Thursday, July 21, 2005
Sex and terrorism
Australian journalist Miranda Devine hits on some good points in this Sydney Morning Herald op-ed item:
Left-liberals are always banging on about "root causes" of terrorism, generally finding the United States and "Western imperialism" to blame ...
But they dare not confront ... their own role in fomenting hatred of Western values.
That role, she says, includes:
Trying to erase ...long-established culture ... rooted as it is in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and replacing it with vapid, secularist nothingness ...
It simply creates a vacuum for radical Islam to rush in and fill.
And it is doing its best. At the weekend, at Belmore Mosque, Melbourne's radical Sheik Mohammed Omran criticised Australia and its "half-naked" women, ... "Don't believe this is a free country," he railed. "It's only a free country for the Bondi Beach people."
Bondi Beach, in Sydney's exclusive eatern suburbs, is a cosmopolitan area studded with Jewish cultural centres and synagogues. The area is also replete with all kinds of multicultural landmarks, but the plethora of different peoples there doesn't seem to haze the focus of Australia's Islamic radicals. An attendant at the Lakemba Islamic bookshop visited by journalists and authorities yesterday fumed at allegations that incendiary materials were being distributed there, and exhorted visitors to instead focus on the equivalent materials she claimed were certainly distributed at "those Jewish bookshops in Bondi Junction".
Anyway, Devine continues:
The Sydney-born Sheik Feiz Mohammad ... told 1000 people at Bankstown Town Hall that rape victims have "no one to blame but themselves" (because they wear) "… strapless, backless, sleeveless, nothing but satanic skirts, slit skirts, translucent blouses, miniskirts, tight jeans … to tease man and appeal to his carnal nature."
The Australian-born young Muslim gang rapists who plagued Sydney a few years ago were said by police to have deliberately targeted non-Muslim "Australian" girls and referred to one victim as an "Aussie pig". They were also avid consumers of internet pornography.
The American commentator Thomas Friedman, exploring why so many young angry Sunni Muslim males are prepared to become suicide bombers, writes: "They are, on the one hand, tempted by Western society, and ashamed of being tempted."
Their inner conflict leads them to become vulnerable to terrorist recruiters ...
The increasing permissiveness of Western culture ... can only fuel the inner conflicts of alienated young Muslim men.
And with secularists hell-bent on removing any religious influence, no matter how benign, from daily life, it is no wonder that decadent displays in the Big Brother Uncut tradition now seem commonplace ...
