West challenged by one of its own 
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West challenged by one of its own 
Outspoken convert to Islam says she's still a feminist, but critics can't 
see past the hijab

RON CSILLAG
special to the star

Once a hard-nosed, hard-drinking Fleet Street reporter, Yvonne Ridley today 
is a proud, pious and unapologetic Muslim. Islam is "the biggest and best 
family in the world," she says, but deeply misunderstood.

The 48-year-old London-based journalist and political activist brought her 
campaign against the West and its war on terror to Canada this month, 
visiting Toronto, Waterloo and Montreal to speak at fundraising dinners for 
the Canadian Islamic Congress. 

"I've always been a fighter for women's rights. I still am. I'm still a 
feminist, except now I would say I'm an Islamic feminist. I have been 
supporting the Palestinian cause for three decades now. That hasn't changed. 
What has changed are people's perceptions of me. 

"As soon as I put on a hijab, it was like, `Oh my God, she's a radical. She 
an exremist.' And suddenly, I moved from being a journalist to a Muslim 
activist."

But her visit here inflamed critics. B'nai Brith Canada, protesting she's a 
"terrorist sympathizer" whose views are "extremist and dangerous," called 
for her talks to be monitored by police.

Ridley has been called an Islamist dupe and an apologist for terrorism. 
Remarks attributed to her include a reference to Jewish critics as "those 
nauseating little Zionists who accuse me of being an anti-Semite" and a 
characterization of London cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is serving a 
seven-year prison sentence for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, 
as "quite sweet, really."
Asked prior to her Toronto talk to comment, she denies nothing. Those 
reported remarks "are regurgitated by people who have an agenda against me," 
she tells the Star.

Yes, she called al-Masri sweet, but "that was part of a one-hour, 20-minute 
talk in which he was featured for about 30 seconds."

She was quoted "totally out of context," she says. "It would be like you 
looking at Hitler and saying, `Apparently, he was a very gifted artist and I 
looked at his work and it moved me.' The next thing you know, you pick up 
the paper and somebody is saying, `Oh God, that man said Hitler was gifted 
and he was moved by him.'"

Ridley blames journalists, always out for a juicy sound bite.

"This is the trouble with the media. I'm not having a go at you," she says, 
"but you do try and simplify issues....If you tell me what story you've been 
told to get and what headline you need, then I'll try and help you."

Would she characterize a Muslim who calls for violence as un-Islamic or 
radical? "Historically," Ridley points out, "violence has worked." 

The Irish Republican Army "bombed their way to the negotiating table." 

And the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel by the Irgun, pre-state 
Israel's Jewish militia, was "a defining moment in the British army's desire 
to get the hell out of Jerusalem."

There's no difference, Ridley says, "between a suicide bomber and a Stealth 
bomber because they both kill innocent people. And the death of innocent 
people is always to be condemned."

Ridley's extraordinary journey to her present activism began just after the 
9/11 attacks when, as a reporter for Britain's Daily Express (which calls 
itself "The World's Greatest Newspaper"), she donned a burqa and sneaked 
into Afghanistan to cover the war on terror. 

At the time, she was an Anglican who attended church about twice a month, 
"which in Britain, is regarded as fanatical." She had a knowledge of Islam 
"you could probably write on the back of a postage stamp, and it was 
incorrect."

Her assignment finished, she was making her way out of Afghanistan when the 
Taliban discovered she had camera tucked beneath her robes. Held and 
interrogated for 10 days in Jalalabad and Kabul, she was released after 
promising her captors that she would read the 
Qur'an. She kept her word and read the Qur'an. In 2003, she converted to 
Islam.

Ridley, who wears a black hijab and jilbab, or floor-length cloak, prays 
fives daily, eschews alcohol, and bristles at suggestions she represents a 
textbook case of Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological condition in which the 
captive empathizes with her captor.

"That comes from people who cannot accept that a Western woman has rejected 
what they see as Western values (in order) to embrace Islam," she says.

The Taliban have been "demonized beyond recognition, because you can't drop 
bombs on nice people."

But "I did not bond with my captors," she says. "I spat at them. I swore at 
them. I threw things at them. I was aggressive. I was rude (and) obnoxious. 
I was the prisoner from hell."

But what about her conversion? Has she compromised her journalistic 
objectivity by embracing the philosophy of her captors? 

"I didn't embrace the philosophy of my captors," is the crisp reply. "My 
captors were the Taliban, and (they) have a very specific type of doctrine. 
And I didn't embrace that. 

"I embraced Islam. I embraced what I consider to be pure Islam."

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our nation on September 11, 2001 used a total of 364 aliases.)

Islam is a supremacist political ideology. The Arabs, especially the
Quraish tribe, are, according to Islam, the master race of the
universe. Other Muslims are their helpers, and the rest of us are
called kuffars. According to the sharia law, Arab women cannot marry
non-Arab men because Allah has chosen the Arabs above others. The word
kuffar is as pejorative as the word nigger; it means a non-Muslim
beast in a human form. Muslims who treat the kuffars as human beings
are apostates, so they must be killed, preferably by their own
families. (According to the hadith, a special reward in paradise is
reserved for the killers of apostates.) Muslims broke world records of
genocide (270 million victims), slavery, religiously sanctioned rape,
abuse of human rights, and prohibition of scientific inquiry. Two
years after Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor, the Haavara Agreement
permitted emigration of German Jews to Palestine. Haj Amin El-
Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem, persuaded Adolf Eichmann and Adolf
Hitler that Jews should be killed before they flee Germany. Islam
forbids Muslim emigration to the lands of the infidels because a
Muslim minority cannot enslave the infidel majority. Despite this
prohibition Muslims emigrate to the West, not as migrants, but as
conquerors. They live in sharia mini-states and expand these mini-
states by terrorizing infidel neighbors and driving them out. Any
society not willing to subjugate itself to Islamic authority is,
according to Islam, in a state of war, or Dar al-Harb, with Islam.
Arabic proverb says "first comes Saturday, then Sunday." It means that
Arabs are going to exterminate Jews before they exterminate
Christians. It also means that Israel is the first line of defense
against Islam. Another Arabic proverb (al-fikr kuffar) says that the
very act of thinking (fikr) makes one an infidel (kuffar). Islam, like
cancer, has the sole purpose of making more of itself. It will kill
our civilization unless it is cut, poisoned, and radiated into
remission.

Best ways to deal with Muslim invasion of the West:
1. Deportation to countries of their origin.
2. Deportation to Muslim-only towns guarded by the police.
3. One child per family policy reinforced with sterilization.
4. Mandatory lessons about Muslim atrocities.
5. Very strict control of Muslim clergy (mullahs).
6. Tax on Muslims to recompense us for all the harm they have done to
us.
7. Sermons (khutbah) and religious instructions must be conducted in
the local language, rather than Arabic, so that hate speech can be
easily identified.

“I have been made victorious with terror.” - Muhammad (according to
Bukhari: 4.52.220)

"Human blood is the life-line of Islam, violence its hallmark, and
hate its foundation. In the beginning, Islam lives on the blood of
infidels. When that is unavailable, or becomes difficult, Islam must
cannibalize itself." - Abul Kasem

In a poll taken for the Davos World Economic Forum, stunning numbers
of Europeans fear a "threat" from Muslims with whom they "interact":
79 percent of Danes, 67 percent of Italians, 68 percent of Spaniards,
65 percent of Swedes and 59 percent of Belgians. source:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/blankley042308.php3?printer_friendly

Islam is already the fastest-growing religion in Europe. Driven by
immigration and high birthrates, the number of Muslims on the
continent has tripled in the last 30 years. Most demographers forecast
a similar or even higher rate of growth in the coming decades. source:
http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=60

Europe’s Muslim population is set to increase from around 13% today to
between 22% and 37% of the population by 2025. source:
http://news.scotsman.com/europeanunion/CIA-gives-grim-warning-on.2595505.jp

The average European couple now has fewer than 1.4 babies, compared to
3.6 babies born to the average Muslim immigrant couple in Europe.
Across Western Europe 16 to 20 percent of babies are being born into
Muslim families… By 2025, one-third of all European children will be
born to Muslims… In Italy, 95% of all rapists are Muslims. Eighty-five
percent of all murderers are Muslims… France will have a Muslim
majority in less than 25 years! Another telling statistic is that
although the Muslims are 12% of France's population, 70 percent of a
total of 60,775 prisoners in France are Muslims! All of France's urban
suburbs are being roamed by Muslim black African or Arabic gangs… A
very high proportion of French Muslims are in the underclass, that
segment of the population that relies not so much on education and
work as on welfare and predatory activities. In fact, over one
thousand Muslim neighborhoods are under monitoring throughout France.
Seven hundred of those Muslim neighborhoods are listed as "violent"
and nearly 400 hundred are listed as "very violent." Violence ranges
from rape (95% of rapists are Muslim), murder (85% of murderers are
Muslim), theft and looting of cars (58% committed by Muslims) and
street fighting to assault on teachers and civil servants… source:
http://www.masada2000.org/islam.html

Muslim per-capita arrest rate on terrorism-related charges in the
United States is 2.5 times higher than in Europe… If the United
States, despite the much better socio-economic standing of its
Muslims, suffers from 2.5 times more terrorism per capita than does
Europe, socio-economic improvements are unlikely to solve Europe's
problems. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=932DF90B-4644-49A7-A754-C263BF74DE9B

"Like children playing with dynamite, Western intellectuals,
journalists, and diplomats fantasize that they are achieving results
in the Middle East with their words, promises, apologies, money, and
concessions. Yet how can such innocents cope… with polities and
societies whose basic ruling ethos is that of the serial killer?… Can
anyone really expect a stable society capable of progress in Pakistan
when a large majority of the population expresses admiration for Usama
bin Ladin? And what about the Saudi system where, as one local writer
put it, the big Usama put into practice what the little Usama learned
in a Saudi school?… The radical forces in the region are not expecting
to retain or gain power by negotiating, compromising, or being better
understood. They believe they are going to shoot their way into power
or, just as good, accept the surrender of those they have intimidated.
That is why so much of the Western analysis and strategies for dealing
with the region are a bad joke." - Barry Rubin, source:
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3952&cid=6&sid=20

"Europe is being targeted for deliberate colonization by Muslim
states, and with coordinated efforts aimed at our Islamization and the
elimination of our freedoms. We are being subject to a foreign
invasion, and aiding and abetting a foreign invasion in any way
constitutes treason. If non-Europeans have the right to resist
colonization and desire self-determination then Europeans have that
right, too. And we intend to exercise it." - "Fjordman" source:
http://www.islam-watch.org/Fjordman/European-Declaration-Independence.htm

It is Islamic violence which threatens Holland and all of Europe.
Exactly as in the 1930s, it is the weakness of European leaders which
allows the threat to grow. Just as the League of Nations refused to
stand up to fascism in pre-WW2 Europe, the United Nations grovels
before Islam today. source: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2414

"There does not exist an identifiable body of Muslims, substantive in
number or an outright majority, who could be described as "moderate"
by their repudiation of Muslim extremists. Violence has been an
integral part of Muslim history, irrespective of whether it is
sanctioned by Islam, and Muslims who unhesitatingly use violence to
advance their political ambitions have created a climate within their
faith culture that any Muslim who questions such practice is then
deemed apostate and subject to harm. Consequently, what might pass for
"moderate" Muslims, the large number of Muslims unaccounted for as to
what they think, in practical terms constitute a forest within which
extremists are incubated, nurtured, given ideological and material
support, and to which they return for sanctuary." - Salim Mansur

"A Muslim apostate once suggested to me a litmus test for Westerners
who believe that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance: try
making that point on a street corner in Ramallah, or Riyadh, or
Islamabad, or anywhere in the Muslim world. He assured me you wouldn't
live five minutes." source: http://citizenwarrior2.blogspot.com/2007/10/taqiyya-religious-deception.html

“Muslims who share the same goals as Osama bin Laden but are pursuing
them through non-violent means are celebrated by gullible Westerners
as moderates.” - Robert Spencer

65.2% Muslims favor Caliphate, 65.5% Muslims favor strict Sharia law
in every Islamic country: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28064
(Only the Caliph can wage offensive jihad and offensive jihad is his
main duty.)

"To say that moderate Islam is the solution to radical Islam implies
several things: that moderate Islam exists; that it represents the
true (though perhaps currently disregarded) norm of Islam; and that
radical Islam is a departure from that norm." - Lawrence Auster

At what point is it okay to fight dictators like Saddam or the al
Qaeda terrorists who want to take his place? It turns out that the
answer, according to Gandhi, is NEVER. During World War II, Gandhi
penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender
to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he
criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as
they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered
themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should have thrown
themselves into the sea from cliffs.” “Collective suicide,” he told
his biographer, “would have been heroism.” source:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTM1NTg1YjFhMGE5MzZjZDUzNzNhNzdkMjE2YmEyNTY

Tears of Jihad: http://www.politicalislam.com/tears/pages/tears-of-jihad

Muslim persecution of Christians: http://tinyurl.com/5rro8p
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/islams_global_war_against_chri.html

American Muslim leader Khalid Abdul Muhammad speaks about whites (2
minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJh_mNXPw-E

Muslims in America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLK1Xpc7SMQ

Islam is conquering England: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8aQtoE4nZM

Young Talib beheads Ghulam Nabi: http://tinyurl.com/2rb2e3

Suppressing Discussion of Islam (85 minutes, 120 MB):
http://www.newcriterion.com/cm/webcast/wc_GZq4MHNn.mp3

History of Jihad: http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/History_of_Jihad

Islam = illiteracy, poverty and backwardness:
http://www.islam-watch.org/SujitDas/Holy-Islam-Illiteracy-Poverty-Backwardness.htm

Obsession - Radical Islam's War Against the West: http://europenews.dk/en/node/5811

Latest offerings from the religion of peace: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/