The Fine Line Between Bigotry and Self-Preservation
One of my friends of the Yahoo 360 Blogs – Eagle – has dedicated his blog to fight bigotry. Eagle understands the heinous incidents were the provocative acts of homicidal suicide that murdered thousands of Americans; however Eagle’s aim to defeat bigotry wishes to make it clear that Islamist terrorists were the perpetrators of a transnational act of war. In Eagle’s view all of Islam should not be held accountable for the acts of radical Islam.
Six years ago Eagle’s aim may have been a reasonable assumption about Islam; however over the years I have become to believe that the nature of Islam is derived from what that religion considers holy Scriptures: Quran, Hadith, Sunna, Sharia Law and so on. These are not nice non-violent documents except toward a believer in Islam itself. The documents call for the torment and/or execution of non-Muslims (fakir) depending on rather or not the non-Muslim submits to a dhimmi status. The dhimmi status is a state of existence of second class citizenship which must be continuously humiliated by the considered superior Islam religion. Thus if a dhimmi is not submissive to the status forced upon him/her, the person could face punishment up too execution. Executions are not pretty in Islamic cultures. This is why the Internet is littered with Islamists beheading (or sometimes stoning) Americans and Sharia Law breakers.
In the West and especially America before 9/11, I fully believe a majority of Muslims could be assessed as moderate non-violent people; however the longevity of America’s War on Terror (i.e. radical Islamists) has began to transform the Western Moderate Muslim to admire Islamism. I believe this admiration results from the very Scriptures Muslims considered hallowed.
In the Middle East itself the Muslim world has become increasingly radicalized because of the teaching of Jewish hatred in Mosques and Madrassas since the end of World War Two. I do not consider it an error to say that a majority of the Intelligencia class of Muslims actively or clandestinely support Islamist ideology which is a typical Theo-political vision to dominate the globe with Islam.
(I have to point out as a side bar that I detest the appellation of the word “Islam” for the followers of Mohammed and Mohammed’s example. I usually refer to the followers of Mohammed as Mohammedans because “Islam” is a word that references “Submission.” I am never going to submit to Mohammedans. I utilize the word “Islam” and “Muslim” her mostly for the benefit of my friend Eagle. Do not insult your friends.)
Bigotry is an awful place to be. Bigotry unleashed in modern society has the ability to nearly enslave its victims (somewhat like the dhimmis of Islam). I realize I walk a fine line between bigotry and self-preservation. I pray I never go over the edge. You need to realize that much of the religious literature that enters American Mosques arrive from Saudi Arabia, the home of the most cruel Islamic school of thought – Wahhabism. Usama bin Laden (UBL) is a Wahhabi. The Muslim Brotherhood which dominates Islamic religion in Egypt is much like the Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia in that they the same goals (yet I believe the two are competitors in the Middle East). A majority of Muslim-American organizations that claim to be civil rights groups protecting the rights of Muslim-Americans receive money and literature from three main groups: Saudi Wahhabis, The Muslim Brotherhood (SA FrontPageMag.com)and Iranian Shia client terrorist organization Hezbollah. There are transnational terrorists other than the three above mentioned that also export radical ideology to America; however they are akin or similar to the above three.
Evidently Eagle was the recipient of a chain e-mail (I am just guessing). For in Eagle’s quest to eliminate bigotry he focuses on a valiant Muslim by the name of Ali Salem.
It is a worthy cause to fight and defeat bigotry. Also Ali Salem is a legitimate Muslim taking a stand against Islamism. However I disagree that Ali Salem represents the mindset of Islam toward the West, particularly in the Middle East. Ali Salem was persecuted for his writings and his publisher [Director of Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies in Cairo] was sent to prison for seven years in Egypt. Ali Salem was detained with Ibn Khaldoun but was released ca. 2000. Ali Salem was booted out of the Egyptian Writer's Union; however he managed to get the Egyptian Courts to overturn the Writer's Union ejection. After Ali Salem's court victory and reinstatement, he quit to prove his point about Islamic bigotry. The last information - 2002 - I managed to discover by Googling that Salem is being treated by the Egyptian intelligencia as a pariah (meforum link above and http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/alsalem.htm).
I am afraid the longer the War on Terrorism exists the more Muslims become at least supportive of Islamist goals while a growing minority switch from the Moderate Islam to radical Islamism. Remember the small percentage of global Islamists seems low; however it translates into tens of millions of radicals out of the hundreds of millions of Muslims. That is a chunk of people that desire the death and destruction of Americans and Jews.
Thus personally, I am known as an Islamophobe. To undo this Islamophobia, trust must be earned not assumed.
