CNSNews, March 10, 2003
Islam's Unholy War
By Alan Caruba
CNSNews.com Commentary from the National Anxiety Center
I used to think there was substance to the notion that the attacks on Israel were due
to the "desperation" of the so-called Palestinians. I have long since abandoned that
theory.
The most recent murder-suicide attack on Haifa simply demonstrates the refusal of
the Islamic Jihadists to accept peace on any terms. It betrays the irrational hatred of
Jews in particular and of all other faiths in general.
There is an inherent, distinctly American resistance to understanding that the war
being fought by "terrorists" is a war by fundamentalist Muslims against Christianity,
Judaism, as well as Hinduism and Buddhism. Islam, from its establishment by
Mohammed was and is a "political" religion determined to rule the world.
The killing of infidels, i.e., anyone who is not Muslim, is acceptable in the eyes of
those who adhere to the strict interpretation of Wahabbism, the Saudi version of Islam
on which it has lavished billions of dollars to advance worldwide. It is why the Saudis
continue to fund terrorism and why fifteen out of the nineteen Islamists who flew
commercial jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were Saudis.
There are many examples of this relentless enmity to all other faiths. It can most
vividly been seen in the fate of Egypt's fifteen million Copts, Arab Christians whose
history dates back to the earliest years of Christianity.
A visit to copt.net or freeegypt.com is an education in the way, in just this one Muslim
nation Christians are oppressed and killed. An estimated 1.5 million Copts have been
forced to flee their homes as the result of the continued assaults. The sites also carry
news of comparable intolerance and violence in many other Muslim nations that
include the Sudan, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Indonesia, to name just three.
A friend of mine, a Copt, tells a familiar story of oppression that ultimately forced him
to flee Egypt. In Muslim nations, Christians literally live at the whim of Muslim rulers.
Copts are routinely killed or jailed in Egypt. The headlines tell the story elsewhere.
Last year, in September, gunmen killed seven people at a Christian charity in Karachi,
Pakistan. In May, twelve Christians were killed in a pre-dawn attack in Ambon,
Indonesia. Contestants in the Miss World contest in Nigeria were forced to flee for
their lives as Muslim riots resulted in the killing of hundreds of Christians.
This is the fate that awaits all nations if they fall victim to the insanity of the Islamic
Jihad that is loose in the world today.
The history of Islam is a history of war and aggression against all "non-believers." It is
a history of Islam's initial, swift spread throughout the Middle East and Africa in the
century following the death of Muhammad in 632 AD. It is the history of its failed effort
to conquer Europe and India. The freedoms that Europeans and Americans fought to
establish over the centuries do not exist in any Muslim nation with the exception of
Turkey and, even there, it is tenuous.
Under the rule of the Taliban, ancient, priceless statues of Buddha were deliberately
destroyed in Afghanistan. Freedom had ceased to exist in that nation until the United
States liberated its people.
However, little is reported regarding Israel's and the Middle East's vanishing Arab
Christians. In his book, The Body and the Blood , Charles M. Sennott documents the
relentless war on Christian Arabs. Christianity flourished in the Holy Land after
Constantine made it the official religion of the Roman Empire in the early fourth
century. In recent times, the Muslim contempt for Christianity was vividly seen when
Palestinian terrorists seized the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, trashing it, and
holding out until freed to leave Israel in a deal to spare the church.
To this day, Muslims claim Jerusalem as the third of their holy cities after Mecca and
Medina. They claim that Mohammed rose to heaven from the Dome of the Rock, a
site held sacred by Jews, even though Mohammed never physically left Arabia.
Jerusalem, where the Jews built their ancient temple and where Jesus was crucified,
was desecrated by Muslims when they were in control. Only the bravery and sacrifice
of the Israelis has prevented further desecration.
For Islam, the world today has become one great slaughterhouse in which no
Christian, no Jew, no Hindu, no Buddhist, and no one worshiping any other faith has
the right to life. Even Muslims who value peace and tolerance live in fear for their lives.
We are not fighting "terrorists." We are fighting the Islamic Jihad. We are fighting for
the right of Christians, Jews and all other faiths to worship freely.
(Alan Caruba writes "Warning Signs," a weekly column posted at the Internet site of
The National Anxiety Center.)
Copyright 2003, Alan Caruba
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