Islam as Tolerant: Three Dissenting Views

It has become fashionable for the American left to view Islam through the same lens by which the madrassas want all of America to share. Islam, these Moslem Imams preach, is a religion based on submission to Allah. All religions and races are equally respected. And anyone who says otherwise is a racist and an Islamophobe. There are three Islamic women who now say otherwise. Ayaan Hirsi in The Caged Virgin, Brigitte Gabriel in Because They Hate, and Nonie Darwish in Now They Call Me Infidel all detail what it was like to grow up in an Arabic culture and to be taught a philo of life that is markedly different from what most Americans hear on college campuses and from the major media. Each one admits that she is lucky to tell the tale of how she managed to escape the burning cauldron of feminine oppression tha marked her country of origin. Their tales intersect on telling points. They all assert that from childhood they were exposed to a virulent anti-semitism that had not been seen since Nazi Germany. Jews, they report, were born of pigs and dogs. Fiendish Jewish rabbis kidnap helpless Moslem babies to drink their blood in unholy rituals. Finally, the state of Israel does not exist on Arabic maps. This hatred for Jews is but the tip of the Islamic iceberg. Included in the Moslem frenzy of anti-semitism is a fierce hatred of America, all western countries, women in general, and anything and everything that is not in the Islamic fold. Brigitte Gabriel writes that the Islamic hatred of the west is not extremist as its American apologists would suggest. The filth that spews from American mosques is loud, clear and direct and must be seen as mainstream. Nonie Darwish spends much time touring American colleges to warn those female American-born head scarf wearing recent converts to Islam that had they been born in a Moslem country they would not have been in a college campus in the first place. They would have been forceably circumsised before having to marry a man of their parents' choice. And Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who now resides in Denmark, writes of the utter misery that faces Moslem women who are captives in a country that is not their own but from which they cannot escape. All three implore the west to look beyond the deceptive words of peace that the left blindly accepts as mainstream Islamic thought. All three suggest that we in the United States might wish to listen to the hate and vileness that pours out daily from every mosque in America before we discover too late that the purveyors of hate mean exactly what they say.