Muslims Abandon The Faith

By using leftist ideas as a bridge to Islamism, Bin Laden hopes to encourage and benefit from discord within the West. But the other major ideological effect of the War on Terrorism has been a quiet but growing cultural civil war within the Muslim world.

This is not a conflict between "moderate" Muslims and "extremists." An article in the London Times exposes a prominent "moderate" Muslim as a man who believes in Muslim conquest of the infidels but who believes that "Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle."

Rather, the civil war within the Muslim world will be a battle against apostates who reject Islam—people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Wafa Sultan. The article below describes a new movement by the children of Muslim immigrants in Holland, who are demanding the freedom to reject Islam without fear of violence and intimidation.

I remember a Muslim radical once boasting that Islam will conquer Europe "with the wombs of our women"—i.e., by the brute materialistic process of procreation. I responded by predicting that we, the West, would win by taking the minds of their children. This story is the first major evidence I have seen that this is beginning to happen.

"Young Muslims Begin Dangerous Fight for the Right to Abandon Faith," David Charter, Times of London, September 11 A group of young Muslim apostates launches a campaign today, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, to make it easier to renounce Islam.

The provocative move reflects a growing rift between traditionalists and a younger generation raised on a diet of Dutch tolerance.

The Committee for Ex-Muslims promises to campaign for freedom of religion but has already upset the Islamic and political Establishments for stirring tensions among the million-strong Muslim community in the Netherlands.

Ehsan Jami, the committee’s founder, who rejected Islam after the attack on the twin towers in 2001, has become the most talked-about public figure in the Netherlands. He has been forced into hiding after a series of death threats and a recent attack….

Speaking to The Times at a secret location before the committee’s launch today, the Labour Party councillor said that the movement would declare war on radical Islam. Similar organisations campaigning for reform of the religion have sprung up across Europe and representatives from Britain and Germany will join the launch in The Hague today.

“Sharia schools say that they will kill the ones who leave Islam. In the West people get threatened, thrown out of their family, beaten up,” Mr Jami said. “In Islam you are born Muslim. You do not even choose to be Muslim. We want that to change, so that people are free to choose who they want to be and what they want to believe in.”…

Mr. Jami, who has compared the rise of radical Islam to the threat from Nazism in the 1930s, is receiving only lukewarm support from his party which traditionally relies upon Muslim votes….

Mr. Jami is being compared to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali refugee who became a prominent Dutch politician campaigning for the reform of Islam but who left eventually for an academic career in the United States.

Jannie Groen, a writer for De Volksrant newspaper, said: “[Among Muslims] he is getting the same reaction as Ayaan Hirsi Ali that he is too confrontational but you are seeing other former Muslims now coming forward. So he has been able to put this issue of apostasy on the agenda, even though they do not want to be in the same room as him and he has had to pay a price.”