From Lawrence Auster's View From the Right, June 27:
A Pew Foundation poll of the attitudes of Muslims in six Muslim countries and four Western countries shows widespread Muslim support for terrorism and suicide bombing. In no Muslim population does a majority acknowledge that Arabs carried out the 9/11 attack. Daniel Pipes lamely concludes that the Pew survey “sends an undeniable message of crisis from one end to the other of the Muslim world.” Uh, no, Mr. Pipes—the crisis is not in the Muslim world, the crisis is in the Western world, which imported and now contains vast West-hating Muslim populations.
Of course, to be fair, in some Muslim countries only about 10% justify terrorism in support of Islam, though it is substantially higher in other countries like Nigeria. Gee, what's 10% of 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide? I believe that comes to a mere 150 million Muslims who believe in murdering people and blowing things up. And half of those are in Great Britain!
And some worrywarts are concerned. Of course there are always fanatics in every religion. They've got 150 million Osama Bin Ladens and we've got Pat Robertson. Well Robertson has never even harmed a fly, but he has made politically incorrect statements a time or two, and we are not prepared to quibble over the degree of one's fanaticism. Clearly 150 million Muslims and Pat Robertson are moral equivalents.
Now wait a minute Stogie, there was Timothy McVeigh, the fanatic who blew up the Federal Building in Oklahoma. See, violent fanatics are not just limited to the Muslim religion! Well, of course, McVeigh was actually an atheist, but it is well known that he once drove by a Christian church. Again, let's not quibble over degrees of extremism.
We must face the sad truth: we're no better than they are. Bring the troops home now and order your wife a burqa.
