Five questions non-Muslims would like answered

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-prager13nov13,0,6830027,print.story?coll=la-home-sunday-opinion ^ | Nov 13, 2005 | Dennis Prager

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THE RIOTING IN France by primarily Muslim youths and the hotel bombings in Jordan are the latest events to prompt sincere questions that law-abiding Muslims need to answer for Islam's sake, as well as for the sake of worried non-Muslims.

Here are five of them:

(1) Why are you so quiet?

Since the first Israelis were targeted for death by Muslim terrorists blowing themselves up in the name of your religion and Palestinian nationalism, I have been praying to see Muslim demonstrations against these atrocities. Last week's protests in Jordan against the bombings, while welcome, were a rarity. What I have seen more often is mainstream Muslim spokesmen implicitly defending this terror on the grounds that Israel occupies Palestinian lands. We see torture and murder in the name of Allah, but we see no anti-torture and anti-murder demonstrations in the name of Allah.

There are a billion Muslims in the world. How is it possible that essentially none have demonstrated against evils perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam? This is true even of the millions of Muslims living in free Western societies. What are non-Muslims of goodwill supposed to conclude? When the Israeli government did not stop a Lebanese massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982, great crowds of Israeli Jews gathered to protest their country's moral failing. Why has there been no comparable public demonstration by Palestinians or other Muslims to morally condemn Palestinian or other Muslim-committed terror?

(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?

[Great Caesars Ghost]

Their drivers licences used to say White back when drivers licenses could say such things.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?

Very early on in the conflict, some of them actually were.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Uh...wasn't a disabled woman set on fire, or something? I seem to recall reading that last week...

Yes, and an old man beaten to death.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

If they're hispanic, that means Spanish, and Spanish are white, sooo.... It's either that or Native American, or "Creole". They shouldn't get their own special genus

Hispanic does not mean Spanish. Spanish means a person from Spain.

Most hispanics are of combined Spanish and Indian descent or just of pure Indian descent. A minority of hispanics are purely Caucasians - these are folks who have direct ancestry from the original Spanish colonizers. Argentina, however, is majority Caucasian for the same reason.

[Sam Gamgee]

Wow, my head is swimming. I recall reading a textbook on Mexican history. I believe they have 8 racial classes - I don't even remember the names of them all. Pure Spanish, Black-Spanish, Black-Spanish-Indian, pure Indian, and so on.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Yeah, they've simplified it a lot. Most of them are just called Meztizo. There is discrimination in Latin America too, with the Caucasians being at the top of the heap as well as being the better off segment of the population. That's why you don't see too many Caucasian Mexicans sneaking into the US.

Turn on any spanish-language soap opera and you'll notice that most of the actors are Caucasian too (unless they are playing a maid!).

[Sam Gamgee]

Interesting. I know Brazil has a large German population that huddle in one small area of the nation. Are they prominent in society there? I also heard that if you want to find a nation that really persecutes its aboriginals look no further than Brazil. "

I had to laugh because CNBC had a special on Brazil as an emerging economy. At one point they explained how mercenaries (I don't know what else to call them) go to the edges of the forest, where poor farmers live, push them out at the gun, and basically take their land. I'm sorry, but a nation with virtually no rule of law is not a good place to invest one's money.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

I don't know about the Germans in Brazil, but most European sub-populations are well off.

I think "emerging economy" is the new euphemism for "third world country". Brazil is probably the poorest country in South America. Crime is running rampant. Did you hear about the recent vote where the people voted to have the right to keep their guns?

[Sam Gamgee]

No. But I don't blame them.