When Multiculturalists Deny Global Islamic Jihad, They Distort the Real
Problem & Endanger All of Us.
THANKS TO R.S., Chapter Leader of ACT!, South Bend, IN
Multiculturalism on its face sounds innocuous, even heartwarming. Shouldn't
we welcome the rich diversity of cultures that populate our world and our
country? Don't we benefit from the perspective of various languages, customs
and values that a multitude of cultures offers us? Who but a bigot could
object to the gifts that the "stranger" brings?
But if multiculturalism is the open acceptance of other ethnicities and
religious groups, what is this widespread movement not -- what is it
against? Well, for example, multiculturalism does not believe in a melting
pot, i.e., bringing all these disparate groups together and happily
homogenizing them. No. According to advocates of multiculturalism, a country
should not insist on a single language for all its citizens. It should
accept the many languages of its many peoples. Many multiculturalists,
including some judges in England, believe that religious law, like islamic
sharia, should have precedence over civil law for moslems - which could
allow the beating of a wife by a husband, as is permitted under islam.
Most multiculturalists are academic elites and leftist politicos, but, as
you'll discover in this week's article, the philosophy has begun to infect
opinions expressed by mainstream media, like the Los Angeles Times and The
New York Times, as well as those of Israel's ruling Olmert administration
and, possibly, incoming U.S. president Barack Obama.
Beneath the veneer of loving acceptance of human cultural differences,
multiculturalism is at core a refuge for Marxists who dare no longer parade
openly under that banner. Multiculturalists believe that many, if not most
of the world's ethnic groups are victims of colonialism - the conquest of
weaker countries and peoples by . . . avaricious capitalists.
This week's article, by Caroline Glick (one of our favorite commentators),
exposes how multiculturalists seek to blame the victims of the recent Mumbai
terrorist massacres, rather than the Islamic jihadists who perpetrated them.
You remember these apologists: They're the ones who blamed the 9/1l attacks
on U.S. imperialism and Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians.
Most importantly, the multiculturalists will bend over backwards to disavow
a global Islamic jihad. Every Islamic attack on civilians is seen as local
people responding to local conditions - culture clashes. Multiculturalists
deny that Islamic radicals are bent on conquering the world (they're merely
struggling for liberation from the occupier) and that their acts are
terrorist (they're simply lashing out at the power structure that oppresses
them in the only way they know how).
So why did the Islamic Mumbai murderers from Pakistan go out of their way to
find the only rabbi in this city of 20 million and torture him and his wife
and others at the Jewish center . . . before they killed them? In fact,
these terrorists had likely never even met a Jew before they slaughtered
them.
While this article is a bit longer than our usual offerings,
multiculturalism is so nefarious, insidious and deadly that I know Glick's
observations will grab your interest.
- Jim Sinkinson, Director, FLAME. 9 Dec. 2008
P.S. By accusing Israel of being imperialist, colonialist and even an ethnic
cleanser, the multicultural left tries to justify terrorist attacks of
Islamic jihadists like Hamas and Hezbollah on civilians. To set the record
straight about Jews' longevity in and Israel's rights to the land of
Palestine, FLAME has published an outspoken and revealing position paper on
the subject: "Myths About the Israeli-Arab Conflict (I): Is "occupation" the
cause of this conflict?" This explanation has been published nationwide in
dozens of publications, and has reached tens of millions of Americans. I
encourage you to review it, so you can help spread the truth about this
subject. Most of all, if you agree that such outspoken advocacy on Israel's
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HOW THE JIHADIST-MULTICULTURAL ALLIANCE ABETS EVIL
By Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post, December 2, 2008
Doctors at the Mumbai hospital who treated the victims of the past week's
jihadist attacks were rendered nearly speechless by the carnage. As two
doctors explained to the Indian news Web site rediff.com, violent gang wars
and previous terror attacks didn't hold a candle to what happened.
The bodies of the victims showed clear signs of pre-execution torture. The
worst tortured, they said, were the Jewish victims. As one doctor put it,
"Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It
was clear that they were killed on the [first day of the assault]. It was
obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was
so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again."
India's Intelligence Bureau revealed that a captured jihadist explained that
they were instructed to seek out foreign and especially Israeli victims.
In the aftermath of the Mumbai massacres, it is hard to imagine that there
is anything as pernicious as the jihadists who sought out and murdered
non-Muslims with such cruelty. But there is. Their multicultural apologists,
who enable them to continue to kill by preventing their victims from
fighting back, are just as evil.
The jihadists in Mumbai, like their counterparts from Gaza to Baghdad to
Guantanamo Bay, have been defended, and their acts and motivations have been
explained away, by their allies and loyal apologists: Western
multiculturalists. Multiculturalism is a quasi-religion predicated on both
moral relativism and a basic belief in the inherent avarice of the West -
particularly of the U.S. and Israel. Multiculturalists assert that
Westerners - or, in the case of India, Hindus - are to blame for all acts of
violence carried out against them by non-Westerners.
In the case of the Mumbai massacres, the jihadists' multicultural defenders
began justifying their actions while they were still in the midst of their
torture and murder spree. In Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria hinted that Indian
Hindus "had it coming to them."
"One of the untold stories of India," he explained, "is that the Muslim
population has not shared in the boom the country has enjoyed over the last
10 years. There is still a lot of institutional discrimination, and many
remain persecuted."
Then too, the multicultural media suppressed the fact that the jihadists
were targeting Jews. Outside of Israel, it took the media nearly two days to
report that the Chabad House had even been taken over by the jihadists. And
once they did finally report that Jews were being targeted, they made every
effort to downplay the strategic significance of the jihadists' decision to
send a team off the beaten path simply to butcher Jews.
Emblematic of the Western media's attempts to play down the story was The
New York Times. Two days into the hostage drama, the Times opined, "It is
not known if the Jewish center was strategically chosen, or if it was an
accidental hostage scene."
Jews were not the only ones who had their identity obscured. The jihadists
did too. For almost an entire day, major news networks in the West
suppressed the fact that the murderers were Muslim jihadists, claiming
oddly, that they could also be Hindu terrorists. This was odd not because
there are no Hindu terrorists, but because the perpetrators referred to
themselves from the outset as "mujahideen," or Islamic warriors.
Once the jig was up on their attempts to hide the identities of the
perpetrators and their victims alike, the jihadists' multicultural enablers
started blaming the victims. For instance, on Sunday, The Los Angeles Times
published an op-ed by University of Chicago law professor Martha Nussbaum
attacking Indian Hindus. After blithely dismissing the atrocities that were
still under way while she wrote as "probably funded from outside India, in
connection with the ongoing conflict over Kashmir," Nussbaum focused her ire
against India's Hindus. Recalling the gruesome and apparently
state-sanctioned violence against Muslims in India's Gujarat state in 2002,
Nussbaum cast the jihadists as nothing more than victims of a Hindu terror
state which has been victimizing Muslims for no reason since the 1930s.
Nussbaum's essay was a patent example of selective multicultural memory. She
apparently forgot about the Islamic conquests of India from the seventh
through the 16th centuries in which India's Buddhists were wiped out and
70-80 million Hindus were slaughtered by Muslim overlords. She also forgot
about the thousands of Indian Hindus who have been murdered by jihadists
since the 1990s.
The attacks in Mumbai and the multiculturalists' rush to minimize their
significance exposed two disturbing truths about the global jihad. First,
they showed that the jihadists are quick studies. With each passing day,
their capacity to attack grows larger.
In all places where jihadist forces operate in secure bases, they are
becoming more sophisticated in their tactics, training and doctrine. Their
weapons are increasingly advanced.
Jihadist regimes, like their terror proxies and allies, are not only
increasing their direct support for jihadist terrorists. Regimes, and
particularly Iran, are matching their increased support for terror groups
with their own non-conventional weapons programs. So, in the case of Iran,
its takeover of Lebanon and Gaza through Hezbollah and Hamas is being made
even more dangerous by its progress in its nuclear weapons program. So too,
nuclear-armed Pakistan's military and ISI are expanding their support for
al-Qaeda and the Taliban at the same time they are facilitating jihadist
attacks in Pakistan's large cities as well as in India.
The second truth about the global jihad that the Mumbai attacks exposed is
that there is nothing that jihadists can do to make the multiculturalists
stop defending them. And there is nothing effective that democratic
governments can do to defend against the jihadists which multiculturalists
will deem acceptable. This is the case because multiculturalists cannot
accept the fact that the jihadists are waging war against the West without
disavowing multiculturalism itself. And since they will not disavow what has
become their religion, they will never be convinced that they must stop
defending jihadists.
Iran daily threatens to destroy the U.S., annihilate Israel, close the
Straits of Hormuz, use nuclear weapons and proliferate nuclear weapons to
other states. It controls Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. It is the primary sponsor
of the insurgency in Iraq and, with Pakistan, the major sponsor of the
insurgency in Afghanistan. It has cultivated strategic ties with U.S. foes
in the Western Hemisphere like Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador.
Yet one of the first foreign policy initiatives promised by the incoming
Obama administration is to attempt to diplomatically engage Iran with the
aim of striking a grand bargain with the mullahs.
Or take Israel. The outgoing Olmert government may well lead the Western
world in its attempts to deny the existence of the global jihad which has
marked Israel as its central battlefield. During his visit to the White
House last week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was confronted by an incredulous
U.S. President George W. Bush who simply couldn't understand his strange
enthusiasm for the prospect of giving Syria the Golan Heights. Bush couldn't
fathom Olmert's fervent, if rationally unsupportable belief that if Israel
gives Syria the Golan Heights, Syria will happily abandon its best friend
and overlord in Teheran.
Some commentators dismiss the danger emanating from the global jihad by
noting that its global designs are not matched by global capabilities. They
argue that when the West finally decides to defeat the jihadists, they will
be utterly vanquished.
Unfortunately, this view ignores two things. It ignores the fact that the
jihadists are devoting all of their energies to improving and expanding
their capacity to fight their war. And it ignores the fact that the
multiculturalists' influence is growing steadily and has repeatedly stymied
Western attempts to confront the jihadist threat head-on. Unless something
changes soon, the consequences of the jihadist-multicultural alliance will
be suffered by millions and millions of people.
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