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'Islamikazes' in our midst
Ilana Mercier
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Posted: July 19, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Those who talk up the root causes of Muslim disaffection are
cultural relativists with a difference. For example, they'll be the
first to point to how ignorant we are of the centrality of honor in
Arab culture. And they'd be right. "It is better to die with honor
than live with humiliation," goes an Arab saying. To Muslims,
there's no pride in being democratized by the Westonly humiliation
and shame. Conveniently, however, these Rousseauists ignore the less
flattering aspects of a culture and a religion that has yet to
undergo an Enlightenment.
Individualism is, at best, negligible. The ummah the community of
believers or the "Nation of Islam" is pre-eminent. Infinitely less
eminent is the infidel, whose inherent inferiority, codified in
elaborate dhimmi jurisprudence, makes him fair game. Responsibility
is always externalized. Muslim savagery toward innocents has been
felt from Beslan to Bali, from Kashmir to Casablanca. Yet, they'll
invariably shift the blame (successfully, I might add) to Israel,
America, Russia and other "occupations."
Helping to make the "Islamikazes'" case are countless liberals and
libertarians, as well as elements on the American right. They lay
the blame for the killers' latest actions exclusively on American
and British foreign policy: foreign forays begat the suicide bomber;
case closed.
Our adventurous foreign policy might be a necessary condition for
Muslim aggression but it is far from a sufficient one. Muslims today
are at the center of practically every conflict in the world. They
were slaughtering innocent, pacifist Jews in Israel well before the
Jewish state was a figment in the fertile mind of Theodor Herzl (and
well before the "occupation" of 1967: in 627, Muhammad decapitated
900 Medina Jews. The women were only raped). Governments, abetted by
the Fourth Estate (and a fifth column), have framed strife in Sudan,
East Timor, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan,
Kashmir, the Philippines, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, the Balkans and
Russia as sectarian or regional. The struggle in these spots,
however, has more to do with the overriding refusal of the one
faction to abide the others (unless they've been conquered or
preferably killed).
Speaking of the Fourth Estate, Newsweek saw cause to celebrate in
the aftermath of the London atrocities. Hard-line, fundamentalist
organizations, "with alleged ties to militants in the Middle East"
(don't you love the euphemisms), had condemned the 7/7 mass murder.
Better still, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
echoed these noble (and doubtless sincere) sentiments. Newsweek's
hard-nosed journalists concluded (Oh Buddha!) that, "No one, not
even Hamas, can continue to condone or even stay silent about these
barbarities." Alas, no sooner had the "militants of the Middle East"
denounced murder than they detonated a suicide bomber, killing three
Israelis (in Netanya, my home town). A minor malfeasance, of course.
And there's the rub: Not that our cultural relativists would admit
to it, but the concept of truth in Arab culture is extremely
elastic. Al-Ghazzali, "the famous 11th-century Muslim theologian,
claimed that the lie is not wrong in itself. If the lie is the way
to achieve good results, then it is permissible. It is necessary to
lie when the truth might lead to unpleasant or undesired results,"
writes Dr. David Bukay. More recently, Arab sociologist Sania Hamady
(Katz, 2002) has documented the low value attached to truth in Arab
culture. Feelings, flights of fancy and fabrications are integral to
Arab discourse. Lies are also potent political weapons, having
successfully achieved the delegitimization of Israel, for instance.
Clearly, Muslim leaders have learned that Westerners demand nothing
more than a denunciation of terrorism. So they denounce and get on
with the business of Jihad (which is, like Shari'a, an essential
tenet of true Islam).
Since two-facedness is both a way of life and a political strategy,
there's nothing extraordinary about the countless Muslim leaders who
pose as moderates, forswear terrorism, and then do what the Quran
commands: "instill terror in the hearts of unbelievers" (8:12). Both
Serge Krifkovic (author of "The Sword of the Prophet") and Paul
Sperry ("Infiltration") have traced the trajectory of
these "moderate" Muslims, as they've gone from "the White House to
the Big House." Embraced by American presidents, Sami Al-Arian,
Abdurahman M. Alamoudi and Muzammil H. Siddiqi, to name but a few,
represent a sample of the crème de la crème of "moderate" Islam in
America. The first now awaits trial for heading the U.S branch of
Islamic Jihad. The second "pleaded guilty of plotting terrorist acts
with Libya." The third is a dyed-in-the-wool radical (or simply true
to The Faith), advising Muslims to work to establish Shari'a in the
U.S.
No doubt, the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of
whom congregate in government. But while institutionalized
inveracity is a facet of Western governments, it's not ubiquitous in
civil society. Our capitalist culture, after all, turns on a man's
word commerce depends on the veracity of a contract and would
grind to a halt if truth weren't a cultural cornerstone.
In addition to their cultural relativism, those who
excuse "Islamikazes" suffer selective hearing. "Listen to what the
terrorists' communiqués tell us," they inveigh. "It's the occupation
of Iraq and Afghanistan, stupid (and Israel's existence)
occupation causes tender 'young men' to kill."
Not quite: A guilty and evil mind motivates a murderer to murder an
innocent non-aggressor. Be that as it may, the catalog of Muslim
complaints and contrivances is a little longer than the excuse-
makers allow. Violence against innocent nonbelievers and the
infliction of Shari'a are as integral to Muslim exegetics as are
declamations about occupation.
"We are here to bring civilization to the West. England does not
belong to the English people, it belongs to God," a regular Muslim
Joe (or Mo) told the Christian Science Monitor, after the 7/7
atrocities. Or how about a sermon delivered at the Grand Mosque in
Leeds, whence the British killers came: "Take up positions in the
Jihad, don't give in to sleep, and don't give in to failure and
disgrace." In safe company, Muslims say they strive to "fly the
black flag of Islam over 10 Downing Street," in the words of
Britain's Omar Baki. Or, to paraphrase one of our own abstemious
Islamists, Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR, "I want to see the U.S become an
Islamic nation."
Based on Muslims' own say-so, then, it's both disingenuous and
stupid of Islam's champions to claim categorically that Muslim
aggression is entirely reactive, a function solely of our misguided
foreign policy.
Londoners, at least, have Whitehall's number crunchers to thank for
putting in perspective the niggling and apparently negligible
matter of a Muslim Fifth Column. A leaked Whitehall dossier has
revealed that affluent, middle-class, British-born Muslims are
signing up to al-Qaida in droves. Translated into official speak by
Timesonline, only "3,000 British-born or British-based people have
passed through Osama bin Laden's training camps." And if that
doesn't allay unwarranted fears, "Intelligence indicates that the
number of British Muslims actively engaged in terrorist activity,
whether at home or abroad or supporting such activity, is extremely
small and estimated at less than 1 percent."
Joy! Britons are safe! An inconsequential 16,000 homicidal sleepers
are loose in England.
These figures, of course, are statistically significant
stupendously so. Sixteen-thousand potential "Islamikazes" denotes
more dead innocents in the future, sacrificial lambs on the altar of
Islamicly-correct indoctrination.
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