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Only Challenging Islamic Supremacism can Reform Islam

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 07:35 PM PDT

In Cairo, Obama masterfully laid out the Islamist narrative,
evoking a world in which Muslim cultural superiority to Europe and America
gave way to European and American physical supremacy over the Muslim
world. Like all forms of flattery aimed at Islamic supremacists, this was
naturally the worst possible approach to reform Islam.

Reform requires first destroying the myths, and then seeing
what is wrong and working to fix it. Instead Western liberals insisting on
perpetuating the myth of Islamic greatness overturned by the European and
American barbarians. And if indeed Muslims were superior to Europeans, the
only reform that is truly justified is the Wahhabi "reform" of turning
back the clock of history to Caliphates and strict Islamic jurisuprudence.
Certainly not Westernization reforms that would only mean imitation the
"degraded West".

This perverse logic is the inescapable outcome of
supporting the Islamist view of history, it is a logic that dictates more
conflict, more violence, more terror and more brutality as the Wahhabi
backed elements within the Muslim world look to turn back time and restore
"the greatness of Islam that once was".

No ideology or nation can
reform without criticism. To pander to Islam is to strenghten its worst
qualities, to affirm its superiority, its righteousness and its appetite
for world domination. By contrast only challenging Islamic supremacism
holds out any form of reforming Islam.

In the Islamist narrative
that Obama endorsed in Cairo, Muslims are the victims of a European world
that neglected their greatest gifts and tarred them with unjust
accusation. In the true history, Islam was built on half-savage bandits
carving out a worldwide empire through the sword, pillaging the cultural
treasures of far greater civilizations, and taking credit for the genius
of Rome, Greece and India.

Where the Islamist narrative encourages
Muslims to revert to type, to see themselves as wronged victims who must
rebuild an incorruptible ummah and "civilize" the whole world under Islam,
the post-Islamist critical narrative would encourage Muslims to turn their
backs on mainstream Islam in favor of more reformist Islamic movements
such as the Ahmadis, ruthlessly suppressed by Pakistan's Islamist Haq
regime.

Little wonder then that the Saudi propogated Wahhabi Islam
insists on promoting the Islamist myth of a lost glorious empire, or that
Obama is happy to take up the narrative. That narrative is the best
possible means for perpetuating and increasing Islamic violence, terrorism
and expansionism.

Just as the willingness of Western liberals to
accept the National Socialist mythology of an innocent wronged Germany
reclaiming her dignity and lost territories helped bring on World War II,
flattering Islam can only bring on a greater global conflict between
Islamists seeking their lost caliphate and those free nations and peoples
determined to resist them.

The need by Western liberals to
constantly find fault with their own countries and favor with that of the
enemy, takes the form of actively collaborating in creating and promoting
the artificial histories of victimology that are then used to defend the
violence and wars unleashed by that same enemy in pursuit of
"justice".

Furthermore by restraining and even banning criticism of
Islam, Western liberals themselves close off the path to Islamic reform.
As it stands now, Islam is the only religion both in the West and in
Muslim countries that hears nothing but praise about itself, without a
word of criticism being tolerated. What better affirmation could there be
of Islamic supremacism than that?

Both the Muslim and the Non-Muslim who hear Orthodox
Judaism, the Catholic Church, Evangelical Christians, Mormons, and many
others routinely mocked and dragged through the mud, while Islam and
Muslims are treated as above criticism-- cannot help but draw the
conclusion that Islam is superior to all other religions.

It is inconceivable that any religion or ideology could be responsible for
ongoing terrorism and violence in dozens of countries around the world, a
death toll approaching a million in the 20th century alone, and still be
considered above criticism.

The resulting path is not hard to
follow. By flattering Islam, we are discouraging the reform of Islam, and
ultimately flattering ourselves to death. Treating Islam as superior, will
insure that Muslims act superior to us. Pretending that violence is
something apart from Islam will only empower Muslims to ignore the
consequences of their own actions. And finally accepting the Islamist myth
means accepting our own inferiority, which inevitably results in Muslims
treating the more compliant of us as Dhimmis and the more independent as
Kufirs. The slaughter, the conquest and the wars follow naturally from
there.

Only by challenging Islamic supremacism can we defend
ourselves and challenge Muslims over their morals, history and
future.