The truth about radical Islam

This story would never have been printed six months ago.

Friday, June 10, 2005 (The Mississippi Press)

To the editor:

Some commentators want to show how tolerant and forward-looking they are by describing religious America as "churches, synagogues and mosques."
A true equal-opportunity list would also have included (Buddhist) temples, (Shinto) shrines and (witches') covens to the list. Mosques were added in deference to lobbies like CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) which spends lots of money to make Islam look like it belongs in America.

It doesn't, of course, unless you confuse the public image with its true nature, as some of these commentators have done. Islam is militantly intolerant toward other religions and hostile to the secular state.

Thankfully, it never was part of the American scene.

Nor is it now. It represents a foreign invasion (they call it "immigration") of fanatics who would be happy to witness the subversion or destruction of this country and who are supportive of the terrorists who kill people and break things to achieve that goal.

The great irony is that we send our troops into harm's way to meet this threat in Iraq and elsewhere. But we ignorantly protect and nurture it at home in the name of religious freedom and multiculturalism.

In February, we found out that former NBA star Hakeem Olajuwon has been funneling money to Muslim terrorists. In April, Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar was convicted of murdering U.S. soldiers in Iraq to protect fellow Muslims. Recently, former college professor Sami Al-Arian went on trial for commanding a terrorist cell in Tampa.

Negative news about Muslims in this country is filtered through well-funded and aggressive Muslim defense organizations and the multicultural media. Still, we get enough evidence to question whether Islam is really "a religion of peace," as it claims, or a "clear and present danger," as it seems.

Zip Ribar

Long Beach

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