There’s a reason for Islamophobia….

So often, we here in the Westare accused of being Islamophobic, that we just don’t fully understand, that we refuse to be tolerant of other beliefs.

So, tell me, what am I supposed to be tolerant of here.  In their own words as reported by Nonie Darwish:

On October 31, 2008, an Egyptian female lawyer by the name of Nagla Al-Imam suggested on the Arab TV channel “Al-Arabiya” that Arab men should sexually harass Israeli women, stating: “Leave the land so we won’t rape you.” She then argued that Israeli young girls and women are fair game for all Arab men and that there is nothing wrong in using this kind of threat as a form of resistance.

Well, that seems awfully neighborly, doesn’t it?  Full of tolerance for my fellow man, er woman?  Equality for all, respect for difference, a kumbaya moment.

No, it proves that there is evil in the world that will take good men and women to stand up and say "This is true evil, this is true intolerance – not in my house or my country".

Does Ms. Al-Imam know the consequences of her message to sexually repressed young Muslim men? Does she have any human feelings towards the suffering of a woman being raped, even if she is an enemy? Isn’t she worried about the impact of this ‘license to rape’ on the character of young Muslim men and its impact on society as a whole?

Doesn’t her suggestion confirm the existence of Muslim Sharia laws that allow the sexual slavery of captive women in time of war? Doesn’t she know that such statements and action by Muslim men will increase the worldwide fear of Islam?

All of this is not very good for those who want to improve the image of Islam.

True – this is akin to saying one thing to the world and another to the clan.  Again, as with politicians, the Internet is the true leveler.  And now you know one reason why there are those countries that wish to control the Internet instead of the US – this kind of information would be censored in a femtosecond.

Things said and done, even by intellectuals, in the Middle East, personally no longer surprise me anymore. What I always ask myself is: Where are the protests of the so-called ‘moderate’ Muslims? Where are the voices of those who want to ‘educate’ and give ‘sensitivity training’ to the American public about how Islam is a religion of peace? Why are they not shouting “not in the name of my religion”?

Heck, where are the words of those moral mavens of modernity – the feminists?   Where is their outrage?  Where is their fulminations against the patriarchy? 

Oh yeah, I get it…..

I found it amusing to see the moral compass of the Muslim world when I watched an interview with the Egyptian cleric Zaghloul Al Naggar, who said on Iqra TV on September 11, 2008, that Muslims must reform the moral corruption of the West. Or when I listen to Muslim leadership say that we should take the opportunity of the financial crisis in the West to spread Islam. We, Arabs and Muslims, must think of how low we will allow our morality to go for (presumably) land we can hardly see on the map of the Arab world. If that will not wake the West up, I do not know what will.

I get accused all the time of always seeing things in black and white, that I am not sufficiently nuanced and am unwilling to see arguments from all sides.

Right.  So tell me, if I was Jewish, living in Israel, I would have to show my tolerance by letting my wife be raped? Already, I am kurffir – and don’t rate much above the Jews in a Wahabi’s eyes anyways. 

So, black and white, I take them at their word – I believe what they say.

So there is a reason to be scared, right?