All this Muslim outrage over talk of Koran burning, and the insistent push to build the NY mosque over protests of the majority of NY residents and 70% of US citizens, and the plan to name the Islamic center after the Mosque of Córdoba, which was built as a sign of conquest literally on top of a Catholic church in Cordoba, Spain, by the conquering Moors -- makes one wonder what the reaction might be if Christians of the Reconquista had built on top of a Moorish mosque from those times a Catholic cathedral named after Santiago Matamoros -- Saint James the Moorslayer.
Amidst the recent appeals by the U.S. president, by the Department of Defense, by liberal news media editors and such against Qur'an-burning -- all of which are clearly motivated by fear of violent reprisal, destruction, burnings and loss of life (all of which are predicted by Islamic leaders and promised by self-proclaimed jihadists) -- the elephant in the room is the fact that all the claims (made by everyone from former President Bush to current Muslim leaders) that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance are confounded by the massive international experience to the contrary.
[Hat tip to E.E.]
"[T]he elephant in the room is the fact that all the claims (made by everyone from former President Bush to current Muslim leaders) that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance are confounded by the massive international experience to the contrary."
ReplyDeleteAs opposed to claims the American Empire is a "Benevolent" Hegemon--notwithstanding its perpetual wars, surveillance, extraordinary rendition, torture, terror bombings, election tampering and starvation blockades.