IT'S TIME TO FOLLOW THE LEAD OF SAUDI ARABIA

Submitted by Geno M. (United States), Jan 6, 2008 at 14:42

Our "friends" in Saudi Arabia have established the right paradigm by insulating themselves from the incursion of non-Islamic influence. No churches allowed there, no synagogues, no Christians, and certainly no Jews. This is a useful paradigm.

In his essay titled "Sudden Jihad Syndrome – It's Now Official", Dr. Pipes raises the salient point that presumably non-violent Muslims living among us can rapidly and "radically" transform. Although this observation somewhat contradicts his stated opinion that our best hope lies in appealing to the decency and humanity of moderate Muslims of the world, I think he is now on target in recognizing the immediacy of the Sudden Jihad Syndrome threat.

If, as it should be, our first task is to secure our cities and homeland against Islamic terror, then perhaps we would do well to think through how best to achieve the goal. For example, are we well-served by continuing to live in fear that our seemingly peaceful Muslim neighbors may, at any time, drive their vehicles over the sidewalk and murder us? Or poison our water supply, or wire themselves with explosives at a football stadium or elemntary school, or shopping mall?

Perhaps we should ask ourselves, "where does the line between politically correct multiculturalism end and blind stupidity begin?" Given the current situation, it is perhaps both timely and prudent to reevaluate the basis under which Islam and its adherents are tolerated within our freedom-loving society. More and more, it is obvious that large swaths of Europe will likely be Islamicized, probably within a decade or two. As such, it is well that we ask ourselves now, whether this is the result we would like to befall the United States.

If we find that we would prefer to not live under Sharia law as dihimmis, then we probably ought to consider precisely by what means we intend to defend ourselves against being consumed in that manner. If we really value our Judeo-Christian secular society and its attendant freedoms, the one thing we probably should not do is open the door to people whose religious duty states that they must either convert, turn us into dihimmis, or kill us. Turn the question around. Would we expect the Saudis, for one split second, to tolerate Christians living in their midst who followed a religious doctrine boldly articulating the destruction of Islam within Saudi Arabia?

Maybe it is long past time for us to express the same passionate force of will in defense of our values as the Muslims do in pursuit of theirs.

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