by Saher Fares • August 18, 2017
at 5:00 am
- One
need not go back centuries to the Muslim conquest of the
Christian late classical world -- the medieval Barbary corsair
raids, the Ottoman yoke in Central and Eastern Europe or the
slave markets of Kaffa in Tatar Muslim Crimea -- to understand
that this violence clearly predates the European colonial era,
the creation of the modern state of Israel, or the issue of
climate change.
- Countries
such as China, Nigeria or Kenya that are not Western, not
"imperialist", not whatever the excuses that
Islamists make, are still spectacularly attacked by similar
stabbings. Month on month, there seems almost nowhere that
Islamic terror did not strike.
- Volumes
of revered Islamic texts establish in great detail the grounds
of violence and oppression of non-believers and those deemed
heretical. These supposed grounds -- made alive daily in
madrassas and mosques across the world before being acted upon
by religiously-trained terrorists -- are childishly dismissed
by Western liberals as immaterial.
- The
first step towards a solution is to question the received
knowledge tirelessly dished out by media pundits in the West.
What is lacking is simply seeing a huge body of evidence of
theological justification for Islamist terror.
On June 4,
British PM Theresa May said, "It is time to say enough is
enough" and promised a review of her country's
counter-terrorism strategy. In the absence, however, of an honest
look at the root causes of this terrorism, and a painful
soul-searching by Muslims of the grounds in their religion that
give rise to such violence, it will never be "enough".
(Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
How thin can excuses wear every time an atrocity is
committed in the name of Islam?
When 13 people were killed and scores more injured this
week in a vehicle-ramming attack in Barcelona, Spain, and stabbing
men shouting "This is for Allah!" on London Bridge and in
Borough Market in June, what the victims least cared about
was the Western elite pontificating that the latest atrocity
"had nothing to do with Islam".
British Prime Minister Theresa May said, "It is
time to say enough is enough" and promised a review of her
country's counter-terrorism strategy.
In the absence, however, of an honest and tempered
look at the root causes of this terrorism, sacred or not, and a
painful soul-searching by Muslims themselves of the grounds in
their religion that give rise to such violence, it will never be
"enough".
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