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The Elites on Islam: Shutting up the chattering class
By N. Beaujon
Written July 1, 2007, Posted on July 19, 2007

Recently, countless academics in both the American and English media have been reporting on Islamic terrorism without mentioning that this was Islamic Terrorism. After the recent terrorist attacks coordinated by “Muslim Doctors” in Great Britain, the New York Times was no longer calling the terrorists Muslims but disenfranchised South Asians. Londoners themselves would be the first to admit that there are many disenfranchised South Asians in Britain; however, the term itself would refer to people of many faiths such as Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Muslims. Out of these many different groups it seems that only one group is responsible for acts of terrorism and that would be Muslims.

Now, simply because some Muslims hail from places like Pakistan and Afghanistan, there is no reason for the politically correct mainstream media to insult all South Asians simply as a matter of social and intellectual cowardice. It’s time to call a Muslim a Muslim and an Islamic terrorist exactly what they are which would be: Muslim Terrorists. In fact, using the term South Asian to describe Muslim Terrorists wouldn’t even pass for a standard SAT question. All South Asians are not Muslims; all Muslims are not South Asians, therefore, what? Doesn’t work, right? Ok, try this: All Muslims are Terrorists. Well, at least we’re getting closer.

We have come to a point where the civilized world is more than willing to sacrifice our very existence on the altar of political correctness by refusing to even recognize who our enemies truly are. Even the President tries to play the game of “hide the enemy” by using the term Radical Islamic Terrorists or, even more implausibly, Terrorists from the “Religion of Peace.” The reality is that any person who follows the Islamic faith, today, shares a collective guilt involving the crimes of terrorist activity. Perhaps it is only OK to talk about the banality of evil when it comes to the Germans during the Holocaust.

When Hannah Arendt wrote about normalizing the unthinkable, it wasn’t simply the Germans that she had in mind. It was a clarion call to civilization about the way we have come to accept the truly degenerate and accept it as the way things are done. Today’s media and political leaders have become incapable of even naming, let along judging, the unthinkable and as a result they are normalizing evil in a way that is completely unacceptable. Islam as a belief system is completely toxic to the Western World and Muslims, as their evangelists, are no different than the Nazi’s who ascribed to a fervor that many well intentioned individuals of too high a rank failed to recognize as pure evil in its time. As a result, we must finally concede that Islam is far less a religion than it is an organized criminal enterprise.

In the United States, Muslims are protected by the First Amendment of our Constitution. How ironic that the very freedoms that makes this country great may be the very liberties that ultimately prove our undoing. While our founding fathers were clearly big fans of self-determination there is no doubt they were not big supporters of self annihilation. From the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by John Adams and congress in 1798 to Koramatsu during World War II, there was a certain clear-eyed recognition that Constitutional protections may have to be suspended when they threaten our Nation’s survival. While sniveling elites may lament the horrors of our past (laws, by the way, which are still on the books and were never found to be unconstutional) you can be sure that on some level they’re relieved not to be staring down the barrel of a bayonet reliving the Rape of Nanking. Sadly, they are not half as giddy about being severed from their means of production during the industrial age but some still haven’t figured out that the industrial revolution has passed them by.

It is time for the people of the United States to rethink our protection of dangerous religious groups such as Islam. When our Bill of Rights was written there were only a small number of slaves who practiced the Islamic Faith and our founding fathers considered them more of a rare species than a threat to the preservation of a Judeo-Christian state. Taking into account the intent of our framers, it would not be un-American to consider a dialogue to amend the United States Constitution to strip people of the Islamic Faith from their rights under the First Amendment. No longer should Mosques be safe houses for terrorism and treason. The time has come in our nation’s history to realize that we are not just at war with Iraqi insurgents but with Islam itself. An illicit political movement that shrouds itself in the false legitimacy of a protected religion is not a religion at all. This reality, while dismissed by our politicians, journalists, and academics is, as usual, understood by the solider, the bus driver, and the brick layer- people whose minds have had little time to be compromised by self-delusion.

The people of the United States are sick of the lies concerning Islam. If we do not begin to look at Muslims in the same way that we now, after great pain and loss, view Nazis then the future will be theirs. In fact, we should probably consider that it is not a historic quirk that today’s greatest Holocaust deniers are some of the most strident and vociferous Islamists.

It is our weakness of over-tolerance as a nation that has resulted in our defeat in Iraq. The United States is a nation of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Pagans and Hindus but it is also quickly becoming a nation of Muslims. Will we still be following in the foot steps of our oblivious European cousins by referring to them as “South Asians” long after they have turned Windsor Castle into a shrine? Will we wait for the Blitzkrieg fomented at some 7-11 before we wake up and finally see the crime?

The mistakes of the past that we are repeating are not the ones of Koramatsu or executing the enemy belligerents of Ex Parte Quirin fame. They are the mistakes we almost made when failing to face down evil until Europe had been all but obliterated by the Luftwaffe. The problem this time is that now evil has better weapons and a much closer range and it won’t be long before we are waking up and praying to Allah for salvation from our enemies, within and without. Unless of course, we start praying to God that those in power pay attention to the voices of the people who are quite clear about whom the enemy is and what they are blathering about.


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