Some things I do seem to want to continue posting in public, after writing in my diary.
Last night I was dreaming of waves of men dressed as 7th century Saracens or Moors crowding a modern space with drawn swords, seeking to kill anyone they encountered.
We have reached a place where it is reasonable to suppose at least hundreds, and likely thousands of Muslims safely ensconced in our midst are secretly plotting to kill us. If we assume roughly 10% of the world’s Muslims are “radicalized”–which is to say they have decided to take the Koran’s message of jihad seriously again after centuries of neglect forced by military inferiority–and that roughly 1% of those people are willing to act on it–1 Muslim in a thousand–then among the world’s billion Muslims plus there are one million aspiring jihadists.
Within the United States, some 12% of the Muslim population wants the death penalty for critics of Islam. Can we not call these the “radical” ones? Can we not admit that we, too, have “them”? This should seem obvious after Fort Hood, Chattanooga, and San Bernardino, added on to all the other arrests for crimes allegedly planned but not committed.
We have between 5 and 12 million Muslims, I read, in the United States. Let us use the lower number. 1% of 10% is 5,000.
Imagine if this prospective threat were Christian in nature.
Islam is asking us what century we want to live in. Most suburban Americans literally have no place holder for, no ability to comprehend, a world view which does not consider being nice a more or less religious commandment, which hates dogs and women, and which is capable of inflicting horrific violence carefully and after long planning on completely innocent people who are completely disarmed and unexpecting, and doing so not just without mercy, but with the enthusiasm of the true sadist and savage. Why else the GoPro’s? They wanted to create and share snuff films.