By Ted Belman
Commentary MAgazine published The GOP Makes Radical Islam’s Case by Max Boot. In it he complains the the anti-Muslim positions taken by many of those seeking the presidential nod is “nothing more than rank bigotry”. He continues:
Needless to say — although perhaps it bears repeating — very few Muslims support acts of violence carried out in the name of their faith. According to a Pew Research Centre survey in 2013, “Roughly three-quarters or more Muslims reject suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians.” Only about 10 percent of Muslims support terrorism, and of course even fewer of those — well under 1 percent — actually try to carry out attacks. That still means there a significant number of terrorist sympathizers out there — more than 100 million out of an estimated 1.2 billion Muslims in the world —so we in the West have real cause for concern about terrorist attacks, even if the most numerous victims of Muslim terrorism are fellow Muslims.
He then sets up a straw man and claims “the worst way to go about fighting Islamic terrorism is to declare that we think that all Muslims are terrorists or that we should wage war on Islam.” No one makes such a declaration.
He ignores another poll reported in June by Breitbart that gives the opposite message.
The Center for Security Policy released a poll Tuesday that should give all Americans pause. The results show that a startling number of American Muslims, our fellow citizens, agree that violence is a legitimate response to those who insult Islam. A full majority of 51% “agreed that “Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah.”
According to the just-released survey of Muslims, a majority (51%) agreed that “Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah.” When that question was put to the broader U.S. population, the overwhelming majority held that shariah should not displace the U.S. Constitution (86% to 2%). …
Even more troubling, is the fact that nearly a quarter of the Muslims polled believed that, “It is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed.”
A full 25% of those polled agreed that “violence against Americans here in the United States can be justified as part of the global jihad.”
Boot goes on to suggest, “The War on Terror must be fought and won by mobilizing the vast majority of moderate Muslims to more actively resist the siren song of the extremists.” While he is right in this, US policy is the opposite. The US has set up the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as the spokespersons for Muslims in the US. They both support Sharia and Jihad.
What the US should be doing is back the formation of a moderate Muslim voice, one that eschews Sharia and Jihad. A budget for such a group in the sum of $100 million would be a good start. The US should also ostracize CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Conservative: Obama’s abrupt exit from Iraq left the Middle East in turmoil and created the macabre nightmare we are now witnessing.
Liberal: Bush lied, people died!!!
Conservative: Sarin gas was discovered in Iraq, and sarin gas is classified as a weapon of mass destruction, so Bush did not lie.
Liberal: The Iraq War was all about stealing oil!!!
Conservative: So why hasn’t Obama given back the stolen oil?
Liberal: Fuck you!!!
@ babushka:
The problem with leftists is that they are immune to rational argument. Lies, vilification and insults are their stock in trade and very often when you try to reason with them that is their response.
You are much too kind to Buchanan. He is no paleocon. He is a pure unadulterated Jew hater of the highest magnitude, the quintessential defender of fugitive Nazi war criminals. Buchanan is America’s one remaining high profile right wing advocate of destroying Israel. He is vermin personified.
As with the vast majority of analysts who misrepresent themselves as being conservative, Boot is a corporatist feasting at the trough of the Fortune 500. This push to inflict hordes of Muslims upon the West has nothing to do with compassion and everything to do with importing cheap labor. It is phenomenally short sighted, but Big Business exists quarterly report to quarterly report.
I appreciate that Ted presents this material because the first rule of war is “Know Thy Enemy”. We need to master the arguments of the leftists so we can defeat them.
Commentary is a neo Conservative publication. The neo Conservatives are loathed by the paleoconservatives. I never thought I would share the sentiments of the paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan, but this time I do.
@ babushka:
Isn’t it bad enough to be divulged with pro Muslim crap from leftists,Jew haters and anti-Americans. Must this garbage appear in a pro-Israel site? Boot belongs in a mental health facility and his writings belong in a garbage can. Not Israpundit.
@ Abdul Ameer:
I agree.
Boot is an ignoramus when it comes to Islam as well as a poor analyst of the information he has available. He writes: “Roughly three-quarters or more Muslims reject suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians.” And, he considers this to be good? If there are only 4 million Moslems in America, this means that one million of them do not reject violence in the pursuit of jihad. That is not much of a consolation. Even those who claim to reject violence do not reject the goals of Islam, namely, to make Islam the eventually law of the land. CAIR and the Muslim brotherhood claim to reject violence, too, but that is only because Moslems are in a small minority in this country. Just wait until they get stronger.
As for “moderate Moslems”, they are irrelevant because they will never speak up against the Moslem religious establishment which is the source of the threat. Ultimately, the evil of Islam comes right out of the Koran which is taught and preached, to one degree or other, in every mosque.
In psychiatric terms, Boot is an “asshead”.
Muslims hate Jews, so I don’t want them here.
If that makes me a bigot, sign me up.
When?
The correct observation is: Approximately twenty-five percent of Jews have affinity for Jews.
One question is, can any or all of the “peace loving muslims” be inspired to leave Islam for another religion (same God – the One God) as a means to escape the permanent religiously inspired and sanctified brutality? They would have to do this in droves…
I guess Boot doesn’t consider both cutting peoples’ heads off and cheering on the head-cutters, to be “rank bigotry”.
Jews will have an affinity to Jews
Christians will have an affinity to Christians
Muslims will have an affinity to Muslims
Budhists will have an affinity to Budhism.
That is, we have seeds planted in our brains about our religion from childhood.
Now of the above mentioned religions, only one allows violence and and lying and killing for the religion (and for honor).
The problem is not with the peace loving Muslims which are in the majority, but with their offspring, and with children taking the quran literally. Therein is the problem.
When certain Muslims are predisposed to being ultra-religious. We end up with Islamists that do unthinkable horrendous things in the name of the religion.
Amongst the non muslim religions, we see tolerance.
Can you expect a religous President to be neutral in regards to his and other religions?
You answer that question. I know my answer.