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Geert Wilders, Western sages, and totalitarian Islam

By Alliance Alert

Andrew Bostom writing at Pajamas Media: "Wilders' assessment [of Islam] not only comports with scholarly observations made (primarily) before the advent of the postmodern Western scourge of cultural relativism, it is supported by contemporary hard polling data from 2006 -2007, and a more recent follow-up reported February 25, 2009. At present, overwhelming Muslim majorities ? i.e., better than two-thirds (see the weighted average calculated here) of a well-conducted survey of the world?s most significant and populous Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries ? want these immoderate outcomes: 'strict application' of Shari?a, Islamic law, and a global caliphate." Andrew C. McCarthy, writing at National Review Online: "Moreover, as I?ve noted on several occasions, the point of jihad is to spread sharia, the Islamic legal system whose installation is the necessary precondition to creating an Islamic society . . . Consequently, one can be an Islamist without engaging in violent jihad, which is precisely the case with the vast majority of Islamists. The fact that they are not terrorists does not mean ? as we wish it would mean ? that they are not extremists. While they abstain from the use of force (particularly against other Muslims), staggering majorities of Muslims throughout the world favor the implementation and strict application of sharia."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).