The real Islam.

Thinking of Muslim realities in the West in the context of our opulence, overall rationality, and political control over Muslims is as useful as sending a squad of commandos to organize a baby shower. Think "exercise in futility."

Boys will be boys.

We see too much through the lens of our own culture, which is sane, responsive, accommodating, and ruled for the most part by laws that are sorta kinda rational and of our own choosing. We don't lash guys for stealing a kiss from a girl in public. We don't stone adulterers or hang homosexuals. And we don't force school girls back into burning buildings for dress code violations.

To escape this built in bias, it’s useful to rise for a moment about the pointless debates over (a) what moderate Muslims in Sheboygan are like and (b) how the First Amendment is vindicated by pandering to aliens whose “religion . . . aims to impose a system of laws that will end freedom of religion and freedom of speech.”^[1]

Let us, therefore, consider what Islam is like in the Shangri-La of the Sahara:

Racism was an integral part of Saudi society. My students often used the word “nigger” to describe black people. Even dark-skinned Arabs were considered inferior to their lighter-skinned cousins. I was living in the world’s most avowedly Muslim country, yet I found it anything but. . . .

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In supermarkets I only had to be away from Faye [my wife] for five minutes and Saudi men would hiss or whisper obscenities as they walked past. . . .

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We had heard stories of the abduction of women from taxis by sex-deprived Saudi youths. At a Saudi friend’s wedding at a luxurious hotel in Jeddah, women dared not step out of their hotel rooms and walk to the banqueting hall for fear of abduction by the bodyguards of a Saudi prince who also happened to be staying there.^[2]

Now that is 180-proof Islam. Stark. As practiced. Unfiltered.

What you see in Saudi Arabia is what you get when Muslims have absolute political power, unlimited funds, and

Not Halloween.

the daily opportunity to drink deeply from the fountain of the Holy Koran {Obama voice, short "o," trilled "r, emphasis first syllable"}. The blather about how Islam will work just fine in the West and how Islam is a fine religion worthy of respect from all civilized people can be seen for the vaporous BS that it is when you keep your eye firmly on how Muslims run things when no infidels are in the way.

A very insightful teacher once taught that “People usually are the way they usually are.” There's a whole lot of wisdom and common sense guidance in there and the concept is a great aid in avoiding self deception when desire or fear or laziness make us want to not see what's staring us in the face.

Applying the lesson, we see that there is no Western hybrid Muslim learned in the ways of the shariah but enthralled with ballroom dancing and questioning the old, stale verities. There is no moderate Muslim, and there is no assimilated Muslim. There are only Muslims, former Muslims, and dead Muslims for our purposes -- any purposes really -- and any compromise with Muslims is just another step in the direction of Saudi realities (on which the above has barely scraped the surface).

They expect us to compromise with them but Muslims intend to compromise with us the same way they plan on joining the Knights of Columbus.

Not any time soon.

In the immortal words of the Abu Musab al Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist and Osama Bin Laden’s chief lieutenant in Iraq: "We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it."^[3]

Just how do you compromise with that? Answer: you don’t even try. There can be no compromise with this alien political doctrine.

None.

Even this little effort of mine to lift up the corner of the curtain on the real Islam is beyond inadequate. At least it's something. Weeks can pass on network news programs without mention of the tenets of this virulent enemy doctrine. Strike that. They never mention stuff like this. I have never heard the persecution of Christians in Muslim lands or death for apostasy from Islam discussed in the liberal legacy media. Oh, wait. Ramadan. Ramadan. Ramadan. Ramadan. And more Ramadan.

Rama lama ding dong. That you hear about. Yes, you do.

Now that death for apostasy deal. That's got a couple, three things about it that almost implicate the First Amendment, right? You'd think CAIR, every wahhabi imam financed by the Saudis here in the U.S. (a lot), and every moderate Muslim who was absolutely stone faced on the morning of 9/11 would be putting messages 24/7 on Jimmy Dean sausage wrappers how this abysmal medieval practice is so like history. But you'd be wrong. No. Americans have to bend our First Amendment around this rotting corpse of a religion like The Terminator wrapped that tire iron around the noggin of a robotic hound of Hell sent back from the 23rd century. This is all that our political class knows to do.

Americans will not face the truth. Not yet, they won’t.

Notes
^[1] "Sharia in a First Amendment Society." By William Kilpatrick, Right Side News, 8/1/10.
^[2] "How a British jihadi saw the light." By Ed Husain, Sunday Times, 4/21/07.
^[3] "Al-Qaeda Versus Democracy." James S. Robbins, The Journal of International Security Affairs, Fall 2005.