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Keith Davies
To Burn or Not To Burn, That Is the Question
September 11, 2010
In the age of new media and high-powered
communications, the small story of a tiny Church
protesting with the symbolic burning of Korans
sparked off an international crisis. The president,
the secretary of State, the top general in our
military, secretary of defense, every left and right
wing media outlet world wide weighed in with their
views concerning this great insult to Islam.
The Pastor who decided to do this is not a person
who follows the teachings he espouses, however the
world or to be more accurate the "free" world are
just as guilty of foolishness! Why do you ask? This
Pastor does not deserve any attention, as he is
irrelevant. He represents only 50 people in a
country of 300 million plus people. He does not
represent the views of the 99.99% of this country,
so why bother giving him the attention that he does
not deserve. Maybe the left wish to slam
Christianity, maybe the right wish to improve their
ratings, whatever the reason we are where we are at
on this issue today. What is important is now is
that this story has got massive coverage, the result
of the controversy shows that we are in a no win
situation with the Muslim world.
The Pastor was a fool for proposing to burn the
Koran, because as most normal people of faith this
is not how one directs your anger but now that he
has made this story what it is, the consequences for
not following through with his threat are actually
potentially greater than his backing down. Many,
both conservative and liberals breathed a sigh of
relief that the Koran will not be burnt. It must be
noted that not burning the Koran could have even
larger consequences even though I disagree with the
original proposal. The reason is that you must
understand the mindset of the Muslim world. They
maybe offended by the burning, however if the pastor
backs off they view this as a victory for Allah as
their threat of violence and intimidation worked and
Allah's will was done. They do not think like people
of the Judea Christian culture where compromise is
looked upon as a positive strength not a weakness.
The backing off by the Pastor in effect will cause
more violence and more protests not less, the threat
of violent Jihad terror will intensify because of
this political victory which as achieved because of
the threat of violence, so in effect violence i.e.
terror works.
The second reason is that the Islamic world needs to
prove to us that if one of their religious symbols
are burnt or desecrated that they as a "religion of
peace" need to show to us that this is the case i.e.
that words of condemnation, restraint as well as
prayers for peace, instead of riots, violence and
killing when someone from another faith insults
Islam; needs to be witnessed from the West. This
will prove to us that tolerance in Islam exists. The
West has witnessed much provocation, desecrating of
churches, burning of bibles, persecution of
Christians in the Muslim world yet we do not witness
reciprocal violence form mobs or riots in our
Western countries against Muslims. The current
policies and political correctness of our government
long term will actually exasperate violence against
Muslims when today we are unwilling to deal with the
true intention of fundamentalist Muslims.
The Imam who is building the ground zero mosque is
unwilling to compromise on his positions yet the USA
non Muslim community are expected to compromise for
his faith. On CNN Imam suggests that violence might
occur if the mosque is moved. While he did not
threaten to use violence he suggested that many of
his coreligionists might do so if he would
compromise. The imam is brilliant at using language
that instills fear but at the same time obfuscates
him from blame for causing that fear. Imam Rauf is a
slippery snake, who we have already have exposed as
a supporter of terror in his writings in Arabic in
the Middle East media. He will never compromise if
you understand Islamic law like we do. The Imam
cannot move the mosque, as once land is purchased
for a mosque, it can never be sold or disposed of;
it belongs to the Umma forever. The only way to stop
the mosque is through local legislation or violence
(we condemn violence).
We have the perfect litmus test in front of us? The
President should say that he disagrees vehemently
with the burning of the Koran, but Pastor Terry
Jones has the right to do it under the freedoms of
the USA constitution, and if he does do it, this is
a chance for the Muslim world to react in a way that
proves they are a peaceful religion.
Unfortunately hell will freeze over first before the
current President would have the wisdom to utter
such words.
About Keith Davies
Keith Davies is the Executive Director
Walid Shoebat Foundation. |
