MPACUK: “Bin Laden Gave Angry Young Muslims a Blueprint”
Charles Johnson
Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 12:59 pm PST • Views: 427
The UK’s Sky News recently aired this charming propaganda piece by the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK), ostensibly arguing for Muslim involvement in democracy.
But MPACUK’s goal, as Asghar Bukhari explicitly says in a jaw dropper of an introduction, is outlined in a blueprint given to “angry young Muslims” by Osama bin Laden, when he launched the mass murder attacks of September 11. (Hat tip: TheyMadeItUp.)
" target="_blank">Youtube Video ” target=”_blank”>www.youtube.com…]Asghar Bukhari: Over two million Muslims in Britain, many of us are very, very angry. And [some] of us are [ready] to do something about it.
It’s often been a violent foreign reaction to British foreign policy. It’s just never reached the shores of Britain.
9/11 changed all that. Bin Laden gave angry young Muslims a blueprint to bring about that change.
[Cut to scene of burning World Trade Center.]
By flying planes into the Twin Towers, bin Laden was sending a message: that while most Muslim leaders had [failed] to challenge foreign policy, he had not.
Yet, there is another way. Involvement in a democratic process could give us an ethical foreign policy far more effectively than violence ever could.
Bin Laden’s blueprint, however, ends up in the complete abolition of democracy, in favor of shari’a law. If involvement in the democratic process is intended to achieve the destruction of that process, is it correct to call that “democracy at work?”
And what kind of “ethical foreign policy” is Bukhari talking about, if the model for that policy is Osama bin Laden?
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