Forfatteren Ibn Warraq besøger Deadline.
Den pakistansk-fødte forfatteren Ibn Warraq, der blandt andet har skrevet bogen “Derfor er jeg ikke Muslim” har netop modtaget Trykkefrihedsselskabets Trykkefrihedspris. Ibn Warraq er aftenens gæst i Deadline.
Deadline er en lille forret til den forelæsning Ibn Warraq holdt for et stuvende fuldt Vartov. Det er ikke nemt for en “scholar” at redegøre for sit forfatterskab på 8 minutter og 13 sekunder. Videoen fra Trykkefrihedsselskabet på halvanden time, vil komme online indenfor en uges tid. Da der måske, måske ikke, stadig findes et ønske om “ingen stillfotos” har jeg, indtil andet eventuelt foreliggger, valgt den blødeste mellemvej mellem alt og intet. Warraq selv havde ikke hørt om det, men indtil videre dette kryptiske “portræt”. (foto © Snaphanen)

Warraq blev interviewet af flere aviser, men lige pt. forligger kunne denne samtale fra 4 januar 2008 om “Defending the West”, samt fra idag: Jalving: Til bords med en eftersøgt Jeg burde elaborere mere på den usædvanlige eftermiddag og aften, men jeg har netop sendt mine norske og svenske venner, som jeg har huset, afsted. Det er sent. Derfor blot denne anekdote:
Til Warraq (i en dansk taxi).
Chaufføren: “Clintons daughter Chelsea visits Bush in the White House, and asks him: “Who in the world do you fear the most”?
Bush: “Osama, Obama and your mama”.
Warrraq er en munter, livsglad pessimist. Angiveligt mest melankolsk efter et par glas campagne. Det er jeg også, selv den jeg indkøbte i Reims, bryder jeg mig ikke om. Churchill kunne have lært mig noget om cigarer og champagne.
Endnu en dag, endnu nogle håbløse bortforklaringer
Rundt og rundt om den varme grød igen. Det er kun her i blogosfæren og i avisernes læserbreve at disse ting bliver påpeget. Man vil aldrig se en avisartikel med denne vinkling: Nu er der igen nogle “eksperter” der er fremkommet med en “undersøgelse” der frikender jihadister for personlig skyld og ansvar, og for at være motiveret af 1300 års religiøs dogmatik og historie. Konklusionen er altid, at vi ikke må foretage os noget, for hvis vi gør noget, så bliver de nemlig endnu mere vrede på os, og så går det først rigtig galt. Nu kan en af eksperterne så afsløre, at jihadisters motivation er at finde i noget så trivielt som …. kedsomhed. Begge historier via Jihad Watch:
THE third wave of terrorism facing the world is a leaderless mishmash of young and bored terrorist wannabees, according to a leading US expert.
Former CIA officer and now author Marc Sageman says that the latest jihadis taking up the global call for action more closely resemble criminal gang members than religious fanatics.
Dr Sageman who has just published his second book on terrorism networks, Leaderless Jihad: Terrorist Networks in the Twenty First Century, said they were typically young men looking for action, and wanting to copy their heroes, who include Osama bin Laden.
“It is more about hero-worship than about religion,” said Dr Sageman.
“It’s about youth culture … about being cool – jihadi cool.”[…]
Dr Sageman said the third wave of terrorists were unlike anything we have seen before.
They have little or nothing to do with al-Qa’ida, they don’t read the Koran and are not particularly religious. But they are enraged by the Iraq war.
“They are looking for glory … thrills, and a sense of belonging to a group,” he said in a recent presentation.
“There is a thrill and excitement attached to belonging to the vanguard of a violent social movement that is irresistible.”
Dr Sageman said the best thing to do to combat them was to take the glory out of terrorism. He has called for politicians to resist grandstanding about the war on terror. He also advised to stop indulging terrorists’ passion for glory by immortalising them on wanted posters and putting bounties on their heads. Latest terrorists are ‘looking for thrills’
Dagen i dag kan også bringe en helt idealtypisk historie fra denne særlige fiktionsgenre – indgreb fra politiet gør i virkeligheden problemet værre:
A study from the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University suggests that Australia’s approach to stopping terrorism might actually be encouraging it.
Waleed Aly from the centre says the aggressive police approach is alienating young Muslim men, who may be more likely to turn to radical groups as a result.
He says a community-based approach may be more effective than a hardline approach.
“The problem is that as we repeat that [hardline] approach, what we actually end up doing is exacerbating the problem,” he told tonight’s Four Corners program.
“We set in motion drivers that move us towards greater radicalisation.”
He says currently the police are too willing to use aggressive tactics.
“[Police] feel ‘the more aggressive we can be, the harder we can be, the better’,” he said. Aggressive policing turns Muslims to terrorism: study
Virkelighedsflugten og ansvarsforflygtelsen er i dag paradigme i det meste af den akademiske verden. Ude i kulissen står et andet hold eksperter klar til at træde til, når sludderet ikke længere kan holde virkeligheden fra døren: Navne som f. eks. Walid Phares, Ibn Warraq, Tina Magaard, Mehdi Mozaffari, Bill Warner, Andrew Bostom og Bassam Tibi (LFPC).
“Folkekirkens” dødshjælp til Israel
Palæstinensere udelukket
Nu bygger egypterne en tre meter høj cementmur langs grænsen til Gaza-striben for at holde deres palæstinensiske brødre ude. Desuden trues palæstinensiske grænseoverløbere med at få ’brækket deres ben’, hvis de forsøger at passere den. Hvorfor lyder der ingen protester fra Folkekirkens Nødhjælp over denne mur og de barbariske trusler? Johan Drost, EB
Should Islam be blamed for ‘barbaric’ acts?
By Spengler
Al-Jazeera television on March 9 apologized to viewers after a talk-show guest, Syrian-American psychologist Dr Wafa Sultan, described as “barbaric” the response of Muslims to a Danish newspaper’s cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed. “The Muslims’ barbaric reaction added to the value of these cartoons. It simply proved their rightness,” said Dr Sultan on the Qatari network. “The Muslim is an irrational creature, and the things he learned overpower his mind and inflame his feelings. That is why these remarks have turned him into an inferior creature, who cannot control himself and respond to events in a rational way.”














