The recent Ft. Hood carnage, and the new disclosures that the Muslim Major Hasan had contact with his mosque, and perhaps had some fundamentalist and radical thoughts, feeds the growing distrust and suspicions that most non-Muslim Americans have towards that religion.
Fort Hood Carnage Blamed On Homegrown Radical Islamic Extrem... - Care2 News Network
In the historical past, Christianity took aim at Islam with the Crusades. In America, many immigrants fled here following religious persecution in Europe, but were primarily Judeo-Christian, essentially Abrahamic. I'm not up at all on the percentage of Muslims that also immigrated here in the early part of the 20th century. Perhaps a reader or two can enlighten me and others.
The Qu'Ran does, however, provide specific rather hostile and intolerant verses that seem to support and enflame our superstitions. Right now, on NPR, they are hosting an individual who says that those inflammatory verses that are quoted so often have been taken out of context. So why not make a formal announcmeent to the population, via trusted Muslim leaders, that these verses do
not apply to modern Western society, and that tolerant, freedom-loving Muslims do not agree with them?
I also wonder why the conservative, peaceful American Muslim community seems to not want to "police" it's own, essentially turning in those who are discovered to be fomenting open revolt or conspiracy aimed at the country that has so openly and tolerantly taken them in.
Can you imagine a member of a Christian congregation whispering in your ear:
"We're really not happy with the American system of government, and you seem to be a kindred spirit. Why don't you join us tonight over at "Harry's" house, where we'll discuss bombing some government building in order to kill a few thousand innocent atheists and their children??"
Would you, or would you not, turn them in to the FBI? Apparently the Muslim community openly knows of such types,
and yet lets them run unchecked. Those types appear to be considered
heros within Islam. Maybe I'm wrong; show me.
In Canada, there has been a vocal and political demand for adoption of the Shari'a laws within the Islamic community.
International Campaign Against Shari'a Court in Canada
The Canadian Federal RCMP police have given in to allowing Hindu and Muslim recruits to modify the long-time uniform to incorporate religious dress items, including the "
dirk" knife concealed under their clothing and turbans. If, however, I do that, I get myself arrested.
In France, Islamic women marched and essentially pounded the ground in demand of being allowed to wear their veil headwear wherever they wished, with no requirement to
ever remove it. They did not wish to unveil even for passport photos or ID checks. Hmmmm. On that basis, Osama bin Laden could wander in to O'Hare Airport, poised as a Muslim grandmother!
CBC News - World - Opposition mounts to French ruling against Muslim woman
In the Netherlands, militant Muslims have attempted to subvert or modify local permitting constraints in order to allow the construction of many mosques where there perhaps should be none. A famous Dutch cartoonist was threatened with death for an anti-Islam political cartoon. hey; we did it all the time with "monkey-man" George Bush, no? Nice! The Dutch are now openly ruing the day they were so open with their immigration laws.
Political pundits
do make more of these events and causes than they perhaps deserve, but in the end, we tend to settle in and watch the Alphabet Evening News and assume that those talking heads invariably.
This does
not bode well for the Islamic religion here, if it's seen to be, and presented by the media as, a devisive and hostile force. If it's seen to be a growing and verbal "contaminant" to the long-held cultural viewpoint that we're a lovely, "truth and love" society of Anglo-Saxon Christians, then there will eventually be fighting in the streets.
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