Soft Islam?

This afternoon after your faithful correspondent returned from church, he turned on the television set and watched a bit of a PBS program hosted by Robert Abernathy dealing with religion and society. This particular episode dealt with Mohammedans in America and how they are "misunderstood." In fact, the program posited that most Mohammedans in the world are misunderstood by the Infidel.

The one bright spot in the program was a black American Islamic leader who urged the members of his mosque to quell the radical talk and appreciate the fact that in the United States they have more freedom than they ever did in their home countries. He was working, in his own manner, to make the members of his mosque, understand why the average American looks at them askance and don't like them much. This man appeared to be the one moderate Mohammedan that the media loves writing about.

The darkest spot of the program was a sock puppet who teaches at Notre Dame who sang the same old song about the Koran being misunderstood and that the state of the economy is the main reason that Americans dislike our Orc brothers and sisters. In fact, the man stated that the leery attitude of the average Yank towards Islam is of the same level of mindless prejudice as the that of Americans against the Irish in the 1850s and the Italians in the 1890s.

The difference, of course, is that neither Ireland nor Italy, waged war on the US. And the Roman Catholic Church, while refusing to recognize national boundaries, in the theological sense, never called for the overthrow of the American Democratic Republic system of government.

The United States has been at war with Islam since the Barbary Wars. Europe has been at war with Islam since the 8th century. The wars have not ended. Islam refuses to stop waging war against Infidels. When one regards the treatment of non-Muslims in Muslim countries it is clear that Islam allows no room for any religion but itself. Consider the Bahais (a form of Unitarian/Reformist Islam) in Iran and the Arab countries, the treatment of Jews in Arab countries, the treatment of Christians in Arab nations, the treatment of Buddhists and Hindus in Islamic dominated areas of South Asia. What has happened is that the West, because of a softening of the culture, has stopped fighting and has tried to reason with the unreasonable. This is tantamount with trying to reason with a while one's leg is being gnawed upon instead of taking a baseball bat to said dog's head when threatened. One doesn't have to kill it, but one has to deter it's enthusiasm for killing one, and urging it to go back to it's own yard and eat its own young.

This writer urges the read to peruse this article by Andrew McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy was, at one time, a federal prosecutor and he has much experience with Islamists:
Imagining Islam - Article - National Review Online