More in the Second Thoughts on Muslims Department
Hat Tip: Digger's Realm. His post on Muslims in Europe has some valuable links to some of the other commentaries that this issue has seen in the last twenty-four hours.
I do want to reply to one thing that Digger said, which is that I have an "opposite" view to the general opinion at Captain's Quarters. That's not entirely correct, in that I agree with the Captain that Europe has a very serious problem with their Muslim immigrants, and that we ought to monitor Muslim immigration to the US.
Where I differ with the Captain is in his apparent hope that most Muslims in the US come here to work. I wonder whether work is all that Muslims want to do here. In Hamtramck, Michican, Muslims have already forced the city council to allow a local mosque to mount loudspeakers in their minarets to broadcast their calls-to-prayer. Most alarmingly, they did that the old fashioned-way: by outvoting the non-Muslims. More to the point, their population continues to grow, so that very soon they will outnumber Jews in America, if they don't already. A British Muslim site offers this perspective on USA-European differences in Muslim immigration and what happens to Muslims when they arrive. (For a secularistic perspective, see here.)
All these sites attest to the growing numbers of Muslims everywhere. What they do not attest to is the central place of violence in the promulgation of the Muslim faith. The dirty little secret of Islam is that the Koran specifically prescribes violence as a means of spreading the faith. "Fight and slay the infidels..."--it couldn't be any clearer.
Finally, everyone seems to miss this point: We've already had our Theo van Gogh--three thousand of them.
I do want to reply to one thing that Digger said, which is that I have an "opposite" view to the general opinion at Captain's Quarters. That's not entirely correct, in that I agree with the Captain that Europe has a very serious problem with their Muslim immigrants, and that we ought to monitor Muslim immigration to the US.
Where I differ with the Captain is in his apparent hope that most Muslims in the US come here to work. I wonder whether work is all that Muslims want to do here. In Hamtramck, Michican, Muslims have already forced the city council to allow a local mosque to mount loudspeakers in their minarets to broadcast their calls-to-prayer. Most alarmingly, they did that the old fashioned-way: by outvoting the non-Muslims. More to the point, their population continues to grow, so that very soon they will outnumber Jews in America, if they don't already. A British Muslim site offers this perspective on USA-European differences in Muslim immigration and what happens to Muslims when they arrive. (For a secularistic perspective, see here.)
All these sites attest to the growing numbers of Muslims everywhere. What they do not attest to is the central place of violence in the promulgation of the Muslim faith. The dirty little secret of Islam is that the Koran specifically prescribes violence as a means of spreading the faith. "Fight and slay the infidels..."--it couldn't be any clearer.
Finally, everyone seems to miss this point: We've already had our Theo van Gogh--three thousand of them.
posted by Temlakos at 8:22 AM
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