Islamic excuses
Amir Taheri:
". . .By blaming others, Mahathir and his predecessors in this game absolve Muslim leaders of responsibility. They also divest Muslims of their humanity, turning them into witless pawns in a game played by others.
"With his speech, Mahathir did great harm to the cause of those who believe that, as an existential reality, Islam needs to be subjected to serious critical reexamination.
"Mahathir's 'us-and-them' dialectics belongs to a tribal mentality that has no place in the modern world. He forgets that the Iran-Iraq war, in which a million people died, was not an 'us-and-them' conflict. Nor was it 'the other' who tried to wipe Kuwait off the map in 1990.
"Are Jews raiding Algerian villages at night to massacre entire families, including babies?
"Are Jews murdering thousands of Muslim women each year in the name of 'honor-killing'?
"Are Jews throwing acid at girls who do not wear the hijab?
"Is it 'the other' who has arranged for Muslim countries to have almost half of all political prisoners in the world?
"And who is carrying out those thousands of executions, sometimes by chopping people's heads in public or stoning them to death?
"Are Jews preventing Muslims from choosing their governments in free elections? Are they arranging those elections in which government candidates always win with 99.99 percent of the votes?
"Are Jews controlling the economies of the Muslim nations - or should we look to our own ruling elites, whose greed knows no bound? People often talk of the need for the separation of mosque and state in Muslim countries. A more urgent need is the separation of business from government.
"Mahathir says Jews have persuaded others to fight and die for them. Who does he mean by 'others'? If he means the West, let us not forget that Americans and Europeans fought and died to save the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Kosovo from extermination. Not a single Muslim state provided any help.
Yet who was getting a hero's welcome at the Muslim summit? The Russian President Vladimir Putin, who publicly takes pride in having flushed Chechen Muslims 'down the toilet.'"
Amir Taheri:
". . .By blaming others, Mahathir and his predecessors in this game absolve Muslim leaders of responsibility. They also divest Muslims of their humanity, turning them into witless pawns in a game played by others.
"With his speech, Mahathir did great harm to the cause of those who believe that, as an existential reality, Islam needs to be subjected to serious critical reexamination.
"Mahathir's 'us-and-them' dialectics belongs to a tribal mentality that has no place in the modern world. He forgets that the Iran-Iraq war, in which a million people died, was not an 'us-and-them' conflict. Nor was it 'the other' who tried to wipe Kuwait off the map in 1990.
"Are Jews raiding Algerian villages at night to massacre entire families, including babies?
"Are Jews murdering thousands of Muslim women each year in the name of 'honor-killing'?
"Are Jews throwing acid at girls who do not wear the hijab?
"Is it 'the other' who has arranged for Muslim countries to have almost half of all political prisoners in the world?
"And who is carrying out those thousands of executions, sometimes by chopping people's heads in public or stoning them to death?
"Are Jews preventing Muslims from choosing their governments in free elections? Are they arranging those elections in which government candidates always win with 99.99 percent of the votes?
"Are Jews controlling the economies of the Muslim nations - or should we look to our own ruling elites, whose greed knows no bound? People often talk of the need for the separation of mosque and state in Muslim countries. A more urgent need is the separation of business from government.
"Mahathir says Jews have persuaded others to fight and die for them. Who does he mean by 'others'? If he means the West, let us not forget that Americans and Europeans fought and died to save the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Kosovo from extermination. Not a single Muslim state provided any help.
Yet who was getting a hero's welcome at the Muslim summit? The Russian President Vladimir Putin, who publicly takes pride in having flushed Chechen Muslims 'down the toilet.'"
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