Saturday, September 04, 2004
Hijacked Religion
Ralph Peters and Roger L. Simon both express the same thought: if the islamofascist terrorists have in fact hijacked Islam, then in the aftermath of the massacre in Beslan, Russia, it is high time for mainstream Muslim leaders all over the world to unequivocally condemn such evil in the strongest possible terms, and back up that condemnation with action to cleanse their religion of the cancer that has infected it.
If they do not do so soon, and often, and gain ground against those who would try to remake the world in the image of 7th century Arabia, then I am very afraid that Osama bin Laden will get the clash of civilizations that he seems to crave.
If that happens, it will be ugly, and brutal, and catastrophic for the entire world. As Steven Den Beste said in this post, if the Muslim world allows itself to be seduced by the likes of the monsters who carried out the atrocity in Beslan, and as a result forces a showdown with the West, the Muslim world will lose, millions will die, and the human race will be the worse for it all.
I pray with all my heart that Muslims of good will (and I have no doubt that most are) recover their religion from madmen like the Iranian mullahs, bin Laden, Zawahiri, Abu Bakar Bashir and Zarqawi , as soon as humanly possible.
If they do not do so soon, and often, and gain ground against those who would try to remake the world in the image of 7th century Arabia, then I am very afraid that Osama bin Laden will get the clash of civilizations that he seems to crave.
If that happens, it will be ugly, and brutal, and catastrophic for the entire world. As Steven Den Beste said in this post, if the Muslim world allows itself to be seduced by the likes of the monsters who carried out the atrocity in Beslan, and as a result forces a showdown with the West, the Muslim world will lose, millions will die, and the human race will be the worse for it all.
I pray with all my heart that Muslims of good will (and I have no doubt that most are) recover their religion from madmen like the Iranian mullahs, bin Laden, Zawahiri, Abu Bakar Bashir and Zarqawi , as soon as humanly possible.
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