CONDI UPS ANTE ON
CRESCENT-KISSING – SAYS ISLAM’S A RELIGION OF PEACE AND
LOVE
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By Don Feder
While I never imagined Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice to be a conservative, I used to think she was vaguely
connected to reality. Her October 25th speech at an
Iftaar dinner (marking the end of Ramadan) disabused me of
that notion. It was an exercise in crescent-kissing to
put even her boss to shame.
Upping the ante on Western Muslim mania, madam secretary
promoted Islam from religion of peace to “religion of love
and peace.” (You always hurt the ones you love?) Islam’s
love letters usually come with TNT attached.
“We in America know the benevolence that is at the heart of
Islam,” Rice remarked. “We’ve seen it in many ways.”
Muslim benevolence may be glimpsed in a ceremony just
days ago in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, where Sheikh
Abdul Rahman Al Sudais (imam of Mecca’s Grand Mosque)
received the Islamic Personality of the Year Award.
In a 2003 sermon, Sheikh Love prayed that Allah would
“terminate” the Jews, who he benevolently called “the scum
of humanity, the rats of the world, prophet killers … pigs
and monkeys” (the latter comes from the Koran). On other
occasions Al-Sudais referred to Jews as “evil,” a “continuum
of deceit,” “tyrannical” and “treacherous” – doubtless, all
terms of endearment among devotees of the religion of peace
and love.
Rice went on to observe: “We in America also know that
Muslims … possess certain basic rights that arise from our
equal human dignity. Among these are the right to live
without oppression, the right to worship without
persecution, and the right to think and speak and assemble
without wrongful retribution.”
Pity Muslims don’t extend the same rights to religious
minorities in their counties -- Christians in Nigeria, Jews
in Iran, Orthodox in Kosovo, Egyptian Copts, etc.
Earlier this month, there were riots outside a Coptic church
in Alexandria, Egypt. It took 5,000 police to quell
the crowd protesting a play at the church which it believed
had defamed its adorable religion. Days before, a
Muslim stabbed a nun to retaliate for the sale of a DVD of
the play. Crossing “peace and love” can be a risky
business.
Besides puckering up for the Prophet, our Secretary of State
indulged in some unabashed America-bashing. After
ritual garment-rending over the sin of segregation, Condi
pontificated, “So, of all nations, America has no cause for
false pride and we have every reason for humility.” (Perhaps
it was her years in academia that taught Rice to babble
fluently.)
No reason for “false pride,” huh? It must have been
the Saudis who launched us into the computer age. Guess it
was the Egyptians who spent half-a-century feeding the
world’s hungry. Were those Iranians hitting the beach
on D-Day? – probably not, given that most adherents of the
religion of peace and love were rooting for the Nazis.
Her fondness for Islam must be behind Rice’s advocacy of a
Palestinian state. Why limit the love to only 1,000-plus
dead Israelis in the past five years?
In all of existence, there is no greater dichotomy than
between the way Islam is portrayed by its Western admirers
and the way it’s practiced by its more enthusiastic
adherents. Wherever large numbers of Muslims come in contact
with “infidels,” all jihad breaks loose. That’s as
true on the West Bank as it is in the Kashmir, as much a
reality in the Philippines as the Balkans and as sure in
West Africa as it is in Indonesia.
There are two possible explanations for this phenomenon:
1) Islam
is indeed a religion of sweetness and light which, for
some inexplicable reason, tends to provoke the wrath of
non-Muslims of every variety.
2) Islam
is an atavistic cult (more ideology than religion) whose
tenets glorify holy war, teach contempt for other
peoples, foster toxic resentment and inspire megalomania
among its followers.
Yet, reality
notwithstanding, Western elites insist on seeing Islam
through Condi-colored glasses. No amount of suicide
bombing, anti-Semitic agitation (Jordanian TV is airing a
series on the Jewish conspiracy for global domination – The
Protocols of The Elders of Zion for Dummies), rampant
misogyny, persecution of Christians or slaughter of
innocents is allowed to penetrate this mindset.
Love (as well as body parts) was in the air in India on
Saturday, when bomb blasts in two crowded New Delhi markets
killed 61, among them a number children. While no one has
claimed responsibility, police are saying it has all the
earmarks of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the jihadi group
attempting to wrest the Kashmir away from India.
Isn’t it odd how the religion of love and peace often
inspires such murderous rage among its disciples? I
don’t recall Moses, Jesus or Buddha saying, ‘If you kill
infidels, you’ll go straight to heaven and get 70 doe-eyed
virgins in the bargain.” While most religions went
through a violent stage, Islam’s has lasted for almost 1,400
years – and counting.
The standard Western response is that terrorism in the name
of Islam is the work of fanatics, extremists – a fringe
element that somehow has managed to misinterpret its
peaceable and adorable faith and turn it into an incendiary
device.
This overlooks opinion surveys in the Islamic world which
show substantial support for the Muslim version of Murder
Inc. It also ignores the fact that, despite constant
urging and every opportunity to do so, so-called Muslim
moderates somehow never get around to repudiating jihad
violence. It also assumes that George Bush and Condi Rice
know more about Islam than the sheikhs of Mecca, the mullahs
of Iran, the imams of the West Bank or the religious
scholars of Cairo’s al-Azhar University. Did our Secretary
of State read the Cliff Notes Koran?
One who shares Condi’s pro-Prophet euphoria is the House of
Windsor’s Dumbo. Prince Charles is heading here to
lecture us on the need for greater acceptance of the
swellest religion ever. Re: Islam, “I find the
language and rhetoric coming from America too
confrontational,” the Prince of Wales maintains. Did Neville
Chamberlain take too confrontational an approach to the
Third Reich?
One of Charles’s more distinguished countrymen had this to
say of Islam: “Individual Muslims may show splendid
qualities… But the influence of the religion paralyzes the
social development of those who follow it. No stronger
retrograde force exists anywhere in the world.” Unlike
Prince Charles, Winston Churchill didn’t inherit his
position, but did experience Islam in the raw.
I hope Rice’s Iftaar remarks receive the widest possible
circulation. It should help disillusion those
conservatives who are pushing her as the GOP presidential
candidate in ’08. Who would she run with, Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called for Israel to be
“wiped off the map”?
Love is all around.
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