LORNE GUNTER

Why can't we talk about Muslim fanatics?

7:41 am, October 1st, 2014

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LORNE GUNTER - Why can't we talk about Muslim fanatics?

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LORNE GUNTER | EDMONTON SUN

Western civilization won't be defeated by economic collapse or government debt, by an external military force or even its own internal decadence. But it could well be done in by political correctness.

It's bad enough that United States President Barack Obama could stand bare-faced in front of his nation two weeks ago and insist the ISIS terror group "is not Islamic."

Huh!? Islam is in their name and behind every murderous, brutal, barbarous act ISIS commits.
There are imams and Muslim scholars who would argue that ISIS is, in fact, the very epitome of Islamic faith put into action. It is possible to debate that those Muslim leaders and ISIS itself are wrong in their interpretation of Islam.

But to insist to the world that ISIS "is not Islamic" is the equivalent of standing in front of a red wall and insisting it is green. It is contrary to what is plainly, clearly, obviously true.

Obama went on to explain that ISIS couldn't possibly be Islamic because "no religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of (ISIS's) victims have been Muslim."

What has the faith of its victims got to do with whether ISIS is Islamic or not?

For as long as there have been religions, believers have been killing members of their own faith who they believe bastardize that faith.

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It's not hard to imagine cavemen killing residents of some neighbouring cave because those neighbours cave-painted the god Unga-Unga slightly differently. Clearly they were infidels who deserved death for their apostasy.

By Obama's definition, the Spanish Inquisition was neither Christian nor Catholic since Christianity does not condone the killing and torture of innocents and since most of Torquemada's victims were Catholic.

British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted "Islam is a religion of peace." ISIS is "not Muslims, but monsters."

In an effort not to offend the tender sensibilities of Muslim citizens, Western leaders are eager to twist themselves into pretzels of logic.

Now comes the beheading in Oklahoma of a woman at work by a heavily bearded, Allah praising Muslim convert. And officialdom in the United States rushes out to insist the butchery is not connected to the beheadings in the Middle East. Indeed, they say, this is merely another tragic incident of workplace violence unrelated to Alton Nolen's recent conversion to fanatical Islam.

Most American media outlets (and Canadian ones, too), won't even show current pictures of a bearded Nolen standing outside his mosque in Muslim headgear and robes. Instead, they have been using an old clean-shaven mugshot minus the head wrap.

Nolen's act of butchery may not be directly connected to the beheading of western journalists and aid workers in Syria by Jihadi John on behalf of ISIS. Both men were not acting on orders from the same Islamic leader.

But the murders committed by both are connected by the common denominator of radical Islam.
It defies logic to claim Nolen did not watch the Middle Eastern beheadings on TV or the Internet and take inspiration from them that that is how good Muslims act out their faith.

Nolen had just been fired from his job because he had argued with co-workers about the need to stone sinning women, an opinion inspired by his Muslim conversion.

It is ridiculous to say, as Canadian Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has, that it is Islamophobic to recognize that radical Islam is at war with Western civilization. That's not Islamophobic, it's simply a statement of fact.

If, in the West, we allow ourselves to be blinded to the true nature of our enemy, we run the risk of being overtaken.