In the endless commentary about the Cartoon Jihad there is the endless equivocation that the writer does not apply his criticisms to all muslims. Only the violently fanatic ones. On the radio I heard Sean Hannity giving the standard line about how extremists have hijacked a nobel peaceful religion. Some have even gone so far as to try to a estimate of the size of the radical muslim population based on reported numbers at the Cartoon Protests. They put the high end of their number at around 0.1% of the more than 1 billion estimated Muslims in the world population.

I will grant all the equivocations, the hijacking of a nobel, peaceful religion and I will accept the estimates for how small a percentage of the Muslim population of the world is what we would call radical.

But even with all of that, I do not hold the rest of the Muslim population blameless. Because what I want to know, is where the hell are the other 99.9%. Where are the millions and millions of peaceful Muslims standing up to the terrorists and murders and saying "Not. In. My. Name?" Where are the peaceful Imams calling out there brethren for preaching hate and inciting violence?

If .1% of their population has hijacked their peaceful, nobel religion and perverted it with hatred and a lust for power and domination, why do they do nothing to stop it? Were talking about a billion people vs a few hundred thousands.

And yet aside from an anonymous apology that may not even be genuine, they are silent.

Time and time again the terrorists have acted in the name of Islam. And every time the vast peaceful, nobel majority did and said nothing. By their silence and their inactivity they paint themselves with the broad brush of radical Islam. It is as though a billion voices were calling for death to those who insult Islam. It is as though a billion hands were flicking the BIC that set the Danish Embassy ablaze.

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Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 01:42 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment