Islamism, Hypocrisy, and Multiculturalism
by Joe Katzman at May 25, 2005 05:31 AM
The original Iraqi blogger, Salam Pax, is traveling in Europe... and disgusted with the local Islamists:
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"What I found interesting is that although he was advocating very strongly for a Muslim government based on Khilafah he wasn't prepared to go live under one. He was just happy sitting in this infidel country sipping on his latte while telling ME that I should rejoice because it is people like him calling for a true Islamic government for me to live under."
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Yes. Typical. The rest is worth reading. So, too, is TI's translation of Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who has been under 24 hour police protection since the murder of Theo Van Gogh due to Islamist murder threats. She turned her back on Islam over its treatment of women, and now she's turning her back on the Left... for the exact same reason:
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"Because the left is exactly like the Muslims! I wanted to give priority to the defense of immigrant women who are victims of domestic violence. They said to me: “No, that’s not a priority! The problem will take care of itself when the immigrants have jobs and are integrated.” It is exactly what the Imams say who demand that we accept oppression and slavery today because tomorrow, in Heaven, God will give us dates and raisins.... I think we need first to defend the individual. The left is afraid of everything. But fear of giving offense leads to injustice and suffering."
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The Left's twisted version of multiculturalism, she says, is a fraud.
Well, yes. That's hardly news. What was especially interesting to me, however, was the symmetry between the people and mindsets Salam Pax is describing among Hizb-ul-Tahrir, and those Ayan Hirsi Ali is describing among the Dutch Left. People who are happy to have HER live as a slave in the Netherlands in the name of THEIR fashionable principles, secure in the smug belief that their own lives will remain untouched.
Can there be a decent Islamism?
Can there be a decent Left?
Maybe. Maybe. We owe it to ourselves to hold open the possibility, at least.
But I wouldn't bet that way.
(Hat Tip: Jinnderella)
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