January 5, 2006

Muslims In Bondage

THE ALWAYS ELOQUENT KIP WATSON @ Truth+Hope has written a moving and counterintuitive essay,Muslims in the West, that I commend to your attention. I hope you find it as thought provoking as I did. The central thesis is that most Muslims who live today in the West are like the Hebrews in Egypt. But that, as they say, is only the start of the story.

An excerpt:

The Muslims of the West have no Moses, but they have a thousand Pharaohs.

Pharaoh is a product of the West, but he is not ruler in the nations of the West. Pharaoh is not Prime Minister Howard or President Bush.

Pharaoh is the one who keeps the slaves in bondage. Pharaoh is the one who whispers to them that their mainstream neighbours are racists who hate them. Pharaoh is the one who seeks to isolate these communities who have never been exposed to freedom of speech, the better to convert them into Left wing vote blocs. Pharaoh is the one who, unasked on their behalf, attacks the Christian traditions of their mainstream neighbours. This serves two purposes — Pharaoh hates Christianity anyway, but it also angers ordinary citizens, and increases paranoia in the Muslim community. Pharaoh is the one who manipulates the welfare system so as to turn a proud and moral people into a dependant class. Pharaoh is a corrupted news media, that long ago gave up reporting facts, and instead seeks to manipulate society, or simply to stir up trouble for its entertainment value....

Pharaoh is Osama Bin Laden. Pharaoh is the One Eyed Sheikh, and thousands of other power hungry local religious and civic bosses, most of whom owe their positions to financial support from criminal dictatorships in the Arab world.

Pharaoh is a product of the West, but not of some mythical greed for oil, or of a non-existent desire to exploit the world’s weak and poor. Pharaoh is the Totalitarian philosophies — Communism, Marxism, Fascism, Socialism and National Socialism — that spread their poison to the Arab world just as they did to every other continent, and that underpin the ideologies of Osama Bin Laden, Hamas and the other terrorists (once you scrape off the thin veneer of Islamic symbolism and Koranic verses) and are secretly supported by the autocrats of the Persian Gulf."

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Posted by Vanderleun at January 5, 2006 9:17 PM | TrackBack
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Gerard-- Thank you for posting a link to this essay. I'm not sure I can agree with everything the author says-- I'm a historian as well as a practicing Christian and have read enough of the Koran to be genuinely concerned about the ways in which it's been interpreted-- but I too needed a spiritual nudge. The identification of Pharaoh is certainly food for thought. I find myself praying that God will give us all the wisdom and courage we so badly need these days before it is too late.

Posted by: Connecticut Yankee at January 6, 2006 12:17 AM

Thanks for the link! But thanks especially for the great comments. That means a lot coming from a fine writer like you.

(I know my writing is a bit rambling and sometimes preachy -- I always assumed it would be easy, what a shock to discover how hard it is to get something to come out right!)

I really do think the poor Muslims generally are being played for fools by the Left (and their own leaders), to their detriment and ours. And it's up to conservatives, as the only grown ups in the room, to see things more clearly. President Bush understood straight away, of course, being a smart and insightful man.

As regards Muslims here in the West, there's a moral principle involved as well. Whether any of us supported the policy of inviting particular groups to enter, they were invited by our nations' representatives and they came in good faith, so it's both inaccurate and immoral to treat them as invaders.

Which is not meant to sound preachy. I say this as someone who was painfully consumed by anti-Muslim hatred for a long time after Sept 11. It was the long suffering and noble Iraqis who changed my mind. The terrorists blow them up, even their children, and they just turn the other cheek and continue working for peaceful future. As a Christian I'm humbled and moved by it.

Posted by: Kip Watson at January 6, 2006 6:11 AM
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