http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/08/012883print.html
Fitzgerald: Needed: A handbook for infidel debaters :-))
A Handbook for Muslim Debaters certainly exists. It consists of all the
wiles and evasions and mistatements and tu-quoque (Zionists! Americans
in Iraq! Stealing Our Oil! The Crusades! The Inquisition! The
Holocaust! Timothy McVeigh! and so on) that have been used to obscure
the truth about the Jihad, and which we have seen so often in the
comments section here at Jihad Watch.
This kind of deception comes naturally to many people in societies
where, as one Christian informant who spent the first 40 years of his
life in Haleb told me, a Muslim will not even trust his own brother to
enter his house when the man in the family is away, and where one lives
in a miasma of rumor and fear and mistrust, and where the most
implausible things are believed. Why would they not be, when one is
raised in a society suffused with an attitude entirely inimical to free
and skeptical inquiry?
But no such Handbook for Infidel Debaters exists. Nor does there exist
a handbook for those who conduct radio programs.
Perhaps one can suggest that a few basic points should be raised, and
answers -- clear answers -- demanded of any and every apologist for
Islam who wishes to appear on any show.
These should focus on several matters:
1) The division of the world between Believer and Infidel, Dar al-Islam
and Dar al-Harb. Passages from the Qur'an and stories from the Hadith
should be in possession of the radio talk-show host or interviewer, so
that there will be not mere silence, or a mere expression of "that
isn't true" or "that can't be true." Rather, the Muslim spokesman will
be presented with a point-by-point offering of the textual evidence.
2) The duty of Jihad, called by some the Sixth Pillar of Islam, and
when it is a collective and when an individual duty (quotes at the
ready), and what the goal of Jihad (to spread Islam until it dominates
everywhere, and everywhere Muslims rule) is - all this should be
constantly dinned into the minds of listeners. Furthermore, Infidel
debaters and talk-show hosts should have ready a list, taken from
Muslim sources, of the varied instruments of Jihad: qital or combat
(including what can reasonably be described as terrorism), the "money"
or "wealth" weapon, Da'wa, and demographic conquest. Have figures on
the size of Muslim families, on the demands made by the Muslims within
the Lands of the Infidels for changes to the Infidel legal, political,
and social institutions, and also figures on the growth of Muslim
populations in the Western world since, roughly, 1960 or 1970 -- broken
down by country. And don't forget to include the triumphalist remarks
about conquest through demography, made by everyone from Boumedienne at
the United Nations in 1974, to a mild-mannered Pakistani accountant
writing an article in the newspaper "Dawn."
3. Ask the Muslim interlocutor about the figure of Muhammad, and about
the description of him as "uswa hasana" (a phrase used three times in
the Qur'an, twice in relation to Abrham, once about Muhammad), or
"al-insan al-kamil." Ask if he, Muhammad, is indeed regarded as the
Perfect Man, whose behavior and whose words and deeds are a model --
Sunnah -- for Muslims to emulate, and emulate in every way. If that is
conceded, then proceed to list some of the things with which Muhammad
is associated: the Khaybar Oasis attack, the decapitation of the Banu
Qurayza, the seizure and enslavement of women, the murder of Asma bint
Marwan and Abu Afak, the marriage and sexual intercourse with
nine-year-old Aisha, and so on.
In no time at all, that Muslim spokesman will be spluttering. "How dare
you? How dare you bring up these things? I'm leaving. I'm not coming
back."
Induce the hysteria, just the way an obstetrician induces the
contractions. Make those mental contractions begin early in the
program. Have the mask of sweet reason pulled off as soon as possible.
Go to it.
It will be most effective.
And surely, many who visit this website could produce such a guide, not
only to be made available for debaters and talk-show hosts on radio and
television, but also for those who simply show up at this or that
occasion for "dialogue" at a mosque, or at some presentation during
"Islam Week" at some campus, or at some political gathering. It could
and should be produced by and for those who, entirely clear-thinking
and unintimidated, appear expressly in order to throw a truthful
spanner in the lying works.
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"Islam is an invention for the purpose of providing
a religious justification for Arab Imperialism.
The Conquest is the reason and explanation for
Islam, not the other way around."
"the life of Mohammed in Mecca and Medina is a
myth, a "baseless fiction."
Mohammad ibn al-Rawandi
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