Well, after my long diatribe yesterday about how sick and tired I am hearing about trivia, Juan Williams gets fired from NPR for making the observation that he does get nervous if he's getting on a plane and sees muslims among the other passengers.
I wouldn't be nervous. I'd get off and take another flight. Only prudent. After all, for all the hoopla that some -- VERY FEW -- muslims state about how moderate they are, it was muslims who flew those planes into the Twin Towers. It was muslims who had a long, brutal, and bloody history of hijacking other planes, and even cruise ships, holding passengers hostage, shooting them and dumping them onto the tarmac or into the sea. It was muslims who held the Israeli Olympic team hostage at the Munich Olympics, and on and on.
It seems to me that it is muslims who have something to answer for. Not the people who are nervous about them. Being only nervous about them seems rather a generous attitude.
I have tried to understand Islam and can't say that I really do. But I don't really understand Buddhism or Hinduism, either. The difference is that I've never heard of any Buddhists or Hindos blowing up things, killing people without cause or mercy, and trying to consume whole cultures and impose their backwards and superstitious stamp on everyone else in the world.
I don't think it's the West that's being intolerant of muslims. I think it's muslims being intolerant of the West. In Europe, for example, many Muslims live in exclusive enclaves where they ignore the law of the surrounding nation and practice sharia entirely at their own discretion. The host nation's police aren't even allowed inside these enclaves, and probably would be stoned or would "disappear" if they did cross those lines.
Angela Merkel from Germany recently delivered a speech where she noted that "multiculturalism has failed in Germany." By that, apparently she means that while many muslims live in Germany, they don't assimilate into the broader culture. They closet themselves in their own communities and ignore the laws and rights of their hosts. The Muslims don't participate in or contribute to the nation around them, although they do happily collect unemployment benefits, pensions, health care, and all the other freebies those socialist nations dole out.
An informative anecdote from American history:
The Latter Day Saints, the Mormons, were among the most despised people in the USA ever. Why? It wasn't due to religious intolerance or some kind of idiot prejudice. It was because the Mormons segregated themselves from the larger community and followed their own practices. The trouble came because Mormons also looked down upon others around them. The Mormons believed they had a special mission from God on earth and since they were a Chosen Few, they didn't have to abide by general law or the custom of the country. It was OK for Mormons to rip off "gentiles," gouge them, take advantage, etc. etc.
The Mormons were kicked out of Missouri and Illinois where they set up communities. In Illinois, at Nauvoo, the Mormons eventually became a voting majority, and it was then the rest of the town rose up and forced them out -- across the frozen Mississippi, to hear the Mormons tell the story. Simply that the Mormons had never been neighborly and the townspeople didn't want to have to live by Mormon principles, whatever those may be.
In short, the Mormons were very bad neighbors. Sounds like a little thing? Not really, and especially not on the frontier. For example, the Mormons might sell a Gentile shoddy merchandise -- after all, the buyer was a Gentile, who cares? -- and the Mormons may or may not help out if a Gentile's barn was on fire, but had an obligation to assist other Mormons. The Mormons only cared about other Mormons and shunned all others. That's why people hated them and had all kinds of mostly unfounded suspicions about them. The multiple wives thing only pushed the prevailing negative attitude over the edge into action.
Mormons now are part of the larger community of America. I'm not biased against them in any way. I'm only looking at history for parallels to the situation of muslims today in the USA -- and in other Western, mostly Christian nations around the world.
The muslims don't assimilate. They show little inclination to adopt the custom of the country and don't seem to respect the views of the people around them. When muslims start blowing up things -- and it surely was muslims who hijacked those planes and flew them into the WTC, the Pentagon, and into the ground at Shanksville PA -- they only give cause for suspicion and even fear from the people they live among. I mean, if they hate Western culture and Christians and Jews, why do they come here? I wouldn't dream of moving to Iran for any reason.
The muslims are suffering a backlash from all of this, too. The French have banned wearing the burkah. There's Merkl's recent comments. That Dutch guy, Geert something, even has a video out -- banned in some nations -- about the muslim enclaves all over Europe. The Western world is beginning to decide that muslims are bad neighbors. It's the Mormon thing writ large.
So CAIR, which is supposed to be dedicated to establishing communications and understanding between muslims and everyone else, can complain all they want. I used to be on their mailing list, matter of fact. But I don't recall ever hearing muslims as a group renounce muslim terrorism, and I don't see that they're doing one damn thing to eradicate it in any of their countries of origin. After all, a crazy Christian who blows up a building in the USA will be prosecuted -- not for his religion, but for his criminal action, no matter why he did it. But the muslims appear to have no regard for any of us at all. (As a matter of fact, their exclusiveness sets up the "them vs. us" scenario.) They seem to come to the West solely to take advantage of Western technology and personal liberty and our creature comforts, yet they're unwilling to add anything to the mix. Who needs them?
There is considerable wisdom in the old adage, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." Otherwise, it may end very badly. Culture clashes usually do.
Save the Republic.
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