THE TELEGRAPH: The wish genuinely to address political ills in this country is often stymied by a need people have to cling either to what is Right or what is Left. You see it at work every day, the instinct to turn with the shoal of mackerel or the flock of starlings, without a moment's pause to examine what is really at issue.
Our politicians do this as a matter of course, but so does the public and so very often do the media, wishing life's complicated circumstances to conform immediately to the expectations which are born of our own prejudices. But sometimes we must go against the grain of what we think in order to do some thinking.
Islamophobia is one of the big questions of our day, and one, perhaps more than most, which causes each of us to dig in to our entrenched positions. The problem is answered most often with ignorance or with common hysteria, and almost never with fresh thinking. What is the nature of the feeling in our communities and in our courts against Islam, and how can we put an end to it? Are we not hurting our own society and our own security by making a monster where it shouldn't exist, a monster made from the mania of our own fear? Fear of Islam Is Ruining Our Chance for Peace >>> By Andrew O’Hagan | April 8, 2008
This is my comment on this absurd article:
Mr O'Hagan, you're assessment of the problem couldn't be worse than this!
Islamophobia is a term bandied about by all and sundry these days. A phobia is an irrational fear. To fear Islam is NOT irrational. On the contrary, it would be irrational NOT to fear Islam! Why? Because Islam wants to destroy our way of life, as it has destroyed the way of life of millions upon millions of people before. Each and every country Muslims have been allowed into, and Islam has been allowed to put down roots, it has eventually taken over. The whole lot: Egypt, Syria, the Lebanon (in the process of being Islamized), and so many other countries besides.
There has been but one exception: Moorish Spain (Al-Andalus). It took five hundred or so years for the Christians to win back their country, and many a bloodbath, before Spain could be liberated from the darkness that is Islam.
The fact of the matter is this: People are beginning to wake up to the dangers that lie before them. Might I be cheeky enough and suggest that you do the same. Perhaps then, you will be able to write a far more realistic assessment of the predicament we have placed ourselves in vis-à-vis this growing geo-political system, clothed as it is in a deity. - ©Mark Alexander
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