Islam and Terror too often go together

Hat tip to Cox and Forkum for the cartoon. You can read their related commentary and links, with UPDATES, HERE.

Discoveries like this one in Canada are cause for real concern. How many others are there that we don't know about yet? Some people have tried to downplay the religious connection, but their statements are unconvincing. The blinders of political correctness keep some people from seeing the obvious.

My blog was spammed recently by someone claiming to be a Muslim from Indonesia. The spam was posted on many bloggs that posted anything critical of Islam. The spammer claimed it was unfair to always mention Islam in connection with Muslims who commit terrorist acts; that the religious affiliation of other terrorists is not mentioned in the media, but only Islam.

Since Islamic terrorists take their inspiration for what they do from Islam, and much of the organizational activity and education takes place in and around mosques, it is clearly impossible to separate the two when talking about it; the political and religious are too intermixed. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but nearly all terrorists nowadays are Muslims, and that is no accident.

As for the religious affiliation of "other terrorists"; Islamism believes that anyone who does not to submit to Islam is an enemy. I have read Islamic blogs where the publishing of the innocous Danish cartoons is compaired in seriousness and severity to 9-11, and Isreal and America are considered terrorists, even as they defend themselves.

This is cult thinking at it's most dangerous. Judaism and Christianity both reformed - hundreds of years ago - and accept the right of other religions to exist, without any kind of dimmitude. The Islamic World is still struggling to allow reform; those who try are often slaughtered. But until it can reform, it will have no peace with the modern world.



I do believe that reform is possible, though not easy. I have heard it said that 9-11 was not just about attacking the US, but also about sending a message to reform-minded Muslims in the middle east. The message:

"If we can do THIS to the infidel in NYC, we can do even worse to YOU. Don't you even THINK about reform".

Ex-Muslim Wafa Sultan maintains that countries like her native Syria are filled with educated people who wish to embrace the modern world and join the community of nations. But they have no voice; they fear for their lives. Her own life is continually threatened now.

Ex-Muslim Hirsi Ali, who has suffered genital mutilation under Islam, talks about reforming Islam, not destroying it. The result: her life has been threatened, and she's been driven out of Holland to the USA.

Moderate Muslim Nasar Khader, a member of the Danish Parliament, began recieving death threats when he gave his daughter a christian name. The threats have only increased as he has opposed the radical imams in Denmark.

In San Francisco, when we owned a restaurant there, we often had educated, westernized Muslims as guests. They always struck me as being very moral, upright and BALANCED people. The women didn't dress in garment bags or wear hajibs, but did dress conservatively by western standards, as did the men. They would drink a little bit of wine, and were usually soft-spoken and well mannered. Are such people not an asset to any society?

I'm not anti-Muslim; I'm just against people, Muslim and Infidel alike, being murdered because they don't conform to 7th century standards of religious fanaticism.



Hat tip to Cox and Forkum for the cartoon. You can read their related commentary and links HERE.

It sounds to me like they are just pretending that they "might" be willing to consider accepting the existance of the State of Isreal... if we give them more money. Then, they might think about it. Haven't we played this game long enough? Let's STOP it, already.

And are we starting to do this with Iran now? Let's NOT.