BogMarsh
05-07-2006, 14:18
Some Ayatollah or imam I've just invented said:
"The Umma has its role to play in this but, honestly, the Umma itself is not going to defeat this. If we want to defeat Western military action in Afghanistan or Iraq, we have got to defeat its ideas and we have got to address the completely false sense of grievance against Islam.”
He added: “I am not the person to go into the West and explain that this extreme view is not the true face of the West. I profoundly disagree that the problem here is that the Umma hasn’t acted.”
He suggested some delays were caused by disagreements among Westerners. “We are not having a debate of a fundamental enough nature within the community, which is where the moderate majority stand up against the ideas of those people. You cannot defeat this extremism through what the Umma does. You can only defeat it within a community,” he said.
"The Umma has its role to play in this but, honestly, the Umma itself is not going to defeat this. If we want to defeat Western military action in Afghanistan or Iraq, we have got to defeat its ideas and we have got to address the completely false sense of grievance against Islam.”
He added: “I am not the person to go into the West and explain that this extreme view is not the true face of the West. I profoundly disagree that the problem here is that the Umma hasn’t acted.”
He suggested some delays were caused by disagreements among Westerners. “We are not having a debate of a fundamental enough nature within the community, which is where the moderate majority stand up against the ideas of those people. You cannot defeat this extremism through what the Umma does. You can only defeat it within a community,” he said.