Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
It appears that the Religion of Peace has struck again. This morning, I awoke to a report of a mass homicidal attack via Islamic suicide occurred at a Russian airport. The toll in terms of human life was heavy. What stands out though, is that Russia can hardly be called a supporter of Israel. In fairness, Russia can’t even be called friendly towards Israel. The favorite meme of the left for years has been that we are creating a recruitment bonanza for Islamic terror groups because of our support for the Zionist State. I will concede that it is not the entire left which has been spouting this. My fellow members of the Jewish faith have been voting mostly with the liberals for many years. Historically, it has been about 80/20, however that has become more even in recent election cycles. I am referring to the ISM, ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, hard core crowd. Unmistakably though, a majority of those on the left have a very anti-Israel, anti-Semitic bent to them. So, where does that leave us today? What this attack, along with dozens of others which occur on a constant basis, is that support for Israel has nothing to do with Islamic Terrorism. What does spur on Islamic Terrorism is people not bowing down to Islamic demands and perceived insults against their vision of a worldwide caliphate.
When we notice these things going on daily, we are told that we suffer from Islamiphobia. A new disease which makes us irrationally afraid helping some peaceful man wearing a bomb for a sweater vest reach his life’s ambition of living with Mohamed and enjoying his 72 virgins. (Quick question here: How do they know that the virgins are indeed human and/or female?) That only if we sought psychiatric help, we would somehow be safe and indeed shielded from the effects of their chosen fashion statement. (Isn’t Semtex lovely in the spring?) Not a believer that the Religion of Peace is not about peace? Well, then, click the link and take a look at what they’ve been up to. Out of the 16000 plus instances of documented attacks since September of 2001, how many were perpetrated against the tiny nation of Israel?
We have been told by Islamist apologists for years that jihad means an inner struggle for a more spiritual existence. We have been told by adherents to that religion that jihad means fighting a holy war intended to kill or subjugate all non believers until Islam reigns supreme in the entire world. To be sure, there are some, “moderate Muslims,” who tell us that the former definition of jihad is the correct one. To me though, that group reminds me of a movie we all saw:
I will concede that not all Muslims are terrorists, nor even fit into the category of apologists for Muslim terror. I do however believe that the, “small percentage,” factoid is just as ridiculous. The laughingly deceptive propaganda documentary published by Gallup puts that number at 50%, which is in itself scary considering that Gallup, as of 2002 is owned by Saudi Arabia. It is also important to note that the 50% number is broken into separate constituencies. It includes terrorists, those who support terror as an acceptable means to an end, those who feel that terror is justified, those who feel it is no different than western methods of diplomacy etc. Once again, this requires our good friend moral equivalency to rear its ugly head. That is one of the places I must part with the left. My point though does not depend on what percentage of Muslims agree with the second definition of jihad, but merely on whether support for Israel is the actual cause for tension, or just a handy excuse. If you believe it is the former, why the attacks in Russia, Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sudan, Rhodesia, England, Ireland, Scottland, France, Spain, and probably dozens of other non-Israel supporting nations?
