Re: Iranian underground….
I wouldn’t argue that you have to be inside something to comment on
it but I can’t help but notice this exchange features two outsiders
telling an insider that he’s way wrong about something he knows well.
Doug
On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 3/14/07, Lenin’s Tomb leninstombblog@googlemail.com wrote:
On 3/14/07, Ansar al-Zindiqi infidelinfinity@yahoo.com wrote:
This is far from being a dead end no matter which way one wants to cut it. he Apostate Insurgency is happening all over the place nowadays. I should know since I’m a member of faithfreedom.org. How can leaving a totalitarian ideology whose founder was a pedophile, murderer, thief and overall creep extraordinaire and having to hide that revulsion be a dead end? In fact for people leaving Islam the growth of underground cells in every Muslim community is the dawn of a new day and al-Qaeda’s worst nightmare. If you want to debate me on this issue then come on up to FFI’s forums. There’s a lot of rightwingers there but there are also some very smart people who would love to debate you. Can you handle it?
This is bonkers. What you are doing here is insisting that the only legitimate opposition to Al Qaeda salafism is apostasy. I am myself an atheist, but I don’t go round insulting Protestants or insisting that they must all be KKK or Ian Paisley acolytes. You are isolating yourself politically and intellectually from most Muslims, assuring your political irrelevance. I might add that you are also, in your manner of handling it, encouraging the racists, and also the imperialists who rely on racist, supremacist nonsense about Muslims. If you weren’t such an irrelevance, I’d say your conduct is pernicious.
An ex-Muslim “insurgency” is like an “insurgency” of anticommunists who are former Communists. Building one’s social and political identity as merely the opposite of what it used to be is a dead end. It can be lucrative in the West, though, especially if you are
gorgeous like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji.
Yoshie http://montages.blogspot.com/ http://mrzine.org http://monthlyreview.org/
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