Cowboy Confessional

I heard Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak last night.  Ayann has an interesting past, and a level of courage not often seen, much less tested, outside of combat zones.  Then again of late she is a one woman target.

In an hour she related two rather disturbing observations concerning the Islamofacists.  The first and most disturbing is her claim that Osama bin Laden’s rants about law set for in the Quran were right.  Not that they were sane, richeous, or rational, but that Osama had correctly stated the Quran’s passages, and hence its edicts and laws. It was this one discovery that transformed Ayann from a Muslim to an atheist, and thus had her branded as an Infidel.

Her other disheartening observation was how Muslims in general reacted or failed to react to world events.  She noted that an untrue rumor of a Quran being flushed down a commode at Club Guantanamo caused mass riots and deaths around the world, and nary a peep about reason, restraint, and perspective.  Likewise when a few bored cartoonists published depictions of Muhammad in a third-tier Danish newspaper, more riots and death occurred, and again the bulk of the world’s Muslims failed to speak ill of the rioters.

Yet, in the face of the grand indecencies like 9/11, there was not a large and widespread reaction from Muslims, which there should have been.

Her explanation (in part) was that Muslims are not granted the latitude for critique of their own faith.  Funny what having an AK-47 pointed at the back of your skull will do to your free will.  Paraphrasing heavily, she said Muhammad and the Quran are considered infallible, and thus anything done in the name of protecting either is permissible.  Hence, no degree of rational thought stands a chance against an armed Muslim who believes the Quran allows death sentences for thinking differently, and to own as slaves any non-Muslim.

Knowing mainly Muslims in the U.S., I see that they are not fanatical about their religion, but they are also not visible and vocal about objecting to the idiocy of their radical brethren.  Their silence will in the long run be deadlier than any bomb an Islamofascist might obtain.  This in turns emboldens raving loons like Iran’s Ahmadinejad to be more militant, and raise fears in the west of Islam.

I’ll repeat myself (which I am far too found of doing): Islam must cleans itself of their radicals lest the west decides that separating the good Muslims from the bad is a waste of time.  The west is not a threat to Islam … Osama and Ahmadinejad are.

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