The Manifesto in Defiance of Islamism

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Stop the ACLU has an open letter (and open trackback) on opposition to Islamism. Among many other online sites, they print the following manifesto:



Together facing the new totalitarianism



After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.



We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.



The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.



Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man's domination of woman, the Islamists' domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.



We reject « cultural relativism », which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.



We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.



We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.



(signed) Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Chahla Chafiq, Caroline Fourest, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Irshad Manji, Mehdi Mozaffari, Maryam Namazie, Taslima Nasreen, Salman Rushdie, Antoine Sfeir, Philippe Val, Ibn Warraq.



In case you weren't aware, I've been against Islamism for a very long time. I was one of the few people who didn't move anywhere politically as the result of 9/11 - I knew something like that was coming, and however much I wish I had been wrong, merely having my prediction confirmed is not grounds for moving further against Islamism's insanity.



To the Islamists, I say:



To hell with your demand that we all become Islamic.



To hell with your demand that we give Islamics preferential treatment.



To hell with your demand that we treat women as lesser beings.



To hell with your demand that we treat women as being guilty of anything they are accused of and unable to effectively testify in their own defense.



To hell with your demand that we allow your religion to dictate how we will respond to the universe.



To hell with your demand that the will of Allah as interpreted by your clerics shall be the supreme ruling word of the world. We did not elect Allah, we definitely did not elect his clerics, and we do not acknowledge any authority of theirs save that which is given them voluntarily by their own believers.



In short, I do not submit.



I will not submit.



I will exercise the rights reserved to me as a free individual by the United States Constitution and other such documents. I will aid by any means at my disposal the ability of others to do so. I will not stand by and permit others to be oppressed by my lack of action.



If you can't handle it, that is your problem.

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