Author: Alan Caruba
Publication: FaithFreedom.org
Date: December 29, 2007
URL: http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&startnum=41
Since so few of us have any contact with Muslims,
it behooves us to try to gain an insight into the minds of those living in
the West. Common to the culture of the Middle East is the abject refusal to
take any responsibility for anything done in the name of Islam.
While the memory of September 11, 2001 recedes
for Americans, our British cousins have been subjected to a number of Islamic
terrorist acts since then. On July 7, 2005, there were four separate suicide
bombings in London that killed 56 people and injured 700. More recently, on
June 30, 2007, there was the attack on the Glasgow International Airport in
Scotland.
On December 27th I received an email from
the London School of Islamics with a text by Iftkhar Ahmad titled "Terrorist
V Terrorism." It is a window into the mind of Muslims living in the United
Kingdom.
"The recent events have strengthened
the prejudiced belief that 'Islam is the religion of the sword", said
Ahmad who asserted that, "Islamophobia is not only a cause of discrimination
against Muslims, but also an open threat to world peace." One might conclude
that American and British troops are in Afghanistan because of an open threat
to world peace posed by al Qaeda and the spread of Islamism, but not Ahmad.
So far as he was concerned "There is
not a single day when Islam and Muslims are not attacked by the mainstream
news media outlets." Apparently, reporting on Muslim atrocities around
the world constitutes an attack. It is worth noting at this point that no
Muslim community in America has suffered an attack and I cannot recall any
reports of comparable attacks in England. Who then is afraid of another suicide
bombing? It is Americans and British citizens who are not Muslim.
With considerable irony, on December 13, a
Federal judge in Miami declared a mistrial after a jury failed to reach a
verdict in the trial of six men accused in 2006 of plotting to bomb the Sears
Tower in Chicago and several other government buildings. A seventh suspect
was acquitted in what analysts describe as a setback for the US government's
domestic counterterrorism program. Jury selection for a retrial of the other
six suspects will start next month. The group was described as being "inspired"
by al Qaeda. A new trial will try to find a jury that will look at the overwhelming
proof of their intentions.
Meanwhile, in England, according to Ahmad,
"There is an undeclared World War III going on in the name of (the) War
on Terrorism. The fact of the matter is that Islam is all peace and hence
this war is (a) war of terrorism and not against terrorism." A person
has to be seriously deluded or making a serious effort to delude others to
conclude that, "Islam is all peace." Just consider the victims of
Islamist attacks from Bali to London to New York, to name just a few places
where Jihadists have killed people who were not at war with them.
Ahmad, like a great number of Middle Eastern
Muslims is easily offended by anything. He cited that uniforms of the Milan
Italy soccer team whose uniforms sport "Crusader-Style red crosses which
is offensive to Muslims." In his view, the crosses "symbolized 'western
racist superiority over Islam." He also railed against the "republication
of Danish cartoons (that) clearly shows the prevalent ignorance about Islam."
It is hard to be ignorant of the many Islamist terror attacks in recent years.
Ahmad concluded that, "It is the fundamental
duty of Muslims settled in the west to raise awareness of spirit and core
of Islam." I think the terrorist attacks have done that.
Ahmad was far from finished in his diatribe.
He attacked the UK's National Curriculum in which "There is no mention
of (the) Muslim contribution in the world." And what might that be, given
the centuries of oppression that have existed wherever Islam is the dominant
religion. These days, Arab Christians are literally fleeing for their lives
from Iraq and other nations where they are under constant attack, including
murder.
An English teacher in Sudan barely escaped
with her life after she permitted her class to name a teddy bear and they
chose Muhammad. "If a teacher in English schools calls a teddy bear Jesus
Christ, there would be seriously hostile comments in much of the media."
So, tell me, how many Muslim men are named Muhammad? How many Hispanic men
are named Jesus?
Ahmad concluded with the proposal that, in
"those state schools (in England) where Muslim pupils are in majority
may be designated as Muslim Community Schools, managed and controlled by Muslim
Educational Trusts and Charities."
There's a Yiddish word for this. It's called
chutzpah!
The Islamists in England, throughout Europe,
and here in America do not lack for nerve. Indeed, they are carrying out a
process by which Islam has imposed its will wherever the Muslim community
has achieved a near majority or majority status.
It is reflects the intention of Islam to subjugate
any nation in which Muslims gain a population foothold. Where Islam is the
dominant religion, it also expects to be the law of the land, rejecting a
secular approach to government. This is its threat to Western nations whose
tradition of tolerance permits juries to deadlock over trials of terrorists,
whose loss commitment to their own religious beliefs allows the nation to
be undermined by claims of prejudice.
Islam was never the religion of England, though
the schism between Catholics and Protestants had its bloody chapters. The
English by any definition are Christians. If Ahmad and his deceptions succeed,
they may yet see their nation fall into the pit of ignorance, corruption,
and oppression that defines Muslim nations to this day.
Finally, it should be noted that many of the
terrorist acts perpetrated in England were by Muslims who were born and raised
there. It's a warning sign to all of Europe and to America as well.
Alan Caruba writes a weekly column posted on the website of The National Anxiety
Center, www.anxietycenter.com. His blog is http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
