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Friday, January 04, 2002
This week's "Houses of Worship" essay in the Wall Street Journal makes several important points. One of the most important points is the falsity of the argument that America's "War on Terror" is a modern-day crusade against Islam.
The United States is looking to kill terrorists, who happen to be Muslim. There is no effort being made by the U.S. government to convert any of these people to Christianity.
It's the Muslims, those followers of Wahhabism and Islamism, that are on a crusade.
Western statesmen almost desperately declare at every opportunity these days that true Islam is a tolerant faith. But even "moderate" Muslim countries today are half-hearted at best in condemning Islamic extremists who not only stamp out Christianity and other religions at home but dream of violently establishing Islam as the one true faith throughout the world.
The situation in Indonesia, which I mention below, is a perfect example of this Jihad. For hundreds of years, Christians and Muslims lived together in relative peace. The Lasker Jihad is on a crusade -- to kill Christians.
The solution to the problem is for the Muslim world to come to respect Christians -- and defend the Christians' rights to worship wherever they wish. That freedom is extended to Muslims everywhere in the western world. Many defenders of Islam repeat the mantra that it is a religion of peace. They'd do better putting their money where their mouths are. Call a spade a spade. Agitate for the freedoms of everyone to worship as they please.
12:47 PM
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