The Demon West [Victor Davis Hanson]
One of the most frustrating aspects of this entire war has been the demonization of the West, both here in and in Europe, by ingrate radical Muslims who are intent are migrating to and staying amid the culture they profess to hate, sensing rightly the Western sense of guilt and self-loathing that apparently prevents us from asking these insurrectionists to leave. Read the following, written not by some furious Westerner-but by Al-Arabiyya TV Director-General Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed:
"What makes fundamentalist extremists, who incite against the West and its culture, the first to run into its arms, and to fight [for the right] to stay there? Do they suffer from a split personality, with one [personality] endorsing an ideology of hate, and the other wanting to enjoy the principles [that form the basis] of life in the West? We have never heard of [these extremists] wanting to immigrate to Somalia or Pakistan, or [wanting to return] to their countries of origin. [This], despite all their sermons and writings about religious duty and love of the homeland, [and despite the fact that] they characterize others as 'infidels,' to the extent that some [extremists] even call to fight [these infidels]."
And then Al-Rashed ends with a damning indictment:
"It is some of the extremist hate-mongers living in the West who are inciting the Muslims in the East against Western countries... - those [same] countries that have hosted them, given them protection and shelter, and in many cases also financed the education of their children, including their Islamic and Arabic language studies. It is also revolting to see writers denouncing the actions of [Western] governments that wish to get rid of the extremists by sending them back to their Islamic countries."
"Instead of demanding that the Arab [countries] mend their legal and security deficiencies, they ask the [Western] countries that have thrown out these extremists to spare them and to tolerate the ideological damage that they inflict upon their societies."
Amen to all that...
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