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very few ever so much as laid a hand on a Jew. So, too, the vast
majority of Russians never killed anyone while 20 to 40 million of their
fellow citizens were murdered by the communist regime under Stalin.
The point here is that the threat to civilization emanating from within
Islam is no more obviated by the fact that the great majority of Muslims
are not violent than the threat that emanated from Nazism was obviated
by the peaceful behavior of the great majority of Germans, or the threat
from Soviet Communism was nullified by the nonviolence among the great
majority of Russians.
Germany was a threat to civilization because Nazis and their ideology
took over German society while the majority of Germans (the "good
Germans") either supported Nazi ideals or did nothing. Russia was a
threat to civilization because communists took over the country, and the
great majority of Russians either supported Papa Stalin or did nothing.
Some Islamic societies are today becoming a threat to civilization
because Islamic totalitarians and terrorists are taking over those
societies while a majority of Muslims either support their ideals or do
nothing.
That is why it is meaningless at best, and dishonest at worst, to deny
the threat to civilization coming from various Muslim countries by
noting that most Muslims are not violent. Only a handful of Saudis
terrorized America on 9-11-01, but a large majority of Saudis support
Osama bin Laden. Few Palestinians strap bombs onto their children's
bodies, but the majority of them support such evil and none of the
others publicly morally condemn it.
meaning that wherever possible, a government should be Islamic and
govern according to a strict interpretation of the Sharia (Muslim
religious law). Furthermore, when necessary and when possible, the
Islamists believe these religious laws should be imposed violently - as
in Sudan, Nigeria, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
In addition, the dominant ideological trend in much of Islamic society
is hate-filled. What is said daily about Jews in Middle Eastern mosques
rivals what the Nazis said about Jews. And not only in mosques. During
Ramadan, Egyptian television is running a 41-part series based on the
anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
For all these reasons, one's moral assessment of what is taking place in
the Muslim world must be made independent of the fact that the great
majority of Muslims are peaceful people. Their peaceful lifestyle is not
influencing the bellicose trends in their religion.
Thus, what is most frightening is not that there are Muslim terrorists,
but by how little criticism of Islamic terror emanates from normative
Islamic groups. While some Muslim groups have condemned individual acts
of Islamic terror such as 9-11, not one significant Muslim group in the
world, including here in free America, has condemned Islamic terror
generally. And the leaders of Al-Azhar University, the most prestigious
institution of Islamic learning, have actually morally and religiously
come out in support of Islamic suicide terror against Israelis.
So the fact that the majority of those living in the Islamic countries
are good people is of no consequence. Unless they do something to
condemn and to isolate the Muslim totalitarians and terrorists in their
midst, history will judge them as it has all the good Germans during the
Holocaust.
