I'm getting rather tired of these memes saying IS doesn't represent Islam just like the KKK doesn't represent Christianity.
— Harvir Dhillon (@HarvirDhillon) July 1, 2015
And the people who most buy into this sort of argument think they've taken some really progressive and nuanced stance. The good stance.
— Harvir Dhillon (@HarvirDhillon) July 1, 2015
The only good stance is for one to be intellectually honest. Clearly IS claims to represent orthodox Islam. Their actions back that up.
— Harvir Dhillon (@HarvirDhillon) July 1, 2015
The question then becomes whether you tar ALL Muslims with the same brush (bigotry) or seek to oppose ideology (orthodox Islam).
— Harvir Dhillon (@HarvirDhillon) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon Non-political Muslims living in the West understandably want to dissociate their religion from ISIS to avoid Islamophobia.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon Listen to Reverend Butler's THOUGHT FOR THE DAY at http://t.co/6llVGhxv3C about religion being an ideological weapon of war.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@ntfem Of course but they end up doing more harm by espousing platitudes that have no bearing on reality. Poses a problem for discourse.
— Harvir Dhillon (@HarvirDhillon) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon Muslims in the West are terrified of being accused of terrorism or being apologists of terrorism, so they say black is white.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon In a way @anjemchoudary is performing a public service by explaining the ISIS position as it really is.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon The point is that even in Mohammedan times, the Koran had to enjoin Mohammed's followers to fight and bribe them with heaven.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon Some people like to fight and others just want to lead a quiet life. Young men don't even need an excuse to fight.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon If young men love to fight, so all the more would they fight if they think there is a Godly and righteous cause.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon Since Western foreign policy is actually morally and intellectually indefensible, Western governments are not going there.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon Refusal of gvt to discuss foreign policy will only confirm in the minds of those minded to fight the rightness of their cause
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon I have made this point hundreds of times, but no journalist or politician will ever pick it up cos they are too afraid.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon Even @SayeedaWarsi is reduced to wittering on about "the drivers of radicalisation": SHE MEANS UK FOREIGN POLICY.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon Why is @SayeedaWarsi wittering on about "the chauffeurs of radicalisation" WHEN SHE REALLY MEANS UK FOREIGN POLICY?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon in a recent poll on aljazeera Arabia a staggering 81% were in support of IS
— mark (@yakuza72) July 1, 2015
@yakuza72 @HarvirDhillon And what was the sample?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon All the Muslims in power are too terrified of admitting the obvious: ISIS is fuelled by observance of http://t.co/v6uYdjQHei
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
(I should have said "All Muslims in office ... etc."
@HarvirDhillon @yakuza72 Are they tracked by their country of residence?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@ntfem Yes. It's underestimated how much some people really believe this stuff.
— Harvir Dhillon (@HarvirDhillon) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon @yakuza72 Are they tracked by their country of residence?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon @yakuza72 Muslims mostly in Muslim countries would be voting for ISIS like mad, I can imagine.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon @yakuza72 I can imagine even non-Muslims voting for ISIS if they hate the West and the stuff it promotes like gay marriage.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
@HarvirDhillon @yakuza72 We should not forget quite how many enemies the West through its demented foreign policy has collected for itself.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) July 1, 2015
