We’ve heard it a hundred times. “Most Muslims are tolerant, kind, peace-loving people.” And it’s true. Most Muslims are.
But, is that useful information? Possibly not.
Let’s begin by readily conceding and even reinforcing that first point. Let’s completely agree that most of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims are tolerant, kind, peace-loving people. They love their God, love their country and wish their neighbors only the best. It’s only the radicals we have to worry about. Perhaps only ten percent of the population?
Good. That’s our starting place.
Now let’s suppose you live in a town of 100,000 people that is fifteen percent Muslim. You have 15.000 Muslim neighbors. Let’s agree that only ten percent of them have that fire of radical Islam burning inside them.
That means that 13,500 of your Muslim neighbors wish the best for you. They want to live in peace and, as good neighbors, will be there to catch you if you fall.
But it also means the other 1,500 see you as enemies of their god. Many of these will require that you submit to their belief or be ready to die. They read daily from their Qur‘an: “Fight and kill the disbelievers where ever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.” (Qur’an 9:5) Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender paying the protective tax in submission. (Qur’an 9:29) And they take these things to heart. As believers. they are compelled to act on them.
This poses a difficult question.
When 1,500 or so of your Muslim neighbors are willing to kill you and others, to get you and others to comply with what they believe, how comforting is it that the other 13,500 wish you to live in peace? The radical minority is determined to dominate through terror and they will. They will terrorize you–and the other 13,500 Muslims as well–until you ALL agree to submit to them. They will kill enough ‘infidels’ that you and the rest cower in fear–submitting to their beliefs. Then they will let you live among them under terms of surrender (as Dhimmi) and regularly pay them a protective tax (Jizya). And, by the way, you must be very careful not interfere with the practice of their religion. If your non-Muslim church needs a repair, for instance, and you contract to have that work done…they are compelled to kill you.
But wait! Almost all of my Muslim neighbors are kind, gentle and want to live in peace.
Yes…it’s true. But the ten percent who are not, make that meaningless.
Let’s see how this looks in real life. You may have seen this in the news a while back.
The area of Dagestan on the coast of Russia is a textbook case. There is a lovely beach town there where people have flocked for generations. Over the years, the Muslim population has grown so that now they number more than half.
“On a clear morning last July, at around 6 a.m., schoolteacher Yelena Abduzhalimova met her colleagues on the central city beach for a round of volleyball. As the ladies changed into their swimsuits, a group of young boys began to warm up for wrestling exercises before their morning classes, right by the volleyball court. Other than the children, the beach was still fairly empty at that hour.”
“Abduzhalimova walked onto the court with her friends and she stepped forward to serve the ball. Instantly, a powerful explosion threw her into the air, flying 10 feet above the ground. She had stepped on a mine hidden in the sand. It was the third explosion on the public beach that season, and one that cost Abduzhalimova her leg above the knee. ‘The bomb was meant as punishment for women wearing swimsuits,’ she says.”
And not surprisingly, women no longer wear swimsuits. Rather, they wade in the surf, faces covered, wearing their long flowing burqa. As they must do, they comply. Comply with the wishes; no…the demands; no…the savagely intolerant oppression of the few.
And it isn’t just the beaches…
“Just this year, there have been over 200 terror attacks on Dagestan’s food stores, cafés, and saunas that sell liquor, as well as on religious centers and law enforcement. The attacks have killed hundreds of social workers, local deputies, police, high-ranking army officers, even imams. In addition, two school principals who spoke out against schoolgirls wearing the hijab were killed this year in Dagestan.”
Let than sink in for a minute…
Hundreds.
Killed.
Killed because they didn’t comply.
But wait! Most Muslims in Dagestan are peaceful and wish their neighbors well.
True…but not useful. The ten percent make that meaningless.
And it’s worldwide. Think Dagestan is an isolated case? Watch the news. The ten percent are the foot soldiers of Islam. Fear them.
But that.. that‘s ‘Islamophobia’!
Yes, it is. And when you stop to think about it, isn’t that a fairly rational response?
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Epilogue
Stop it before it starts
No Sharia
Nowhere in our borders
Not today,
Not tomorrow,
Not ever,
No Sharia,
Period
Stop it before it starts
