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Thursday, January 08, 2015

SALLY MORRIS: CAN’T WE JUST LIVE WITH THE “GOOD” ISLAM?

Over and over again we are lectured to force ourselves to appreciate the riches that the Muslim immigrants bring to our shores. We are urged to look upon them as nice, neighborly folks who just have some different and colorful customs. We are supposed to feel deference towards them – we are somehow not entitiled to our own customs, moreover, if they clash with these “new Americans'” customs and beliefs. We are told that there is nothing wrong with Islam. There are just a few bad apples in there that cause all the trouble. So we create special dietary rules in our public schools. We provide foot baths in our airports, so they can follow these quaint and colorful customs of theirs. In some areas we must allow ourselves to be subjected to calls to prayer at all hours. They are entitled, we think, to look down on us. After all, they are more “devout”, certainly more self-righteous. And it's just a few “bad Muslims” who make all the headlines.

 

Which is it that is the “good” Islam? We keep hearing about the “bad” Islam, Islamic terrorism and aggression, but that supposes a benign form, that somewhere lurking beneath the terrorism is a “religion of peace”.

 

The “bad” Islam produces and broadcasts videos of beheadings. “Bad” Islam inspires a woman to urge the imams to shove a pike up the rectum of the infidel, because beheadings are just too humane for such unbelievers. “Bad” Islam burns down churches and kidnaps and sells women and children. “Bad” Islam plots incessantly against a peaceful Israel, that still, in the 21st Century, crucifies Christians for refusing to convert.

 

So, then, all you intellectuals who argue that these are just “extremists” who have nothing to do with the real Islam, the true “religion of peace”, what does this leave us with? The “peaceful”, “good”, family-man Muslims who hold their daughter's hand on a hot stove when a page of the Koran is found to have a tear in it? Are these “good” Muslims the grannies who arrange for the barbaric and dehumanizing genital mutilation of innocent little girls? Are they the ones who refuse to educate their daughters? Who require them to cover themselves? Are these the good people who consider a well contaminated if a Christian woman drinks water from it? Are they the ones who arrange forced marriages of their daughters – often to close blood relatives? After all, these are mere “cultural differences” that we are supposed to “respect”, right? (I haven't quite figured out where to pigeon-hole acid-throwing – is it “domestic” custom . . . or is it “terror”? Same goes for “honor” killing. Is that considered a “family matter” or is it a felony now?)

 

It is indeed regrettable that Islam was ever invented or that it was ever imposed on the first victim. But for the most part these original victims were at least more or less confined to the areas of north and east Africa, the Arabian penninsula, the near east. The idea their despicable customs and habits should be knowlingly imported into Western civilization is outrageous.

 

Our misguided liberal “leaders” have been successful in bullying many otherwise decent Americans, or Dutch, or English or German or Danish or Swedish or Norwegian or Australian friends into chanting along with them that we are all nations of immigrants, that they enrich us, that we somehow “owe” them a place at our table. We are supposed to be post-nationalistic. It is now fashionable among the intelligentsia that we should discard our national customs and identity and even forget our history in the fog of this modern, sophisticated “multiculturalism”. After all, we have so much to learn from them.

 

Recent uprisings throughout Europe are signalling that some in the West have had enough. Some mosques are burning in Sweden, demonstrators are in the streets in Germany. Maybe we should take a hint from them that the best effort made towards this “multiculturalism” thing, this “all cultures are equal” and “we all have the same God” talk is futile. Islam is what it is. The Koran exhorts the believers to kill or at least smite or dominate the rest of us. One cleric tells us that if “Jews had been respectable” Hitler would not have needed to kill them, while another has declared that all infants are “born Muslim” (in other words, any who do not “remain” Muslim – i.e. a child who is confirmed in a Christian faith) is an apostate. And you know what Allah says to do to them.

 

There is no equivalency between a “faith” which demands – DEMANDS – that all follow it or be killed or enslaved or maimed or relegated to dhimmitude and all the other faiths which offer their doctrines and their customs to the world, even proselytize and promote their beliefs to others but have no orders to kill the “infidels”. There is a reason we aren't afraid of an influx of Lutherans or Jews or Catholics or Hindus or Bhuddists into our midst. We aren't led to expect them to demand we follow them or they'll blow us up. True, there were many plots and oppressions of various kinds in the distant past, but we have all moved on, except those who follow Mohammed. His holy book cannot be brought into the 21st Century.

 

In passing, one can hardly not be aware of the many contradictions. Besides those inherent in the peculiarity of “holy scriptures” contradicting themselves by abrogation – substituting verses promoting violence for those previously prescribing peace, there are the cultural quirks. A woman is charged with adultery, tried and convicted and stoned to death. Her attacker goes free. A woman's testimony in court is worth only half that of a man's and besides, she must find four eyewitnesses who will back up her story. Imagine that one. And sons are frequently in on the stoning, just to prove their piety. Brothers will turn in their sisters. Women presumably don't even get to heaven, and yet, there are 72 virgins waiting there for each dead jihadist, providing he is vicious enough to deserve them. How did the virgins get there? How did they merit this honor and how does this make it all heaven? Allah presumably sees to all of these spirit prostitutes. Here's another one. The Koran plainly proscribes in some very picturesque language homosexual practices. The current crop of jihadists constantly call for the punishment and execution of those who practice them. Gays are not safe anywhere there is a strong Muslim presence. And yet, homosexual practices abound in these backward regions. There is a record of a whole village of men in Afghanistan who had no idea why their wives were not conceiving. Turns out they were performing the same act with these poor women that they learned on little boys.

 

 

Civilized people, people who respect human life, who don't believe the orders found in the Koran are justification for killing innocent people, civilized people who have come to live with human rights of expression and laws which protect it, cannot live side-by-side with those who believe they do not have that right. That is what the Koran teaches them. Their highest law is found in the teachings of Mohammed, not in a legal system or in a Constitution, or even in a generalized respect for human life and dignity. How does a civilized nation deal with the practice of child brides? Arranged marriages? The model for Muslim behavior is a man who raped little girls. Presumably the practicing 21st Century Muslim feels that this is an important part of his culture and a part of the richness he brings to ours. Do we agree and let it continue? That seems to have been the norm in European nations in this predicament. Oh, well, only the little girls suffer. It's all domestic. No terror – nothing to see here. How could our law interfere with ancient custom? The true, practicing Muslim must not defer to our conditions – that would make him an apostate. The Muslim who lives peacefully with your pop music, bacon and eggs, who has no problem with your discussing and debating issues of freedom and in freedom, who feels his daughter is entitled to an education and a husband of her own choosing, who has no problem with a synagogue down the street, or the church bells, who sees no problem with the existence of Israel, that Muslim who we term a “good” Muslim, is no Muslim. He is an apostate. And you know what they do with them.

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