Posted on 03/03/2011 2:34:00 PM PST by TheHawksNest
The Bloody Beast is really back. Only the willfully blind can deny it.
Let me spell it out, let me risk, yet again, being accused of “Islamophobia” (which does not exist), and of “racism” which very much does. Let the record show: I am not a “racist.”
The Beast is radical, fundamentalist, “Islamist” Islam; the beast is anti-Western, anti-Christian, anti-Hindu and anti-Jewish Muslim supremacists, who are now also terrorists/jihadists. They—Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Moammar Gaddafi, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah—are not wrestling with themselves quietly, spiritually, to overcome lust or hatred. Oh the contrary. They are blowing people up, sending weapons, employing mercenaries, twisting minds, spewing hatred.
Yes, I am talking about the Jihad which has just claimed the lives of two American airmen in Germany—the shooter, 21-year-old Arif Uka, from Kosovo, was said to have yelled the proverbial “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great) as he shot them down in cold blood. This is precisely what the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hassan, also yelled as he massacred 13 American soldiers on their home base in Texas.
The jihadists are telling us, showing us, that the Middle East and the Muslim world are here, both in Europe and in North America. Their gruesome and highly symbolic tactics and targets are here and of course, in India too. Does anyone remember 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/26? How can anyone forget the World Trade Center, the Madrid train bombing, the London subway bombing, the attack on Mumbai?
The jihadists are also all over the Western campus (which is about to launch its annual grotesque Israeli Apartheid Week in 55 cities); the beast is present in all the “no go” zones throughout Europe where police dare not tread; it reigns among the politically correct “useful idiots” in the pro-Islamist Western media.
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Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is its trojan horse.
I’m no expert, but my sense is that there are moderate Muslims (Muslims who are lapsed or not observing to some degree), but no moderate Islam (with the exception of a few tiny sects) because the religion has yet to undergo a Reformation. Without a true, sweeping Reformation, we can’t hope that the bloodthirsty, woman-hating, essentially anti-human, anti-infidel legacy will ever fade away.
There is a very easy counter to charges of “Islamophobia”.
The suffix “-phobia” means “an exaggerated or irrational fear”. This is inaccurate, because Islam, as such, is an unimpressive and archaic religion. It contains no philosophically grand idea that could challenge civilization at an intellectual level, so the only real threat it offers is the destruction of civilization, to be replaced by barbarism and inadequacy.
It is like a man with no legs demanding that everyone else should amputate their legs, as being legless is “a better way to live.” It isn’t, end of story. Neither is Islam.
Properly speaking then, instead of “Islamophobia”, what perhaps the majority of non-Muslims have is “Islamoskepticism”.
“Skepticism” is the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge, or doubt about the truth of something.
Typically, few westerners believe in the claims of Islam and Muslims. We do not imagine their religion to be “the one, true religion”. And importantly, when we catch a Muslim lying, lying repeatedly, and insisting on their lies, we most certainly can, and do have skepticism about what they are saying.
This does not give us “exaggerated or irrational fear”, but instead gives us distrust of the speaker and his motives. This is not a phobia, but a rational response to what is often blatant prevarication.
And, appropriately enough, accusations of “Islamophobia” should be greeted *with* “Islamoskepticism”, precisely because the accusation, like so much else, is just another lie.
So when accused of “Islamophobia”, immediately insist that you are not an “Islamophobic”, but an “Islamoskeptic”.
Yet taking it one step further, those adherents and apologists for the trespasses of Islam and Muslims need their own label.
The are “Islamophiliacs”, individuals which have an “extreme” or even “unnatural” attraction to Islam. The suffix of “-philia”, in this case can be compared to the “extreme” or “unnatural” attractions of pedophiles and necrophiles.
So to be clear, you are an “Islamoskeptic”, and they are “Islamophiles”.
I am tempted to say there is no difference, "radical" or "moderate." The difference, of course, is that "moderate islam" hasn't yet picked up the knife.
Really good article by Prof Phyllis “Feminist Hawk” Chesler.
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