
This Russian
child is just one of tens of thousands of innocents
killed by the Religion of Peace in 5,000 senseless and
deadly terror attacks since 9/11. |
Hamzi leaned forward to look the other in the eye. �You wanted so
badly
to believe that others were just like you, to fit this ideal model
of harmony and equality, that any evidence to the contrary was
spontaneously disregarded. Critical thinking is a necessary element
of defense, you know. Once it is lost, then so is the battle� the
jihad.�
�Jihad?� asked Parker.
Excerpted from
Age of Tolerance
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[ed.
note: this is a revised article from one that was previously
published on TROP]
The Religion of
Peace has been bombing, shooting, stabbing and blasting peace all
over the globe in prolific fashion; killing
and maiming tens of thousands in at least sixty different countries
in the four years that
TheReligionofPeace.com (TROP) has been keeping track. We can
now say that more than a thousand deadly Islamic terror attacks are
reported in the media each year � although the true extent of the
violence is certainly much higher.
Imagine what isn�t
caught in the dark corners of the planet, particularly those
countries in the Muslim world that keep the press from shedding
light on the sort of atrocities that would be front-page news in the
West. More than one million dhimmis have been killed in the Islamic
Republic of Sudan over the last twenty years, for example, but they
are no more remembered than are the many millions of other victims
who began accumulating under the Prophet�s own sword fourteen
centuries earlier.
Despite the carnage
that Islam dishes out around the world each year, many make the
mistake of trivializing the violence, since the number of casualties
is measured �only� in tens of thousands these days. They forget the
enormous amount of resources that are committed to contain the
threat. Yet, in spite of the many billions of dollars spent and the
hundreds of security personnel that pay with their lives in places
like
Kashmir and Iraq, Muslim terrorists still manage to kill more
innocent people every 12 months than the Spanish Inquisition did in
350 years.
What would
the casualty toll look like if we weren�t spending so much in money,
technology and blood to protect ourselves from the �Holy Warriors�
of Islam - those dedicated fanatics who spend their
time memorizing the Qur�an and dreaming of ways to circumvent
security and amass piles of dead bodies. While our politicians
debate the legal niceties of wiretapping terror suspects, our enemy is
actively seeking chemical poisons and nuclear material to maximize
our suffering and death according to their interpretation of Islam.
How would you feel
if these architects of misery were acting in the name of your
religion? Would you brush off the violence with a casual dismissal and turn
your attention to petty complaints of personal slight? Amazingly,
this is the sort of moral disconnect that we find in the Muslim
world. While people of other faiths would be horrified by such
terror and resolved to ending it before raising issues that are
trivial by comparison, the Islamic community distinguishes itself
with a near absence of moral objectivity.
When Muslim snipers
rampage across America and children are blown to bits in India (and
dozens of other countries) Muslim-American groups like CAIR and MPAC
are far more concerned with a handful of dead fish that appear in a
mosque parking lot, and exhibit more outrage over terror financiers
being denied entry into the United States.
While the elderly are
having their throats slashed by Jihadis in Thailand and women in
Europe are raped by Muslim immigrants, these self-absorbed groups
are rallying in support of admitted terror suspects like Sami
al-Arian.
What�s wrong with
these people? What�s wrong with this religion?
Islam seems to dull
the moral senses and exaggerate the perception of self-importance. Muslims in the West
dress their cooption of culture and Christian heritage in the
language of ethics and equality, yet they display not the slightest
concern for the rights of religious minorities in Muslim countries,
many of whom live in horrific conditions under third-class status
imposed by Islamic law. At each opportunity Muslims implicitly
stress that the rights and lives of non-believers are largely
inconsequential to the spread of their own religion.
Many Westerners were
shocked by the lack of genuine outrage in the wake of 9/11, as the
reaction of the Islamic world was mostly apathetic � save notable
pockets of expressed elation. When offered, the stale disclaimers
had a flat ring to them, unlike, say, the engaged zealotry over a
Qur�an desecration or a public remark deemed to be slanderous to
Muslims. The
lives of 3,000 Americans are of less importance to CAIR, for
example, than the delicate sensibilities of Muslim-Americans in the
aftermath of 9/11.
Thanks to 12 Danish cartoonists, the world now knows what Muslim
outrage looks like - and it is absolutely nowhere to be found when
Islamic terrorists cut throats in the name of Allah.
But there is a
juvenile naivety to those claiming to �denounce� terror, as if
mere verbiage should be enough to convince the rest of us that Islam
has �nothing to do� with the terrorists themselves, who plainly
state their motives in religious terms, often with language lifted
straight from the Qur�an. Indeed, religious clerics are quite
active in the Jihad recruitment process, and mosques are often used for
planning and staging attacks. Yet, rather than addressing the
problem head-on and cleaning house, Muslims find ways to shirk responsibility.
This year�s Hajj is
a case in point. Traditionally, the journey to Mecca, at the heart
of the Islamic world, is one of the holiest events in a mainstream
believer�s life. Yet, at the Grand Mosque this year, a top cleric
told 2.5 million pilgrims that the only connection Islam has with
terror is that it is a plot by the West to discredit the religion.
Another cleric (who apparently has a very poor grasp of
reflexive logic) told the same crowd that the West�s war on terror
was actually a war on Islam.
The Qur�an, of course, is
quite clear
about how believers should respond to such aggression
(and it isn�t along the lines of �Bless them that curse you�).
With Hajj sermons using Jihad as an excuse for more Jihad, is there
any reason to expect an end to the violence?
This selfish
immaturity and disregard for human suffering is almost universally
characteristic of Islam. On their site, CAIR disingenuously asks
visitors to sign an online petition called Not in Our Name,
which serves a public relations function while their real interest
is in publicizing perceived
insults and obscure rumors that impassion hatred against the U.S.
overseas, fueling the violence and disorientation. Is it any great mystery why Islamic terror continues year
after year with no end in sight?
While Western
religion strives to make the world a better place, the goal of Islam
is nothing more than Islam. In its history, there have been no
contributions of significance toward science and knowledge. Its
greatest cultural achievements have been to arbitrarily preserve
what is borrowed from conquered peoples, be it African coffee or
Hindu mathematics. Every technology that Muslims use today was
developed in the West, including the cell phones and airplanes that
their most devoted followers periodically turn into instruments of
destruction.
Neither is there a
legacy of hospitals or missions from a religion that is based on an archaic
code of ethics providing rules for beating women and waging war,
but none for helping those outside the faith. Certainly there was
no abolition movement in the Islamic world, where slavery persists
to this day.
The most impressive
humanitarian accomplishment that Muslims can boast of is that not
every infidel was put to death when the Jihad swept
through the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe in earlier centuries. At
least some of those who agreed to live in humiliation and
complete subjugation were spared the sword. Some were even
required to hand over their children to military service and forced
conversion.
Clearly Islam isn�t like other religions. It doesn�t have the same
history, the same goals, or the same morality. It does not inspire
compassion and it shuns introspection. It is the most susceptible
to violence and the least open to dialogue. It demands the very
respect from others that it is unwilling to allow those over whom
it has power.
(This isn't to say that there aren�t decent people
who are Muslim, indeed there are plenty, but it is more in spite of
Islam rather than because of it � an allegiance to a higher standard
of ethics that transcends Muhammad�s harsh rules for 7th
century survival).
Unfortunately, the
nature of Western religion and the gods of multiculturalism seduce us
into believing that all religions have the same ethical regard (or
disregard) for human life and respect for liberal values. In our
minds � and only in our minds � we contrive moral equivalence
between cultures, religions and events that are in fact very
distinct from one another, merely because doing so provides a sense
of personal superiority.
Islam will never be
a religion of peace until Muslims decide to make it so by taking
responsibility. Until this happens, we must ensure the physical
security and intellectual freedom of our children and grandchildren by having the
courage to think critically and independently, seeing Islam for what
it really is � rather than what we wish it would be.
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