Former Muslim Tells Journalists Values of Islam, West Incompatible

One of the things that the media, Democrats, and many Americans don’t understand is that there are fundamental differences between our western culture and Islamic culture that will probably never be rectified. There is no middle ground here to try to comprimise on. I know this sounds like a bleak message, but it is true. This is the secret that nobody wants to admit. This in part may be why the media mis-reports so much of what is going on with the war, and the middle east in general. That and their belief that whatever George W Bush believes they must oppose.

Journalists must acknowledge incompatible differences between Islamic and Western beliefs to effectively facilitate debate between them, in the view of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an advocate for women’s rights in Islamic cultures.

“Journalists … face the unpleasant reality of taking sides or getting lost in the incoherence of the so-called middle ground,” she said. “The role of journalists serving the West, who understand what this particular battle is about, will be to inform their audiences accordingly.”

Hirsi Ali said journalists must acknowledge the discrepancies between tenets of Islam and foundational beliefs of the West before they can accurately report on Islamic-related events.

If they really want to report the truth, that is. Reporting the truth may actually prove the president right and we can’t have that.

Although Hirsi Ali praised journalists’ work since the Sept. 11th attacks, she said reluctance to defend Western values against Islamic threats surprises her.

“Why are Westerners so insecure about everything that is so wonderful about the West: political freedom, free press, freedom of expression, equal rights for women and men and gays and heterosexuals, critical thinking, and the great strength of scrutinizing ideas – and especially faith?” Hirsi Ali asked.

She said Western journalists appeared hesitant to defend free speech – “the very right from which they earn their bread.”

She is right about this point. Free speech has been under attack for I’d say twenty years with political correctness. This has been a slow process, but speech that may be deemed offensive has been removed from our every day venacular. Liberals are too afraid to offend anyone. This whole idea of multi-culturism is also what is leading us into the realm where we are not allowed to critisize Muslims who may treat women as second class citizens. Her use of the term insecure is also right on the mark, and that is also directly related to trying to be politically correct. The media, and Democrats are so afraid to offend anyone they don’t want to admit that we have a problem with radical Islamists. They don’t want to be painted as racists so they won’t even admit who the enemy is.

In her speech, Hirsi Ali said the West is battling for its cornerstone ideas of political freedom, freedom of expression and equality for women. Islam, on the other hand, is hostile to everything Western, she said.

Muslims, Jews and Christians should have equal access to Western freedoms, but some basic teachings of Islam inevitably hold Muslims back from fully assimilating into Western society – particularly teachings about women, she said.

This is a battle of cultures, whether America wants to believe it or not. Our culture is under attack. We don’t need to sit here and ask, “why do they hate us?” They don’t hate us because of our foreign policy, they don’t hate us for any other reason than we are not Muslim. The radical Islamists believe that it is their duty to God to eradicate any infidels. Who are the infidels? Anyone who is not Muslim, that’s who.

She challenged journalists directly. “If we do not understand the differences between Islam and the West – why one is so great and the other so low – and we don’t fight back and win this battle of ideas in order to preserve our civilization, in my view there is no point to your profession or mine,” she said.

Unfortunately too many journalists, members of the media, Democrat leaders, and American people believe that the true enemy is George W Bush not the terrorists. It’s a sad state of affairs when the Democrats have been hammering the president every day for six years, along with their willing accomplices in the media, that they have manged to brain wash the American people into believing Bush is the leading terrorist in the world, and that America has brought this on to herself. Too many Americans believe that America deserved the September 11th attacks, and I am disturbed and appalled that Americans have become so gullible that they believe the nonsence that has been spewed by Democrats and the media over the last six years.

WAKE UP AMERICA!

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