An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
“Imam Bush”
If anyone wants to know why Muslims the world over tell pollsters the United States is at war with Islam, just read President Bush’s speech at the Islamic Center of Washington, especially the part about American-style religious freedom — in the president’s words, “what we wish for the world.”
He began this way: “For those who seek a true understanding of our country, they need look no farther than here.”
No, not the mosque itself, but down the street it occupies. “This Muslim center sits quietly down the road from a synagogue, a Lutheran Church, a Catholic parish, a Greek Orthodox chapel, a Buddhist temple — each with faithful followers who practice their deeply held beliefs and live side by side in peace,” the president explained, standing in his Islamically observant stocking feet before a cool Muslim audience. “This is what freedom offers: societies where people can live and worship as they choose without intimidation, without suspicion, without a knock on the door from the secret police.”
As one who has attended a Bar Mitzvah at that synagogue down the road, I have news for the president: Freedom, American-style, has changed. To enter, I passed an armed guard holding an automatic weapon manning the door. Armed guards like him man many such doors in many such cities. In fact, so common is it for religious worship (mainly, but not exclusively, Jewish worship) to require armed protection today that we miss the implications: the degree to which freedom to worship without fear in America has been curtailed by the open-ended threat of Buddhist violence.
I’m sorry, but just what planet is President Bush living on these days? Is he not aware that it isn’t the Lutherans who are threatening to kill any non-Muslims who won’t convert? It wasn’t the Buddhist who crashed a car into the airport in Glasgow, or who tried to blow up two cars in London.
No, the peril to the synagogue was, and remains, Islamic violence. The resulting diminution of freedom is a symptom of advancing dhimmitude — the diminished cultural condition of non-Muslims living in relation to Islam.
So, freedom of worship ain’t what it used to be. But even in its terror-constrained state, the spread of American religious freedom actually threatens religiously unfree Islamic cultures, which, for example, consider “apostasy” — deciding not to be Muslim — a capital crime.
There are too many people in this country bending over backwards in appeasement, and personal opinion, it damn well better stop. If you want to wash your feet, Bubba, go home and do it! If you don’t want to pick up passengers coming home from vacation, carrying duty free alcohol, find another job. If you want to live in a Muslim country, by George, have at it…..there are plenty in the Middle East to choose from.
But that threat is only on paper. Where Americans actually become involved in the Islamic world, Shariah (Islamic law) is protected, enshrined even, as shockingly attested by Shariah’s primacy in the American-fostered constitutions of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian Authority. The president doesn’t seem to understand that. I don’t think he even understands Shariah, under which the primacy of Islam is absolute, and other religions are “tolerated,” at best, at the high cost of dhimmitude. Nearly six years after September 11 — nearly six years after first visiting the Islamic Center and proclaiming “Islam is peace” — Mr. Bush has learned nothing.
Sadly, I do believe our president is in need of some serious reality medication. What part of Islam is so ‘peaceful’? The part where they execute women for being raped? How about those heads that have been cut off, in the name of ‘Allah’? Or maybe it’s the stoning of a teenage girl for wearing nail polish? Just how many more children will die before he removes his head from his hinder?
In fact, his peroration on freedom at the Islamic Center mainly underscored “America’s respect for the Muslim faith here at home.” Abroad, too. Even as he was asking Muslim leaders (again) “to denounce organizations that use the veneer of Islamic belief to support and fund violence” (some veneer), the president announced the United States would send an envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a global Islamic support group that does a large bit of that. “Our special envoy,” the president said, “will listen and learn from representatives from Muslim states and share with them America’s views and values.”
Am I missing something? Just what, pray tell, are the American (and Western) values that will so impress the Muslims they’ll stop, and say, “Oh gee, we’re so sorry. We’ll stop trying slaughter you now!”? How do you make the insane murderers sane again?
What can the Free World learn from the Unfree World? Maybe something about the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam adopted by the foreign ministers of the OIC in 1990. In dire contrast to the United Nation’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Islamic document recognizes only human rights sanctioned by Shariah — which, basically, leaves women and non-Muslims without human rights.
Will President Bush stand by and watch his wife and children covered, head to toe, in Muslim garb? Is that what he wishes for all free, and thinking, women? Would he see his mother without the basic rights of a human being?
Hmm. Might Mr. Bush — or anyone in our leadership, civilian or military — notice the unbridgeable cultural differences revealed by these disparate notions of human rights? Alas, probably not. Islam’s still peace, according to the prez. Those pesky “extremists” fighting jihad are not, he said, “the true face of Islam.”
There Imam Bush goes again. “I am astonished by President Bush when he claims there is nothing in the Qu’ran that justifies jihad violence in the name of Islam,” jailed jihadi cleric Abu Qatada said under similar circumstances almost six years ago. “Is he some kind of Islamic scholar? Has he ever actually read the Qu’ran?”
I will admit I have not read the entire Qu’ran, but what I have read, scares the hell out of me! I do NOT like that feeling at all.
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Don’t let the Koran scare you Kate, it is only a book and it is best used to wipe dingleberries from ones hindquarters. The followers of Muhammad (piece of crap upon him) are the ones that we need to be concerned with, let me be clear CONCERNED not Fearful, they strike at the ones least suspecting and most unable to defend themselves. Time for the “ordinary” citizen to start taking out the trash IMO and we can start with every Mosque from LA to Maine.
C’mon Robert….tell us what ya really think!
What happened to not being fearful?? All Muslims are not bad. If you take away all from their religious freedoms, you in turn, take qway some of your freedoms.
When there are so many who make it well known exactly what they are planning to do, and we give in to them, whether it’s violent or not, this is NOT a good thing. Appeasing them is removing our freedoms already. Granted, not all Muslims subscribe to the lunacy, but there are enough in this world who do, and the others will follow along, just like they did with the Taliban. I see no positive results.
What a racist post. Also read some Bible. Parts of Bible will also scare you especially the parts which justify slavery and the subjugation of women. Here is a verse from your good ol Bible.
“However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)”
Why, thank you Tim. Proof once more that ignorance runs rampant! RACE has NOTHING to do with the whole situation, does it! My mother would have been awfully surprised to find out she was of a different race than the rest of us.
And it just might surprise you that I actually DO read that ol’ Bible! Since the only folks I know of who are still in the slavery business are Muslims, then your point is fairly moot. We are talking about the here and now, not the then and there.