"One should doubtless keep an open mind...though open at both ends, like the food pipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." -- Northrop Frye, 'The Great Code'
The number of truly moderate Muslims speaking out can be counted on one hand. The openly radical ones are too numerous to count. So it's hard to conclude that the silent majority are anything but dominantly radical.
In a story by Kevin Libin today covering Ayan Hirsi Ali: "If western, democratic countries such as Canada intend to stay the way they are, Ms. Hirsi Ali says, they must be less generous when it comes to indulging their multicultural guilt. It is misplaced anyway: Canadians and Americans owe ..., she says, no special privilege to Pakistani or Algerian immigrants that should tempt us to indulge any potentially illiberal cultural demands."
It's one of those things that brings to mind the Vietnam era expression: Kill'em all, Let God sort'em out.
ReplyDeleteThe number of truly moderate Muslims speaking out can be counted on one hand. The openly radical ones are too numerous to count. So it's hard to conclude that the silent majority are anything but dominantly radical.
ReplyDeleteIn a story by Kevin Libin today covering Ayan Hirsi Ali:
"If western, democratic countries such as Canada intend to stay the way they are, Ms. Hirsi Ali says, they must be less generous when it comes to indulging their multicultural guilt. It is misplaced anyway: Canadians and Americans owe ..., she says, no special privilege to Pakistani or Algerian immigrants that should tempt us to indulge any potentially illiberal cultural demands."