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January 29, 2008

Islam means peace in our time

A letter from Dr. Emanual Tanay, psychiatrist.

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the 'peaceful majority', the ' silent majority', is cowed and extraneous.

There are two corollaries to this argument:

i - It was a peace loving majority which prevented the Great Powers from standing up to Hitler, which systematically disarmed Britain and gutted the Royal Navy, which signed worse than meaningless treaties making war "illegal", which relied on collective security even as it refused to come to the aid of Ethiopia and Spain and Czechoslovakia... There is no virtue in claiming to love peace and doing nothing whatever to secure it except undermining the men who make peace possible.

ii - The term "radical muslim" needs to be turned on its head. It is courageous women like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji who are the radicals. If our civilization with its hundreds of thousands under arms, its technological prowess and whatever is left of its sense of justice cannot stand unequivocally with these women then it stands for nothing whatsoever. We shall deserve our fate.

Also on the front lines against evil cults: Anonymous announces an action against Scientology for February 11.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 29, 2008 07:14 AM

Comments

I don't have a problem with Tanay's statement or thought process, but stuff like this is always weakened by arguments like this:

It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave.

Yeah, Islam is running around in Africa and much of it is doing exactly that. But slaughtering "Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa" is sort of dishonest, considering "Christians and tribal groups" in Africa are slaughtering other tribal groups and ethnicities plenty. Much of the continent is a violent mess.

Posted by: Bill from INDC [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2008 11:22 AM

True. And - to be blunt - I am more concerned about Europe (via Instapundit).

Posted by: Ghost of a flea [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2008 11:34 AM

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