I remember back in
the day when I used to believe Islam was just another religion like Christianity.
That, of course, was before 9/11. I used
to believe that all people yearned to be free and desired self-government, and the
only circumstance holding these poor unfortunates back were dictators who exploited
them.
Basically, I believed
in the Bush Doctrine that if people were freed from oppressive regimes, they would
embrace peace, democracy and capitalism.
Events have shown we couldn’t have been more wrong.
People are beginning
to realize that Islam is not compatible with Western values; it is a political
ideology in the guise of a religion. For
the West to survive, we as a people, have to come to this basic understanding.
Andrew McCarthy, a
contributor to National Review and former prosecutor, expressed those same views
on the Blaze:
The difference is,
Soviet ideology never traveled under the banner of religious liberty, and there
was never the kind of squeamishness about examining it that we have now. And …
the best way to combat it is to get over that squeamishness.
What we have to understand is that there
is a difference between what we ought to regard as Islam the religion … which
is something that is adhered to by, you know, many many many patriotic American
Muslims, who have no desire whatsoever to have a United States that’s
structured like the totalitarian societies that a lot of them either left or
reject for their own reasons.
So we have to
distinguish that from this political Islamist ideology that is rooted in
Islamic doctrine, and a very literal interpretation of it, and that rejects a
division between church and state, or between mosque and state.
That ideology is
— it has a religious component — but it’s a political ideology overwhelmingly.
And it ought to be dealt with as one. And we should stop — you know our public
officials should stop trying to label it as something it isn’t. It’s a
political, totalitarian conquest ideology that has certain religious elements
to it.
We have to start being honest with ourselves.
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