Can Someone Explain This Islamic Website to Me?

[Tuckerfan]

I keep getting bizarre articles e-mailed to an account I have. I have no memory of signing up, and I don’t know why I’m getting them, nor exactly what the purpose behind them could be. The latest one seems pretty bizarre

The question now on the agenda is, how is the torture Allah wants done at our hands to be carried out?.. This torture will not, in any way, be carried out by means of preaching [Da’wa], because preaching is activity of exposure, aimed at clarifying the truth in a way that makes it more easily acceptable. Preaching has nothing to do with torture; Jihad is the way of torturing [the infidels] at our hands

Clicking around on the site, I get a little bit of more info, but not enough, really. Has anyone ever heard of them?

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

No, but that won’t stop me from browsing around on Google, it being Sunday afternoon and me having nothing else to do.

Bingo! Extensive discussion of them here.

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/reviews/1017788174.php

Making a MEMRI

Site doesn’t travel very far to cherry-pick offensive comments

Tim Cavanaugh
posted: 2002-04-02

At a time when interfaith dialogue groups are opening around the country, when Islamic histories make the bestseller lists and bookstores can’t keep the Koran in stock, when the nation is following the President’s lead in working toward a fuller and more amicable appreciation of Islam and the Arab world, the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute spreads hate speech, baseless conspiracy theories and vicious calumny in a blatant effort to discredit Arabs and stir up malice toward Muslims…[more, lots and lots and lots of good juicy stuff]

Looks to me like you’re in good hands, Tucker.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

So, er, you have grasped that it isn’t an “Islamic website” as such–the bit you quoted was just from somebody else’s online magazine, and MEMRI was just quoting it?

goes down in basement to commit hara-kiri with garden shears, anything to get “Mem–reeeeee…all aloooone in the mooon…liiiiiiiiiight…” out of head

and it’s ALL YOUR FAULT