Their crime? These Muslims have the temerity to suggest that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, an Indian who died in 1908, was the promised Mahdi — the redeemer of Islam — and not one of the false prophets about whom Mohammed had warned. They compound their offense with condemnations of violent jihad, maintaining that man’s inhumanity to man is ultimately conquered by love and kindness. So, of course, the Ahmadi Muslims have to die.
They are killed in Muslim Pakistan. They are killed in Muslim Bangladesh. They are killed in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country and, putatively, its most moderate. It was there, in a village in West Java last year, that hundreds of Muslims wielding machetes, sharpened sticks, and stones set upon on an Ahmadi home, brutally murdering three men and maiming several others. True to form, Islamic clerics raced to the fore to rationalize the savagery as being provoked by Ahmadi heresy. The ringleaders were sentenced to less than six months’ imprisonment, with the country’s minister of religious affairs callously explaining that religious freedom was certainly not freedom to “modify” Islamic beliefs — and equating Ahmadi preaching, which is banned, with flag-burning.
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The barbaric treatment of religious minorities in Islamic countries, and its roots in Islamic law, is undeniable . . . unless we choose not to see it. So, true to form, we are choosing not to see it.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the intrepid humanitarian and former Muslim, struggles to pull the world’s head from the sand, demanding that we finally bear witness to what she aptly describes as the “rising genocide” Muslim-majority countries are waging against Christians. How tragic that, right at this moment of clarity, American law enforcement has opted to blind itself in craven submission to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Under a barrage of protest by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its media stooges, the New York City Police Department has now apologized for showing hundreds of recruits The Third Jihad, a 72-minute video about radical Islam. Concurrently, after badgering by the likes of CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the FBI has just agreed to purge its training materials of information that elucidates the obvious — the direct nexus between mainstream Islamic doctrine, supremacist Muslim attitudes, and jihadist terror.
The Third Jihad ought to be required viewing. Don’t take my word for it. You can watch it yourself, on this website. In addition to the video, the site sheds light on the campaign against the counterterrorism strategy that has kept New Yorkers safe for the last decade despite their city’s continuing status as the jihad’s bull’s-eye in the West.
If you only read the New York Times and listened to its media echo chamber, you would think the video is a hate-dripping smear. It is anything but: Narrated by M. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and indefatigable foe of Brotherhood ideology, and featuring interviews with Ms. Hirsi Ali, Bernard Lewis (the West’s most renowned scholar of Islam), former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, former CIA director Jim Woolsey, the inimitable commentators Mark Steyn (author of Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West) and Melanie Phillips (author of Londonistan), and NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly — who, for some reason (no doubt related to the city’s sniffling mayor) has donned sackcloth and ashes over the great crime of admitting on camera that the city is worried about jihadists with nukes.
Until our "leaders" admit that Islam is not a religion, but a political ideology bent on destroying all other religions and people in the world, nothing will be done. Average people like myself can wail all we want and we will be labeled the extremist by our own government. Until we can wean ourselves from the oil teat of the Middle East will we be able confront this cancer. However, I don't see that happening. You can look back at our chumminess with arab leaders since Bush 41 (at least) and see that will not happen. Too much money changes hands on a personal level for this to change. The destruction of this Country can and should be laid at the feet of our Presidents and their minions.
"...the country’s minister of religious affairs callously explaining that religious freedom was certainly not freedom to “modify” Islamic beliefs...".
Given the slap on the hand given to the Muslim murderers, the obvious corrolary is that, to the minister of religious affairs, religious freedom does include freedom to kill for the crime of "modifiying beliefs".
The weakness of the West in the face if Islam is pathetic. As Clint Eastwood would say. we're acting like "p**ssies" - and the Islamists love it.
Crying uncle to CAIR, not unlike all of liberalism, involves two separate but symbiotic adaptations of the human condition; one being those fools who think they couldn't possibly be that radical and the others who know exactly how dangerous it all is but welcome the inherent totalitarian mindset. Both camps are foolish because they really think it can be managed to satisfy their ignorant distrust of liberty.
There is a third camp, probably the most significant. This group does understand how bad it could be, but their own devotion to tolerance (as the highest good) makes them tolerate alien intolerance until they are no longer able to resist. That is an ideological choice that does not celebrate the totalitarianism, but has the same result.
If I say: I am not against you so I am your friend, and you say: You are not with me so you are my enemy, then you kill me while I celebrate your unique viewpoint.
"So, true to form, we are choosing not to see it." One of the most intelligent and brave politicians in human history, Winston Churchill, called mankind "unteachable from life to death." With a little bit of help from the totally corrupt and totally cynical media, of course.
This article and the linked video is one of the most eye-opening pieces I have ever read on NRO. What a sad testament to us believing the lie that we can create Utopia in America through government and academia and a watered down, ineffective Christianity. They have seen our weakness and are attacking.
The funny thing is this: Muslims defended their religion and claim ONLY a minority are “radicals” terrorist, yet each and every time someone makes a “general” statement about ISLAM, then suddenly ALL 1.6 Billions (or whatever the count may be today) are “insulted”. In this case they do not separate themselves from the “terrorist, radicals”, because to a muslim the allegiance is first and foremost to their brothers of faith, and then to the unbelievers.
“Radical Islam is not very radical — it is Islamic doctrine strictly applied…” Well said, sir!
Why are the FBI & NYPD kowtowing? Surely you know the answer to that one. We have an accommodationist administration in power in this country and the liberal elites are willing – even anxious – to play the useful idiots. What’s an honest civil servant to do but accommodate?
Bravo, Andrew, as usual. If I were elected President, one of the first calls I'd make would be to you, asking you to become the Attorney General. It's simply amazing how few people "get it" in this country. But then again, people have always ignored "the dangerous" througout history. Ignorance, for the moment, is bliss.
Of all the republican candidates, I think Santorum best understands the threat we face from radical islam. And while our problems as a country are many, unless we get the islam issue under control, in the final analysis, nothing else will really matter.
If only all of our elected officials and those duly represented had Mr. McCarthy's clarity on the issue of islam it would no longer be a threat...at least not here in America. Alas...the truth of the matter is disheartening and disconcerting.
On a positive note, whenever I need an article to help my hopefully college bound child ace the SATs, I go straight for a McCarthy article. They are invariably a vocabulary builder's dream! Why one paragraph in this article alone contained at least a dozen words meriting a look-see in Websters!