So Easy, a Muslim Could Do It!
By Erik Rush (03/12/07)
For those of you who have the luxury or prudence to have sworn off television, you're probably not familiar with the Geico automobile insurance company's ad campaign that carries the slogan "So Easy, a Caveman Could Do It!" The only problem is that within this scenario, unbeknownst to Geico, there are still cavemen among us! The theme of the campaign is the proto-human culture's indignation at these advertisements and what seems to be a sort of jab at notions of Political Correctness. It's kind of cute.
I recently read one of the best and most insightful columns I’ve ever seen. “How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam: Is it racist to condemn fanaticism?” by Dr. Phyllis Chesler originally appeared in The Times of London on March 7, 2007. Dr. Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York and carries too many other credentials to mention.
In her column, Chesler describes your basic story of an American woman who was swept off her feet by a Muslim man (in her case, a “charming, seductive and Westernized Afghan Muslim whom I met at an American college”), then goes “home” to his country where hell ensues.
Except this story is told by someone who is intelligent, resilient, and a good writer to boot. If every American were to read “How my eyes were opened” I honestly believe that all but perhaps half a dozen Marxist holdouts would be all for leveling Teheran and Damascus tomorrow, at the very least. I am not exaggerating.
“I saw how polygamous, arranged marriages and child brides led to chronic female suffering and to rivalry between co-wives and half-brothers; how the subordination and sequestration of women led to a profound estrangement between the sexes — one that led to wife-beating, marital rape and to a rampant but hotly denied male “prison”-like homosexuality and pederasty; how frustrated, neglected and uneducated women tormented their daughter-in-laws and female servants; how women were not allowed to pray in mosques or visit male doctors (their husbands described the symptoms in their absence).”
From “How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam: Is it racist to condemn fanaticism?” by Dr. Phyllis Chesler
Chesler also points out that Afghanistan was never colonized, something of which Afghans are quite proud. It does, however, explode the Left’s nauseatingly tired, vapid, decades-old assertion that Third World cultures’ less positive attributes are the fault of Western imperialism and colonialism.
Despite firsthand experience living in the world radical Islam has sworn to impose upon us, destroy us, or themselves be destroyed in the attempt, Dr. Chesler has been excoriated as a reactionary and racist “Islamophobe” by Western elites whom I think ought to be granted a government-sponsored weekend in Teheran or Damascus (either one will do) shortly before the ICBMs fly.
Yes – I said ICBMs
I know that Muslims living in America – both radical and not-so-radical – will be offended by this writing, as will the spungiform liberal elites. But I’ve come to the conclusion, as Dr. Chesler said in a recent radio interview, that the “peaceful” Muslims among us are merely being “good Germans” – a reference to those Germans who didn’t approve of the machinations of the Third Reich, but did nothing to ameliorate its effects, reaped the benefits of its accomplishments, then threw up their hands, wide-eyed when it was all over. Millions were dead, but Germany was finally beaten: “What could we have done?” they whined. I personally find the willingness of Muslims in the U.S. to reap America’s benefits while this goes on connotes a putrescent, hypocritical cowardice, though perhaps not quite as odious as that of the suicide bomber or the cave-dwelling beard in a dress.
When the Iranian paratroopers rain down upon our cities – which I don’t believe will actually happen, it’s just a metaphor for when the proverbial fan gets hit – we can reasonably expect anything from apathy to complicity from the “peaceful” Muslims now living in our land.
I maintain that our military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq were merited. But establishing democracy in Iraq? I don’t know. I do know that the development of Western democracies were a natural outgrowth of Classical and Judeo-Christian thought, and that retrograde nations such as those in the Middle East appear to be perfectly comfortable living with tribal warfare or tyrants. This becomes more apparent every week. The only exception I see are people from predominantly Islamic nations who have been thoroughly Westernized, were not Muslims to start with, or abandoned Islam as a backward cult of death.
“Now is the time for Western intellectuals who claim to be antiracists and committed to human rights to stand with these dissidents. To do so requires that we adopt a universal standard of human rights and abandon our loyalty to multicultural relativism, which justifies, even romanticises, indigenous Islamist barbarism, totalitarian terrorism and the persecution of women, religious minorities, homosexuals and intellectuals. Our abject refusal to judge between civilisation and barbarism, and between enlightened rationalism and theocratic fundamentalism, endangers and condemns the victims of Islamic tyranny.”
- Dr. Phyllis Chesler
“Islam”, translated means “submission.” Although submission to the Will of God is a common doctrine even in Judeo-Christian thought, in the modern world it is not implemented by force, nor does it involve human mutilation, flaying, immolation, rape or random murder. Islam is a barbaric religion and fosters a culture of barbarianism, bereft of notions of liberty or the value of life. This isn’t a racist statement, it’s a discernment based on their philosophical paradigm, their actions, and the words of a minority of former Muslims.
These charges against Islam, which Progressive elites would call racist calumnies, are as plain as the nose on one’s face, however; denying them is delusion in the clinical sense. The freedoms we take for granted, the cultural model we embrace, and the way of life we in America we practice truly aren’t “so easy a Muslim could do it.”
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