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Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Canadian Islamic Congress, CAIR

The West is fooling itself



Following last week’s assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the silence emanating from most western-based Muslim organizations is deafening. Where is the outrage that organizations such as the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) or CAIR-Can should be showing over the killing of Bhutto? In this case they aren’t even bothering with the usual drivel about the assassination being strictly political and having nothing to do with Islam.

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Non-Islamic pundits who comment on much of mainstream Islam’s lack of condemnation of acts like Bhutto’s assassination are quickly labeled “Islamophobes”. It’s an epithet that no longer bothers me, as frankly, a lot of what Islam appears to be about scares the hell out of me. Much of the left-lib intelligentsia goes on about how “scary” fundamentalist Christians are, but in truth, religiously motivated acts of terror are not common among Christian, Jewish, Buddhist or Hindu religious activists, yet seem to happen with a fair degree of regularity among fundamentalist Islam. If they aren’t massacring tourists in Bali, then they’re bombing Spanish or British commuters and if they aren’t killing Westerners, then they’re killing each other as in Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia. Anyone who still takes the proposition that Islam is the religion of peace seriously needs to give his or her head a shake. The fact of the matter is that religious extremism is spreading across the Middle East like a rash. Those “moderate” Muslims that we used to hear so much about are all but gone, while hard line fundamentalists are on the increase. But then, it only makes sense, given that violence seems to bring about the desired results? Why bother with elections when all one needs to do is to kill the candidate one least likes or detonate a car laden with explosives at the local bazaar? The West is largely complicit in allowing terrorism to succeed in our efforts to make sense of it by navel-gazing and wondering why they hate us so much. Osama bin Laden put it most eloquently when on Dec. 31, 2001 he said, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse”. It doesn’t take a degree in physics to figure who the stronger horse is, which is why the Islamofascist movement has grown so strong. If the world’s only hyper power can be hamstrung through guilt, shame and politically correct gobbledygook, then clearly the stronger horse is the one willing to do whatever is necessary to win, particularly if no outrage is heinous enough to draw criticism or condemnation from the rest of the world. Rather than agonize over whether the US should support or not support Pakistani strong man Pervez Musharaf, the West should be focusing on what happened to Benazir Bhutto and, more importantly, why it happened. Bhutto was opposed to radical fundamentalist Islam and the Islamists saw her as a true threat. Radical Islam is today what National Socialism was in the 1930s. So long as we continue to appease the radicals and attempt to lend validity to their point of view, they will behave in the same way the National Socialists behaved. For the West to continue to delude itself about the ultimate goals of the global Islamist movement is to increase the price we will ultimately have to pay to rid ourselves of this scourge.


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Klaus Rohrich -- Bio and Archives

Klaus Rohrich is senior columnist for Canada Free Press. Klaus also writes topical articles for numerous magazines. He has a regular column on RetirementHomes and is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism.  His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, among others.  He lives and works in a small town outside of Toronto.

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