Next Steps

I've been thinking about what we can effectively do about the war with Islam, and not coming up with any answers. Today, I was handed a Falun Gong newsletter and I thought that this is exactly what we need to do. You can see similar material to what was in the newspaper at http://www.faluninfo.net/.
A newpaper would work wonders because so many people are catching on to Islam that just a little push will send them our way. Seeing a professional looking newspaper will provide many the reassurance that they need to feel comfortable saying we need to deal with the problem of Islam. A newspaper could also create some buzz in other media. Finally, if we could develop a cadre of people working on this newspaper, we would also an infrastructure for other projects and have spokesmen for the media.

The newspaper should discuss the whole gamut of Islamic evil: killing of apostates, burning of churches, execution of homosexuals, genitial mutilation of women, stories about wearing burqas, stories of being whipped for alcohol, stories of being punished for sex, honor killing, wife beating, and so forth. In order to counteract the unhappy tenor of the newspaper, there would have to a few happy human interest stories. For example, there could a story about escaping muslim slavery in Sudan in which the angle is on the happiness of getting away. As much as it pains me to say this, we should avoid talking much about Jews or Israel. We must avoid the appearance of being propaganda for Israel or being Christian fundamentalist propaganda or else the newspaper will be a waste of time in terms of advancing our views. It is essential to win hearts and minds in groups beyond Jews and fundamentalist Christians. It is also essential to present the main stream media with nothing that they can really attack. Thus, the newspaper should be careful not to attack Islam or Muslims directly. The newspaper should claim to advocate peaceful solutions--just as CAIR does.

The two obstacles are getting funding and getting people to hand out the newspapers. I'm almost certain that there is some wealthy person who be willing to fund the whole thing or that we could even round up the funds ourselves. The bigger problem I think is getting people devoted enough to spend three or four hours a week handing out these newspapers. How do we develop a network? I suspect that right-wing Christians groups have the best organization to start the network. Hopefully, they will be willing to outreach to other groups, like gay people and the few feminists actually concerned about the fate of women in Islamic countires. We must be able to present ourselves as a coalition.


We also need a website like http://www.faluninfo.net/. I believe I've seen some sites going this way, but we need a really encyclopedic site--not a blog--about muslim evil including history.