By Douglas Murray [this is an updated version of an article that was published in The Spectator on 17 January 2015.]
The West’s movement towards the truth is remarkably slow. We drag ourselves towards it painfully, inch by inch, after each bloody Islamist assault.
In France, Britain, Germany, America and nearly every other country in the world it remains government policy to say that any and all attacks carried out in the name of Mohammed have ‘nothing to do with Islam’. It was said by George W. Bush after 9/11, Tony Blair after 7/7 and Tony Abbott after the Sydney attack last month. It is what David Cameron said after two British extremists cut off the head of Drummer Lee Rigby in London, when ‘Jihadi John’ cut off the head of aid worker Alan Henning in the ‘Islamic State’ and when Islamic extremists attacked a Kenyan mall, separated the Muslims from the Christians and shot the latter in the head. It was what President François Hollande said after the massacre of journalists and Jews in Paris in January. And it is all that most politicians will be able to come out with again after the latest atrocities in Paris.
All these leaders are wrong. In private, they and their senior advisers often concede that they are telling a lie. The most sympathetic explanation is that they are telling a ‘noble lie’, provoked by a fear that we — the general public — are a lynch mob in waiting. ‘Noble’ or not, this lie is a mistake. First, because the general public do not rely on politicians for their information and can perfectly well read articles and books about Islam for themselves. Secondly, because the lie helps no one understand the threat we face. Thirdly, because it takes any heat off Muslims to deal with the bad traditions in their own religion. And fourthly, because unless mainstream politicians address these matters then one day perhaps the public will overtake their politicians to a truly alarming extent.
If politicians are so worried about this secondary ‘backlash’ problem then they would do well to remind us not to blame the jihadists’ actions on our peaceful compatriots and then deal with the primary problem — radical Islam — in order that no secondary, reactionary problem will ever grow.
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We have spent 15 years pretending things about Islam, a complex religion with competing interpretations. It is true that most Muslims live their lives peacefully. But a sizeable portion (around 15 per cent and more in most surveys) follow a far more radical version. The remainder are sitting on a religion which is, in many of its current forms, a deeply unstable component. That has always been a problem for reformist Muslims. But the results of ongoing mass immigration to the West at the same time as a worldwide return to Islamic literalism means that this is now a problem for all of us. To stand even a chance of dealing with it, we are going to have to wake up to it and acknowledge it for what it is.
The first thing that needs to be admitted is that Islam is a complete, all encompassing socio-politica-legal-economic system with a religious component.
Many mosques are not only places of worship but recruitment centers for violent Jihad, storage places for weaponry.
Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #3The first thing that needs to be admitted is that Islam is a complete, all encompassing socio-politica-legal-economic system with a religious component.
Many mosques are not only places of worship but recruitment centers for violent Jihad, storage places for weaponry.
These Islamists play the inclusive ways of the American way of thinking to their advantage. They decry the offense of authorities storming a mosque to confiscate weapons as a violation of the sanctuary. An Americans for the most part believe them. ??? No wonder they don't respect us. They see us as the idiots we are!
They play us like a fiddle!
******* The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil ... but by those who watch them and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein
Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #3The first thing that needs to be admitted is that Islam is a complete, all encompassing socio-politica-legal-economic system with a religious component.
Many mosques are not only places of worship but recruitment centers for violent Jihad, storage places for weaponry.
These Islamists play the inclusive ways of the American way of thinking to their advantage. They decry the offense of authorities storming a mosque to confiscate weapons as a violation of the sanctuary. An Americans for the most part believe them. ??? No wonder they don't respect us. They see us as the idiots we are!
They play us like a fiddle!
Now that's some picture.
Unfortunately Americans are primed by the school system and MSM which both outright lie and lie by omission, hiding ugly truths.
I just was reading an example of hiding the truth:
The heroes working to rescue ISIS’s core victims By Phyllis Chesler August 20, 2015
Zitat‘I’ve been raped 30 times and it’s not even lunchtime,” cried one young Yazidi woman in a dangerous and desperate call.
Chillingly, she begged the man on the line, someone embedded with the Kurdish Peshmerga fighting ISIS: “If you know where we are, please bomb us. There is no life after this. I am going to kill myself anyway.” ................................................ President Obama’s much favored “international community” — the United Nations, the European Union, the politically correct Western intelligentsia, the NGOs, the human-rights organizations — hasn’t rescued this woman or any of the other mainly Christian and Yazidi sex slaves who remain in the clutches of the barbarians.
But some individual heroes are doing so.
With Oscar Schindler, Sir Nicholas Winton and Chiune Sugihara — who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust — as role models, Canadian Jewish businessman Steve Maman has, so far, overseen the rescue of more than 120 kidnapped Christian and Yazidi girls in Iraq. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, http://nypost.com/2015/08/20/the-heroes-...s-core-victims/