What about the record? {Islam and Jihad}

Washington Times ^ | December 21, 2007 | Diana West

[3AngelaD]

Christmas came early to the Palestinian Authority when the "international community" decided not only to meet PA President Mahmoud Abbas' request for $5.6 billion in aid, but to throw in almost $2 billion more. Why? Did the PA end its terrorist ways? Stop state-sanctioned incitement against Israel and the West? Change Fatah's charter (forget about Hamas) calling for Israel's destruction? Alas, no, no and no. We are heaping riches on the PA for other reasons...As the only non-Muslim country amid Middle Eastern Dar-al Islam, as the only "dhimmi" nation to reclaim its land once conquered by Islam, Israel's very existence is a religious offense to the "umma," or Islamic community. In this same context, what we call "foreign aid" to the PA may be understood as a form of "jizya," the protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims.

But the non-Muslim world prefers not to think like that...In so doing, we create a sinkhole of Western guilt and responsibility for suffering Muslims...

I began the calendar year thinking about this subject while discussing a PBS documentary on anti-semitism in the Islamic world. The show's conclusion: What isn't Israel's fault is that of the West...What was startling about the message, however, was one of the messenger's: none other than the eminent historian Bernard Lewis....Because Mr. Lewis is probably the most influential voice on Islam in our time — particularly for the U.S. foreign policy establishment — this pronouncements are more than significant....This comes to mind because Mr. Lewis has done it again — holding Europe responsible for unpalatable traditions of Islam....

Why is Mr. Lewis making statements contradicted by the historical record? If European Christendom truly is the source of Islamic evil-e.g., anti-semitism and authoritarianism - Islam is let off the hook, and blame falls on the West....

[massgopguy]

One of my political friends e-mailed me to notify me that over the Jewish/Muslim holiday overlap, that while Islam engaged in 10 terrorist attacks killing 300+ people, the Jews picked up their 157th Nobel Prize.

[EagleUSA]

Stupidity, ignorance and “Western” politics continue to dominate the Middle East fiasco. The beat goes on. And for the same reasons as always. The West continues to pour money into this Islamic-perpetuated dung heap. Always trying to buy something that will NEVER come...

[blasater1960]

It’s all about oil. I dont think we would give the PA a dime if it werent for the Saudi’s having us by the private parts, forcing us to go along with this pal-state-destroy-Israel plan.

[EagleUSA]

....if it werent for the Saudi’s having us by the private parts, forcing us to go along with this pal-state-destroy-Israel plan.
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And in the meantime, look at our fantastic energy policy to rid ourselves of Arab oil dependence....just look at it....can’t you see it?....(/s)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

as the only "dhimmi" nation to reclaim its land once conquered by Islam

This is not true, Israel is the only one this century. In earlier centuries, Spain, Portugal, southern Italy and Sicily, the Balearic islands, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, southwest France, and most of Austria were also freed from the control of Sharia law. Time to resume the Reconquista starting with the Holy Land and North Africa.