Posted on 01/29/2008 11:26:46 AM PST by brityank
Suicide by tolerance
Lorne Gunter, National Post
Published: Monday, January 28, 2008
Walt Kelly, the cartoonist and satirist once had his famous character Pogo say, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
In the clash between the West and Islam, that is increasingly true. We are our own worst enemy.
Those of us who care about the survival of Western civilization occasionally rage about the way Muslim organizations feign outrage in the media at the tiniest slight. We grind out teeth when those organizations file human rights complaints against the writings of the likes of Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant. We warn against our governments permitting the implementation of shariah law and against the insidious teachings of radical imams at mosques and Islamic community centres on our own continent.
But really, could radical Islamists take over unless our elites let them?
True, the Alberta human rights complaint against Levant was brought by something called the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), and the one against Steyn was initiated by the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), both of which make it look as if Muslims are behind these attacks on our free speech.
Yet would either grievance have gone anywhere in the absence of government-sponsored, tax-supported agencies that encourage vocal advocacy groups to lodge formal complaints against their foes, and then pay their way?
Imagine the fleeting lives of such complaints in the absence of laws -- passed by liberal Western politicians, not professional Muslim cause-pleaders --granting them legitimacy?
The Syed Soharwardys (ISCC head) and Mohammad Elmasrys (CIC boss) of the world might rail on to a sympathetic reporter or two about the indignations the Levants and Steyns are causing their religion, but without the backing of modern Western governments and the politically correct functionaries who pull their levers, open their money spigots and crack their whips, such complainants would be trees falling in the forest with no one there to hear. For most readers, listeners and viewers the response would be turn the page, switch the station, flip the channel.
It wasn't the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIRCAN) that sent chief CIBC economist Jeff Rubin for Muslim sensitivity training three years ago after a bank financial report offended the particularly pugnacious, litigious Muslim organization. It was Rubin's fearful, PC bosses at CIBC.
Yes, CAIR-CAN, the CIC and the ISCC delight in taking full advantage of the official avenues open to them to criticize and intimidate their foes, but they didn't create those avenues and there is little they could do if our governments and politically correct corporations decided to close them tomorrow.
The best example of what I mean surfaced this week from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency ( BECTA).
Shoo Fly publishers of Newcastle has produced a very innovative, interactive software version of the Three Little Pigs -- a 3D book designed to encourage young children to develop critical thinking abilities. It has won several awards, but was not approved by BECTA because "the use of pigs raises cultural issues." In particular, the company was told, "Judges would not recommend this product to the Muslim community," out of concern the pig images would be upsetting.
More on our brethren up north, and the fine mess they’ve gotten themselves into!
That is absolutely the most bonechilling political cartoon I have ever seen.
Its worst aspect is Uncle Sam, with his eyes closed and seemingly resigned to his fate, as the sinister finger of Islam (pigs be upon them!) cocks the suicidal gun.
“The bullets in my rifle are dipped in pig grease”
Couldn’t agree more but it goes so much deeper than this, when the Boy Scouts are seen as ‘intolerant’ because they don’t embrace homosexuality, something’s way off.
Christians are seen as intolerant haters...thus to be ‘tolerant’ society sees the need to ban all things Christian like public nativity scenes...separation of church and state madness.
Liberalism is a disease. As deadly and virulent as botulism and anthrax.
The voluntary relinquishing of our freedom of speech by so many in this Country, due to fear, is going to eventually lead to our downfall!
That is so good. It’s now my wallpaper. Thanks for posting it.
Ping.
Bump that.
btt
I would say that pigs and pork then should be considered a sign of freedom from this point forward. Wherever they are, Islamofascism is not. So pork up people.
* goes out to get baconcheezburgers
An “islamic youth environmental website” in Canada named (targeting) “YOUNG MUSLIMS”.
http://www.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/books/milestones/hold/index_2.asp
“Milestones” by Sayyid Qutb:
“If Islam is again to play the role of the leader of man- kind, then it is necessary that the Muslim community be restored to its original form.”
“The Muslim community today is neither capable of nor required to present before mankind great genius in material inventions, which will make the world bow its head before its supremacy and thus re-establish once more its world leadership. Europe’s creative mind is far ahead in this area, and at least for a few centuries to come we cannot expect to compete with Europe and attain supremacy over it in these fields.”
“Hence we must have some other quality, that quality which modern civilization does not possess.”
Sayyid Qutb and his brother Muhammad Qutb were arrested in July 1965 for their alleged co-leadership in a plot to kill leading political and cultural figures in Egypt and overthrow the government. Sayyid Qutb was executed in August 1966. Muhammad Qutb was released from prison in 1972 and fled to Saudi Arabia taking refuge with the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the early 1970’s it was common to find members of the Muslim Brotherhood teaching at Saudi schools and universities.
Osama bin Laden regularly attended weekly public lectures by Muhammad Qutb (Sayyid Qutb’s brother) at King Abdulaziz University and regularly read Sayyid Qutb.
“If we are to perform our task with insight and wisdom, we must first know clearly the nature of those qualities on the basis of which the Muslim community can fulfill its obligation as the leader of the world. This is essential so that we may not commit any blunders at the very first stage of its reconstruction and revival.” -Milestones, Sayyid Qutb
Thanks for the link.
"In Pursuit of Allah's Pleasures" Yeah. Right!
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