Jindal’s Brilliant Take on Radical Islam

Townhall.com ^ | January 18, 2015 | Larry Kudlow

[Kaslin]

“Let’s be honest here. Islam has a problem.”

Those are key sentences in an incredibly hard-hitting speech that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal will give in London on Monday. It is the toughest speech I have read on the whole issue of Islamic radicalism and its destructive, murdering, barbarous ways which are upsetting the entire world.

Early in the speech Jindal says he’s not going to be politically correct. And he uses the term “radical Islamists” without hesitation, placing much of the blame for the Paris murders and all radical Islamist terrorism on a refusal of Muslim leaders to denounce these acts.

Jindal says, “Muslim leaders must make clear that anyone who commits acts of terror in the name of Islam is in fact not practicing Islam at all. If they refuse to say this, then they are condoning these acts of barbarism. There is no middle ground.”

Then he adds, specifically, “Muslim leaders need to condemn anyone who commits these acts of violence and clearly state that these people are evil and are enemies of Islam. It’s not enough to simply condemn violence, they must stand up and loudly proclaim that these people are not martyrs who will receive a reward in the afterlife, and rather they are murderers who are going to hell. If they refuse to do that, then they’re part of the problem. There is no middle ground here.”

I want to know who in the Muslim community in the United States has said this. Which leaders? I don’t normally cover this beat, so I may well have missed it. Hence I ask readers to tell me if so-called American Muslim leaders have said what Governor Jindal is saying.

And by the way, what Bobby Jindal is saying is very similar to what Egyptian president al-Sisi said earlier in the year to a group of Muslim imams.

Said al-Sisi, “It’s inconceivable that the thinking we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world.”

He then asks, “How is it possible that 1.6 billion Muslims should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants -- that is 7 billion -- so that they themselves may live?” He concludes, if this is not changed, “it may eventually lead to the religion’s self destruction.”

That’s President al-Sisi of Egypt, which I believe has the largest Muslim population in the world.

And what Jindal and al-Sisi are saying is not so different from the thinking of French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he calls the Charlie Hebdo murders “the Churchillian moment of France’s Fifth Republic.” He essentially says France and the world must slam “the useful idiots of a radical Islam immersed in the sociology of poverty and frustration.” He adds, “Those whose faith is Islam must proclaim very loudly, very often, and in great numbers their rejection of this corrupt and abject form of theocratic passion. . . . Islam must be freed from radical Islam.”

So three very different people -- a young southern governor who may run for president, the political leader of the largest Muslim population in the world, and a prominent Western European intellectual -- are saying that most of the problem and most of the solution rests with the people of the Islamic religion themselves. If they fail to take action, the radicals will swallow up the whole religion and cause the destruction of the entire Middle East and possibly large swaths of the rest of the world.

Lévy called this a Churchillian moment. And London mayor Boris Johnson argues in his book The Churchill Factor that Winston Churchill was the most important 20th century figure because his bravery in 1940 stopped the triumph of totalitarianism. So today’s battle with the Islamic radicals is akin to the Cold War battle of freedom vs. totalitarianism.

But returning to Governor Jindal, the U.S. is not helpless. Jindal argues that America must restore its proper leadership role in international affairs. (Of course, Obama has taken us in the opposite direction, and won’t even use the phrase “Islamic radicals.”) And Jindal invokes Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher by saying, “The tried and true prescription must be employed again: a strong economy, a strong military, and leaders willing and able to assert moral, economic, and military leadership in the cause of freedom.”

Reagan always argued that weakness at home leads to weakness abroad. A strong growing economy provides the resources for military and national security. Right now we’re uncomfortably close to having neither.

This is the great challenge of our time. In the early years of the 21st century, it appears the great goal of our age is the defeat of radical Islam.

Jindal gets it.

[Aetius]

It’d be refreshing to hear Jindal call for an end to the mass immigration that allows an increasing number of Muslims to immigrate to the U.S. each year.

[RoosterRedux]

That’s President al-Sisi of Egypt, which I believe has the largest Muslim population in the world.

Not by a long shot. Indonesia has the largest Muslim pop at 200+ million

[Cboldt]

Talk is cheap, and all Jindal appears to be demanding is talk. As long as Islamic leaders denounce violence done in the name of Islam ... then what?

[arthurus]

Even Jindal doesn’t get it or he is pulling his punches a little less than some others who deliver “hard hitting” remarks. The problem is radical Islamists only if you use both sides of the redundancy. They are radical in that they are coming from the root of Islam, what it sys in the Koran and the Hadiths and the Biography. The writings do not pull punches and they do not obfuscate. Radical head chopping ceucifying enslaving Islam is , well, ISLAM! The “moderates” do not protest because they are moderate only in their ability and/or willingness to engage in the required activities of Islam as it is all explained in the Operating Manual of the religion- the Koran.

[arthurus]

Right now we’re uncomfortably close to having neither.

That is right where we were as WWII was coming at us.

[Nepeta]

Talk is cheap, and all Jindal appears to be demanding is talk. As long as Islamic leaders denounce violence done in the name of Islam ... then what?

Talk is cheap, but nobody else in national politics is saying these things.

[MuttTheHoople]

It's not "Radical Islam" that's chopping off heads, blowing up buildings, and murdering innocent people...it's ORTHODOX ISLAM.

"Radical" Islam is actually the Westernized, tolerant Islam, that goes against everything the Profit teaches. The 98% of Orthodox Islam is what makes these 2% look so bad.

[GOPJ]

Radical Muslims are the ‘brutish light-fearing Morlocks’ of the Islamic political machine.

In this case they are the cast off sons of the Eloi... and that’s the reason ‘moderate’ Muslims will not condemn them. It’s an interdependent system. Morlocks allow for the childlike Eloi to live in delusional ‘goodness’...

Anyone know if H.G. Wells interacted with Muslims?

[GOPJ]

Radical Muslims are the ‘brutish light-fearing Morlocks’ of the Islamic political machine.

[9YearLurker]

Pretty lazy statement by Larry.

[Ann Archy]

ALL Muslim religious leaders need to announce a FATWA on ALL RADICALS...ALL of them!

[Bluestocking]

Bobby Jindal is the bravest politician in America. He’s spent his governorship promoting school choice, thereby antagonizing the mighty teachers’ unions, and now he’s speaking out against murderous Islamic terrorists.

If Bobby Jindal runs for president in 2016, he’ll make all of his opponents look like wimps.

[Kaslin]

This is from 2012

Religion in Egypt Fast Facts

*Muslim 90% (mostly Sunni

*Coptic Christian 9%

*Christian 1%

*Protestant 51.3%

*Roman Catholic 23.9%

*Other Christians 1%
Source

Seems like Kudlow should have done a search instead of just guessing

[SkyPilot]

Jindal says, “Muslim leaders must make clear that anyone who commits acts of terror in the name of Islam is in fact not practicing Islam at all.

But they are practicing Islam. In fact, they are obeying the rantings of the demon possessed Mohammad.

"I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them."

I applaud Jindal, but he even he feels the need to throw Islam a bone. Franklin Graham (Billy Graham's son) was much more courageous in his comments the other day (although even he said there were 'peaceful' Muslims:

Graham also said there are millions of peaceful Muslims, but stood by his harsh words for Islam, warning that it is at war with Christianity...The decision to not have a call for prayer brought praise from Rev. Graham who told Eyewitness News on Thursday that the chapel was built by donations from Christians when the university was a Methodist college and should continue to be used for Christian worship....“That violence is there and it's coming and it's going to come to this country. It has nothing to do with what I say. I'm just trying to warn this country about what's coming. Islam is a violent religion.”....

http://freerepublic.com/perl/pings?more=375030287

When the truth about Islam is spoken, liberals often use the "numbers" argument. "So, what are you gonna do? There are over 1 Billion Muslims!"

What? So that makes evil good? The fact that so many of them are lost?

[eartick]

I am with you. Said it years ago. You want immigration reform.

Start, by shutting all immigration down for 5 years (for starters).

This will allow us to sort out the frickin mess and secure the border.

Then slowly start by opening up immigration to Christian European immigrants ONLY.

Non-Christian need not apply.

[Bigg Red]

+1

[noinfringers2]

Yes and it is out of that cesspool came Obama by virtue of mama Stanley Ann having a shack up affair with the Indonesian communist, Muslim cult guru named Muhammed Subuh. Look him up on the internet and learn more about him and mama Stanley Ann’s friend Loretta Fuddy who died in a mysterious plane crash off Molokai after becoming Hawaii’s keeper of records.

[trebb]

Talk is cheap, and all Jindal appears to be demanding is talk. As long as Islamic leaders denounce violence done in the name of Islam ... then what?

Funny expression for someone on a forum where it appears that there is far more talk than action - often for the good reason that certain actions would not be productive or in one's venue.

If putting ideas out there is cheap, and by that virtue useless as you imply, then why be here?

[Liz]

THERE ARE THOUGHTFUL LEADERS--though not in Washington----Said President al-Sisi of Egypt, w/, I believe, has the largest Muslim population in the world: “It’s inconceivable that the thinking we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world.”

He then asks, “How is it possible that 1.6 billion Muslims should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants -- that is 7 billion -- so that they themselves may live?” al Sisi concludes, if this is not changed, “it may eventually lead to the religion’s self destruction.”

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Egypt's president al Sisi is one of the most brilliant global strategists extant today---revered by Egyptians for throwing the M/B out of Egyptian politics.

In the post-Morsi era, then-Gen al Sisi (now Egyptian president) refused to take Obama's phone call---b/c al Sisi knew Obama wanted al Sisi to leave the M/B alone.

Brilliant strategist, al Sisi, proceeded to smash the M/B and throw them out of Egyptian politics....he vowed to rebuild the 65 Christian churches the M/B had torched.

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It should be remembered that while Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood were in charge in Egypt, Obama and Hillary showered them with praise and provided billions of dollars in US monetary aid, US arms, US tanks and US planes.

Egypt has unceremoniously thrown the Muslim Brotherhood out of Egyptian politics.... and hasn’t forgotten the support offered to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt has now charged Obama and Hillary Clinton for conspiring and collaborating with the M/B and advancing their terrorist activities.

Bill and Hillary's former employee, Gehad (means jihad in Farsi) al Haddad, is also sitting in an Egyptian jail (reported by H/T Western Journalism). Haddad was conducting terrorist activities while employed at the tax-exempt "Clinton Foundation."