I see nothing wrong with these books; none of them can match the evil found inside the Koran. This is a free speech issue; let the muslims read their book. It just reinforces what I have said for years, there are no moderate muslims.
When I see a mainstream muslim group condemn mohammed as a thief, a liar, a pedophile and a piss poor excuse for a prophet, then and only then will I believe in a moderate muslim.
By Peter Gelling, 11Feb, 2009, NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, SOLO, INDONESIA
Publishers say books with jihadi messages are released to meet demand, but they have caught the eye of couterterrorism experts
-Many of these so called “counterterrorism experts’ aid the enemy by perpetuating the myth that only a small percentage of the worlds muslims are violent. The truth is all sects recognize mohammed as a role model, some do not follow every tenant and a few do not practice the jihad except under strict rules. All that doesn’t make them moderates, moderates would turn in the radicals, outlaw slavery, pedophilia and murder for insulting a criminal that died in the seventh century.
At a small, back-street bookstore, the young employees, wearing matching green skullcaps and sporting wispy chin beards, stock books with titles like Waiting for the Destruction of Israel and Principles of Jihad.
-All of which is common in the Koran.
They work quietly, listening to the voice of a firebrand Islamic preacher playing on the store’s sound system, his sermon peppered with outbursts of machine-gun fire.
Another young man, a customer, sifts through a pile of DVDs that chronicle the conflicts in Chechnya, Afghanistan and Sudan. T-shirts, stickers and pins on sale at the back of the store are emblazoned with slogans like “Support Your Local Mujahedeen” and “Taliban All-Stars.”
-Outlawing this is pointless as long as mosques and Korans remain. These books and dvds did not cause the jihad-mohammed did.
The jihadi books at the store, which is called Arofah, have been made available by a small but growing group of publishers in and around Solo, a commercial city known as a bastion of conservative Islam.
Many of the publishers openly support the ideological goals of Jemaah Islamiyah, a banned Southeast Asia terrorist network that has been implicated in most of the major terrorist bombings in Indonesia.
The publishers, about 12 so far, still have limited prospects for sales and influence. Radical books generally do not sell well in Indonesia, where a vast majority of the population of 240 million practice a moderate brand of Islam.
-Define moderate; incest, pedophilia, drug abuse and slavery are all common in “moderate” Indonesia. (more…)
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