Playing by the Rules – and Winning Victories Against Sharia Law
(May 2013)
http://www.translatingjihad.com/2012/03/assembly-of-muslim-jurists-of-america.html) The best that the defenders of liberty can expect is that all parties will be forced to play by the rules, and violating those rules will bring shame to the offending party.
RULES FOR RADICALS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z4T5H2D1Cb8 at 0:15:50 ) His specific example of an Alinsky-ite organization was a Northern Virginia association called VOICE (Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement) founded in 2008 and consisting of 36 churches, 2 synagogues, and 2 Islamic centers. Somehow, the two Islamic centers have managed to dominate the agenda of this large, mostly-Christian assembly.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/the-right-wing-resurrects_b_1663154.html )
STEPPING UP TO THE GAME
http://www.newenglishreview.org/Louis_Palme/Muhammad_and_People_of_the_Lie/ ) Likewise, Alinsky never mentions Islam in “Rules for Radicals,” but many of his insights are relevant to the ongoing ideological battle, as will be seen below. The excerpts copied here are not meant to present the entire theme of “Rules for Radicals,” but rather to show how Alinsky’s concepts can be used in the battle against Sharia Law.
BEING A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER IS OUR JOB
Dogma is the enemy of human freedom. Dogma must be watched for and apprehended at every turn and twist of the revolutionary movement. The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those [like the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates] who believe with complete certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
THE POWER OF WORDS
HOW TO ORGANIZE FOR LIBERTY
The organizer, in his constant hunt for patterns, universalities, and meaning is always building up a body of experience. Most people do not accumulate a body of experience. Happenings become experiences when they are digested, when they are reflected on, relating to general patterns, and synthesized. An organizer can communicate only within the areas of experience of his audience. The function of an organizer is to raise questions that agitate, that break through the accepted pattern. Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
COMMUNICATION
RE-ANIMATING THE MIDDLE CLASS
Although he was writing in 1970, Saul Alinsky saw the need for animating the middle class. Some of his insights are just as applicable to day.
TACTICS FOR WINNNG
A WORD OF CAUTION
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