Posted by
Bert Chapman on Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:30:11 PM
News reports indicate there may be some kind of "deal" not to burn Koran's at a Gainesville, FL church on Saturday's 9th anniversary of 9/11. We'll see if this is just some media or public relations trick or not. It's the height of hypocrisy for secular multicultural leftists to get worked up over the burning of a book that is antagonistic to their world views and lifestyle practices, and not share the same outrage toward Muslim attempts to subjugate women, impose Sharia jurisprudence, and seek to restore the Islamist caliphate on a global level. The level of multiculturalist leftist diversity cultism has become especially sad when General Petraeus worries that U.S. troops will be endangered by incendiary activity and when Defense Secretary Gates has to make a direct phone call to a previously obscure pastor at a small Sunshine State church. I'd like to remind General Petraeus and Secretary Gates that our troops are already in danger because we are at war with a ruthlessly messianic enemy seeking to impose their nefarious religious beliefs on us by compelling our surrender or death. During World War II would Eisenhower or MacArthur called an individual or organization who was planning to burn Mein Kampf or a written defense of Japan's bushido code out of concern for the "sensitivities" of the Germans or Japanese? Highly unlikely!
The historic body count of this Islamist enemy in its fourteen century existence far surpasses that of genocidal regimes of recent history such as Nazi Germany, the former Soviet Union, and Maoist China and will increase exponentially if Iran is allowed to acquire nuclear weapons and if Al Qaeda or allied terrorists gain possession of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
There needs to be more appreciation of religious pluralism in the Islamic world instead of the post-Christian west. Perhaps we could build an interfaith "dialogue center" or a cathedral larger than St. Peter's adjacent to Mecca's Grand Mosque. When Libyan dictator Qaddafi urged Italians to convert to Islam during his recent visit to that country and when Iran's obnoxious leader Ahmadinejad denounces Judaism and urges conversion to Islam we need to abandon our supine multicultural notions that we can all live together in harmony and that this can be somehow achieved through greater dialogue. We should actually encourge greater promotion of Christianity in the Islamic world and condition the overall status of our relations with Islamic countries on how well they permit the open practice and promotion of Christianity, whether they grant human rights and due process to Muslims in their countries who voluntarily convert to Christianity, and leverage any economic or security assistance they receive from us on how well they carry out policies which encourage Christianity. Until Muslims countries stop persecuting Christians and burning Bibles and other Christian liturgical paraphenalia, there's no way I can take their purported "religious sensitivities" seriously about incendiary activity being considered toward their textual works which are incapable of withstanding even rudimentary critical evaluation.
P.S. Check out this excellent
analysis by Michelle Malkin