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> <channel><title>Amil Imani</title> <atom:link href="http://amilimani.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://amilimani.com</link> <description>Amil Imani Journal</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 02:37:18 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1</generator> <item><title>Saluting Pamela Geller: a Champion of Liberty</title><link>http://amilimani.com/saluting-pamela-geller-a-champion-of-liberty/</link> <comments>http://amilimani.com/saluting-pamela-geller-a-champion-of-liberty/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 06:55:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Our Archive]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amil Imani]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[liberty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pamela Geller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://amilimani.com/?p=1887</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tragically, during these times of great peril, truth is sacrificed by the politically correct, the myopic self-serving in the liberally dominated media, and the ruling class.  Against this backdrop, a woman of great courage and integrity labors tirelessly in speaking the truth and in the defense of liberty. Pamela Geller’s work in objectively revealing the [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft" alt="pamela-geller" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/geller/pamela-geller.jpg" width="298" height="198" />Tragically, during these times of great peril, truth is sacrificed by the politically correct, the myopic self-serving in the liberally dominated media, and the ruling class.  Against this backdrop, a woman of great courage and integrity labors tirelessly in speaking the truth and in the defense of liberty.<span
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style="text-align: justify;">Pamela Geller’s work in objectively revealing the true nature of Islam makes her a valued champion and defender of human dignity with liberty for all, and in particular, for women as longstanding victims of Islamic misogyny.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Geller methodically sheds light on the dark nature of Islamic beliefs and the barbaric practices involving the abuse of women in all ways, such as honor killing, female genital mutilation, child sex trafficking, forced child brides, severe abuse of homosexuals, and much more under the Stone Age Sharia law. Her <a
href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/atlas-articles/">work</a> upholds and defends the ideals of human rights.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Liberty-loving people of America and the world over owe a debt of gratitude to Pamela Geller for valiantly exposing the racist and supremacist nature of Islam, for fearlessly braving where others dare not tread. She is a standard-bearer for human freedom and dignity. What does she get in return? A vicious and dirty hate campaign from jihadist apologists, fraudsters like the Southern Poverty Law Center, assorted left wing whacko groups, and even some Jewish organizations like the ADL, who should know better, and many threats by the Allah-following fanatics, simply because she speaks the truth about Islam.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">If telling the truth about Islam is Islam bashing, then she is guilty.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">The fact is that the self-righteous Islamist villains, their leftist apologists, and their paid mercenaries, do not trouble themselves to prove her wrong.  Why is it that they do not disprove her naked truth about Islam?  Conveniently, true to form, they shower her with all kinds of unspeakable epithets. Some of the more “civil” Muslims play the victim card. These latter types let out a hue and cry that they and their religion are smeared and victimized by people like Pamela. They consider her criticisms of Islam as Islam bashing. They accuse her of being a divisive racist who enjoys slandering Islam. For good measure, they also label her Zionist, in the pay of Israel and Israeli lobbies. Who is bashing whom?</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright" alt="sio" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/geller/sio.jpg" width="372" height="279" />Human nature is also the culprit, in part. We humans are attracted to hate like flies are to honey. Hate is an easy sell. It is appealing and little effort is required to hate. Hate gathers up the person’s or the group’s frustrations, anxieties, fears, paranoia and many other negative emotions in one handy bundle and hurls it at a convenient target. History is replete with instances of hate energizing the masses into the commitment of small and large-scale atrocities.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Truth is not always welcome and can often be greatly disturbing. But truth is the best weapon against evil and falsehood. When Geller points out the horrifying teachings of the Quran, she does not make them up.  She cites Surahs from the <a
href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Themes/jihad_passages.html">Muslim Holy Book</a>; Surahs and words that exhort Muslims to carry out all kinds of evil deeds against non-Muslims.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">The truth is, Pamela Geller, is a heroine of our era. Heroes appear when circumstances call upon them. Heroes are those extraordinary people who stand up against evil at great peril to themself.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Pamela Geller is a courageous and intrepid human rights activist who has risen to fight for the rights of women and children under the iron fist of Islamic savagery. All of this brings charges of &#8220;hate speech&#8221; from the extremists and apologists for extremism and persecution. She honestly, and rightfully so, deserves to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. She has done more for her country and humanity than President Obama has ever done. Ironically, he gets to keep his Nobel Peace Prize and she receives a barrage of insults and nasty attacks. The world is upside down, so it appears.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">In addition to her distinguished <a
href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/about.html">resume</a>, “Pamela Geller has broken numerous important stories &#8212; notably the questionable and illegal foreign sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign, the anti-Semitic posts on Obama&#8217;s website, Obama&#8217;s political organizing in public school classrooms, ACORN&#8217;s destruction of Republican voter registrations, and many more. She has also been a staunch leader of the nationwide campaign against the <a
href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/about.html">Ground Zero mosque</a>.”</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"> <img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" alt="stop-islamization" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/geller/stop-islamization.jpg" width="450" height="352" />Western people with their heads firmly encased in the cocoon of liberalism—the idea of live and let live—fail to see that Islam is anathema to the notion. Muslim sects do not even grant each other a modicum of tolerance. Muslims kill other Muslims on a daily basis, all in the name of Islam. They vie with one another to convert the world to their form of Caliphate. They do all this while also taking advantage of non-Muslim naiveté and destroying the God-given gift of liberty.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"> “Western elites – government and media – are paralyzed by fear, afraid to speak out against the life-destroying aspects of Sharia law that Islamic jihadists want to impose on the rest of the world. The risk of offending Muslims is, in their calculus, apparently greater than the risk of national or civilizational suicide,” once said the late courageous Journalist, Oriana Fallaci.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Why does all this happen? In her speech <a
href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6436">Fallaci</a> explained that it was to a great degree because “truth inspires fear.” When one hears the truth, one can only be silent or join the cause. It is a call to a personal revolution, an upheaval, a departure – perhaps forever – from a life of ease and comfort. So most will prefer not to hear the truth &#8212; in no small part because of the difficulty of living up to it. Yet the real heroes, she said, are ‘those who raise their voices against anathemas and persecution, while most succumb &#8212; and with their silence give their approval to the civil death of those who spoke out.”</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Like Fallaci, Pamela Geller is also a voice of rare courage. “I am not as young and energetic as you are, I am hopelessly ill. I shall not last long,” said Fallaci in her latter days. And when she departed from us, she only hoped men and women of courage would rise up and would continue her legacy. One can only thank God people like Pamela Gellar have risen up and spoken the truth no matter how bitter that may be.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Pamela Geller has been sounding the alarm for a number of years about radical Islam and jihadists’ imminent deadly threats. While America is the last haven of hope where liberty can reign, the Islamic jihadists draw heavily from their treasury flush with oil extortion money to bribe politicians and hire mercenaries to further their evil objectives.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">“Islamic supremacism is seeping into every aspect of American life. Islamic jihad groups aren&#8217;t solely concentrating on terror attacks (although another one of those could come at any moment), but on the creeping encroachment to introduce Islamic law into this country, step-by-step and bit-by-bit, until finally America wakes up to a country transformed into an Islamic state. We must fight back now to defend our nation and our civilization, states our Champion of liberty, Pamela Geller.”</p><p
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignright" alt="support-israel" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/geller/support-israel.jpg" width="350" height="316" />As an ex-Muslim and a proud co-worker of the same cause as Geller’s, I salute this courageous defender of liberty and urge all freedom lovers to do the same and join her ranks to stem the tide of Islamic tyranny.  I have experienced first-hand the pall that Islam casts on the life of the individual and society. From cradle to grave, Islam imposes its oppressive, intolerant, and deathly dogma without let up. This archaic primitive belief of over 1400 years ago has been and continues to be at war with valiant people who refuse to lend their necks to its yoke of slavery.</p><p>Pamela Geller is a true heroine. She stands for all that is dear to free people. She is a stark contrast to the masses of the politically correct, the apathetic, and the hired Islamic apologists.</p><p>I have tasted Islamic poison and imbibed from the chalice of liberty. Islam aims to reclaim me and force the rest of mankind into its bondage and rob us all of the treasure of liberty. I am with Patrick Henry and Pamela Geller: “give me liberty or give me death.”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Amil Imani is the author of <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://amilimani.com/saluting-pamela-geller-a-champion-of-liberty/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>20</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Iranian-Americans Grieve with Bostonians</title><link>http://amilimani.com/iranian-americans-grieve-with-bostonians/</link> <comments>http://amilimani.com/iranian-americans-grieve-with-bostonians/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:17:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Amil Blogs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iranian-Americans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamists]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://amilimani.com/?p=1880</guid> <description><![CDATA[The dastardly criminal attacks of two Islamists at the participants and spectators of the Boston Marathon makes us, Iranian-Americans recoil in revulsion and grief. Revulsion at the ideology that transforms humans into despicable beasts motivating them to commit indescribably abominable acts of atrocity. Grieve for those innocent victims, including an eight-year old child, who lost [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/failing/boston-bombing.jpg" alt="boston-bombing" width="305" height="240" />The dastardly criminal attacks of two Islamists at the participants and spectators of the Boston Marathon makes us, Iranian-Americans recoil in revulsion and grief. Revulsion at the ideology that transforms humans into despicable beasts motivating them to commit indescribably abominable acts of atrocity. <span
id="more-1880"></span>Grieve for those innocent victims, including an eight-year old child, who lost their life. We also vicariously feel the pain of injuries inflicted on scores of others.</p><p><img
class="alignright" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/failing/boston.jpg" alt="boston" width="298" height="186" />We, Iranian-Americans deeply love our adopted home. We believe in our ancient admonition: children of Adam are members of the same body; when a member is hurt, other members are pained.</p><p>Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and the families of this wanton terrorist act.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://amilimani.com/iranian-americans-grieve-with-bostonians/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Interview with Amil Imani</title><link>http://amilimani.com/interview-with-amil-imani/</link> <comments>http://amilimani.com/interview-with-amil-imani/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:19:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Amil Blogs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amil Imani]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apostate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://amilimani.com/?p=1844</guid> <description><![CDATA[As an apostate his mission is to raise the clarion call about the imminent and present danger of expansionistic theocratic Islam. Having witnessed first-hand the horrors and indignity that Islamofascism visits on people it subjugates, he has taken it upon himself to do his part in defeating this ideology of oppression, hate and violence. When [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
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style="text-align: justify;"><strong><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/articles/amil_imani.jpg" alt="amil_imani" width="269" height="194" />As an apostate his mission is to raise the clarion call about the imminent and present danger of expansionistic theocratic Islam. Having witnessed first-hand the horrors and indignity that Islamofascism visits on people it subjugates, he has taken it upon himself to do his part in defeating this ideology of oppression, hate and violence.</strong><span
id="more-1844"></span></p><p><strong><em>When and why did you get involved in the anti-Islamic movement?</em></strong></p><p>My confrontation with Islam actually began early in life when I encountered so many Islamic beliefs and practices. Born in a Muslim family and enveloped by an Islamic society, I needed to find my own identity and path in life. A great many things about Islam clashed with beliefs that I cherished. Namely, those of the longstanding, life loving, and egalitarianism of my ancient pre-Islamic people.</p><p><strong><em>Islamophobia is an irrational fear or prejudice towards Islam and Muslims. Are you an irrational Islamophobe?</em></strong></p><p>All phobias are, by definition, irrational fears. I&#8217;m not an Islamophobe, because my &#8220;fear&#8221; of Islam is completely rational. Avoiding a poisonous snake is a rational fear. Not a phobia. The emotion of fear, when utilized rationally, is of immense value. The key point is that the person, as well as the society, must base their assessment on facts. My assessment of Islam, conclusively supported by indisputable facts, is that it is a dangerous destructive and death-bearing belief system of a long ago savage people that has inflicted and continues to inflict misery and death to people.</p><p><strong><em>Did you receive any threats from Muslims or others because of your involvement in the anti-Islamic movement or because of your apostasy?</em></strong></p><p>Yes. But I ignore them. I will speak the truth about Islam. In no way am I falsely defaming Islam. Islam is own best defamer. Speaking the truth usually entails risks. I&#8217;m well aware of that.</p><p>Sharia law stipulates that any Muslim who turns his back on Islam should be given a chance to revert to the religion. For an un-repenting male apostate, death is the punishment and life imprisonment for a female apostate.</p><p>“Kill whoever changes his religion.” __Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57</p><p><strong><em>What aspects of Islam do you find most problematic and disturbing?</em></strong></p><p>To answer this question properly, volumes can be written. Just a few keywords should cue you for now. Intolerance, fatalism, institutionalized slavery, injustice, jihadism, oppression of women and non-Muslims, celebration of death, lack of respect for individualism, rejection of freedom and democracy, belief in the theocracy of Allah as ministered by the self-serving clergy who are not accountable to the people, stifling of questioning and inquiry, disallowing all legitimate forms of freedom, and on and on.</p><p><strong><em>Do you think Israel is a good ally in the struggle against Islamization?</em></strong></p><p>Yes, absolutely. Now, Israel is a sovereign state but hardly safe. She is surrounded by nations and peoples who are bent on her destruction. It is tragic that her neighbors and she has not been able to find an equitable way of living side-by-side with mutual respect and in peace. I earnestly hope that ways can be found for a peaceful resolution to this destructive impasse.</p><p><strong><em>Who is a moderate Muslim?</em></strong></p><p>It is wishful thinking on the part of the non-Muslims to believe that one can be a Muslim moderate, given that Islam is radical to its very core. To be a moderate Muslim demands that the person explicitly renounce much of the violent, exclusionary, and radical teachings of the Quran. A moderate Muslim is someone who is Muslim in name only.</p><p>A moderate Muslim is not a true Muslim. If in any way and to any extent a person supports Islam or carries out its stone-age precepts, then he/she is Muslim. There is no such as thing as moderate Muslims. There are, however, some moderate people who consider themselves Muslims. These people are not sure who they are. They are in a limbo and suffer from an identity crisis.</p><p><strong><em>How do you see the future with current immigration policies? And what needs to be changed?</em></strong></p><p>I have always believed that being a Muslim and being American are incompatible. A Muslim is an Ummahist. His loyalty, first and above all, to the Islamic world rule and not to his country. By allowing Muslims to immigrate to the West, we are literary inviting the biggest enemy of mankind into our homes. Because, Muslims do not assimilate, they come here to make Islam the law of the land.</p><p><strong><em>What do you see as the biggest challenge when it comes to informing people about the dangers of Islamization?</em></strong></p><p>The biggest danger is being seen as racist. Also, lawsuits and other forms of intimidations by rich powerful Muslim organizations impede an individual to come forward and tell the truth. Personal threats of harm and even death fall into this category.</p><p><strong><em>What do you say to people calling you a racist or a Nazi because you oppose Islamization?</em></strong></p><p>They are entitled to their views. I want them to enjoy freedom of expression as long as allow me and others to present the non-sanitized true version of Islam. Islam isn&#8217;t a race, so critics of Islam cannot be racists.</p><p><strong><em>Do you think mainstream media is pro-Islam biased?</em></strong></p><p>Certainly. And part of the bias is driven by financial gains from advertising and the real fear of losing advertising when an advertiser, under pressure from an Islamic organization threatens to boycott their products.</p><p><strong><em>Muslims want to use Sharia (Islamic law). In what way does it clash with our Western civilization and our laws?</em></strong></p><p>This is another book in itself. Read my past writings on my web site. Muslims, under the banner of religion, are infringing blatantly on the rights of others, not only in Islamic countries, but also in much of the non-Muslim world. By their acts of dogmatic savagery, Muslims are finally awakening non-Muslim democracies to the imminent threat of Islamofascism keen on destroying their free secular societies.</p><p><strong><em>Living in America, what can you tell us about the ongoing Islamization of the country?</em></strong></p><p>Islamization is just as dangerous as Hitlerism and worse than communism. As more and more Muslims arrive in non-Islamic lands, as they reproduce with great fecundity, as they convert the disenchanted and minorities, and as the petrodollar-flush Muslims and Muslim treasuries supply generous funds, Muslims gather more power to undermine democratic rule. A consortium composed of pandering politicians, blinded with short-term self-interest and egoism; attention and fund-seeking self-proclaimed prima donna professors; and, bastions of useful idiot liberals, universities, is the witting or unwitting promoter of Ummah-ism.</p><p><strong><em>Is Islam a religion of peace?</em></strong></p><p>No, it has never been a religion of peace. What we need to do is demand that politicians, Islamic apologists, and paid-for media do not abuse freedom by lying about Islam. When these people portray Islam as a religion of peace, they are lying through their teeth. Just take a quick look at Islam’s history as well as what is happening today in the Islamic lands. Islam is not a religion of peace and it has never been. Islam is violent, oppressive, racist, and irrational at its very core. It is treachery for people to present it as otherwise, either out of ignorance or because of their own personal reasons.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You could also read this interview at <a
title="Interview" href="http://www.siotw.org/modules/siotw_interviews/item.php?itemid=10" target="_blank">source here</a>.</p><p>Amil Imani is the author of <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://amilimani.com/interview-with-amil-imani/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Case for a Religious Review Board</title><link>http://amilimani.com/the-case-for-a-religious-review-board/</link> <comments>http://amilimani.com/the-case-for-a-religious-review-board/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:48:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Our Archive]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[musilm]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sharia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ummah]]></category> <guid
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/no-sharia-law/no-sharia.jpg" alt="no-sharia" width="350" height="350" />It is time to establish a Religious Review Board (RRB.) Is this an outlandishly absurd proposal? Not at all. Serious problems require equally serious solutions.   The call for establishing a Religious Review Board may be seen as an attempt to curb Islam. The truth is: it is.  <span
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style="text-align: justify;">Encroaching Islam with its rule of Sharia presents an imminent threat to subvert and replace the Constitution that governs our lives. Unlike Muslims who practice Taqiyyah—lying or dissimulation—I proudly speak the truth. Truth should never be sacrificed at the altar of any goal. I firmly believe that truthfulness is indeed the foundation of all virtues.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">As things stand now, numerous boards at all levels of government, business, and community govern our lives. All these boards are charged with the responsibility of looking after the welfare of the people they serve. The Food and Drug Administration, for instance, must pass on the safety and quality of the food we eat; the Aviation Safety Board works to ensure safe flights; a local school board strives to create the environment that best serves the education and safety needs of the pupils. Boards serve every community and business of any size.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/no-sharia-law/enroaching-islam.jpg" alt="enroaching-islam" width="436" height="273" />The Food and Drug Administration makes sure we don’t use contaminated food and drugs that can harm our bodies. Yet, there are no oversight boards that would check against things that contaminate the mind and present a clear threat of unraveling our democracy’s social compact as we know and cherish it. Shouldn’t these dangers to our beliefs and way of life be monitored and combated, or should they be allowed a free hand to work their damage?</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Religion is a powerful force. And as is the case with any force, it can do work of the good or that of the evil. And, when there is multiplicity of religions at loggerhead with one another, the forces clash and any benefit that religion offers is offset by potentially huge costs.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Given that the formerly vast and largely segregated planet has shrunk into a “global village,” the disparate peoples isolated from one another for millennia are now a village community.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">The-thrown-together diverse people are in urgent need of adopting a set of common rules that would allow individuals as well as groups maximum latitude of faith, coupled with responsibility, and free of any practices that infringe on the rights of others or demonize them. Islam, as a matter of belief, considers all non-Muslims, even the so-called people of the book, as infidels—people who are to be subjugated or cleansed from Allah’s earth.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">America, with a long history of protecting religious freedom, still clings to the “hands off” practice of leaving alone any doctrine or practice billed as religion. A thorny problem is in deciding what constitutes a religion and who is to make that call.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">The dictionary supplies a sociologically useless definition for religion: “The expression of man’s belief in and reverence for a superhuman power recognized as the creator and governor of the universe.” Just about anyone or any group under this definition can start a religion, and they indeed do—and some do so at significant costs to others.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Muslims, under the banner of religion, are infringing blatantly on the rights of others, not only in Islamic countries, but also in much of the non-Muslim world. By their acts of dogmatic savagery, Muslims are finally awaking the non-Muslim democracies to the imminent threat of Islamofascism keen on destroying their free secular societies.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/no-sharia-law/defend-freedom.jpg" alt="defend-freedom" width="397" height="268" />Islam was birthed by primitives of some 1400 years ago and over time invaded much of the world at the point of the sword. Presently, the Islamists, with their treasuries flush with petrodollars, are in a great position to realize their perennial dream of bringing the world under the rule of Muhammad’s Ummah. On the one hand Pakistan is already a nuclear power and Iran aims to be one before very long. On the other hand, Muslim governments and wealthy Sheikhs are funding Islamic schools, centers and front organizations in the West to work from within at the unraveling of the non-Islamic democratic systems.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">The large number of Muslims arrival of recent years is posing a serious problem to this nation of all nations. Bluntly speaking, no one can be a Muslim and an American at the same time. Here are some of the reasons.</p><p>1) A Muslim is, first and foremost, an <em>Ummahist</em>—a citizen of international Islam. So, when a Muslim takes the American Pledge of Allegiance, he is either ignorant of the implication of his pledge or is lying willfully. Ignorance is never a valid reason in the court of law, and lying in the process of becoming citizen is a ground for denying the application and even deporting the violator. Sadly enough, <em>taqiyyah</em>—lying, or dissimulation—is not only condoned, it is recommended to the Muslims in their scripture. Hence, a Muslim can and would lie without any compunctions, whenever it is expedient.</p><p>2) Muslims, by belief and practice, are the most blatant violators of human rights. We hardly need to detail here Muslims&#8217; systemic cruel treatment of the unbelievers, women of all persuasions, and any and all minorities across the board. To Muslims, human rights have a different meaning, and it protective provisions are reserved strictly for Muslims—primarily for Muslim men. Just a couple of examples should suffice for now.</p><p>A) Oppression of women, for one, is so systemic in Islam that to this day women are, at best, second-class citizens under Islamic law. Saudi Arabia, the custodian of Islamdom, denies women the right to drive, vote or hold elective offices—the most basic rights of citizens in democratic societies.</p><p>For another, no non-Islamic literature is allowed in Saudi Arabia. A visiting</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">B) Christian, for instance, is denied to enter the Kingdom with a Bible. Further, severe punishment is meted out to anyone daring to disagree with Islam or espouse a different religion. Iran’s resurgent Shiism often vies with Saudi Arabia in its mistreatment of religious and non-religious minorities. To the fanatical ruling gang in Iran, it is their brand of Islam or disenfranchisement of rights of citizenship and even death for the &#8220;sin&#8221; of apostasy. And of course, there is no point at all in talking about the savage Islamic Taliban.</p><p>3) Respect for the rule of law, as it is understood and practiced by civilized people, is an instrument of convenience to be used to advantage and to be violated when it is not, for the Muslim. A Muslim believes in a different law—the Sharia: a set of stone-age rules. Violation of the non-Muslim laws, therefore, is no violation at all to a Muslim.</p><p><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignright" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/no-sharia-law/no-sharia-america.jpg" alt="no-sharia-america" width="469" height="157" />What is incredible is the gall and audacity of Muslims in demanding that Western and other democracies legalize Sharia in their societies. Large populations of Muslims, mostly recent arrivals, in countries such as Canada, Great Britain, and Sweden are experiencing the insistent demands by Muslims to have Sharia rule their Islamic communities. This is just the beginning and it may seem relatively harmless to the simpletons in our midst. Yet, once Sharia is recognized to any extent, it will reach out to rule not only on matters that concern Muslims, but also those that may involve a Muslim and non-Muslim. Under Sharia, a Muslim man married to a non-Muslim woman is able to divorce the woman at will, automatically have custody of the children, and literally toss the wife out of &#8220;his&#8221; home with just about no compensations.</p><p>4) As for democracy, the rule of the people, Muslims have no use at all. Muslims believe that Allah&#8217;s rule must govern the world in the form of Caliphate—a theocracy. Making mockery of democracy, subverting its working, and ignoring its provisions is a Muslim&#8217;s way of falsifying what he already believes to be a sinful and false system of governance invented by the infidels.</p><p>To Muslims, Ummah-ism—international Islamism—is the legitimate form of government. Ummah-ism is another form of despotism such as Communism and Fascism, with the added feature of enjoying “divine” authority.</p><p>The world has good samples of Ummah-ism in practice to scrutinize in Islamic autocracies. Khamenei of Iran is not called &#8220;Caliph.&#8221; He is called the &#8220;Supreme Guide.&#8221; The Saudi King is just another Caliph vessel of the &#8220;divine.&#8221; These Islamic despots are every bit as vile as the Hitlers, the Stalins, the Pol Pots, and the Mussolinis. The government these Islamic autocrats head is infested to the core with the Islamic disease of oppression, corruption and the absence of accountability to the people.</p><p>Democracies believe that government must be of the people, by the people, and for the people. Ummah-ism is anathema to this sacrosanct fundamental democratic ideal.</p><p>As more and more Muslims arrive in non-Islamic lands, as they reproduce with great fecundity, as they convert the disenchanted and minorities, and as petrodollar-flush Muslims and Muslim treasuries supply generous funds, Muslims gather more power to undermine the democratic rule. A consortium composed of pandering politicians, blinded with short-term self-interest and egoism; attention and fund-seeking self-proclaimed prima donna professors; and, bastions of useful idiot liberals, universities, is the witting or unwitting promoter of Ummah-ism.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">There is an urgent need for the establishment of a Religious Review Board tasked with a mission to ensure that no “religion” preaches and practices in violation of the United States’ Constitution. Islam is incompatible with democracy and subversive of the way of life that blesses this nation. It is imperative that we fight Islamofascism with the same determination that we fought other enemies of freedom such as Nazism, Fascism, and Communism.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Amil Imani is the author of <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://amilimani.com/the-case-for-a-religious-review-board/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>22</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Massacre In Newton, Connecticut</title><link>http://amilimani.com/massacre-in-newton-connecticut/</link> <comments>http://amilimani.com/massacre-in-newton-connecticut/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:16:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Amil Blogs]]></category> <guid
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/article-5/sandy-hook-elementary.jpg" alt="sandy-hook-elementary" width="344" height="344" />“Children of Adam are akin to members of a body; if a member suffers, thus suffers the entire body,” a Persian poet (Sa’di) expressed it best, centuries ago.<span
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style="text-align: justify;">It is said, “powerlessness frustrates and absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely.” It seems like the world we live in reveals to us incessantly, at certain moments or in certain circumstances, just how little we are and how vast the universe is. This world we live in is very complex. The world we live in is a world of many brutal voices. It is a world of heavy blows and delirious trances, but it is the only world we have.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">The senseless cruel massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School did not limit its horrors and pain to the victims of the shooting and their families. The entire family of our nation is grieving for the innocent victims of this tragedy. I am heartbroken and am certain, so is everyone else. We need to resolve and do what is needed to prevent such future senseless acts of murder and violence. By so doing, we can best honor the memories of the victims and their families.</p><p
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/> Amil Imani</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://amilimani.com/massacre-in-newton-connecticut/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Israel has right to defend itself</title><link>http://amilimani.com/israel-has-right-to-defend-itself/</link> <comments>http://amilimani.com/israel-has-right-to-defend-itself/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:19:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Amil Blogs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/article-5/israel-under-fire.jpg" alt="israel-under-fire" width="275" height="200" /><p>Self-defense is the right of every individual, group, or nation. The inveterate belligerent Hamas cannot expect Israel to refrain from retaliation when it lobs barrage after barrage of rockets at Israeli populations.<span
id="more-1829"></span> Hamas thrives on violence. And violence begets violence. Hamas is in a state of hostility even with its own kindred, the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank. It is time for Hamas to mend its ways, realize the futility of its strategy, and live in peace with others. It is time for the people in Gaza to demand that their leaders cease exploiting them and have them extend a hand of genuine peace for the betterment of all.</p></div><div
style="text-align: justify;"><p>Decades of bloodletting by the Hamas extremists, has inflicted unnecessary and unacceptable suffering on all sides. Israel, justifiably, is compelled to do what it must to defend itself and its people. In stark contrast to Hamas, Israel&#8217;s response is measured and does not intentionally target the innocent civilians. Those who support and fund Hamas in its belligerence have their own vested interest and not that of the Palestinians. The Palestinian people need to realize the futility of the present hostility and demand that their leaders work for a peaceful solution.</p></div><div
style="text-align: justify;"><p>Amil Imani is the author of <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://amilimani.com/?p=1825</guid> <description><![CDATA[Is it a case of ordained fate we cannot escape or is it that We the People are too dense to learn from our mistakes? Paging through humanity&#8217;s history, time and again we find numerous instances of costly mistakes where people ignore facts and reason by entrusting their lives to a &#8220;savior.&#8221; And time and [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/failing/learning_from_mistakes.jpg" alt="learning_from_mistakes" width="384" height="216" />Is it a case of ordained fate we cannot escape or is it that We the People are too dense to learn from our mistakes? Paging through humanity&#8217;s history, time and again we find numerous instances of costly mistakes where people ignore facts and reason by entrusting their lives to a &#8220;savior.&#8221; And time and again, we have ended up paying the price for our folly. If we are not genetically doomed to make these ruinous mistakes—which I am certain we are not—then do we commit them out of wishful thinking, laziness, desperation, or some combination of the three?<span
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style="text-align: justify;">To illustrate how mistake-prone we are, a few examples would suffice. In order to address economic disparity, a pivotal concern of humanity, a <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_need">Karl Marx</a> showed up trumpeting his battle cry, &#8220;<em>from each according to his</em><em> </em>ability<em>, </em>to<em> </em><em>each according to his needs</em><em>.</em>&#8221; Marx announced that the proletariat is the producer of wealth and that capitalists are leeches robbing them of the fruits of their labor.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">In effect, Karl Marx originated the concept of class warfare, the poor against the rich.  He urged the workers to rise up, rid themselves of the rich and take full possession of their own self-produced goods. Humanity&#8217;s poor masses found their messiah in this ideologue, rallied behind him, and got to experience a Marxist paradise. While Marx’s summons was aimed at the laboring class of industrial Europe, the peasantry in both Russia and later in China enthusiastically answered his call. The results: many of the rich went to early graves, only to be replaced by a new class of overlord apparatchiks, and the poor continued to be poor. In the process, the disciples of Marx and Lenin such as Stalin and Mao subjected over 100 million to death, and untold millions suffered for many decades while the promised workers paradise never materialized.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Obamanomics and Incentive</strong><strong></strong></p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignright" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/failing/obama-messiah.jpg" alt="obama-messiah" width="290" height="160" />Dis-incentive was the “Achilles Heel” of Marxism. Except for the ruling class, whether you worked hard or loafed, you basically got the same incentive under Marxism. <a
href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/obamanomics.html">Obamanomics</a> is basically the same as Marxism: a failed economic philosophy, in a poorly disguised form that Obama has been relentlessly pushing throughout his presidency. Obama’s redistribution of wealth does nothing but dis-incentivize an individual’s prime motive force “self-exertion” for “self-reward.”  Obama feels the rich have too much and the poor should simply get a much bigger share of what the rich have. If that is not the exact Marxist failed philosophy, then what is it?</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">While Marx’s workers’ paradise ideal continued struggling and kept failing miserably to deliver its promises, its offshoots such as European Socialism and now American Redistributionism under Obama are still aiming at creating a society where those who succeed in generating wealth turn over the major share of their earnings to those who don’t.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Dis-incentivizing individual exertion through confiscatory taxes is the surest way to reduce the overall wealth of any society. The rich resort to strategies that shelter their wealth, become discouraged in investing their funds, and then the overall wealth of the society declines. It is investment by those who have funds that creates wealth and jobs. And it is <em>jobs </em>that are the best way to help the have-not, not government handouts.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">In order to address economic issues effectively, government policies should facilitate all individuals and companies to create more wealth, not penalize those who have managed to create and acquire wealth by over-regulation and excessive taxation. The last thing any government should do is to use the ineffective deadly weapon of classism, pitting the poor against the rich.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hitlerian &#8216;Salvation&#8217;</strong><strong></strong></p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Not long after the launch of Marxism, another “savior,” by the name of Adolph Hitler, rose to power on the promise of fixing humanity’s economic and other problems at its very foundation based on nationalism. Specifically, he proposed ridding the world of its burden of <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws">undesirables and unfits</a>, with Jews on top of his list. Marx’s trump “card” was class warfare. Hitler flashed the ethnic-race card. He claimed that the Aryan race was the cream of humanity’s crop that brought nothing but good to the table, while Semitic, black and yellow people represented exploiters and aberrations to be eliminated. For good measure, he lumped in the mentally challenged, homosexuals and the physically handicapped as humanity’s misfits as well to be rid of.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Picking a scapegoat has always worked magic over the millennia, and even Hitler’s syphilitic brain recognized its value for his campaign of mass genocide. The results: Millions died, among them some of mankind’s best-educated and productive Jews. Hitlerism and Communism, for all intents and purposes, either died or went on life support, providing ample opportunities for other saviors.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Islam to the Rescue</strong><strong></strong></p><p
style="text-align: justify;">In no time at all Islam, long fractured, lethargic and dormant, found a new vitality under the leadership of <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini">Ayatollah Khomeini</a> of Iran, who raised the Black Standard and promised Allah’s paradise to the totality of mankind for the simple price of accepting his Shiite brand of Islam. A naïve dreamer of an American President, Jimmy Carter, hailed Khomeini as a <a
href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=65542">saint-savior</a>, an answer to a prayer, so to speak. Not to be left out, shortly after the Shiite Khomeini’s lightning success in Iran that deposed the Shah and established the Islamic Republic, a Sunni Muslim “<a
href="http://www.meforum.org/159/bin-ladin-the-man-who-would-be-mahdi">Osama Bin Laden</a>” launched his campaign of bringing about a worldwide Caliphate, as the sure cure for humanity’s ills.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">In contrast to Marx’s class warfare and Hitler’s ethnic-race rallying cries, Khomeini and Bin Laden hoisted the ever-effective battle call of religion. The very concept of religion that stands for uniting people has been subverted, time and again, by clever and <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_aspects_of_Islam">devious</a> opportunists as means of pitting people against each other.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>America at a Critical Point</strong><strong></strong></p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/failing/obama.jpg" alt="Obama 2008" width="300" height="360" />America is at a critical point. The great nation of all nations, America, is at a critical point and crossroads. The present administration’s performance under the direction of President Obama has been abysmal in all areas vital to our nation. Obama’s foreign policy, based on weakness, retreat and apology is a disaster. Islamist jihadists are on the march and democracy is in retreat. The Islamic Republic of Iran is rapidly moving toward acquiring nuclear <a
href="http://www.aipac.org/NearEastReport/20120906/Editorial.html">weapon capability</a>, and Egypt, the beneficiary of billions of our tax dollars, is presided over by a member of Muslim Brotherhood.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Domestically, our house is in shambles. The <a
href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/national-debt-to-hit-16000000000000-during-democratic-convention/">national debt</a> is staggering. With Obama at the helm, the nation’s debt has exceeded that of our obligation under all other previous administrations combined. Four more years of this economic disaster is nothing we should tolerate. Our children and grandchildren will have to service this debt at backbreaking rates. Even today, forty cents of the Federal tax dollar goes to servicing the loans—much of it to China and foreign entities.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">It is imperative that we, as a nation, live within our means, just like families do. In like manner that families should cut back on everything they can, in order to live within their means, the Federal Government needs do the same. It must reduce the <a
href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obama%E2%80%99s-one-man-empire/">size</a> of government and eliminate hundreds of bureaucracies that are redundant or completely useless.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Government at all levels must act as partners with people and companies, rather than adversaries, as has been the case with the present administration. The Department of Justice, for instance, should focus on fighting criminals, rather than lodging lawsuits against <a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070601928.html">state</a> governments.  Government should release and support the genius of the American public in creation of wealth in such a manner that maximizes benefits to society without compromising its integrity.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Time for a Change</strong><strong></strong></p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignright" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/failing/liberty.jpg" alt="liberty" width="259" height="194" />It is high time that Obamanomics, or is it “voodoo economics” &#8211;be abandoned and we pursue an economic policy that offer incentives for people and companies to take risk. Without the incentive to take risk, the economy stagnates. And when the economy stagnates, more and more people suffer and societies collapse. We need to change course.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Let us learn from our mistake of four years ago. The “change you can believe in,” trumpeted by another “savior,” has turned out to be the change we need to change.  And we have the opportunity to do so, come November 6th.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><p
style="text-align: justify;">Amil Imani is the author of <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://amilimani.com/?p=1816</guid> <description><![CDATA[Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. With the slightest hint from their vested-interest clergy and politicians, mobs of Muslims pour into the streets with frenzy, burning, destroying buildings and killing people [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/crimializing-islam/Head Shot-vi.jpg" alt="Head Shot-vi" width="420" height="279" />Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. With the slightest hint from their vested-interest clergy and politicians, mobs of Muslims pour into the streets with frenzy, burning, destroying buildings and killing people they associate, however remotely, as complicit in defaming Islam.<span
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style="text-align: justify;">Concurrently, Islamic diplomats flood international forums such as the United Nations demanding the international community adopt so-called blasphemy laws that would make criticism of their religion a criminal offense. Islamic <a
href="http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/world/detail/2?page=17&amp;token=YTgwZjdlODI1YzhlN2Y1YjBhZTA3Y2IzZDY4YmZk">heads</a> of government such as Muhammad Morsi of Egypt, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and Ayatollah Khamenei of the Islamic Republic of Iran are raising a hue and a cry about how Islam has been defamed in the West and claiming urgent action is needed to stem the tide of anti-Islam expressions. These defenders of Islam, also billed as the religion of peace, call the expressions that the free world considers part and parcel of freedom of speech, blasphemy. And committing <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law">blasphemy</a> in many Islamic lands can cost people their lives.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">The annual fall circus of the United Nations where heads of state or their high representatives flock to New York to address the General Assembly on matters of great import to the world community, often lives up to the appellation “circus.”  It is in this forum the Hitler wannabe clown, Ahmadinejad, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was lecturing the international body on the civility of his government and the need for the rest of the world to follow its example.  Among the things the world must do is expunge Israel from the map, send the Jews to wherever they came from, and if not to where his idol Adolf sent <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust">millions of them</a>. And, no, his government’s around the clock race to acquire nuclear weapons capability is a fabrication of Jews and Americans. The Islamic government is pursuing a peaceful nuclear program and has no intention of developing nuclear weapons. When asked why is it that the Islamic government does not allow the international atomic energy commission to inspect their facility, he has the audacity to say that there is no need for so doing.  Just take our word for it.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">This business of criminalizing blasphemy, demanded by a raft of Islamic politicians and high clerics, reached its highest pitch when the head of the Arab League, <a
href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=13&amp;articleid=20120927_13_A6_Thehea340872&amp;allcom=1">Nabil Alaraby</a>, formally proposed it in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly this week. He said that in the same manner that the West has criminalized actions that physically harm people, it should also criminalize acts that harm people psychologically and spiritually.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Fascinating proposal indeed! Should only the West adopt laws that would suffocate their freedom of expression in order to protect Muslim sensibilities? Don’t Muslims need to do the same? Alaraby indeed proposes that these laws should criminalize insulting the sanctity of religions. It is very civil of him to make it inclusive by using the plural term, “religions.” But, to him and one and half billion Muslims, there are, according to the <a
href="http://www.all-quran.com/time_saving/documents/Saheeh-international/005.068.html">Quran</a>, only three belief systems that qualify as religion: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What about the billions who are Hindus, Buddhists, and members of other faiths? What about agnostics, and atheists who don’t believe in a deity? Not believing in a deity, in itself, is also a belief system. These people are fair game and can be vilified without any penalty under the proposed blasphemy law?</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignright" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/crimializing-islam/america.jpg" alt="america" width="300" height="207" />Interestingly enough, Muslims lash out in savagery when the sanctity of their faith is affronted in the form of a cartoon, a video, a book, or an individual burning of a Quran. Yet, they feel free not only in insulting other peoples’ religions, but wreaking all kinds of horrific acts upon them.  Defaming, insulting, and desecrating others’ beliefs is in the fabric of Islam itself.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Muslims are offended by a particular individual burning of a Quran at one end of the world and react with mayhem, violence and killings wherever they live.  Let the individual buy all the Qurans he wants and burn them.  In a free world, publishers rush their presses and produce more than enough replacements of the burned Qurans even before the smoke from the smoldering books completely disappears.  Someone has made a video offensive to Muslims?  Did the video actually incite riots? Did it violate the boundaries set by freedom of expression? If so, it is the duty of the courts to decide the matter and mete out the appropriate punishment and not the prerogative of the mob to unleash its wrath on buildings and innocent people.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Muslims have no problem insulting even a Quran-sanctioned religion, Christianity, in all places, in the Quran itself: Quran 5:73 “infidels are they who say Allah is one of three,” in reference to the Christian concept of Trinity. And “Infidels are they who say Allah is the Christ, son of Mary.” In Quran 9:30 it says, “the Christians say the Christ is the son of Allah…may Allah’s curse be upon them.”</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">I hardly need chronicle here all the vile things Islam has done and continues to do and say about the Jews during the life of Muhammad and to this day.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Muslims do not limit their attacks on other religions to cartoons, videos, and print material. Just a few instances are sufficient to establish their heinous deeds and the double standards they practice. Not long ago, the Taliban shamelessly destroyed the magnificent historical statues of the Buddha in <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan">Afghanistan</a>. Saudi Arabia bars churches, synagogues, and places of worship for any and all non-Muslims. The Islamic Republic of Iran has an official policy of decimating the country’s largest religious minority, the Baha’is. In pursuit of this criminal objective, Baha’is’ holiest shrine in Shiraz has been leveled, Baha’i cemeteries are bulldozed and in many cities the Baha’is are not even permitted to bury their dead. Baha’is are barred from government employment, their businesses and lives routinely attacked, some are imprisoned, and many executed.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Young Baha’is are not admitted to universities unless they recant their faith. When Baha’is attempt to educate their people by offering courses in private homes, the teachers are imprisoned and study materials and computers are confiscated.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Christians and Jews are not treated as cruelly as the Baha’is in Iran. Yet, they are clearly second-class citizens in their own country simply because they are not Muslims.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Atrocities committed across the Muslim world by Muslims against other faiths are legend. Egypt’s Coptic Christians are fleeing their ancestral home in droves; ditto for Christians in Iraq. Mali’s Ansar Dine, overrun by jihadist Muslims, is experiencing the destructions of Sufi temples and Christian churches. Bombing Christian churches and killing Christians in Nigeria is all in a day’s work for people of the religion of peace.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;"><img
class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/crimializing-islam/dearborn-michigan.jpg" alt="dearborn-michigan" width="201" height="251" />It stands to reason that the Muslims who feel so offended by the uncomplimentary portrayal of Islam need to take a close look at their own individual as well as collective treatment of non-Muslims. Muslims do not have the right to engage in atrocities against others while demanding that no one in any form or shape offend their religious sensibilities.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Mohammad Morsi, a card-carrying life-long member of the Muslim Brotherhood presently presiding over Egypt, has no credibility lecturing us on civility and respect for other people and their religion when in his own country minority citizens are at the mercy of Muslim mobs. Ahmadinejad, who time and again publicly proclaimed his aim to destroy Israel, should not be even allowed to sully the soil of the land of the free and promote Hitlerism in close proximity of the Statue of Liberty that symbolizes America and what America stands for and reveres.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Nabil Alaraby, the Head of the Arab League and his ilk need to learn the elemental lesson of civility by granting to others what they shamelessly demand exclusively for themselves. It is long overdue for these purveyors of hate and intolerance toward non-Muslims to mend their own ways before appearing in international forums and shamelessly preaching the need for respect. These Muslim pseudo-populists thrive among the masses of gullible Muslims, but they certainly have no standing among the people who judge them by their deeds rather than by their rhetoric.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">My advice to these pretenders of civility and devotees of respect: Please go home and grant your own minority citizens a modicum of respect and tolerance before pressuring the world body to enact laws that would criminalize the defamation of Islam. Islam must, first, end its long-standing practice of defaming, imprisoning, and killing religious minorities to earn reciprocity from the non-Muslim people.</p><p
style="text-align: justify;">Amil Imani is the author of <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://amilimani.com/?p=1810</guid> <description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Dennis Prager&#8217;s new book Still the Best Hope &#8211; Why the World Needs American Values.  I have been trying to fit political issues together all my life, and Prager seems to be doing that job admirably. The book&#8217;s jacket gets it right: &#8220;In this visionary book, Dennis Prager, one of America&#8217;s [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div
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id="more-1810"></span></p><p>The book&#8217;s jacket gets it right: &#8220;In this visionary book, Dennis Prager, one of America&#8217;s most original thinkers, contends that humanity confronts a monumental choice. The whole world must decide between American values and its two oppositional alternatives: Islamism and European-style democratic socialism.&#8221;</p><p>On the first page, Prager states, &#8220;Few Americans can articulate what is distinctive about American values or even what they are. There is &#8230; a thirst among Americans for rediscovering and reaffirming American values. &#8230; A lot of Americans realize we have forgotten what we stand for.&#8221;</p><p>Prager not only explains our values, but he compares our values in detail to the reasoning of the left in each arena.  His analysis is so well done that it may even get converts from the left, and it will certainly aid independents and conservatives in grasping the big picture.</p><p>It is clearly a must-read for Romney and each member of his team because Prager has explained the left and Obama unlike anything I have ever read.  If Romney can find a way to use this author&#8217;s theories, the independents will become conservatives.</p><p>Paul Ryan&#8217;s &#8220;thank you&#8221; speech to Mitt Romney copied a concept from Dennis Prager&#8217;s book, a combination of political science and philosophy.  It is a wonderfully powerful book loaded with notable jewels such as this concept adopted by Ryan in his speech.</p><p>The book contains an unwinding explanation of things with which many of us have struggled, such as the concepts of religion, God, conservatism, and liberalism.  Prager also analyzes Islam in great detail and explains why none of the arguments in support of it changes the immorality of Islam.</p><p>The first paragraph of Chapter 9, &#8220;Still the Best Hope,&#8221; states: &#8220;The USA is not merely a geographical location. And unlike most of the world&#8217;s nations, Americans are not, and have never been, a race or an ethnicity. America is and has always regarded itself as an idea. That idea is a value system.  And that value system &#8212; unique to America &#8212; can be called the American Trinity.&#8221;</p><p>Ryan copied this concept in his speech, stating:  &#8220;America is an idea, and that idea is Liberty and God.&#8221;</p><p>Prager defined the term &#8220;American Trinity&#8221; as &#8220;Liberty, God and E Pluribus Unum&#8221; (out of many, one), each of which Prager includes in many pages of discussion.  Ryan used the concept but shortened the expression and left out the last portion &#8212; which is fine, as E Pluribus Unum is a bit too complex for a short speech.</p><p>Prager notes, &#8220;E Pluribus Unum rejects tribal, ethnic and blood ties and elevates the individual. It is the individual who matters, not any group to which the individual may belong.  Anyone can become an American because America, unlike other nations, is not defined by territory, religion, or ethnicity, but by an allegiance to a set of ideals.  It is telling that the &#8216;hyphenated-American&#8217; only became a part of political speak with the ascendency of the Left.  For two centuries, Americans, whatever their place of origin, were just Americans.&#8221;</p><p>It is very encouraging to me that the Romney camp seems to know about Prager&#8217;s new book and will use it as a source for their campaign.  It could prove to be as valuable to Romney in this election as de Vattel&#8217;s book <em>Law of Nations</em> was to the Founding Fathers in the lead up to our War of Independence.</p><p>The author expends significant effort in defining liberty.  Simply stated, it is our well-known five familiar freedoms plus two: political, religious, assembly, speech, and press, plus economic freedom and as much freedom as practical from government interference in our lives.  Prager&#8217;s first jewel regarding government interference is that &#8220;[i]ndividual liberty exists in inverse proportion to the size of the state.&#8221;</p><p>Prager&#8217;s case for small government is overpowering:</p><p>1. The Founders believed that unnecessary government is dangerous and destructive of the moral character of its people.</p><p>2. Character begins in taking responsibility for oneself.  State involvement, when a person can care for himself, damages moral character and reduces care for the truly needy.</p><p>3. Government entitlement programs have terrible moral consequences.  These programs lead to a loss of self-worth, an attitude of entitlement, and a lack of gratitude for what is provided.  Why work if the government provides a handout?</p><p>4. People need the emotional reward of feeling needed.  Men especially have been denied rewards for their involvement.  When the State becomes totally responsible for the financial support of their women and children, men are denied this reward.  As the State expands its role, nothing is left of liberty and dignity.</p><p>5. American churches and other voluntary groups have been an essential part of American culture that becomes denigrated when government expands into their role.  Charity and volunteerism are reduced substantially in leftist states, a detriment to the needy and to the volunteers&#8217; sense of community contribution.</p><p>Another jewel.  &#8221;There are fine individuals on the left and selfish individuals on the Right. But as a rule, bigger government increases the number of angry, ungrateful, lazy, spoiled and self-centered individuals.&#8221;</p><p>And another jewel.  &#8221;The Left&#8217;s altruistic motives have created the Welfare state, and the Welfare state creates selfishness.&#8221;</p><p>Prager&#8217;s book discusses all the many underlying philosophical differences between conservatives and the Obama left, and in my opinion, he discloses the fallacy underlying all the liberal concepts.  Prager discusses how the Age of Reason&#8217;s and the Enlightenment&#8217;s rejection of religion and God resulted in the rejection of the concept of the inherent immorality of man &#8212; a rejection which took over Europe.  Contrary to this European post-Enlightenment concept, the Founders retained in the Constitution the concepts that man is immoral and that the essence of man is most interested in self-satisfaction.  This led the Founders to incorporate Montesquieu&#8217;s advice in the Constitution and to create three branches of government in which each branch had equal power.  This was their attempt to counter the inherent self-interest and immorality of man.</p><p>It is my dream that a clear-thinking philosophy major would use Prager&#8217;s book to generate a short version for consumption by independents.  Such a text would help the world appreciate the inherent weaknesses underlying the social democracy of the Obama administration.</p></div><div
style="text-align: justify;">Read more: <a
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style="text-align: justify;">Amil Imani is the author of <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a
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class="ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft" src="http://amilimani.com/wp-content/gallery/islamic-kingdom/amil_imani.jpg" alt="amil_imani" width="196" height="255" />Amil Imani</a> is an Iranian-American writer that opposes the Iranian regime and Sharia Law. He is a contributor to <a
href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.com" rel="nofollow">Family Security Matters</a>, <em><a
href="http://www.americanthinker.com" rel="nofollow">American Thinker</a> </em>and the author of  <a
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href="http://freeamericanpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Operation Persian Gulf.</a> In 2010, he was honored with the “Speaker of the Truth Award” by <a
href="http://www.emetonline.org" rel="nofollow">Endowment for Middle East Truth.</a></em></p><p><em>Below is RadicalIslam.org National Security Analyst Ryan Mauro’s interview with Amil Imani:<span
id="more-1803"></span></em></p><p><strong><em><img
class="alignleft" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers1.png" alt="" width="95" height="189" />Ryan Mauro: Tell us a little bit about yourself. What got you involved with the Iranian opposition?</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Amil Imani: </em></strong>I was born in Tehran, Iran, in a loving family that encouraged freedom of thought and promoted universal human ideals. The upheavals of 1979 shattered the existing order and a turbaned charlatan that Jimmy Carter called a saint, Ayatollah Khomeini, skillfully steered the forces of change to promote his brand of totalitarianism rule &#8212; a rule aimed at taking Iran backward to a primitive, violent and misogynistic Islamic theocracy. Like many patriotic Iranians, I sensed the catastrophic tragedy Islamism really is and began doing what I could to prevent it from destroying Iran’s nascent civil democratic system.</p><p>Before long, Khomeini and his gangs capitalized on the frustrations of the masses, promised them everything under the sun while simultaneously murdering thousands of Iran’s best children who opposed them and their system of rule. I was fortunate enough to leave Iran, continuing my education abroad and carrying on with my battle against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s murderous rulers.</p><p><strong><em><img
class="alignleft" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers2.png" alt="" width="105" height="165" />Mauro: Why haven&#8217;t we seen massive protests in Iran like those we witnessed in 2009? Many analysts expected, and hoped, that the Arab Spring would carry over to Iran.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Imani:</em></strong> The so-called “Arab Spring” was in fact inspired by the massive anti-regime movement of 2009 by millions of Iranians, subsequent to the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The regime’s response to those protesting people was a set of dastardly measures typical of dictatorships. People were severely beaten, huge numbers arrested and herded like cattle into make shift prisons, some were shot in the streets as they marched; others were raped and killed in Iran’s prisons.</p><p>And the world simply watched. The Obama Administration not only failed to voice its support for the people, it implied that what was happening in Iran was a kind of family <img
class="alignright" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/OperationPersianGulf.jpg" alt="" width="162" height="251" />squabble best left to be settled by Iranians themselves. A family feud indeed. One side of the “family” with legions of savages armed to the teeth, the Revolutionary Guard and their hired thugs, and the other side of the “family” defenseless civilians using their voices to plead their case. The Islamic rulers spared no heinous means in mercilessly silencing the voices of the people. No nation provided even moral support for the Iranian people while the savage mullahs and their thugs consolidated their rule of terror with impunity.</p><p>To this day, thousands of anti-regime Iranians are languishing in prisons by the edicts of Islamic kangaroo courts. Even in the face of torture, rape and murder, Iranians are battling the Islamic theocracy by various methods. They no longer pour in the streets to subject themselves to the armed thugs who are just too eager to brutalize them. The opposition forces are patiently recruiting more and more members, establishing networks, using the Internet successfully to educate and inform their compatriots and the world and are certain of the collapse of the Islamic debauchery imposed on them by a bunch of thuggish mullahs.</p><p><strong><em><img
class="alignleft" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers3.png" alt="" width="117" height="181" />Mauro: What trends do you see among the people of the Middle East? On the one hand, we see the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist extremists rising politically. On the other, there are reports that atheism, agnosticism and evangelical Christianity are spreading like wildfire. What do you see happening?</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Imani:</em></strong>  It is always prudent to deal with facts to the best of our discernment, whether we like them or not. My judgment of the situation in the Middle East is that two major forces are in play. Islamism, in the broadest sense, is experiencing a surge mostly due to the masses of the lower classes’ dissatisfaction with their plight. Islamism is seen by some as the way to a dreamed of perfect order. Islam provides simplistic answers that are attractive to gullible people.</p><p>Concurrent with the surge of Islamism, secularism with all its varieties, such as atheism, agnosticism, as well as non-Islamic religious beliefs are attracting large numbers of adherents, mostly from the ranks of the better educated and the more affluent. Hence,<img
class="alignright" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/ObamaMeetsAhmadinejad.jpg" alt="" width="193" height="293" /> there is a clash of sorts between the two surging, irreconcilable factions.</p><p>The best example of this division can be seen in present-day Egypt. The Islamist candidate Morsi won the presidency with a thin margin, mainly because the great majority of Egyptians are wretchedly poor, semi-literate and religious fanatics. The military leaders who are better educated and many of the middle class are stern anti-Islamists. Which side is going to win Egypt? The side that wins is the best predictor of the side that will prevail in the Islamic world, including the Middle East.</p><p>How will this clash play out in the short run is far from certain. The free world, particularly the West, can play a critical role in deciding the outcome. It can do so by wisely supporting the secularists wherever they are and refraining from the traditional resort of exploiting Middle Eastern resources, supporting dictators and ignoring people&#8217;s legitimate aspirations. A case in point representing a shameful shirking of responsibility is Obama&#8217;s callous response to the uprising of Iranian secularists in 2009. Iran was on the cusp of turning the tide against Islamism and Obama threw a lifeline to the mullahs by not even verbally expressing support for the people.</p><p><strong><em><img
class="alignleft" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers4.png" alt="" width="125" height="164" />Mauro: Why is the Iranian opposition so divided? They are all threatened by the regime, yet a common front hasn&#8217;t been forged.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Imani:</em></strong> The Iranian opposition represents the entire broad range of democracy. The opposition is not monolithic. Furthermore, the regime brutally deals with any group of any size long before a group can organize itself into a viable entity and certainly way in advance of opposition groups coalescing into a significant force. Arrests, imprisonment under horrific conditions, torture and even executions are the Islamists&#8217; instruments of policy.</p><p>What makes conditions even more unhelpful to the oppositions is that the nearly 10-20% of the population with all the guns supports the regime.</p><p><strong><em><img
class="alignleft" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers5%281%29.png" alt="" width="110" height="161" />Mauro:</em></strong><strong> Secretary of State Clinton has only about three months to decide whether to de-list the Mujahideen-e-Khalq as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. I know you&#8217;re not a member or supporter of MEK, but what affect would keeping MEK on the list have on the Iranian opposition and what affect would delisting the MEK have?</strong></p><p><strong><em>Imani:</em></strong> The Islamist-Marxist gang of MEK has about zero support among Iranians, both in Iran as well as abroad. They are thoroughly despised by the overwhelming majority of the people for being cultists, Islamists and at the same time traitors for having aligned themselves with Saddam Hussein against Iran during the past Iran-Iraq war.</p><p>What impact will de-listing the MEK by Clinton have? It would be another foolish foreign policy decision by the Obama Administration.  If the MEK is de-listed, the Islamic Republic of Iran should indeed write a thank you note to President Obama and Secretary Clinton. Why? Two reasons: First, this highly despised, aging handful of Islamist cultists are only good at lobbying foreign government and international organizations. The Iranian people have already rejected them and their hybrid Communist-Islamist ideology while holding them accountable for treachery and treason. Second, the ever-Machiavellian mullahs of the Iranian Islamic Republic will use the de-listing as irrefutable evidence that the United States is indeed the Great Satan and the enemy of Iran. Why else would America legitimize this gang of proven terrorists, the regime would ask.</p><p>De-listing of the MEK by the State Department would be another instance of “brilliant” foreign policy decisions in line with Jimmy Carter calling the criminal Ayatollah Khomeini a religious saint.</p><p><em><img
class="alignleft" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/RyanMauro1.png" alt="" width="163" height="209" />Ryan Mauro is </em><a
href="http://www.radicalislam.org/" rel=""><em>RadicalIslam.org&#8217;s</em></a><em> National Security Analyst and a fellow with the Clarion Fund. He is the founder of WorldThreats.com and is frequently interviewed on Fox News.</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Amil Imani is the author of <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></em></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://amilimani.com/amil-imani-iranian-dissident/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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