Fearful Blind Eye

Submitted by Clinton Gatewood (United States), Jan 3, 2003 at 15:55

Too many times have I heard, over the course of the last 1 1/2 years, how radical Islam and Violent Jihadist make up only a small fraction of Islamic society. Western scholars and statesmen continuely make excuses for and minimize the guilt and complicity all Islamic society bears for terrorism. However, I, at this time, wish not to speak about the complicity of the Islamic society, but about the Western Islamic apologists we are plagued with.

Shamefully, Western scholars and statesmen find excuses for Islam using moral pluralism as the means to justify their conclusions and excuses for Islam. I ask myself why these men and women continuely make excuses for Islam and have come to the following conclusions: They don't have the moral fiber nor courage to call a spade a spade, they fear the results making such judgements intail. In other words, the Western Islamic apologists fear making judgements upon Islam because they know, if they face the reality of what true Islam is, if they face the Nazi Final Solution like abominations in Sudan, Iraq and other countries, they will have to act against it. The apologists know that by accepting the truth they will come to a judgement which in turn will require action (reward or punishment). They know once they have formed a judgement in their own minds, they will have no other course of action to follow than to act against the Jihadist and Islamist. The Western Islamic apologists hope, that by turning a blind eye by "when in Rome do as the Romans," this storm will pass, and they can continue to live their simple idyllic lifes' in peace and harmony.

In the end, the lion will pass up the ostrich with its head in the sand to try and catch a real meal it has to chase down and catch. In my opinion, lets round up all these apologists and send them to the Sudan to live for 6 months and see what they think when/if they come back. At that point, we could get down to the real business at hand and help the minority moderate Islamics win their cultural revolution against the majority Jihadist Islamics.

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