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About Amil Imani
Amil Imani is an Iranian-American writer, poet, novelist,
essayist, literary translator, public speaker, political analyst and a
pro-democracy activist who has been writing and speaking out about the danger of
radical Islam both in America and internationally. He has become a formidable
voice in America against Islamic terrorism as well as for the struggling people
of his native land of Iran. Imani has been educating Americans regarding the
danger of radical Islam, and has encouraged democracy for Iran and helping the
Iranian people. His numerous articles about radical Islam have been published in
many newspapers and magazines around the world as well as in thousands of
Internet magazines, websites and blogs. Imani's writings can be found on his
website
Amilimani.com. He is a regular go-to-guy on the
Iranian issues on BBC World News. He is also 2010 honoree of EMET: "the Speaker
of the Truth Award" at the Capitol Hill. Imani is the author of the smashing
book "Obama
Meets Ahmadinejad.” |
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Recent Articles
The
Odyssey of Islamism in America
What
Is Islam?
Islam
& The Mental Immune System
The
Spirit of Israel Lives On
Mosques & The Islamization of America
The
Islamic Republic Is Not Iran
Islam
Must Be Stopped in America
Obama
Meets Ahmadinejad: An Excerpt
Understanding the Muslims Mindset
The
Turkish Conundrum
America the Vulnerable
Iran,
Islam & Cyrus the Great
Will
America Survive Islamofascisim?
America: Break the Silence on Islam
Muslims’ Sheep Mentality
Liberal
Pacifism v. Islamic Extremism
The
Anachronism of Apostasy
The
Islamic Republic of Torture, Rape & Murder
A New
Day for Iran
Empowering Iranians to Dislodge the Mullahs
Christmas Spirit & Islam
The Making
& Dealing with Jihadists
Islam
Bashers Repent
Does Islam
Breed Violence?
Religion &
The Marketplace
Saluting
Cyrus the Great on His Day
President
Obama's Policy Disaster
An American
Artist Immortalizes Neda
Islam is
Misunderstood
The Islamic
Republic Compassion
Islam is
Fire
Saluting
the Committee with a Cause
A Call to
New Resolve
The Islamic
Republic of Iran: A Reality Check
Saluting
Chancellor Merkel
France
Surrenders to Ahmadinejad
Liberal-Islamist Alliance
In
Solidarity with the Iranian People
What is
Neda’s Fourth of July Message?
Islam's
Victimization of Iran
Neda: An
Angel of Freedom
Today
Everyone Is an Iranian
Liberty vs.
Demagogues
Is Democracy the Killer of Liberty?
Honoring Nazanin: An Angel of Iran
Countdown to Disaster? Who Says?
Pres. Obama: What Is It You Do Not Understand?
Obama & Khamenei
An Appeal to Cultural Muslims
A Salute to Champions of Liberty
Turning Universities into Graveyards
The Story of the Liberty Gene
Chaos, Crisis & Terror Serves the Islamic Republic
Good Hate, Bad Love
Islam Demands Surrender
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Amil Imani
The Odyssey of Islamism in America
October 26, 2010
Islamism is a
mutation of Islam and is rapidly advancing on two fronts. In every Islamic
country, it is cowing the non-radicals while recruiting more and more radicals
into its own ranks. In non-Muslim lands, flush with Petrodollars, Islamism is
establishing itself as a formidable force by enlisting the disaffected and
attracting the delusional liberals with its promises. For the faithful, there is
the added incentive of Allah’s heaven and its irresistible attractions.
Wherever Islam goes, so goes its ethos.
Throwing acid in the face of women who fail to don the hijab or just by
going to school, flogging people for sporting non-Islamic haircuts, and
stoning to death violators of sexual norms are only a few examples of a raft
of daily barbaric acts of Islamists in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Iran, and many Islamic lands. Other forms of Islamic brutalities such as
Honor Killing have already found their way to
America, Germany and other European countries with the ever-burgeoning
Muslim populations.
Reading about these religiously mandated horrific acts and even seeing them on
television or the Internet may momentarily repulse, but does not terribly
concern many Americans. After all, those things are happening on the other side
of the world, and those people deserve each other; we are safe in fortress
America, so goes the thinking.
But "Fortress America” is a delusion that even the events of 9/11 seem to have
failed to dispel. Many prefer to believe that the assault of 9/11 was an
aberration, since nothing like it has happened again, and it is unlikely that
anything of the sort will ever happen again, so goes the wishful thinking. The
reality portrays a vastly different picture. America is far from a fortress
given its vast wide-open borders. It is a nation of laws where all forms of
freedom are enshrined in its constitution; it’s where Americans live by humane
ethos diametrically different from those of Islamist savagery. Sadly, these
differences confer great advantage to the Islamists and place America in
imminent danger.
The breach of "Fortress America” from the air on 9/11 is only the first
installment of many more forthcoming heinous assaults, unless we abandon our
complacency, stop relying on the invincibility of the law-enforcement people and
willingly make the sacrifices that would protect our way of life.
Knowing Islam intimately and having experienced its systemic savagery, has
compelled me to warn repeatedly of the deadly imminent threat it poses to all
non-Muslims (Why
Confront Islamism) attempting to present a comprehensive treatment of the
evil precepts and practices of Islamism. I am listing a few facts that should be
enough to alarm anyone who cherishes liberty and freedom and awaken anyone who
is comforted by the belief that all the Islamic mayhem is limited to an
illiterate gang of primitive Middle Easterners and has no implications for
America. Sorry, bad news is here already.
▪ Some 26 percent of American Muslims, ages18-29, support suicide bombings "in
defense of Islam," according to findings of a recent
Pew poll.
▪ According to Pew, there are 2.35 million Muslims in America, 30 percent of
whom are in the 18-29 age range. Some claim that the number of Muslims is in
fact much larger. Even using the conservative Pew numbers, over 180,000 Muslims
in America are bomb-approving. This is an alarmingly large number, given that
Muslims, as an article of faith, practice dissimulation in dealing with infidels
and under-report their true intentions. How many human bombs and bomb-approving
people does it take to wreak havoc on our country?
▪ The 180,000 Muslims living among us don’t define what "defense of Islam” is.
It could be anything that they feel constitutes an attack on Islam and Islamic
values, such as the reported flushing of the Quran down the toilet, the
Danish Cartoon,
Rushdie’s book, a newspaper article, an Internet posting, or even women not
donning the hijab.
When religious fanatics unreservedly advocate wanton acts of mass murder, they
are not likely to shy from coercion and intimidation measures to impose their
will on the larger society. In tandem with the cold murder of Van Gough in
Holland, for instance, Islamists had been striving to supplant civil laws with
the Islamic Sharia in the country. In other lands such as France, England and
Canada, Muslims have also been waging serious campaigns for adoption of the
Sharia or some of its provisions, just for starters.
In 2001,
ISNA published a brochure that is sent to public school teachers and
administrators. "You’ve Got a Muslim Child in Your School" spells out some of
the basics of Islam and specifies some of the restrictions. One section reads:
"On behalf of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest organization
of Muslims in the United States and Canada, we would like to request that in
view of the above teachings of Islam, Muslim students in your school system
should not be required to:
1) Sit next to the opposite sex in the same classroom;
2) Participate in physical education, swimming or dancing classes. Alternative
meaningful education activities should be arranged for them. We urge you to
organize physical education and swimming classes separately for boys and girls
in accordance with the following guidelines:
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Separate classes for boys and girls in a fully covered area
▪
Only male/female instructors for the respective group
▪
Special swimming suits that cover all the private parts of the body down to the
knee
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Separate and covered shower facilities for each student
3) Participate in plays, proms, social parties, picnics, dating, etc. which
require free mixing of the two sexes;
4) Participate in any event or activity related to Christmas, Easter, Halloween
or Valentine’s Day. All such occasions have religious and social connotations
contrary to Islamic faith and teachings. We also urge you to ensure that the
following facilities are available to Muslim students in your school:
a) They are excused from their classes to attend off-campus special prayers on
Fridays (approximately 1:00 to 2:00 P.M.).
b) They are excused for 15 minutes in the afternoon to offer a special prayer in
a designated area on the campus. The prayer is mandatory for all Muslims and
often cannot be offered after the school hours.
c) All food items containing meat of a pig in any form or shape, as well as
alcohol, should be clearly labeled in the cafeteria.
d) At least one properly covered toilet should be available in each men’s and
women’s room.
e) Muslim students are excused, without penalty of absence, for the two most
important festivals of Islam: Eid Al-Fitr and Edi Al-Adha, in accordance with
the lunar calendar.”
Ever since 9/11, and possibly before, America has been concerned about
terrorists coming from Islamic lands. For this reason, some people advocated
profiling as a safeguard against the 9/11 type mass murderers. But how do you
profile hundreds of thousands of Muslim Americans who are already here and look
and act like other Americans? How can an open free society such as ours
safeguard the individual freedom we so greatly value and protect the safety of
its citizens?
The immensely difficult task of safeguarding our freedom while ensuring our
safety is seriously and repeatedly undermined by Islamist apologists,
pontificating academes, vote-hungry politicians, and the mainstream media, each
for their own reasons. Here are some of the comfort pills dispensed by the
mainstream media’s polls: "Most Muslims seek to adopt American lifestyle" (U.S.
Today); "Muslims assimilate better in U.S. than Europe, poll finds" (New York
Times); Poll: "US Muslims Feel Post-9/11 Backlash Despite Moderate Outlook"
(Voice of America).
It is said that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. The mainstream
media’s manipulation of statistics goes beyond selective reporting and qualifies
as outright disinformation. Is the U.S. Muslims’ outlook moderate? All U.S.
Muslims? What about the self-reported outlook of hundreds of thousands who
support mass murder in the "defense of Islam?”
Even if most Muslims seek to adopt an American lifestyle, a great many Muslims
are dead set on using violence to make America conform to their barbaric way of
life. Islamism is cancer. Cancer cells are always few at the beginning and if
they are left unchecked, they keep on multiplying, eventually devouring the
non-cancerous.
Why all the fuss about "moderate Islamism”? After all, mild Islamism is not all
that bad and they are coming to power through free elections, the leftists keep
preaching. In reality, even coining the term, "mild Islamism” is a clear
instance of the leftists’ treachery. Being mildly Islamist is as plausible as
being mildly pregnant. There is no such a thing as mild Islamism. It only starts
mildly, just the way Muhammad himself started it in Mecca. Then, it builds
momentum and settles for nothing less than the total imposition of its dogma and
will. Being mildly Islamist is only the head of the camel poking into the tent.
Wherever the head of the animal goes, if it is not chopped off, the body
eventually follows. And the body of Islam is a disease-bearing body that will
infect the healthy secular societies.
As is the case with cancer cells, it is the malignant minority that is
death-bearing.
In the Germany of the 1930s, for instance, very few people were Nazis and most
Germans dismissed them as a bunch of hotheaded fools. Before long, the hotheaded
few cowed the dismissive masses and as a result, millions lost their lives.
Escalations of demands, intolerance of differences, and contempt for the
non-Muslims are hallmarks of Islam. The deluded liberals as well as the
publishers of the leftists are destined to be among the very first victims of
mild Islamism as it gathers power.
Mild Islamism may indeed be a minority in America. Yet, this deadly cancer has
metastasized throughout all fifty-states and is attempting to devour Michigan
with
Dearborn as its capital. Urgent confrontation of this advancing disease is
imperative to stave it off. We must resist the intrusion of this seventh-century
mentality into our country and our way of life. We must do all we can to protect
our precious freedom. Here is the question: Do we, in America and the West, have
the sense and the will to forestall mild Islamism from evolving into a real
Islamism?
Just a sobering note, mild Islamism is already here in our country, the
Muslim cab driver of the Minneapolis Airport refusal to ferry passengers
with alcohol or even those with seeing-eye dogs. Muslim inmates demand to be
served only halal Food.
Campbell's Soup catering to Islam; Muslim students badger universities for
special facilities for their meetings; and, the first ever Muslim Congressmen’s
assumption of office by swearing on the Quran and not the Bible.
More NJ school district recognizes Muslim holidays and much more.
Along with Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran funded mosques, there
are other infrastructures supporting sharia law:
Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America
Sharia Academy of America
Sharia Board of America
Islamic Supreme Council of America
Islamic American University
Government agencies at the city/state level have started abiding by sharia law:
Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development Department
"The Alternative
Financing program provides small Minneapolis businesses (neighborhood retail,
service or light manufacturing) an alternative financing to the interest-based
system that is in accordance with Islamic law,
or Sharia.”
"At the federal level, taxpayer dollars to bailout sharia-promoting
AIG.”
Further, the University of Wisconsin Law School
published research that stated:
"American
judges have been judging Muslim divorces in state courts for years,
creating a body of case law that…involves
Islamic family law doctrines…”
"And courts in Texas have referred cases to
Texas Islamic Court are just a few examples for the lemmings
who are coming out in force to support Islamic sharia law.”
"Islamism has grown spectacularly since 1989, becoming the most powerful form of
radical utopianism, forming an alliance with the left, dominating civil
societies, challenging many governments and taking over others, establishing a
beachhead in the West, and smartly advancing its agenda in international
institutions,” says Dr. Daniel Pipes.
Well, mild Islamism is not all that obtrusive, since it is similar to the early
stages of cancer. Yet, cancer it is. And before long, the full-blown cancer will
develop. If we do not want to deal with that beast, we need to take drastic
measures to eradicate the disease no matter how unpleasant and unpopular they
may be. |
