No dhimmis here. Ever.
by Jerome du Bois
Today we vote, and the war against Islamofascism is the central issue, and blogs everywhere will speculate about this and that, and what it all means.
A few hours ago, a Dutch filmmaker named Theo Van Gogh -- yes, of that family -- was stabbed and shot to death by a Muslim man for making a ten-minute film about Islamic domestic violence against women, with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The message is clear that in Europe, Muslims will kill you for criticizing them.
I'm about to start criticizing Muslims, including American Muslims, right now. (Reminder to locals: I'm lethally armed, and I don't call cops.)
"Questions for Muslims" appear on any number of websites, some sponsored by, for example, evangelical Christians -- 60 Questions Muslims Don't Like To Be Asked!" -- and also Muslims, including the curious Before the Wedding: 150 Questions for Muslims To Ask Before Getting Married. And then there are the invaluable illuminators Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes, ex-Muslims like Ibn Warraq and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and bloggers like Charles Johnson constantly peppering Muslims with questions.
I don't want to ask any Muslims any questions. Their arrogant sense of superior spiritual sanctimony makes me nauseous, and I work to advance their humility. I think it's time non-Muslims simply made statements to Muslims. Here are some of mine:
1. The Jews are not a question mark. (Thought experiment: Imagine a history of the world without any contributions by Muslims. Now imagine the same without Jews.)
2. Women are equal to men. They are not property or chattel or anything less than any man, and indeed superior to any man who thinks women should be anything less than any man.
3. The Qu'ran was not orally or mentally channelled inerrantly to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel. It is a palimpsest, edited, abridged, and extended over many years. This is just historical fact, attested to by the Hijazi Ultraviolets.
4. Allah isn't alone. He shares the world with all the gods in Mecca's cave, and Yahweh, Shiva, Chango, and many more.
5. I don't trust your words. You have a practice called Taqiyya: "Muslims hold that the Islamic version of dissimulation is applied only externally with the tongue and not internally (on the heart, spirit, and soul). In other words, a Muslim is allowed to say untruths to a non-Muslim if in their heart they still respect the truths that they externally deny." (Definition from fact-index.com.) And you want us to trust Muslims? No. Because of taqiyya, I cannot believe a single thing any Muslim says.
6. There is nothing spiritual or mystical about the Arabic language. It may not even be of Arabian origin; evidence suggests it originated in the Levant. So chanting anything in Arabic, or writing it down, is no different than chanting or writing in English or German or Spanish or Esperanto.
7. There will be no more one-way tolerance. "One man, one vote, once" don't go here. Submission is not in our law, our tradition, our Constitution, or our blood, habibi.
Enough for now, except to repeat the original line: No dhimmis here. Ever.
As far as I'm concerned, Islam is anti-life.
Posted by Jerome at November 2, 2004 03:20 PM | TrackBack