Islam: The angry beggar at the feast?

The Hungry Muslim?

A great posting on Sultan Knish's blog raises some interesting points about Islam’s place in the 21st Century. The post asserts that on a scale of civilizations, Islam is – for lack of a better phrase – the “beggar at the feast,” harping at a modern world that has birthed an incredible wealth of technologies and products, economic prosperity, human rights and freedoms. Knowledge and communication have been expanded as never before and mankind has gone from the depths of the ocean to set foot on the surface of the moon – and within a decade Mars – all while Islam rails impotently against it and dreams of a bloody turning back of the clock back to the 7th century.

Read on for a summary of this intriguing post:

• Liberal dogma has it that this 'feast' excludes developing nations and takes place at their expense, but it does not. Israel and Singapore are radically different countries but they are examples of how even small countries can harness technological and commercial energies to become players in the global arena.
• When the 21st century dawned, the Arab Muslim world's response to it in 2001 was the most brutal terrorist attack on a major civilian target in history.
• The new Islamic identity celebrates the inadequacies of the Muslim world as virtues. Muslim men can't look at women dressed normally without wanting to rape them. This their Imams transform into a virtue and a reflection of the "immoral women."
• Muslims can't get along with Non-Muslims – this the Imams claims is proof that Muslims are oppressed.
• Muslims display intolerance for the everyday practices of the people they live among, including their wine and their pork products. Their Imams claim this represents a western lack of respect for Muslims rather than the other way around.
• Arab Muslim tyrannies can't participate in the 21st century, and rather than changing their countries, they funnel their pathological dissatisfaction into terrorism against America.
• Islam has made such a natural ally for the left because both ideologies reject the idea of progress as immoral.
• The left has chosen to embrace global warming's call for "Back to the Caves." The Arab Muslim world is already living there.
• The endless Western aid that pours into the Muslim world represents welfare.
• Islam has chosen to be the beggar of the new millennium and engaged in an orgy of violence to overturn civilization and become its master, building a caliphate of ignorance on the ruins of the civilized world.

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Islam: The Angry Beggar at the Feast
By Sultan Knish

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Our Take

Sultan Knish raises some very important questions about Islam’s role in the modern world? It is one thing to gripe about getting the short end of the stick, but quite another when you want to kill those who have succeeded with the stick itself, and who offer you free use of the stick to benefit yourself. We should heed the advice of this blogger, before it’s too late – before the beggar comes back with a belt of dynamite strapped around his waist.