Let us stop being Islam-enablers

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Aug 9, 2022 at 19:30

Dear Dr Pipes,

M Tovey asked the question that all non-Muslims must have wondered some time or the other: Will Muslims Recognize Religious Freedom as a Way to Live in Peace?

Muslims take the position of Islam's socio-religious superiority as granted and acte as if the said religious superiority was a given unchallengable fact. They have done so successfully for the last 14 centuries because we let them do so. The non-Muslims often are Islam's enablers.

I can give tens of examples of this enablement. The list is endless. Most of the examples that I give will sound obvious, mundane, and oft-repeated but we do not challenge Muslims and Islam even on these obvious Issues. Why should there be Islamic nations in the world when Muslims themselves demand democracy everywhere else?
Why is it justified to think that the dhimmies can live happily in Islamic nations like docile Indian cows when Muslims demand everything plus your knee-cap in the non-Muslim democracies? Why is apostacy a murderable crime when every human values and opinions as precious? Why is it OK for MrvMuhammad to walk like a cool dude in shorts and slippers on a beach, while it is recommended that the women in his life cover themselves from toe to head? Why when daughters show so much care for their parents in old age, they are given less in inheritance even in the 21st century? Why when Western welfare of Muslim refugees is appreciated, there is no path to the Saudi citizenship for others? Why is it OK that Muslims line up to get western Visas, no non-Muslim tries to make an Islamic country his or her permanent home?

We enable Islamic impudence by not asking questions of Islam. We let Muslims take advantage of the very principles that Islam wants to destroy.

We pretend that every religious philosophy is equivalent to every other even when one of them walks and talks like nothing short of a political manifesto.

Muslims will never admit that religious freedom is a path to peace as long as we keep enabling them. We should stop enabling Islam's self-serving impudence. Let it be known that religions are equal only if they act equally selflessly. Otherwise, they are not equivalent. And, no one gets equal rights without bearing equal responsibility.

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