Posted by
Dhimi du Monde on Friday, December 15, 2006 10:35:20 AM
Tariq
Ramadan's comments (Time Magazine, November 26, 2006) telling us where he believes the Pope is still in the dark concerning Islam are yet another example of Islam in your face. He
conveniently ignores the vicious and stark realities of terrorist
Islam, which, unlike the unchristian behavior that has surfaced from
time to time in the Christian tradition - is not a distortion or corruption of doctrine but is directly and deeply rooted in Islamic theology.
Ramadan tells us the problem is not that Islam is a religion and culture alien to Europe.
On the contrary, he asserts, Muslims and Islam played a "critical role
in the development of Western thought". Aware that the centerpiece
accomplishments of western societies - democracy, religious freedom and
human rights - never were and cannot be core Islamic values, hundreds
of millions of people in the West would vigorously take issue with his
view.
Once again
beautifully exemplifying Islam's absolute inability to look inward with
a critical eye, Ramadan declares the problem really lies with us, in
our failure to have an "honest dialogue" with ourselves. We must
understand, he says, Europe has its true roots in Islam and "Islam is already a European religion." Like it or not, Europe - and by extension, the West - has got to confront the "coming pluralism of its future".
In
reality, what that "pluralism" means for Western countries is
burgeoning Muslim populations who are instructed absolutely and
unarguably by the Koran not to make friends with infidels and who,
unlike immigrants from earlier generations, have no intention of
assimilating into the cultures and embracing the institutions of their
host countries.
The stated
objective and demonstrated behavior of these immigrants in western
nations is to maintain themselves as unassimilated, burgeoning islands
of Islam in a sea of infidels, until their numbers - which, largely due
to higher birth rates, are outstripping the growth of the native
populations - enable them to seize power and obliterate the
Western idea of separation of church and state - a concept that cannot
have place in Islam.
For
the orthodox Muslim, the whole world belongs to Islam, will submit to
Islam and will be governed by Islam. It is just a matter of time. Ramadan's
lip service to "our common, universal values [of] mutual respect for
human rights, basic freedoms, rule of law and democracy" betrays either
a deliberate lack of candor or a sweeping ignorance of sovereign
Islam's historical treatment of non-Muslim peoples.
A
problem can have no appropriate solution until it is clearly and
accurately defined. As long as we have in the West mealy-mouthed
politicians like George Bush and Tony Blare who, refusing to call a
spade a spade, repeatedly tell us that "Islam is a peaceful religion
that has been hijacked by fanatics", we will have no effective solution
to the problem of militant Islam.
God bless the Pope for his plain speaking.
D.D. Monde