The Discerning Texan

First it was the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. Now it is the Germans who are tasting the results of years and years of “anything goes” morality combined with an explosion of Muslim immigrants.

Now pardon me while I ask a rhetorical question here: I happen know a couple of Muslim guys, and outwardly they are as kind and gentle as anyone I know… wonderful people, at least externally... So just how is it that no matter where on the globe you look, Muslims are blowing up innocents, murdering virtually anyone that they disagree with, and otherwise having extreme difficulty getting along with any of their non-Muslim neighbors? Just what is up with that?

Close your eyes and put your finger on a globe: Southeast Asia? Mass murder at tourist resorts. Jerusalem? Blowing up cafes and killing women and children. Lebanon? Blowing up a city block to rid the world of a freedom-loving politician. Egypt? Killing the greatest leader they have had in decades. Openly murdering hundreds of schoolchildren in Chechnya, shooting up a theater in Moscow....the the list goes on: Bali, the Phillipines, Kashmir, Bosnia, Pakistan, Thailand, Afghanistan, Madrid, Albania, Iraq, Italy, Amsterdam, Saudi Arabia. Am I alone in sensing a bit of a disturbing pattern here?

All prejudice aside, is there something fundamentally violent and bloodthirsty about Islam—something that compels otherwise good people to murder, slaughter and project hate wherever they gather in large groups? And if your answer to this question is “no”, how then do you explain all of this murder and violence, virtually anywhere where there is a large concentration of Muslims…and a concentration of people who aren’t. Hell Muslims are even busy blowing up other Muslims. Sunni? Shiia? It doesn’t seem to matter. Blood seems to be the universal sacrament of Islam.

Now let me say up front that I think it is usually wrong for people to paint “groups” with a broad brush, and to thus condemn otherwise innocent people just because of their religious beliefs. This is not something that ought to be encouraged in a civilized world. And there is not a racist bone in my body, truly, nor am I a religious zealot myself. But I am having more and more difficulty understanding just why it is that Muslims seem to have so much of a problem getting along with their fellow men worldwide. I’m a pretty peaceful guy, but I can certainly see a bit of a pattern here. So what do you think the people out there are thinking who do have hearts filled with prejudice, hate and/or racism? I shudder to think: because one of these days one of those bigots is going to talk a lot of otherwise peaceful fellow citizens into becoming a mob and drawing blood from our Muslim friends. And that is a really ugly thought, but it just cannot keep going the way it has been forever.

Think about it: what if they hit one of our cities and kill hundreds of thousands? Could we stop ourselves as a society from lashing out in return—from demanding blood and lots of it? And if a charismatic person were to arise that found a way to galvanize that mass anger? What then?

I do not think we as a society are beyond going to lengths in certain circumstances that might make Hitler look like a humanitarian. It could happen. It already has: remember Bosnia? Remember the systematic extermination of thousands of Muslim men women and children? And remember how horrified everyone was? How could the Serbs do such a thing? But strangely enough, the Euros did nothing to stop the problem themselves...let's let the Americans clean up the mess...right? Well I wonder…if the Serbian crisis happened again today, would America be so fast to send in its own sons and daughters to stop the killing? Or would a lot of Americans now choose instead to look the other way, and to rationalize it by truthfully pointing out how frequently Muslims are murdering their fellow human beings all over the planet? Isn't it time that whatever rational voices are left in the Muslim world start to take such things into consideration before things really get ugly? Isn't it about time that a moderate Muslim leader shows his fellow pilgrims the way to be world citizens and to live with others?

I am afraid: I am afraid for innocents who happen to be in the way of Islamist barbarians today. And I fear also for the innocent peaceful Muslims—for they are the ones who could face a terrible retribution should the wrong chain reaction of events occur. I fear that the only ones that can prevent this kind of tragedy are the Muslims themselves: somewhere sanity has to take over, or we are all in for a rough ride. A leader has to be found in the Islamic community that can rally his fellow peace-loving Muslims away from supporting and sanctioning killing of innocents and towards civilized behavior. It is time for the Islamic world to join the civilized world. I just pray that it happens soon… because from where I sit the loonies are in charge of the asylum. And we are all bound to pay for it one way or another.