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Isolate the negative elements from the peaceful open-minded majority in the Islamic World.
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7 Bullet Point Plan to defend our Free World
written by: Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, 12-Sep-01
 -Written just a few hours after 9/11-
- Prevent “provocative weakness” by immediate and massive retaliation against terrorist leaders, networks and their harboring governments: Talk to Fritz Kraemer.
- Preempt a possible 2nd wave of terror by increasing security measures at all levels.
- Deal with the Islamic world like NATO did successfully with the two track decision in December 1979: isolate the aggressive negative forces from the moderate majority. i.e. Koran says: “Do not kill innocent people!”. Therefore there is no religious basis for the attacks. The terrorists are anti-islamic : Talk to Mubarak, General Musharraf.
- Stop financing or else embargo governments with educational programs for their children based on hate and aggression towards the Free World: Talk to Arafat.
- Form new alliances with countries, especially from the Islamic community, which actively oppose this attack and measurably support the defensive anti-terrorist-program.
- Incentivise substantially all Islamic governments and organizations which distance themselves now from their terrorist supporting past: Talk to Gadafi.
- Support Israel’s self-defense openly as this country is endangered of being destroyed by this historcal terroristic hate wave.
Munich, Germany, 12th September 2001
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we have yet to witness a fatwa expressed by the so far " peaceful open minded majority(?) in the Islamic world distancing themselves from Islamist´s terror.
One can be open minded when one has a CHOICE. Let there be as many churches and synagoues in arab lands as there are mosques in the open minded western world, then we shall know what the majority thinks.
August, 17, 2005
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"Isolate the negative elements from the peaceful open-minded majority in the Islamic World."
This is a beautiful but naïve sentiment. One can no more isolate the “negative elements” of the Islamic World than one can isolate the “negative elements” of one’s self. The negative elements are part and parcel of the alleged “peaceful open-minded majority”. We cannot separate or isolate these elements as if these concepts were chaff from a kernel of grain; because they are in fact much more like the interwoven threads of marvelous brocade. These negative elements are manifest because of collective reactions against something. That something sadly may be what the rest of us view as “peaceful, open-minded” ideas. These negative elements exist in reaction, and counter reaction to a world moving at the speed of sound and fury into a technologically advanced age that has left many communities (Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist, Bah’ I, etc) feeling torn, unraveled, frayed, and spiritually threadbare.
This is not an Islamic issue this is a spiritual crisis of epidemic proportion effecting all of us—fundamentalism in any form is a soothing blanket for the faithful, because it allows the individual believer a sense of security, a set pattern upon which to weave his/her life. The wholesale relinquishing of thought and decision making, is a comfort; and peaceful are the faithful—they have no doubts or troubled minds—the fabric of their lives is predetermined.
What must be clearly understood is that those “negative elements” in many cases co-exist; sometimes residing in the same country, community, tribe, family, and even individual depending on the issue being addressed. What is key to the survival of the Islamic World vis-à-vis the rest of the world (if we choose to make such a division—though I don’t believe we should) is education, and tolerance from all sides. To understand why a philosophy comes about, why a tradition is honored takes more than a precursory overview of broad ideas—it means addressing our own prejudices and blind spots. What must be understood is that in many cases we (the Western World and often the USA) carded the wool and spun the very threads that make the original fabric, the pattern for the original problem. The case that comes clearly to mind is of course Bin Laden and the freedom fighters of Afghanistan—who were supported by Western interests against a Soviet Invasion—and were abandoned upon the withdrawal of Soviet Forces. This situation was due completely to Cold War politics, but our responsibility in creating the original circumstances that allowed the Talliban to flourish, and weave its intricate network of dedicated terrorist cells cannot be abdicated.
The same can be shown with regard to the Middle East, India, Africa and even South America. Britain as well as the other former Colonial powers who manipulated and vied for power on those continents made arbitrary decisions regarding boundaries and national boarders. The results of those divisions are no more clearly focused than in the “Levant.” Still, time has moved on and the existing boundaries as well as now recognized nation states are what we have to work with. Those decade, sometimes century old disputes (that we all helped to create) are the modern framework within which we must labor towards peace. These boundaries are not only extant between lands, but between peoples and ideas. First we must understand the complexities of how and why those “negative elements” (in any community, Muslim or otherwise) became woven into the fabric of our lives. Then we must educate ourselves to the nuance of these problems objectively, this is the only way what one group perceives as the “peaceful open-minded majority” can be reconciled with the perceived “negative elements” of that same society, community, world.
Isolating “negative elements” is not an option--it doesn't work--it often makes those elements stronger. Understanding how those elements became isolated and negative is the key to resolving the issues within not only the Islamic community, but, all communities. Comprehending against what these “negative elements” are reacting, are in opposition to, fleeing from, or afraid of is critical to the next step: education, and honest justice. Education and justice will lead to the reconciliation and moderation of negative elements throughout the world—Islamic or otherwise—and taking responsibility collectively and individually for the actions that created the current world situation is the proper answer not additional isolation of disenfranchised individuals/groups/”elements.”
United States
April, 12, 2005
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The only way to isolate them is to have them join Yasin.
United States
August, 20, 2004
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