Am I being too hard on Islam?

Vic Biorseth, http://www.Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com

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The charge is made that I always side with Israel and oppose Islam, and that a majority of people of the Islamic faith are decent, peaceful people, and further - and this is the one I have a real problem with - Islam itself is, of its nature, a religion of peace.

Horse patooties.

The fact that untold millions of Moslems all around the globe are decent and peaceful citizens of the various lands in which they live is an undeniable truth that operates in spite of Islam, but certainly not because of it. You can go to the Islam and the Jews page to see what Islam teaches. But you don't have to read the Koran or listen to sermons in Mosques to identify the clear murderous thread that runs so deep in the ethos of Islam. You can look at history, both medieval and modern.

I submit that inflicting pain, suffering, servitude, fear and death upon infidels in general and Jews in particular is, today, a major factor that is deeply imbedded within Islamic culture. It's not just a factor, but an important, perhaps even driving factor, in the Islamic ethos. It is an inseparable part of their cultural morality. It has become a cultural tradition.

That's why, on September 11, 2001, in the midst of our most shocking awakening to this diabolical threat to peace and stability, we witnessed so many ordinary citizens in so many diverse places, celebrating, laughing and cheering, shooting guns in the air, dancing in the streets and so forth. The suicidally silly peacenik Left insists that the murderous events, like all Islamic murderous events, were perpetrated by a small minority from within Islam, and that most Moslems did not and would not participate, and I suppose that's true enough. But my point is that each such Islamic murderous event strikes a positive chord in the Islamic breast, and is held to be a positive event, among the majority.

It's in their ethos. The given reason that the newly elected President of Iraq does not openly condemn Hezbollah is that any such public condemnation by him would be political suicide, as it would separate him from the Shiite majority. Which tells us that the Shiite majority favors the mission of Hezbollah. Which is, of course, the death of the Jews and the annihilation if Israel.

Which brings us to the dichotomy between the Western ethos, which holds innocent human life to be sacred, and the Islamic ethos, which doesn't seem to recognize the word innocent.

Dar Al-Islam is Islam's house of submission, or the domain of Islam, where all are Moslems living under Islam. Dar Al-Sulh is Islam's house of truce or of temporary peace where Moslems live among infidels, but not yet under the rule of Islam. Dar Al-Harb is Islam's house of war, and that's where we live. And, where Israel lives. If you live in the house of war, you are not innocent, you are an enemy.

Peace, rule of law, recognition of concepts such as innocence and guilt, for Islam, exist only in the house of submission, under Islamic rule. Allah is only merciful within the house of submission.

In recent history, Moslems have violated all international laws in existence, including even recognition let alone protection of embassies and diplomats, kidnapped, held for ransom and murdered Americans, singly and in groups and in mass events. Every time, it is blamed on some minority, and claimed that most Moslems disapprove of the action. But most Moslems, and none of their governments or main spokesmen, ever roundly condemn any of the actions. Here are some of the "minorities" that have kidnapped or tortured or murdered Americans recently.

1. Government of Iran
2. Hezbollah
3. Islamic Jihad
4. al-Dawa
5. Palestine Liberation Front
6. Government of Libya
7. al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
8. al Qaeda
9. Sudanese Islamic Front
10. Hamas
11. Iranian "Party of God"

I'm sure there are many more. What I want to get across is the purely Islamic notion that it is good for someone to go out and kill some Jew, any Jew, just because he's a Jew. Point this out to any Moslem or pro-Moslem and the defense will be to point out something some Jew did to some Moslem once. Note that the issue of the potential innocence of the Jewish victim is strictly avoided, where it is not outright denied.

We're talking about an alien morality here. A very dangerous guiding ethos.

High ranking dimwits like John Flipflop/Turncoat Kerry would have us believe that our war on terror should be waged quite strictly and exclusively against Osama Bin Ladin, and him alone. Slightly brighter but still dim bulb Leftists would have us negotiate with the murderous Hezbollah for the lives of the Jews and the continued existence of Israel. (Actually, Kerry might take this position, too, if it's Tuesday.) Home grown and peaceful-sounding Moslems, who might be murderous deceivers or might be innocent fools, tell us of Allah's mercy and Islam's peacefulness at ever public opportunity.

But here's the problem. The record is clear, and it shows that Islam is most definitely not a religion of peace, but of war. If the majority of Moslems are not murderers, they still, in their majority, condone it, at the very least. Murder of infidels in general and Jews in particular, especially when done in the house of war, has become and integral part of the Islamic psyche.

We are at war with an idea; we are at war with a religion. We are not merely at war with some segment from within Islam, but with Islam itself. Until we recognize that simple fact, we will not begin to win. Bush has chosen what is probably the best way to fight it, because Democracy and Islam are ideas that are opposed to each other; either one can grow only at the expense of the other. The more free a people become, the more they will think. The more independent thinking they do, the better they will get at doing it. A man cannot learn to do good critical thinking and long remain a Moslem committed to Islamic faith.

The real danger is that we are doing less good thinking as time goes on, not more. To be a good thinking Catholic means to never loose sight of the objective truths that make us free.

Pray for Israel, pray for our troops, and pray for President Bush.

Please God, and live forever.

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