No Defense

Submitted by Friedman (United States), Jan 2, 2007 at 00:13

I feel there is a paradox here that makes it impossible to defeat Islam. I keep on reading respectable comments from Muslims here who are nothing like the neo-Nazis one reads throughout the cyberspace, yet they are insisting that the world will be Islamized. Pipes says that non-violence is the road to victory for Islam. But if Islam prevails through peace, why does Pipes present that in terms of doom? What would be so bad if peace rules the world?

... Perhaps the greatest threat is that Muslims will be both peaceful and intolerant of those with a different religion. In Israel and the US, that would be a problem. In Europe, however, I don't see what would be wrong. Europeans are generally morally bankrupt, so Islam would be better than no religion. If you would worry that Islam would hinder its economic and scientific devlopment, I think secularism can do the same thing with falling birthrates and nihilism. Also, there are a few religious Jews and Christians pose a hindrance to economic and scientific development, even if not as great a number as the Muslims.

I think that if Muslims remain democratic, than their growth won't be dangerous. That means those who want to remain to their own religious convictions can and that the government will respect people's human rights and women. We'll see what happens in Iraq. As of now, though, I don't think we have to worry about Muslims being too peaceful.

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