Our movement is peaceful. We’re not, but our movement is.
Here’s a good juxtaposition which Allen Esterson pointed out to me:
“Our movement is peaceful,” he said. “The government too should stay calm. We’ve warned the government that if it ever tried to suppress us by force, thousands of students of madrassas will retaliate with suicide attacks.”
Peaceful indeed. Quaker-like. Peaceful as a pond on a windless afternoon in August.
More like as peaceful as the frozen lake of Cocytus.
It does not seem to have occurred to the Islamophobes who frequent this website that there may be no inconsistency in the words of the Islamic cleric in question. Quite possibly when he writes of
“suicide attacks” he means that the thousands of students of madrassas will take part in mass hunger strikes to the death, during which no doubt some of them will experience nervous attacks.
Re: Peace? from a different Madrass School perspective.
An excerpt from an excellent article at FrontPageMagazine.com
“The Americans, the Europeans, and even Israelis really don’t know what it is all about, do you? During the last generation hundreds of thousands of children have been taught all over the muslim world in Madrass schools to become martyrs for Allah in order to kill the infidels. These youngsters not only are ready to do it, but are actually in the process of doing it.
Bombs are going off all over the world killing and maiming thousands of people, not only on 9/11 in the US, in London Madrid and Bali, but in Africa, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and many other places. The first signs of the Islamic Tsunami is already here, but the West doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to understand what is coming.”
“Our movement is peaceful,” he said. “The government too should stay calm”.
The Madrass Schools in general have a lot to answer.