Non-Muslim Muslims And The Jihad Against The West
His FrontPage piece that debunks a lot of misconceptions about Islam starts out "My name is Bosch and I'm a recovering Muslim":
...That is, if Muslims don't kill me for leaving Islam, which it requires them to do. That's just one of the reasons I've been writing and drawing against Islam and its Jihad for a number of years now. But fortunately for us, Islam hasn't been able to make every Muslim its slave, just as Nazism wasn't able to turn every German into a Nazi. So there is Islam and there are Muslims. Muslims who take Islam seriously are at war with us and Muslims who don't aren't.But that doesn't mean we should consider these reluctant Muslims allies against Jihad. I've been around Muslims my entire life and most of them truly don't care about Islam. The problem I have with many of these essentially non-Muslim Muslims, especially in the middle of this war being waged on us by their more consistent co-religionists, is that they give the enemy cover. They force us to play a game of Muslim Roulette since we can't tell which Muslim is going to blow himself up until he does. And their indifference about the evil being committed in the name of their religion is a big reason why their reputation is where it is.
...Another problem with Muslims who aren't very Muslim is that they lead some among us to conclude that they must be practicing a more enlightened form of Islam. They're not. They're "practicing" life in non-Muslim countries, where they are free to live as they choose. But their "Islam" is not the Islam. There's no separate ideology apart from Islam that's being practiced by these Muslims in name only, there's no such thing as "Western Islam".
Non-observant Muslims are not our problem, but neither are they the solution to our problem. Our problem is Islam and its most consistent practitioners. There is nothing in Islam that stays the hand of Muslims who want to kill non-Muslims. If an individual Muslim is personally peaceful, it's not because of Islam, it's because of his individual choice, which is why I often say that your average Muslim is morally superior to Mohammad, to their own religion. The very rare Muslim who helps us against Jihad is acting against his religion, but that doesn't stop some among us from thinking that his existence somehow means that he represents more than himself.
...We didn't use terms such as "Radical Nazism", "Extremist Shinto" and "Militant Communism" in the past. "Militant Islam", Political Islam", etc., are redundant terms. Our pretending otherwise has proven disastrous. Thousands of American lives, both civilian and military, have been sacrificed because of policies predicated on the myth that "Islam means peace." We didn't try to reform Shinto or Nazism during World War II; the major changes in those cultures took place only after we thoroughly de-militarized them.
And it's no accident that Western analysts of Islam who are most informed about Islam are also most critical of it, while those least informed are least critical. But then there are those who, in their study of Islam, have become so enamored with their subject that, instead of sticking to what Islam is, they often write about what it isn't, what they hope it might be. They seem preoccupied with doing their part to save Islam from those who have allegedly corrupted it.
The Muslim world is where the true meaning of Islam can be found in practice. Islam - not any alleged deviant form of it - means misogyny, censorship, anti-Semitism, homophobia, wife-beatings, beheadings, honor killings, pedophilia/"child marriages", murdering infidels, etc. This is evil, and Islam sanctions every bit of it, but we've been told that we must respect "one of the world's great religions" because it's a religion.
If you are tolerant of all of that -- "misogyny, censorship, anti-Semitism, homophobia, wife-beatings, beheadings, honor killings, pedophilia/'child marriages,' murdering infidels -- let's hear from you.
Um...well...I got nuthin'.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 7, 2011 9:21 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/12/07/non-muslim_musl.html#comment-2837722">comment from I R A Darth AggieHe really nails it all here.
The thing that's amazing is how insistent the uninformed (about Islam) are that it's peaceful and wonderful and that anyone who doesn't think so is a "hater."
Personally, I am firmly against any credo that has them hanging young gay boys or stoning rape victims, but that's just me.
Amy Alkon
at December 7, 2011 9:44 AM
while those least informed are least critical.
Just try to convince someone here in flyover, someone who has absolutely no vested interest in thinking well of Islam, yet they will still argue tooth and nail because they are so invested in their PC nonhater self-esteem. And I end up feeling like a nutcase just for trying.
jeanne at December 7, 2011 10:18 AM
And I end up feeling like a nutcase just for trying.
I've run into this multiple times. If I can get them and the internet at the same time, I point them at jihadwatch.com, Pat Condell's YouTube channel, thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Top-10-Reasons.htm or something similar. Then I leave it up to them. About seven times out of ten I never hear a peep again about supporting Islam. They don't speak against it, but at least they aren't for it.
Those who don't read it:
;-)Jim P. at December 7, 2011 9:18 PM
But, hey, 'Coexist', right?
Wrong. Islam has no place for non-muslims, period.
DrCos at December 8, 2011 3:36 AM
It's a dictatorial political philosophy masquerading as a religion - basically the KKK, with different hoods. OK to lie to me? I hear you, but don't be surprised when I refuse to do business with you or believe anything you say. Submit? Not me, sorry - I do that annually for the IRS.
Want me to stay our of your country? Stay out of mine.
I do not care what they believe, I only care about their actions. Think it's OK to harm others based on your religious beliefs? Why would we treat this any differently than any other gang?
MarkD at December 8, 2011 6:29 AM
Middle Eastern men make it absolutely clear that they think women are sub-human. I hate waiting on them. I had one "gentleman" who asked my boss if I was slow just because he wasn't understanding my very simple third-grade level questions that nobody else has trouble with.
I'm pro legal immigration in general, but I think I should have the right to ask for papers when an immigrant treats an American female like shit.
deathbysnoosnoo at December 8, 2011 7:30 AM
I'm unsure if Mohammed was a flat-out nutcase who heard voices, or if he was the most successful scam artist in history; I lean toward the latter as he tended to get 'revelations' when needed to solve a personal problem.
My standard to someone demanding respect for their views is "This is the US, and I have to respect your right to speak your piece and hold your beliefs; that does NOT mean I have to respect your beliefs. And if I think you're an idiot or your beliefs are stupid, I have the right to say THAT." People who actually believe in free speech understand; those who don't... screw 'em.
Firehand at December 9, 2011 9:44 AM
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