NewsReal Sunday: It Really Is Better Here
"Would it be possible to move to Baltimore?"
Although we Americans have the right to attend whatever Church, Synagogue, or Mosque we choose to, it isn’t so peachy in lots of other places.
The photo that accompanies this piece is of an Iranian woman who was flogged for having the temerity to worship as a Christian, for example.
The American Spectator’s December 11th analysis of the State Department’s 2009 Report On International Religious Freedom illustrates how really bad it is not only in Iran, but in at least 30 different countries.
Author Doug Bandow divides the offenders into two basic camps:
“The first are Muslim nations that seek to reinforce the Muslim faith — often the particular branch, Shia or Sunni, that controls the state. The second are authoritarian states that either are still communist or have only recently escaped communism. Their authoritarian impulses typically cover civil and political liberties as well as religious freedom.”
The old saw about Muslims demanding full rights to worship (minarets, anyone?) while simultaneously denying it to others (including incompatible strains of their own religion) rings particularly true here.
And the Communists just keep humming along.
Whether it’s Burma, Eritrea, or even India, those with power often seek to force others to adhere to their narrow conception of the Godhead – and if the “others” fail to feel the magic, they are often tortured and killed.
Although it is tempting to want to ban religions that preach the destruction of all competitors, so far we in the U.S. have stayed above the fray.
Perhaps the adherents of those religions can learn something from our approach.
Of course that isn’t guaranteed.
This horrible photo of a poor suffering wretched woman poses a big question:
Islam is not just a religion. It is primarily a system of political,civil and criminal law governance, with mandated religious beliefs and practices all rolled into the package.
We have welcomed the followers of Islam into our free society via immigration. And they have brought with them honor killings, a Muslim tradition that has the support of offical Islam.
And we now have overt acts of jihad plotted and acted out against us by Muslim immigrants, by sons of Muslim immigrants and by converts to Islam who are native born American citizens.
We also have Muslim footbaths in private corporate workplaces, on the campuses of publicly funded universities, and we have mosques built on U.S. military bases with taxpayer dollars.
We have shrinking freedom of speech, in that any public debate or examination of Muslim docrtine that is an affront to Islam is met with political pressure, legal pressure, or covert threats of outright violence from Muslim activist groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations, a first generation spawn of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Interestingly, represntatives of the CAIR are now regular opinion and news contributors on CNN.
Europe has reached a critical mass of Muslim saturation, wherein approximately ten percent of the population is now able to exert enough influence on governments to criminally prosecute elected public officials who sound the alarm that the continental culture is being Islamized. Ask Geert Wilders in The Netherlands or Susanne Winter in Austria, both of whom are now considered criminals by their governments for speaking out against creeping Sharia and Islamization. Winter has already been convicted. Wilders’ trial is set for next month. Political speech is now a crime, if it questions or examines Islam or Sharia.
In England there are Sharia courts of law operating side by side with and separated from British Courts of Law, with the endorsement of Her Majesty’s government.
So, my question is, are we going to go down the same road that Europe has gone and continue to allow this incremental insemination of Islam into our society? And my answer is, we already are traveling that road.
Our current Muslim population has been estimated at one to three percent of the total. If we allow the current influx of Muslims and Sharia into this nation, as anyone who knows much about Islam will tell you, it is only a matter of time until Muslims demand that Sharia become the law of the land, complete with floggings like the one depicted above, beatings, amputations of limbs and digits, excision of tongues and eyes, crucifixions, stonings and all the other horrors of Sharia. These atrocities are every day business in Muslim states.
Women will see their rights evaporate into thin air. Non-Muslims will be subjugated to second-class status as dhimmis, and forced to pay taxes to their Muslim masters. And if anyone believes it cannot happen here, he had better read some of the history of jihad and the spread of Islam that has ebbed and flowed three times since 632 A.D. We are now in the third wave of jihad.
One last thought: We have Sharia-compliant media, a Press and TV news Corps that long ago abandoned its dedication to defending basic human freedoms. You will not see the photo above in the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or on any major network news outlet any sooner than you would have seen an anti-Hitler opinion column in Volkischer Beobachter in 1943.
And therein lies our certain doom.
I see nothing in the above article that I havent thought or said. This country is on a roller coaster called “Politically Correct”
Re: Perhaps the adherents of those religions can learn from our approach.
Not a chance! As psychologists like to say, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. If we Americans cannot learn from the history of Islam, if we cannot learn from what is happening to Europe, then we will reap the same diasastrous results, and we will deserve it.
That’s why I said there is no guarantee – sarcastically – but I don’t want to give up total hope…our best shot at coexistence is with the next generation of Muslims – as I stated on another post, what happens in places like Iran where the youth are rebelling is going to be of upmost importance.
John, you would be speaking to a brick wall. Islam is now and always be incompatible with democracy and self-rule. However, what you are seeing is the march towards a one
world religion that is already in the making between the Vatican and Islamic clerics
that see the benefit of world domination and control through a blended world religion.
The religion will be manditory and enforced by brutal and deadly means to stem the
practice of independent religious choices. The Bible has already detailed out the one
world religion as being a source of great power and the precursor to the arrival of the
anti-christ. The religion will not be Christian or Islamic but a blending that embraces
anti-G_d “spiritual” doctrines.
The growth of an even more doctrinaire version of Islam is entirely possible, and of course many people would see it as probable – or as a bygone conclusion.
I still have some hope that those elements who are battling for freedom in Tehran are a potential harbinger of a new Islam, where the adherents pick and choose what elements of their faith they choose to follow. I know that might sound crazy, and Pollyanish, but women, university students, and others are defying the Mullahs…they are educated and want to become more educated, and as this happens maybe you’ll see a more westernized version of the religion of “peace”.
Ask yourself – how much more rigid was Christianity 800 or so years ago? Granted, the creed didn’t advocate death to non-believers, which is a huge problem, but those who chose to flout its teachings certainly had a pretty miserable time of it.
So here goes: If you DO believe in a just God, then all things are possible – so why isn’t it a scenario worth considering?
Of course I haven’t booked any tickets to Mecca – not yet.
Hope should always be tempered by reason.