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I’ve received enough e-mails about my choice to cover less-mainstream aspects of Islam to address them all in a post. 

What the United States is dealing with in the Middle East is not a race war, as Robert Parker wrote yesterday. It is far deeper than race. It is a religious war, and radical Islam has taken the ‘peaceful’ Muslim religion and perverted it beyond recognition to justify the mass murder, mutilation and torture of its own citizens. Yes, the Old Testament is plenty gory, but millions of Christians do not use it to propel them to defend their unified, felonious acts against non-believers.

This religious war is marked by dark, devious acts on the part of jihadists to infiltrate and integrate into Western life so seamlessly that future efforts to implode the Western way of life from within become far too easily accomplished. There is a curious correlation here about what happens in countries as the Muslim population increases. 

Consider these recent news bits and their wider implication:

• A female artist’s work, which depicts gay Iranian exiles wearing masks of Muhammad, is withdrawn from a Dutch museum after the artist received death threats and the museum received pressure from Muslims. Her work was meant to shed light on the public condemnation of homosexuality despite frequent homosexual relations among married Muslim men. The collection was first praised as ‘exceptional’ by the museum’s director, but announced last month that the collection would not appear in the upcoming exhibition because “certain people in our society might perceive [the collection] as offensive.” The artist is now in hiding. From Things Offensive to Islam.
• Muslim clerics and scientists propose that the world’s time zone system should change to reflect Mecca, not Greenwich Meridian. Mecca, the direction Muslims face during daily prayer, is considered by these scientists to be the center of the earth. GMT, on the other hand, was imposed upon the world by force when Britain was a colonial power. In short, the Western world’s imposition of GMT is wrong, and the Muslim imposition of Mecca is not. From Michelle Malkin.

And on a related note, from Right Wing News:

The participants recommended the unification of the time in the Arab world to the time in Mecca instead of Greenwich. They also called the Arab governments to abandon the new world maps “because they are forged to serve Western interests.”

They also demanded that buildings in the Arab world be directed towards Qibla.

• Britain has cancelled its St. George’s Parade, which commemorates the patron saint of England, fearing Muslim riots. From Gateway Pundit.
• The terms ‘jihad’ and ‘jihadist’ are expressly forbidden for use by State Department officials, per a hot tip to Jihad Watch. Curiously, this closely follows the complaints from the Muslim community about Sen. McCain referring to terrorists as ‘Islamic terrorists’.

And sharia finance, which has infiltrated Wall Street and was recently featured in a forum at Harvard, is at the center of this integration. Since sharia finance forbids investment in major Western industries and Sharia law advisers must donate certain returns to Islamic charities, it should already raise flags in most minds. Some of these charities also promote jihad and support suicide bombings, giving very real significance to every dollar that is funneled to terrorism through sharia finance. 

While the presence of a forum on its own may not necessarily prompt harsh criticism of Harvard and Islam’s reach into mainstream American society, the forum on sharia finance came shortly after some significant changes on the Harvard campus: women-only hours imposed on the campus gym after complaints from Muslim women and the Muslim call to prayer broadcast across Harvard Yard.

Oddly enough, the New York Times summarizes this issue perfectly. 

The arguments over both issues boiled down to whether Harvard was being admirably tolerant or was disrupting the lives of everyone to placate a vocal minority.

And further down the article, some feedback from the Harvard community:

As to the call to prayer, Muslim students said the adhan was a basic statement of their creed and had nothing to do with denying other faiths. The debate focused mostly on whether Muslims were getting a right denied to people of other religions.

One student wrote in the comments section of The Crimson’s Web site that Harvard Yard was not a comparative religion class, while another said if students could romp there naked and urinate on the statue of John Harvard, surely forbearance toward other cultures was warranted.

[...]

Taha Abdul-Basser, the Muslim chaplain at Harvard, said both episodes were indicative of the growing number of Muslims in the United States.

“There are some people who are not just comfortable that Muslims, by virtue of the change of demographics, are going to become more and more visible,” he said.

Why is everyone so afraid to stand up to Islam? Because, writes Phyllis Chesler, this is what happens:

Those of us who describe Islam/Islamism accurately are often slandered as “racists” and as “Islamophobic” and silenced by lawsuit and by fear of lawsuit. Members of Cincinnati’s Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) managed to shut down a production of a play by Glyn O’Malley about the first female suicide bomber. A group of Muslim students at De Paul University managed to get Professor Thomas Klocek fired or permanently “suspended” because, off-duty, (just like the NYC prison imam above), he tried to tell the truth about the Israel-Palestinian matter. Muslim students, perhaps shocked that anyone would dare disagree with their anti-Israel views, reported him as a “racist.” Klocek pro-American and pro-Israel free speech is, apparently, not as protected as is that of another De Paul University professor, Norman Finkelstein, a well-known Holocaust denier and demonizer of Israel. Finkelstein has certainly not been suspended for his false and inflammatory views. On the contrary, he is up for tenure.

 

In Europe, lawsuits have been launched against those who tell the truth about Islam. A series of such lawsuits has kept Oriana Fallaci in exile from her native land, Italy, and has made it dangerous for her to visit Switzerland. For similar reasons, the Israeli-American author Rachel Ehrenfeld cannot visit England, where a Saudi billionaire has won a default judgment against her. Ehrenfeld’s alleged crime? She told the truth about this particular Saudi’s funding of terror - and she has counter-sued him here, under her First Amendment right to do so. Interestingly, while many major newspapers and booksellers, including Amazon, have written briefs on her behalf, no one but Ehrenfeld is funding the actual lawsuit in defense of our collective right to tell the truth about the Islamic funding of terrorism against us.

 

Finally, the same western intellectuals who insist on our right to mock both Judaism and Christianity are often the first to charge “Islamophobia” and “racism” when Islam is presented accurately and criticized, not to mention presented in a series of rather innocuous cartoons. (The three offensive cartoons were slipped in by Muslims, and the riots against the cartoons were carefully orchestrated months later.)

By prosecuting ‘hate speech’ and issuing forth death threats to artists and filmmakers, the radical Muslim world is taking the first step to obtain control of what free-thinking Westerners say and write. After all opposing viewpoints are squashed, the brainwashing can begin. Perhaps it has already started. 

Image from CNN.