Geneive Abdo Quotes
An Islamic world is growing more conservative, religious, and hostile towards the United States with each passing day.
Geneive Abdo, Journalist & Fellow of The Century Foundation, “False Prophets”, Foreign Policy, July/August, 2008
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The writer was born and brought up a Muslim and because he criticizes Islam, he has had a death fatwa issued against him much like Salman Rushdie. His prediction was one of the earliest warnings
While this type of hate message is common with Hamas, it is notable this specific hate and violence propaganda was transmitted via a children’s TV show called “Tomorrow's Pioneers” using a Mickey Mouse-like character. Children call in to the show, many singing Hamas anthems about fighting Israel.
Islam is a religion, like many Christian sects, where conversion of non-believers is a religious duty. When many of the European day-to-day customs, conflict with Islamic custom or prescription, decadence and the desire to change it becomes a very predictable result.
The notion that Islam would be practiced by individuals was in the Ayatollah’s view insufficient. Islam must also control the government—the head.
One remarkable aspect of this quote is that most Western nations have the exact same perception he claims the Islamic word does of what the West is doing. While the Western nations think the defense is necessary and desirable, the Muslim nations fundamentally believe that Christianity and Judaism should and will be supplanted by Islam. To the Islamic fundamentalist religion is a zero sum game. Every person in the world who is not a Muslim is an attack on Islam in that God wants all to follow Islam and wants the faithful to make it so.
In almost every election in those Islamic counties that have elections, the fundamentalist political parties almost always lose by large margins.
The key security organizations of the Pakistan government had large numbers of radical Islamicists with great sympathy and close ties with the Islamic terrorists.
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Geneive Abdo is a scholar and author of several books on the Middle East and the Muslim World. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and a consultant at the World Bank. She was previously a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a nonresident fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution and a fellow in the Middle East program at the Stimson Center think tank. In 2017 Abdo released her latest book The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a--Sunni Divide.
