Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:19:27 AM
The
Information Age may pose the greatest threat that Islam has
ever faced, particularly in the uncensored West. Many
Muslims are finding out for the first time that the details of
their prophet’s life are very much out of step with the
revered image of a perfect and holy man. Neither are
educated Westerners finding many aspects of Islamic law to be
compatible with their own values.
Muslim countries
meet the challenge by censoring the information flow, blocking
websites and banning the sales of certain books. They do
not allow other religions to evangelize or speak ill of Islam
or its prophet, which insulates the Muslim world from critical
thought.
Muslim
organizations in the West face greater obstacles. Islam,
as it is popularly believed by many Muslims, has almost become
a parallel religion to the Islam revealed in the Qur’an and
Sunnah. Many Muslims are taught that Islam is not much
different than the Judeo-Christian tradition, and seem at a
loss to explain the death and destruction done explicitly in
the name of Allah.
There is a tendency
for Westerners to play along with this false perception of
Islam instead of demanding accountability and hard
answers. It isn’t just secular multiculturalists who are
to blame either. “6th Column against Jihad”
produced an excellent article on The Religion Barrier that should be
required reading for every non-Muslim, particularly those who
are religious. Christians and Jews are susceptible to
being taken in by the misconception that Islam is just another
Abrahamic faith like theirs, with the noble goals of peace and
universal brotherhood.
But the reality is
quite different. Despite the fact that many Muslims in
the West follow more of a “pseudo-religion,” the real Islam
always has a way of emerging from the holy texts and
recruiting from the mainstream. The result is not just
violence, but the slow strangling of the host through a series
of unilateral concessions that do nothing more than tighten
the death grip of Islamacism.
Islamic
organizations in the West use the “Religion Barrier” and the
language of religious tolerance to fend off the challenge
posed by the Information Age. While thousands of people
are butchered in the name of Allah each year, these apologists
insist that the religion behind the violence should be just as
immune from criticism here as it is in those parts of the
world over which it has a stranglehold.
The Islamists know
that suppressing knowledge and critical thinking is the key to
defeating our culture and freedoms. It therefore follows
that education and critical thought are also our best defense
against this darkness.