Thoughts on Terror

I thought that I should pause to contemplate my thoughts on the attackso n England by Islam last week. The obvious 'tiny evil minority' pitches have been made by the politicians and I think that as its my website I should make my position on Islam as a whole clearly to the readers.... so sit back and absorb my thoughts......

Bombs , draconian governments , blood and horror. Many people
would say that these are the gifts of Islam to the West and I too have felt that. However Islam was something I had never even thought of when I first went to live in Indonesia. Why would I? It's a group that don't eat pork and Da Wizard is often known as Bacon so it wasn't a group that I really felt any affiliation to but neither animosity.

Difference is what makes our world so colourful and hey I was off on my travels so colourful new cultures were part of what I wanted to explore as I was damned sick of my environment of birth.
The
Indonesia that I arrived in was a prosperous booming young place , a place of huge contrasts.... a world in one Nation is how they described it and I found the kaleidoscopic fabric of the place addictive. The poverty and wealth extremes didn't shock me and the poor people seemed a lot happier than the average person back in Europe. The climate and lack of material longing was my brief explanation on the reasons for that.

Then Suharto was deposed and it all changed.

Thousands of Chinese girls were raped by Muslim gangs across Java I remember the stories terrifying me. Mobs screaming "Allah Akbar"
dragging girls into the streets to be violated by many then left for dead. I
couldn't believe that these things were happening throughout this country that I had become so enamoured with.

Mob rapes occur throughout history but normally they occur during wars and I had not heard of or even thought about rape in the name of
religion???? I thought that all religions were peaceful.

So with the aid of the new 1998 Internet I started to research rape and religion. Disturbing stories around the world sprouted up all over the place. 60% of all rapists in Norway were Muslim but Muslim men only make up 4% of the population? Is Islam more prone to produce rapists than other religions? I don't have the space to cover the whole issue here but have a little Google around and you will find the facts (but hell you will find some junk too).

I started to ask my Indonesian girlfriends about rape and whether it was a commonplace in Indonesia. I was startled to discover that it was VERY VERY common. Then when I watched the Indonesian men and listened to their banter and wolf whistles I realised that although Islam does not teach nor condone rape it does
proliferate sexual immaturity which surely given the correct catalyst can be a pre cursor to rape? Da Wizard is a but an armchair commentator but again Google
around people!.... The truth is around you.

Then Sept 11th came and I cried when I listened to the heart wrenching phone calls that
were left as people said good bye to their loved ones, knowing that they would not survive. I couldn't believe it again.... how could somebody go out and commit such a heinous crime and kill themselves in the process. This was something again out of my brains ability to comprehend. So I looked around for answers and this is what I found.

1. Clearly Islam as practiced in Islamic countries is oppressive. Islam is allowed to flourish in any Christian country but crushes or at best makes life difficult for other religions in an Islamic country.

2. Islam believes in the Islamification of the world. Islam means 'to submit' . This is different from Christianity which wishes to Evangelise the world. Both are not good goals in my opinion but clearly I do not wish to 'submit'. There should be no Islamification in western countries. Wearing scary veils should no more be allowed than it is for me to wear a balaclava in public.

3.Palestine is the gaping wound of Islam... one that can be a justifiable rallying call and this problem must be solved. Zionism plays far to much of an important role in the world and our hypocrisy in choosing which countries we force to comply to UN resolutions is the cause of much of this worldwide terror. Solve Palestine and we will then be able to see if Islam really is a religion of peace.

4. Debate should be encouraged on the whole issue of religion. Lets have some scientific debate please on these superstitions. Lets stop politicians saying "God Bless America" and the like. If a national leader said "May the Force be with you" people would ridicule him. What's the difference? Lets keep religion out of politics.

Then came the Bali bomb. We escaped it as we left 9 months earlier to live in Thailand as we overheard Muslim extremists in Paddy's Bar talking about how immoral the people were. The Bali bomb was predicted by us and many more. Why did the Western governments not tell their people? Its highly likely to happen again.

The disgraceful way that Amrozi was allowed to behave in court shows how the Indonesians viewed the loss of life.

So now we have had terror visit the shores of the United Kingdom. Da Wizard thought that the emergency services did a sterling job and its amazing how few people actually
lost their lives. I am sure that is cold comfort to the families who lost their loved ones.

After the obvious calls for calm by politicians and some great words from 'Red' Ken Livingston we are now seeing the reality that exists in Britain and other Western countries. The BBC met up with some Muslim lads with their Northern English accents and asked them their views on the bombings. The lads answered in no uncertain terms that they denounced the bombs 100%. They then said that they think it is wrong when 'these English go into our Muslim brothers countries and murder our Muslim brothers and sisters'.

Now the reporter backed off immediately and didn't ask the question.... What do you mean by 'these English'????? and 'our Muslim brothers and sisters'??? These lads were showing clearly here that they Muslim first and do not themselves at heart consider themselves British. So here we see that the normal average Muslim youth feels alienated and not part of the Western system. The terribly extreme British National Party made this point:

" More than a tiny minority of young British Muslims support the extremist Hizb-ut-Tahrir party. Its ability to pack 7,000 of them into a conference in the Birmingham NEC last year would equate to nearly 200,000 young whites attending a KKK rally at Knebworth!"

Lets not let the extremeists on either side win. Simple minds can fall into the hands of the likes of the BNP and the situation will never improve if that happens.

What's the answer? The answer is clearly lets fix the causes of those feelings. Lets solve the problem in Palestine. It can be solved however the world must stand strong in its resolve supporting the UN and forcing those who don't comply with UN Resolutions to be punished equally. Always cowing to Israel's political might in the US is threatening the lives of each and every westerner. Solve that problem and we have a chance. Militarily we can not beat this enemy.
Alternatively those people who wield the extremists axe will cleverly win over the masses on either side as our freedoms are eroded by governments and then the very freedoms that we are trying to defend will be lost forever.