Jihad or Not, Islam Kills

This past week I heard part of a discussion with Robert Spencer (of Jihad Watch) and Jeff Sacci on the Michael Medved show. At one point, Medved posed this question to pro-Islam Sacci: Which Islam country would you hold up as a good example of religious tolerance? (paraphrased) To which Sacci replied, “Indonesia and Malaysia.”

It’s pretty sad that merely days later that very country, Indonesia, executed three Catholic priests without a fair trail. Christians in that country are now rioting and violence between the faiths is growing. Now a second Christian was murdered in Assyria simply because he was a Christian and the Muslim murder(s) were still upset about the remarks (remarks!) from Pope Benedict.

Lileks has it right.

But it’s not what we say that truly offends. It’s what we are. The West’s lack of interest in joining the Ummah is an affront in itself, and we broadcast our sins in High Infidelity. If you believed that the West’s apostasy was an affront to God, you’d spend your leisure hours torching straw popes too.

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In the meantime, we will learn to say less and less about more and more. As the grim cliche has it: If you say Islam isn’t always a religion of peace, the Islamicists will kill you. This doesn’t make them hypocrites, of course. The grave is a very peaceful place.

Islam has become the biggest bully on the block. They’ll punch you in the stomach and take your lunch money if you just look at them wrong. Except in our real world, it’s usually fatal.