Magdi Allam: The fight against Islamism starts by defending Israel's right to exist
Magdi Cristiano Allam, a former Muslim and Egyptian-Italian politician and journalist, was interviewed by France Soir. I bring here the part of the interview.
Q: The fatwas against you were renewed since you left Islam. Is linking Islamism to Islam bad for your case?
A: I fight more than anyone in favor of recognizing the rights of Muslims as individuals, but I am opposed to Islam as a religion that I have tried unsuccessfully to reform, but whose basic texts legitimize violence. Moderate Muslims are less orthodox than Islamists.
Q: Is your battle against Islamism a political struggle for civilization?
A: I entered politics as part of a dual commitment to defend a Europe threatened by a conquering Islamism and by the spiritual, ethical and identity void of Europe. The veil and the burqa are everywhere in Europe, and the new antisemitism is trivialized under cover of anti-Zionism, unmistakable signs for the progression of the Islamic ideology of death. In Belgium, Jewish friends have their children accompanied to school by bodyguards. The police no longer enters lawless neighborhoods where the Islamic order is making headway. It's very disturbing. Europe is not a land of conquest!
Q: In "Pour que vive Israël" ["Long Live Israel - From the Ideology of Death to the Civilization of Life: My Story"] you link the right of Israel to exist to denoucning the Islamic Muslim Brotherhood's "beheading of the language". What do you mean by that?
A: The ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, so-called peaceful, tactically denouncing beheadings, is the same as that of terrorists. They want to prevent the integration of Muslims in Europe, call for different rights, prevent criticism of Islam (hence "beheading the language") in the name of the fight against Islamophobia, and deny the legitimacy of Israel to exist. The fight against Islamism starts with the defense of this right to life, because Islamism justifies their massacres against non-Muslims and Muslims in the name of the hatred of Jews and Israel. This right to life should be inalienable, independent of the right to criticize any state, including Israel.
Source: France Soir (French)
Magdi Cristiano Allam, a former Muslim and Egyptian-Italian politician and journalist, was interviewed by France Soir. I bring here the part of the interview.
Q: The fatwas against you were renewed since you left Islam. Is linking Islamism to Islam bad for your case?
A: I fight more than anyone in favor of recognizing the rights of Muslims as individuals, but I am opposed to Islam as a religion that I have tried unsuccessfully to reform, but whose basic texts legitimize violence. Moderate Muslims are less orthodox than Islamists.
Q: Is your battle against Islamism a political struggle for civilization?
A: I entered politics as part of a dual commitment to defend a Europe threatened by a conquering Islamism and by the spiritual, ethical and identity void of Europe. The veil and the burqa are everywhere in Europe, and the new antisemitism is trivialized under cover of anti-Zionism, unmistakable signs for the progression of the Islamic ideology of death. In Belgium, Jewish friends have their children accompanied to school by bodyguards. The police no longer enters lawless neighborhoods where the Islamic order is making headway. It's very disturbing. Europe is not a land of conquest!
Q: In "Pour que vive Israël" ["Long Live Israel - From the Ideology of Death to the Civilization of Life: My Story"] you link the right of Israel to exist to denoucning the Islamic Muslim Brotherhood's "beheading of the language". What do you mean by that?
A: The ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, so-called peaceful, tactically denouncing beheadings, is the same as that of terrorists. They want to prevent the integration of Muslims in Europe, call for different rights, prevent criticism of Islam (hence "beheading the language") in the name of the fight against Islamophobia, and deny the legitimacy of Israel to exist. The fight against Islamism starts with the defense of this right to life, because Islamism justifies their massacres against non-Muslims and Muslims in the name of the hatred of Jews and Israel. This right to life should be inalienable, independent of the right to criticize any state, including Israel.
Source: France Soir (French)
No comments:
Post a Comment