By Stan Goodenough
Jul 01, 2007
In most analysts’ minds, Muslims are the number one suspect behind the attempted double car bombing in London Friday and the attack on Glasgow Airport Saturday.
Official links have already been made with Muslim groups, with new Prime Minister Gordon Brown actually saying the attackers were “associated with al-Qaeda.”
But instead of calling on Islamic leaders to publicly condemn and distance themselves from these attempts to murder hundreds of British men, women and children, thereby putting the onus on them to respond and prove they are in the “moderate majority,” people infected with the disease of liberalism leaped Sunday to defend the religion.
Brown patronized Britain’s Muslims by describing terrorism in the name of Allah as “a perversion of their religion.”
By so doing, he firmly aligned himself on the question of Islam with world leaders like US President George W. Bush who are willing to play the political harlot by repeatedly insisting that it is “a peaceful religion.”
From its inception in the seventh century Islam has been a religion of great violence, terrorism and war. Its very resurrection as a religion to be reckoned with after lying mostly dormant for hundreds of years is to a great extent attributable to it feeding on a steady diet of human blood and fear.
Like their colleagues around the world, and often apparently more so, the vast majority of English reporters have contributed to the successful resurgence of Islam by following the politically correct course that, again, insists it is a religion of peace.
Thus did Sky News Sunday bring a Muslim spokesman to the scene of the Glasgow Airport attack Sunday, stand him up in front of their cameras and allow him to postulate about how it’s only a fraction of Muslims who carry out attacks and “99.9 percent” of Muslims have then to pay the price.
President Bush took a similar tack after 9-11, clearly concerned to safeguard Muslim Americans against a non-Muslim backlash.
Critics wonder why western leaders frequently choose to adopt this approach when dealing with Islamic terrorism, instead of putting the onus on the Muslim community that claims it is “proud” to be American/British/Spanish to root out and consistently denounce the actions of the “few fundamentalists” in their midst.