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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.

12 signatures

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

[Source]

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Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, who has much more here.

Rusty Shackleford: "Add my name."  Add my name too, Rusty. Islamism delenda est! Death before dhimmitude.

Agora has more here.

I'll collect more blog reactions as I have time to look around.

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Charles Johnson: "And you can add my name to that list."

Lawhawk's in.

Vince Aut Morire: I'll Take Your Fatwa And Raise You A Manifesto

Bryan Preston: Sign me up.

Pamela at Atlas Shrugs: "Heads are gonna roll...........no pun intended."

Jay at Stop The ACLU:

"What can one say to such a magnificently written, and clear cut message. Wake up America! We are talking about freedom here! Add my name to the list!"

Beth at Blue Star Chronicles:

"Solidarity. The 12 people who wrote and signed this document know very well the risk they take. We need to send a clear message that they don't stand alone."

If you've signed on and I haven't noticed yet please leave a trackback or comment and I'll add you to my list. ... Later: Agora's doing a great job of keeping track of reactions to this so I'm not going to spend any more time prowling around looking for them.

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Posted by Bill Faith on February 28, 2006 at 08:08 PM in Death before dhimmitude | Permalink

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