Den verkliga skändningen

Jeff Jacoby på Townhall skriver om vad som utgör den verkliga skändningen av islam:

_The Muslim riots should have been met by an international upwelling of outrage and condemnation. From every part of the civilized world should have come denunciations of those who would react to the supposed destruction of a book with brutal threats and the slaughter of 17 innocent people. But the chorus of condemnation was directed not at the killers and the fanatics who incited them, but at Newsweek.
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But what ”Muslims in America and throughout the world” most need to hear is not pandering sweet-talk. What they need is a blunt reminder that the real desecration of Islam is not what some interrogator in Guantanamo might have done to the Koran. It is what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an ”insurgency” in Iraq that slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to ”martyrdom.”

But what disgraces Islam above all is the vast majority of the planet’s Muslims saying nothing and doing nothing about the jihadist cancer eating away at their religion. It is Free Muslims Against Terrorism, a pro-democracy organization, calling on Muslims and Middle Easterners to ”converge on our nation’s capital for a rally against terrorism” this month — and having only 50 people show up.

Yes, Islam is disrespected. That will only change when throngs of passionate Muslims show up for rallies against terrorism, and when rabble-rousers trying to gin up a riot over a defiled Koran can’t get the time of day.

Samtidigt som vi hör muslimer önska att deras tro respekterades fortsätter islaminspirerat våld runtom världen. Ekvationen går inte ihop. Jag vet att alla muslimer inte sympatiserar med våldet. Men allt för få tar avstånd från det och dess inspiratörer. Det duger inte! Om islam verkligen är en ”fredens religion” skulle jag vilja se några konkreta bevis på det. Empirin talar i dagsläget för motsatsen.