@Abdul-Rahman

Thanks, that thing on the three of them might come in handy!

This tool “Kamal Saleem” is absolutely RETARDED! He sounds similar to the right wingers in the US who claim Muslims are allegedly working to bring in Shari’ah law by advancing the supposed “homosexual agenda”! But what else can one expect from an idiot like this “Kamal Saleem” clown, he claims his uncle was the alleged “Grand Vizier of Islam” (a fake “title” he made up) and that he (that is again “Kamal Saleem”) allegedly was a fighter since the “age of 7″ who was supposedly in Libya under Gaddafi, in Iraq under Saddam, and also strangely working with the rivals of the PLO and Hamas in Palestine at the same exact time! He truly is the made up “Forrest Gump” of the Middle East (of course his tale is all a lie he made up and not an entertaining Hollywood movie like what Tom Hanks starred in back in the day).

@Daniel

“I mean, why on earth do they take these claims with no challenging? (Answer: because they LIKE the lies they say, they don’t want to find the truth.)”

Ditto. While most people have prejudices of some sort, some people don’t want to be viewed as an outright bigot. So these are the people who look for “insiders-turned-outsiders who know what these people are REALLY like” to tell them everything they want to hear, and already believe. It gives them a cover for their prejudice. Instead of just saying, “I don’t like the blacks” like some bigots do, these people need the psychological security of being able to say, “well, I heard a black guy say this about his own people, so I’m not a racist just for repeating what he said”, even though this person has the same feelings as the self-admitted bigot. One is simply able to admit their feelings without any qualms, while the other is not.

This situation allows opportunists who have no loyalty to anyone but themselves, to spin tales of terror about what “his people” do when they’re not being watched by the “outsiders” (majority population), which produces a fear of being overtaken by “foreigners.” These people are then paid handsomely for their “services” of “speaking out” against their evil co-patriots. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Both need the other to survive in the psychological/financial bubble they live in. The bigots need the, “I know who these people are because I was one of them!” opportunists, and the opportunists need the bigots to survive in that state.

Is it just me, or does Kamal Saleem’s final paragraph make no sense both conceptually, and structurally? I couldn’t make out a clear thought in that entire paragraph.

@Amago

I should have known the religious right were going to try to connect the two at some point. Now I can only imagine how secular pro choice Islamophobes will react, assuming they don’t just ignore this because fighting the “evil of Islam” is more important.