PrintFebruary 1, 2014
Wrong About the Muslim World
Islam is nearly always in conflict with democracy, both historically and today. There is one single contemporary phenomenon which exemplifies this perfectly. Bizarrely, it's occurring in the West, not in the Muslim world.
In the UK, Muslims -- from the BBC's Mo Ansar, Tell MAMA, the MCB, and the Muslim Parliament -- have carried out systematic and sometimes effective campaigns to bring about what amounts to sharia blasphemy law in the country. (Indeed a Liberty GB radio host is due to appear in court in March for the "hate crime" of criticizing Islam and Muslims.) These campaigns have focused on everything from books (Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses), to cartoons (the Danish cartoons), to pages on Facebook and even Twitter posts.
One fundamental aspect of all democracies is free speech. It's crystal clear, then, that very many Muslims -- even here in the West -- have carried out organized campaigns against the freedom of speech. Now if that's happening in the UK and the West...(Read Full Article)
