secular islam
Charles Johnson
Sun Sep 30, 2001 at 7:23 am PDT • Views: 194
At the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society, a Statement by Ibn Warraq on the World Trade Center Atrocity.
…to pretend that Islam has nothing to do with Terrorist Tuesday is to wilfully ignore the obvious and to forever misinterpret events. Without Islam the long-term strategy and individual acts of violence by Usama bin Laden and his followers make little sense. The West needs to understand them in order to be able to deal with them and avoid past mistakes. We are confronted with Islamic terrorists and must take seriously the Islamic component. Westerners in general, and Americans in particular, do not understand the passionate, religious, and anti-western convictions of Islamic terrorists. These God-intoxicated fanatics blindly throw away their lives in return for the Paradise of Seventy Two Virgins offered Muslim martyrs killed in the Holy War against all infidels.
The author has also written a book titled “Why I Am Not A Muslim.” And his name, of course, is a pseudonym, because to write these things is to risk a sentence of death.
Frank says: