Will The Real Islam Please Stand Up?
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 23, 2002
MY RECENT COLUMN, Why Islam Can’t Join the Modern World, triggered quite a large volume of angry protests from Muslims in FrontPage’s Go Postal forum and in my e-mail inbox.
" The typical Muslim tells me that I am wrong about Islam because it does allow free will. So then I inquire whether, in the real Islam, a woman will have the free choice to drink alcohol, go dirty dancing at a bar, pick up a guy and take him home. This always crystallizes the issue quite quickly. The Muslim usually gets very upset and responds, with much anger, about how this behavior is very wrong, how decadent the West is, and how Islam simply does not allow such immorality. He then articulates his moral indignation about my opposition to "eliminating" moral depravity.
Right, and my point exactly.
Whenever someone starts talking about "eliminating" the universal tragedies, ills, and evils in our human condition, and begins to imply that the "solutions" to them lie in state governments or religious theocracies, I get shivers of dread up my spine. Because that’s when I know that pure and unadulterated evil is itching to take on living form. "
" All of these realities make it clear why, in their efforts to root out "sin," and to control male-female sex by putting women out of sight and out of touch, Islamic societies engender a much darker demon. For example, while Islam might greatly reduce the number of unwanted teenage pregnancies, its demonization and seclusion of women not only inflicts mass terror, but has also given birth to a widespread phenomenon of the sexual abuse of young boys by adult males. This reality is perfectly reflected in Afghanistan, where the Taliban’s extreme restrictions on male-female relations have yielded a widespread prevalence of the sexual exploitation and abuse of young boys. "
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