New York and London (now closed). Over the past eight years, it has published more than 40 books by al Qaeda “thinkers and researchers” including militants such as Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s No. 2.
What Al-Ayyeri sees now is a “clean battlefield” in which Islam faces a new form of unbelief. This, he labels “secularist democracy.” This threat is “far more dangerous to Islam” than all its predecessors combined. The reasons, he explains in a whole chapter, must be sought in democracy’s “seductive capacities.”
This form of “unbelief” persuades the people that they are in charge of their destiny and that, using their collective reasoning, they can shape policies and pass laws as they see fit. That leads them into ignoring the “unalterable laws” promulgated by God for the whole of mankind, and codified in the Islamic shariah (jurisprudence) until the end of time. . . .
Al-Ayyeri says Iraq would become the graveyard of secular democracy, just as Afghanistan became the graveyard of communism. The idea is that the Americans, faced with mounting casualties in Iraq, will “just run away,” as did the Soviets in Afghanistan. This is because the Americans love this world and are concerned about nothing but their own comfort, while Muslims dream of the pleasures that martyrdom offers in paradise.
Calling them “the Klan with a Koran” is perhaps too kind. Or unfair to the Klan.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Buffy would know what to do with this guy.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE: On the “Klan with a Koran” front, Michael Ubaldi emails “You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie!”
STILL MORE: Meryl Yourish says if I don’t hear feminists, it’s because I’m not listening.
Well, she’s right and wrong. When Martha Burk thinks that the threat to women by Islamic fundamentalism is as important as gender integration at Augusta National, then I’ll have what I was asking for. You see, I’m not listening to Martha Burk, et al., but I can’t help hearing them anyway. And that’s the sign of a movement in action.