Zane,

You might be preaching to the choir.

Just sayin…

Re: Zane

You sure attract some beauties….

Yes, that was the Evil Zane speaking when I spoke of the perversion of Christianity. However, no Muslim, not even the most moderate peace-lovin’ ones, believes that the Bible is in any way a true account of the prophet Jesus. In Islam, Christianity is not monotheism, it’s polytheism (three gods in one), and as such is shirk, the sin of adding helpers to Allah. Christians are different than, say, Hindus, because at least Christians had the truth before they perverted it (the true Gospel, in case you didn’t know, was rewritten and perverted and the true Gospel was lost forever, so they say), so Christians are tendered a few token rights that the Hindus wouldn’t be offered (see the Pact of Umar for details), but otherwise they are in the same kafir boat as everyone else.

As to our cultural prejudices, I mean our hard-earned respect for individual conscience, by which any man is welcome to believe in Mohammed or Jesus or David Koresh, and we will all agree to tolerate the other so long as he abides by the civil laws that allow this. I think this is a virtue, a peculiarly Western virtue. We want to assume that any religious man feels the same way, and want to extend that tolerance, even when we are extending it to those who intransigently refuse to accept it, and who plan nothing but our destruction even as they smile in our faces. Just because someone is religious doesn’t mean they are good, or wish us well. Think George W. Bush, who truly means well in extending an olive branch to Muslims, but who completely misunderstands the beast he offers the branch to.

When the attack via tolerance is coupled with the self-hating, suicidal PC tendencies we’ve often discussed here, we create a tremendous opportunity for exploitation by those who wish to overcome us. CAIR knows how to exploit it, MSA knows how to exploit it. If you are not familiar with a document known as The Project, probably written by the leading “moderate” Sunni cleric in the world, Yusuf al Qaradawi, I heartily recommend you find a copy of it and read it. It’s very short, and it lays out exactly the multi-pronged attack on the West that we have seen over the past twenty-five years. It is a handbook on how to use our every weakness against us, as EJ Smith notes they will do. This is a long war, indeed, and our enemies think in the long term. We can’t even think past the primaries to the elections in 1998.

And to tie this all back to Mr Lewis, he’s right that UBL and his ilk think they can take us, and he’s right that the actions of the Democratic Party encourage them, but because he has yet to acknowledge that his beloved Islam is at war with us (as evidenced in the errors of the article that I noted), he fails to perceive that all of his proposed policies for dealing with the Muslim world have failed, abjectly and totally, from the disastrous Oslo Accords to the ill-advised Occupation of Iraq. His own self-inflicted blindness is just as damaging to us in many ways, and just as encouraging to our enemies, as is the foolishness of the Democrats he excoriates. Just remember, twas Bernard Lewis who said “the liberation of Baghdad would make the liberation of Kabul seem like a funeral procession.”

Good link.

“..Islamophobia the worst form of terrorism and called for practical steps to counter it”

No. Suicidal/homocidal bombers (who predominantly happen to be Muslims) are. Do something about it Ministers.

Xenophobic? This is the most hypocritical statement I have ever heard and it comes from those Islamic governments- some our “allies”….We in the West have some Xenophobes, sure..but it seems to me the Islamic World is itself, a culture of monolithic xenophobia which stretches from Morrocco to the Phillipines. Please, someone prove me wrong.

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