Please don’t tell me you didn’t see this coming. Only a few months into her return from a self-imposed exile, the woman who the world would hail as a Muslim Mother Theresa is dead. The assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto rocked the civilized world yesterday. Talks of Bhutto as a martyr, a revolutionary, and savior to the Pakistan world, coupled with the immediate suggestion that Generael Musharraf is culpable, hit the airwaves early and haven’t let up. It is a shame, but to me, this is just an average day in the life of Islam. Every other day there is some jihad homicide or bombing, and dozens dead, and yet somehow, we’re expected to believe that this death is going to mean a whole lot more than the others. If it does, the only significance is that it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Even so, there is plenty of straw on the camel’s back already.Unlike the American dream of watching one’s children succeed in college and eventually have a profitable career, the Arabic dream is to watch one’s son and daughter strap themselves with some explosives and blow up a bus full of Jews. Why the disconnect?
We hear a lot in the news about how the attacks, bombings and rise of terrorism is simply the result of “religious fundamentalism”. Politically correct baloney. Can you imagine a fundamental Buddhist blowing up the Wailing Wall? Similarly, look at what has been labeled fundamental Christianity gone wrong in the past, and you’ll find it was either corrupt Catholics or crazy cults, not the sadly non-mainstream "solo scriptura" crowd.
We live in a society where the villains must be equal, where we’re so afraid to suggest that maybe, just maybe, most of the terror attacks that are happening in the world are the result of middle eastern men with a bone to pick with Jews, Christians, and Americans. Read the news, and you’ll see that journalists make an extra effort to report crimes committed by whites in order to make things seem balanced. Does this mean anything to suggest that other races are inferior? Not at all. However, you’re kidding yourself if you believe our historical and linguistically illiterate President when he says that Islam is a “religion of peace”.
Mr. President, with all due respect, I have grave concern about your ability to fight a war on terrorism if you believe that Islam is a religion of peace. Have you read your history books? Do you know the reason the Crusades started in the first place? Have you read nothing about the fall of Constantinople? This is not a religion of peace, it never has been, it never will be. Democracy and Islam are incompatible. Peanut butter and mustard. Michael Vick and dogs. Paris Hilton and abstinence only education. All three have a better mixing flavor than Democracy and Islam.
Suggesting that Islam isn’t a religion of terror is like suggesting that Mormons don’t like to marry tons of women, Catholics don’t pray to Mary, and Wiccans don’t read Harry Potter at every chance they get. It is a fundamental tenant of Islam to kill the infidel. In the Koran, Allah won’t return unless all the infidels have been converted or killed. Either or. You can’t convince me some baloney about how Islam is a religion of peace when no two Islamic countries have been able to live harmoniously in world history. Prop up as many historical experts as you can, but the Koran promotes jihad. The Muslims that do not believe in jihad are just members of a religious sect who have mentally erased part of their holy text in order to make it more appealing to the masses. To me, the best thing to happen to Islam is western civilization, corruption, and the love of money. As long as they continue to kill each other, I don’t mind. As long as they decide not to take the Koran seriously, I don’t mind. But a religion of peace? Never. Not unless they decide to rewrite the Koran. Until then, the reasonable Koran-following Muslim will always stand with a blade in hand, ready to convert or kill. Democracy in the Arabic world is dead before it was even born. Not surprising, fascism has a new face.
E.J. Wood is a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. He has a BA in Political Science, as well as BS in Public Administration. He currently is authoring a book called "Closing the Book on Christianity: The Post-Modern Christian’s War Against the Bible".Contact him at proantiundecided@hotmail.com
