Monday, November 30, 2009

A Swiss movement

Swiss voters ban
construction of new minarets

 Swiss member of parliament declares "Woe is me!"


But what message, exactly? The vote betrays an undercurrent of fear among the Swiss—a fear that is not without cause. There is no denying the connection between radical imams and terrorist acts. Nor should anyone look away from the fact that too many European Muslims flatly reject the norms of their host countries, sometimes in ways that are criminal: honor killings, child brides and the like.

Yet banning minarets does nothing to address that fear. It merely makes it less likely that the average Swiss will be confronted by a visible symbol of Islam upon his skyline. Thus, even as a symbolic gesture, it seems to encourage a head-in-the-sand approach toward the 5% of Swiss who are Muslim. In much of Europe, this is the norm anyway, the result of political correctness and cowardice.

The ban, in other words, does too much and too little at once. Too much because it becomes a very visible and easily exploited symbol of supposed European intolerance. But it accomplishes too little because it seeks merely to hide from view the problems that gave rise to the fear of the minaret in the first place.

 The Journal decries a "head-in-the-sand approach," yet stop short themselves of saying what needs saying.  Level headed, peaceful practitioners of Islam are themselves hostages to radicals who control it. Islam should be isolated (banned) by non-Islam countries for the cancer it surely is.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

As long as the West continues to treat radical-Islamists as deserving of civilized treatment (laws protecting them, lawyers defending them etc) they'll continue terrorizing and claiming that "Islam will dominate the world".

The proper solution, IMO, (and should've been done right after 9/11) is to nukem until they glow and publicly say "we'll stop when you do". This will either

1) Cause them to reevaluate their position.
2) Erase them from the face of the Earth if they reject option 1).

Either way the problem gets solved.

Yes, I really really mean it.

B....... said...

peaceful practitioners of Islam = Jumbo Shrimp

cmblake6 said...

It's a start. Next come police/guard with belt-fed weapons.

Unknown said...

To the tune of the classic "My Sharona"

Ooh my little sacred book, holy book
When you gonna give me some sex, Shari'a?
Ooh I read Muhammad's word, whole Qur'an.
Need those virgins right now, Sharia.
Never gonna work, give it up.
Men got dirty minds. Always get it up for the porn
of the Internet. F F F F screw you. N N N not me, Shari'a . . . .

Allah's always pissed, hates the Jews, likes to kill.
Women showin nothin but eyes, Shari'a.
Belly bombs in the street, not for me
Can't have beer, no kielbasa, why, Shari'a?
People live in mud brick huts. Smell like goats.
Wanna blow up Israel
'cause the Imam told them so. F F F screw Shari'a. N N N not me, Shari'a.

When can I talk to some girls, not all wrapped up
In deathlike shrouds, when, Shari'a?
You're just not right for me, Shari'a.
A bunch of ancient, stupid laws,
People like to have some fun,
Islam's really not the one. Let's go dancing,
No more kneeling. F F F uck you, Shari'a. N N No not me, Shari'a.

Chuck Martel said...

I just finished the five hundred page "The Evolution of God" by Robert Wright. He sees religions and their views of "god" as evolving to being more tolerant and compassionate toward other religions.

His bottom line is if we Christians and Jews will be more tolerant of and compassionate toward mainstream Islam, then mainstream Islam will see it beneficial to be tolerant of Christians and Jews, and will then disown the radical Islamists.

Taa-daa! Problem solved.

Here's his link. http://www.evolutionofgod.net/

Anonymous said...

The secret is to start a hog farm next door to any such structure.
Yes, Chuck we should have been more tolerant toward Hitler and the Japs

JMcD said...

Heaven might be a sorta letdown for Robert Wright.....He's already living in a magical fantasyland.

Anonymous said...

Tolerance for the intolerant will make them love us? Hmmmm.
Tim

Jeremy said...

When we went after the like of avid Koresh, or Jim Jones, it was not persecution of religion. The Mormon church likewise was told conform or disappear.
Same should be done for islam.

Kristophr said...

Yep ... they get the same treatment that any religion with obnoxious beliefs gets.

Hindus don't burn wives anymore.
Catholics don't burn heretics anymore.
Protestants don't burn witches anymore.
Mormons don't massacre wagontrains anymore.

Why did these things happen? Because whoever was in power at the time decided they had had enough of their crap, and started killing or jailing priests until that religion suddenly had a "reformation".

Islam should not get a free pass here. As long as they are violent loons, they should be treated as violent loons, and the priests that encourage violent lunacy should be held accountable until it stops.

Upset at canceled minarets? Hell, you fucking lives are canceled until you decide to grow up.

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