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Breaking through the myth of 'Islamophobia'
[WashExaminer] Ever since President George W. Bush said "Islam is peace" on Sept. 17, 2001, it has been politically shielded from any debate about its effects on its adherents or on the rest of the world. Moslem nations and pressure groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... have used political correctness as a weapon to punish anyone who dared to begin any debate on Islam by calling them "Islamophobes," an accusation of racism. That era was ended by the lead editorial in the July 5 edition of The Economist, the prominent liberal British news magazine. Titled "The Tragedy of the Arabs," the article began by wondering why after the glories of past centuries the Arabs are in a "wretched state," why the fruits of the Arab Spring "rotted into renewed autocracy and war." It concludes that, "Islam, or at least modern reinterpretations of it, is at the core of some of the Arabs' deep troubles. The faith's claim, promoted by many of its leading lights, to combine spiritual and earthly authority, with no separation of mosque and state, has stunted development of independent political institutions." The Economist correctly assesses the problem by finding that economic stagnation is an inevitable product of these problems and that "only the Arabs can reverse their civilizational decline and right now there is little hope of that happening." Posted by: trailing wife 2014-07-11 |
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