Political Islam is a serious threat to every democratic country:
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Unveiling Islam and Multiculturalism
In Defence of Secularism and Universal Women's Rights
Author: Azam Kamguian
By the time of writing these lines, the forces of political Islam
continue to brutalise and victimise people in general and
women in particular in the Middle East and in the West.
In Europe, they forcefully campaign against the law banning
veil in state schools and state institutions. In opposing this
progressive law, they hide their ugly faces behind 'freedom of belief',
'religious intolerance', 'dress freedom', and 'religious freedom',
and who wouldn't know that they have been and continue to be
the very first brutal violators of the same rights.
In Canada, Islamists are trying to set up Islamic tribunal that would
arbitrate on marital break-ups and other civil disputes among people
from Muslim origin on the basis of the Islamic Sharia law.
They seek to establish a state within a state in order to oppress people
legally and officially. Of course, they would not do that without backing
of the reactionary politics of multi-culturalism.
For over two decades, millions around the world have fallen victim
to the forces of political Islam: countless people have been executed,
beheaded, stoned to death, had their limbs cut off, flogged and
maimed, bombed to pieces and routed by Islamic states,
political Islamic movements and Islamic terrorists in Iran,
the Sudan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Central Asia,
and finally in America.
Political Islam is a reactionary movement that opposes women's rights,
civil liberties and freedom of expression. They are for the enforcement
of brutal laws and traditions, and the killing, beheading and slaughter of
people from young children to the elderly. Violence and disregard for
human life, dignity and happiness is part of their definition. Women have
been and continue to be the first victims of this reactionary movement.
Western governments encourage and sup****t political Islam as long
as it would leave its weapons outside their borders, washes the blood
from its hands and does not carry on its terrorist activities in the west.
Of course western governments don't mind at all about what Islamic
terrorism and this barbarism does to Iraq, to Iran, to Palestine and to
elsewhere in the Middle East. In fact, they brought this movement
from the margins to the mainstream in the Middle East, sup****ted
and nurtured it.
Despite the efforts of progressive people around the world,
fighting reaction and the terror of religion in general and political
Islam
in particular, remains our prime task. Now, more than ever before,
secularism and the establishment of secular and egalitarian states
have become an urgent and pressing need and demand of the people,
both in the Middle East and in the West.
Movement for the separation of religion and state, for a secular education
and for fighting the forces of organised religion is alive and dynamic.
Combating political Islam is an integral part of this movement and remains
our vital task.
In the Middle East, hopes continue coming from Iran where the society
has changed dramatically and deeply since 1979. The movement for
secularism and atheism, for modern ideas and culture, for individual
freedom, for women's freedom and civil liberties is widespread.
Contempt for religion and the backward ruling culture is deep.
Women and the youth are the champions of this battle; a battle
that threatens the foundation of the Islamic system.
We must push religion back to where it belongs, to the dark ages.
To subordinate Islam to human and to reason remains our great task.
Any change in Iran will not only affect the lives of people living in
Iran,
but will have a significant impact on the region and worldwide.
This book is a small step towards achieving this im****tant task.
It is a selection of my speeches and essays presented and published
in International and national congresses and conferences and media
around the world. I have tired to address the key issues in criticising
Islam,
in combating political Islam, in defending atheism, secularism,
universalism and women's rights, in exposing the reactionary ideas
of cultural relativism and multi- culturalism and policies and practices
which oppress people particularly women in Islamic environments
in the Middle East and in the west.
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