Wednesday, August 24, 2005

OpinionJournal - Stars, Stripes, Crescent

The Wall Street Journal seems to think that American Muslims do not pose the problem that, for example, their British counterparts do. To support their thesis, they point out that not all Arabs are Muslim, not all Muslims are Arab, and by some estimates, Muslims do not form more than one percent of the US population, and certainly not six million people as some of them like to claim. The Journal also cites evidence of "upward mobility" and a high rate (75%) of intermarriage to suggest that Arabs and Muslims alike are assimilating well into American society.

But I cannot share this optimism--and certainly not from an organ that has consistently called for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration. And not when the vast majority of Muslim expansion has occurred in prison, among the most hardened of criminals--just the type not only willing but also trained to be saboteurs and mass murderers.

Nor does that intermarriage statistic sway me. A Muslim's wife is property, nothing more. A favorite Muslim tactic is to sweep a woman off her feet, right up to the time he tells her to put on an abbayah, shut up, and start acting like a good Muslim wife--which is to say, a slave. Worse than a slave, in fact: Muslim women are no better than chattel--a word that, of course, means human cattle.

Open your eyes, you of the Journal. If you can. Muslims like to say that your god folds in your wallets. Maybe that's your problem.