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One of the subjects that my friend Howard Bloom talks about in his book The Genius of the Beast (do check out my first part of my interview with him if you haven’t already) is that in order to change the world we must engage people at an emotional level. We have to reach into their souls. Dry, moderate rhetoric doesn’t do that, Calvin. We have to be willing to provoke people in the same fashion that our Editor-In-Chief David Horowitz has provoked leftists for the past twenty years. Sure, many won’t get past the provocation, but some will. I did — and here I am now. But that journey would not have started without David’s emotional challenges.
Further I can speak with some experience: even stating the flat truths of Islam in the more moderate tones as you suggest gets the same fears and smears from leftists. Just try suggesting that Osama bin Laden isn’t “misinterpreting” what the Koran says. Try pointing out that vast numbers of Muslims support Sharia law. Try saying that Islam isn’t a religion of peace. Where will it get you with center-leftists? The same place that Jeanette’s bold truth telling gets her. Center-leftists and hard leftists will still accuse you of suggesting that the War on Terror can only be won through nuking Mecca and exterminating Muslims.
I know because I’ve had this exact experience. I spoke these truths in fairly mild, moderate tones as you suggest we should and I still got an angry phone call from my old poetry professor accusing me of somehow provoking hate crimes and implying a Muslim Holocaust.
So while your concerns are legitimate, there’s no way to both tell the truth about Islam and avoid being accused of genocidal bigotry. Therefore, we should not fear this slander and allow it to cut off our effective rhetoric at the knees.
