The Difficult (and Really Inconvenient) Truth

The Modern Western Mindset is not prepared to RECOGNIZE or see the threat of Islamo-Fascism. One of our highest values is called "pluralism." We are not to say that any one's religious expression is "wrong." Because of this, the reaction to discussions of Islamic influenced violence is to say, "That isn't their religion, just some radicals." This response makes us unprepared to see what should be plain. Most every nation with a large population of Muslims is rife with Islamic violence. The Violent aggressors say that they kill for their faith.

We need to believe them. We need to be sophisticated enough to see that although there are some Muslims who believe their faith does not call for domination of the governments of the world, there is a large percentage who either actively or passively is working for that end or cheering on those who are. The Nigerian boys who have been burned, their sisters kidnapped and raped, their parents killed, all because they were Christians and not Muslims would tell you that there is a faith issue involved here. The people who flew the planes into the World Trade Center Towers did so with the words, "Allah Akbar!" on their lips (that means, Allah is Great!). The issue for them is faith.

The troubles in the Sudan, in Indonesia, the Philippines, Egypt, Pakistan, etc are caused primarily by people who say that for their faith they must kill the infidels. We must recognize this. Instead of seeing this, the Western mind looks for equivalents in Christianity. This is foolish. We say things like, 'Well, what about the Spanish Inquisition, or the Crusades? What's the difference between faith of Christians causing killing and Muslims?" Why is this foolish. Many reasons (one being a history of the Crusades that makes the Christians the only ones fighting for religious reasons is slanted, but that is for another day), but the main reason should be obvious: Regardless of what happened in the middle ages in some isolated places in the world, in today's world, no Christians, anywhere, are calling for a militaristic destruction of other faiths. But many, not a few, Muslims, claim that Islam does call for this.

If we do talk about history with honesty, we would see that many in Islam always have spoke of military conquest of the infidels, beginning with Mohammed. But we don't even look at history honestly because we don't want to offend the pluralism that we live --and die by.