Sorry to Disagree with the President of Israel

Submitted by ron thompson (United States), May 9, 2006 at 18:59

If there exists anywhere a master list of World PC problems - defined as politically correct speech which is willfully blind to what should be glaringly obvious - the number one example on that list would be the endlesly repeated assertion that Islam is a peaceful religion.

It seems like the taking of a kind of narcotic, or a magical self-delusional mantra perpetually and mindlessly repeated, for remarkable numbers of people worldwide to go on prattling that Islam is a peaceful religion that has been unaccountably "hijacked" by those who turn to violence.

Instead, ranging from the "Prophet" Mohammed himself to the wacko President of Iran's latest effusions to the United States and others to "explain" Islam to the benighted infidels, idolaters, and polytheists who make up the rest of the world, the message of Islam has been "convert and be safe" .. OR ...... you and all your family should be killed, and everything you own distributed to "the faithful.

I am very sorry to see the President of Israel buying into this dangerous illusion that Islam is a peaceful religion. The President of Israel should consider that the silence of his Islamic audience is the authentic testimony as to the reality of Islam.

He should also consider that all this amazingly persistent PC about the peacefulness of Islam is actually a powerful incitement to both the actual perpetrators and inciters of violence, and the much larger numbers of passive-agggressive Muslim supporters of it. For if no amount of Islamic violence and terror causes its chief victims (in fairness i should say the chief non-Muslim victims of the terror and violence, since intra-Muslim violence kills many more Muslims than us infidels, idolaters, and polytheists) to criticize Islam directly, then what possible incentive do Muslims anywhere have to look inward for the true and ultimate source not only of all their chief domestic failures, but of all the problems they have with the rest of the world. Indeed the self-delusional mantra that Islam is peaceful is greeted with open or covert contempt and regarded, quite logically, as cowardice, proof of infidel inferiority, and further, as proof of the eventual worldwide triumph of Islam.

What is the chief monument and symbol and reality of this so-called peaceful religion in the world today? Just look around you every time you go to an airport, and every time you go into any major government building anywhere in the world. There, in all the vast security apparatus everywhere, you will see what is by far the chief reality of what Islam means to the world.

And perhaps you will also see what Muslims are most proud of in their effect on the non-Muslim 85% of humanity . After all, if you can't get respect for anything positive you do, than getting the whole world to at least "respect" you in the form of fear and a vast diversion of resources to protection from terrorism taught and advocated and championed by your religion is no small accomplishment.

Ron Thompson

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