Terror has a religion and its name is Islam
HOW much more carnage must be endured before the wilfully blind among us accept the indisputable fact that terror has a religion and its name is radical Islam.The bodies of the victims of Islamic State’s latest atrocity, this time in Brussels, were barely cold before the apologists and deniers started preaching the now familiar mantra that Islamist terror has nothing to do with Islam.
It’s precisely the kind of cowardice that aids and abets the extremists who seek to destroy us.Belgium serves as the perfect example of what happens when leaders are so preoccupied with respecting cultural sensitivities that they refuse to acknowledge harsh realities that require an urgent response.
In Belgium repeated warnings went unheeded by spineless leaders who refused to act, preferring to adopt an ever more permissive attitude to rogue elements of the Muslim population who not only refused to assimilate but were openly hostile to Western values and laws.The country that’s spawned the greatest number of western Islamic State fighters per capita also happens to be one where progressive, politically correct policies have been implemented, to devastating effect. And yet those same failed policies continue to be championed in Australia by those far more terrified of imagined Islamophobia than real terror.In a display of ignorance and denial masquerading as independent journalism today’s print edition of The
Age did not even mention the world Islam or Muslim.
It’s this type of self-censorship from left-wing media that perpetuates the problem; the cultural elite continue to conceal or twist the truth in furtherance of their confused agenda.
Until the west is mature enough to have an honest discussion about Islam — in particular the
indisputable fact that there are threads within the religion that lead to terrorism like that seen in Brussels — innocents will continue to die in airport lounges, train stations, concert halls, and cafes, indeed anywhere that is seen as a soft target.
The problems with Islam run far deeper than the tiny extremist minority who commit violent acts.
Those within the Muslim community who hold sympathetic attitudes to jihadists and those who demonise the “decadent” West and abhor our values of equality and freedom must also be challenged.
Clive Kessler, emeritus professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of NSW
has been studying the sources of militant Islam for over 50 years and believes that a core problem is that “the mainstream is not distinctively different in its basic attitudes from the radicals.”
“Increasingly, the militants and the mainstream share a common mindset and sets of attitudes,” wrote Prof Kessler.
“That will remain the case … so long as the Islamic mainstream remains unreformed and untransformed in its basic presuppositions; so long as it remains an outsider to modernity.”
That doesn’t mean that the mainstream would ever commit an act of violence but it helps explain the often tolerant attitudes to the extremist elements in their midst.
It’s telling that terror suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was concealed and protected in Brussels for months after the Paris attacks that killed 130 people.There were riots in Molenbeek after Abdeslam’s March 18 arrest and there has been widespread speculation that the latest attacks were in retaliation for his capture. Or perhaps the terror network bought forward their plans concerned that he would talk and thwart their efforts to cause maximum death and destruction
The truth is the latest incidents in Brussels were hardly a surprise; this tiny, beautiful land has descended into
Europe’s jihadi central.A 2002 report by a Belgian parliamentary committee found that the country had become an ideal “launch pad for terrorist attacks” across Europe and that radical elements were already operating their own “Islamic police” force.But instead of addressing the growing hostility and xenophobia exhibited by some elements of the Muslim population, the Belgians went to ever greater lengths to placate the troublemakers.
Whistle blowers who sought to highlight the issue, particularly in places such as Molenbeek, were demonised as racists and Islamophobes and duly dismissed.Sound familiar?
In Australia we have apologists
(Greggy & Co) who continue to infantilise the Muslim population, treating them as marginalised victims and holding them to a different standard to the rest of the population.
We have been lucky that our counter terror authorities have successfully foiled multiple attacks but we cannot afford to grow complacent or believe that distance gives us cover.
The three ‘lone wolf’ terror attacks, committed by Numan Haider, Man Haron Monis and Farhad Jabar, prove that a single radicalised jihadi can cause significant damage.
The battle against radical Islam is the greatest challenge of our times. It’s a force that won’t be defeated by feel-good hashtags or candlelit vigils.
We must stop the delusion, appeasement and moral relativism that the Islamists prey upon. You can’t tackle Islamist terror if you deny its existence and growing influence.
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