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'Mere
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Ali
Sonboly was neither a member of ISIS nor an adherent of
"extreme" Salafi interpretations of Islam.
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A German-born 18-year-old of Iranian descent named Ali Sonboly went on
a shooting spree last Friday. He reportedly targeted young children and
murdered nine.
This incident is a reminder that the ongoing terrorization of the West
is not limited to the Islamic State (ISIS), "extreme" Wahhabi
or Salafi interpretations of Islam, or terrorists posing as refugees
entering the West.
Ali Sonboly was none of those. He was born and raised in Germany and,
based on his name and Iranian heritage, was most likely of Shia
background.
But he was a Muslim. According to one
witness he screamed Islam's ancient war cry "Allahu Akbar"
during his rampage and, less significantly, he launched his attack on the
one day of the week that many calculated Islamic attacks on non-Muslims
occur: Friday.[1]
And that is the grand lesson of the Munich massacre. Mere Islam—to
borrow from C.S. Lewis' famous
book about the many commonalities shared by most Christian
denominations—is responsible for the ongoing terrorization of the West.
If you doubt this, simply turn to a recent
study. It found that Muslims of all sects, races, and sociopolitical
circumstances—not just "ISIS"—are responsible for persecuting
Christians in 41 of the 50 worst nations to be Christian in: Shia Iran is
the ninth worst nation, "Wahhabi" Saudi Arabia is 14th, while
"moderate" countries like Malaysia and Indonesia are ranked 30
and 43 respectively.
The common denominator in all these nations is Islam—without
qualifier.
Mere Islam promotes hate for and
violence against non-Muslims.
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Even ISIS' abhorrent treatment of Christians and other non-Muslims is
only an extreme reflection of what Muslims in general are doing to
non-Muslims all around the world. See "Muslim
Persecution of Christians," reports which I've been compiling
every month for five years this month, and witness the nonstop
discrimination, persecution, and carnage committed against Christians by
"everyday" Muslims—from the highest authorities to the basest
mobs. Each monthly report (there are currently 58) contains dozens of
atrocities, any of which if committed by Christians against Muslims would
receive 24/7 blanket coverage.
While the media concoct any number of lies to dispel the Islamic
nature of the Munich attack—the usual
strategies, especially talk of "grievances,"
are already being employed —the fact remains: for all the differences and
tensions between Europe's native and Muslim populations, the Christians
being persecuted by Muslims are often identical to their persecutors in
race, ethnicity, national identity, culture, and language. There is no
political dispute, no land dispute. Nor do these disempowered and
ostracized Christian minorities have any political power—meaning there
are no Muslim "grievances"
either.
So why are they hated and hounded? Because they are Christians—that
is, non-Muslim infidels—and that's the real reason Western people
are being terrorized by Muslims, most recently (or at least as of this
writing) in Munch.
Ugly or not, this truth, that mere Islam—not "ISIS,"
"Salafism," "Wahhabism," or "Shiism"—promotes
hate for and violence
against non-Muslims will never be remedied until those in positions
of leadership first acknowledge it. And, with the notable
exception of Donald Trump, they are very far from doing so.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Judith
Friedman Rosen fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman fellow at
the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
[1] Lamenting
how Muslims are often riled against "infidels" during weekly
Friday mosque sermons in Egypt, a Coptic Christian once said, "Let
me tell you ... we [Christians] know that every Friday is a day of death;
that the day after Friday, on Saturday, we'll be carried to the
morgue!"
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