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In reality, the basis of democracy has been completely turned on its head [in Sweden]. It is said: "democracy is a certain way of thinking, a specific set of opinions, and if you do not share them, then you aren’t democratic, and then we condemn you and you ought to be eliminated. The People? That is not democratic. We the Elite, we are democracy." It is grotesque and it certainly has nothing to do with democracy, more like a kind of moral dictatorship. Fjordman, New York Times and Sweden: The Dark Side of Paradise, Global Politician 06.04.2007
Soon we will take power in this country. Those who criticize us now, will regret it. They will have to serve us. Prepare, for the hour is near. Belgium-based imam
One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory. Former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. British historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. American journalist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
With law shall the land be built, not with un-law destroyed. Håvamål (the Norse god Odin)
We are not opposed to immigration that is moderate and managed. At present it is neither. There are people who know everything, but that's all they know. Niccolò Macchiavelli We have it all, but that's all we have. Artist and singer Ole Paus commenting on the situation of Western societies
The highest kind of jihãd is to speak up for truth in the face of a government [sultãn] that deviates from the right path. The Prophet Muhammad With law shall the land be built, not with un-law destroyed. Håvamål (the Norse god Odin) And, finally, by claiming (again, without any warrant in Qur'ãn or Sunnah) that the shari'ah imposes on us the duty to discriminate [non-Muslims], they make it impossible for [the non-Muslims] to bear with equanimity the thought that the country in which they live might become an Islamic state. Muhammad Asad We are not opposed to immigration that is moderate and managed. At present it is neither. Migration Watch UK These are a few straws in the wind, birds on the lake. The great issue of our time is whether Islam - the fastest-growing religion in Europe and North America - is compatible with the multicultural, super-diverse, boundlessly tolerant society of Western liberals. If I were a feminist or a gay or an 'artist', I wouldn't be reassured by these early birds winging their way from Norwegian courts and Midwestern playhouses. Mark Steyn, North American Editor of The (London) Spectator. There's no plot. Islam really does want to conquer the world. That's because Muslims, unlike many Christians, actually believe they are right, and that their religion is the path to salvation for all. Anthony Browne. You go back home. This is our country. Muslims asking Hege Storhaug to leave the vicinity of a mosque in Amsterdam shortly after the killing of Theo van Gogh. We Norwegian Muslims love this country, and we wish the best for Norway, it is our own country. We will become integrated, but never assimilated. Mohammad Usman Rana (19 years old). Interviewed by Aftenposten, 2004.11.27 If I, who was born and raised in Norway, wish to marry a cousin from Pakistan, I would consider it a breach of my human rights if anyone prevented me from doing so . Jehangir Bahadur, vice president, World Islamic Mission. At present it is not marxism-leninism-maoism that constitutes the major threat towards representative government. The threat at this time is coming from politicizing imams who have learned more from European fascism than they themselves realize. The challenge is found in all totalitarian ideologies – and in complacency and blasé attitudes in relation to the fragile form of governance that the liberal democracy is. Particularly this last point may presently constitute the main threat in Norway. Professor Bernt Hagtvet. There is no reason to fear the political potential of Islam in Norway today. The process of privatization is too active and the secularization too substantial for that to be an issue . Religious Historian Per Marius Meidell. Aftenposten, 2004.09.29. Published just after the First World War, Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West presents a 'comparative morphology' of cultures. 'The West', Spengler argued, has come to its end, as every culture must. We have now entered the period of mere 'civilization', when administration and technology take over from the flowering of the spirit in its summer forms. That is Spengler's account of the Enlightenment, phrased once again in terms of Herder's distinction between Kultur and Zivilisation. Our culture rose to its self-conscious height in the time of Goethe, who captured its spirit in Faust. Thereafter, Spengler believed, it rapidly died, to be replaced by the cold routines of a civilization destined, at last, to crumble to nothingness, as its structure rots away. Roger Scruton in An intelligent person's guide to modern culture It is essential for mankind to have a new leadership [...] It is necessary for the new leadership to preserve and develop the material fruits of the creative genius of Europe, and also to provide mankind with such high ideals and values as have so far remained undiscovered by mankind, and which will also acquaint humanity with a way of life which is harmonious with human nature, which is positive and constructive, and which is practicable. [...] Islam is the only system which possesses these values and this way of life. Sayyid Qutb in Milestones One of the main reasons for the confusion regarding the idea of the Islamic state is the indiscriminate application - both by the upholders and the critics of this idea - of Western political terms and definitions to the entirely different concept of Islamic polity. Not infrequently we find in the writings of modern Muslims the assertion that "Islamic is democratic" or even that it aims at the establishment of a "socialist" society; whereas many Western writers refer to an alleged "totalitarianism" in Islam which must necessarily result in dictatorship. Such superficial attempts at political definitions are not only mutually contradictory, and therefore of no practical value for the purposes of a serious discussion, but also carry with them the danger of looking at the problems of Muslim society from the angle of Western historical experiences alone and, thus, of envisaging developments which may be justifiable or objectionable - depending on the viewpoint of the observer - but may be wholly out of place within the world-view of Islam. Muhammad Asad, The Principles of State and Government in Islam, page 18 Viewed from this historical perspective, 'democracy' as conceived in the modern West is infinitely nearer to the Islamic than to the ancient Greek concept of liberty; for Islam maintains that all human beings are socially equal and must, therefore, be given the same opportunities for development and self-expression. On the other hand, Islam makes it incumbent upon Muslims to subordinate their decisions to the guidance of the Divine Law revealed in the Qur'ãn and exemplified by the Prophet: an obligation which imposes definite limits on the community's right to legislate and denies to the 'will of the people' that attribute of sovereignty which forms so integral a part of the Western concept of democracy. Muhammad Asad, The Principles of State and Government in Islam, page 19.
ARTICLE 24: All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari'ah. The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, 5 August 1990
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