"Islam’s New ‘Native Informants’" - powerful essay by @NesrineMalik critiquing the likes of Maajid Nawaz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the rest of the 'We-are-Muslim reformers-but-have-no-Muslim-audience' brigade. #longread #mustread https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/06/07/islams-new-native-informants/
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Meh'd. This analysis, while some people might not agree with it, is not fundie at all. Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who is particularly toxic) along with others such as Ali Sina, Irshad Manji and Maryam Namazie, are Muslims or ex-Muslims that spend more time criticizing Islam than anti-Muslim bigotry, which is much more harmful to society. They also help to unwittingly spread said anti-Muslim bigotry. While we can agree or disagree with the substance of the quote it is clear that it does raise a legitimate issue.
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Pretty much, yeah. Maajid Nawaz is a doofus, but Hirsi Ali is an anti-Muslim fundie in her own right (she has openly declared that Islam needs to be defeated militarily, and when the interviewer asked “defeating radical Islam?”, she replied: “No. Islam, period.”)
Ali Sina is on a whole other level of insanity entirely, a a lunatic who likes to write bigoted rants about how Judaism is to blame for making Islam as evil as it is because "[t]he Rabbis in Arabia had laid the psychological foundation for Islam among the tolerant pagans" which influenced Muhammad with the intolerant religion of Judaism, and who is all for nuking Muslim cities because "I don’t see Muslims as innocent people. They are all guilty as sin. It is not necessary to be part of al Qaida to be guilty. If you are a Muslim you agree with Muhammad and that is enough evidence against you...Muhammad was not a prophet of God. He was an instrument of Satan to divide mankind so we destroy each other. It is a demonic plot to end humanity." (did I mention he's an ultrafundamentalist Christian too?)
@A'isha
Ali Sina is on a whole other level of insanity entirely, a a lunatic who likes to write bigoted rants about how Judaism is to blame for making Islam as evil as it is because "[t]he Rabbis in Arabia had laid the psychological foundation for Islam among the tolerant pagans" which influenced Muhammad with the intolerant religion of Judaism, and who is all for nuking Muslim cities because "I don’t see Muslims as innocent people. They are all guilty as sin. It is not necessary to be part of al Qaida to be guilty. If you are a Muslim you agree with Muhammad and that is enough evidence against you...Muhammad was not a prophet of God. He was an instrument of Satan to divide mankind so we destroy each other. It is a demonic plot to end humanity." (did I mention he's an ultrafundamentalist Christian too?)
Reminds me of "Brother" Nathaniel Kapner.
The current Home Secretary in Theresa May Not's cabinet.
The Commissioner of Scotland Yard, MI6 - and thus GCHQ - answer to Sajid Javid.
He being Conservative . The current Mayor of London has power over Scotland Yard & the Metropolitan Police: he being Labour .
Terrorist attacks of both Islame ist ISIS and White Right National Action stopped in their tracks before they could do anything. Your move.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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