February 05, 2007
Rod Dreher; Islamophobe?
Rod Dreher has got some stones, is courageous, is articulate and is on a roll. Does that imply that I have a fairly healthy respect for Rod Dreher? You bet.
Recently, in City Journal Mr. Dreher published Muslim Mau-Mauing, a detailed account of his multiple run-ins with the Dallas Muslim community. Mr. Dreher started by noting the Dallas Morning News "ground breaking" expose of the Holy Land Foundation:
Dallas is home to a large and relatively prosperous Muslim community. The Dallas Central Mosque is Texas’s largest. The area’s Muslims, though, have had a contentious relationship in recent years with the Dallas Morning News, mostly because of the paper’s groundbreaking 2001 reporting on the Holy Land Foundation, whose leadership is now under federal terrorism indictment. Since then, local Muslim leaders have engaged in a running dialogue with the News, with the declared aim of improving relations. [emphasis added]"Now, I don't know about you, but this reminds me of the supurb editorial cartoon by Cox and Forkum:
It was in that spirit that Sayyid Syeed, then head of the Islamic Society of North America, came in, together with a local delegation, to see the editorial board a few months after I arrived from New York in 2003. Syeed made a laborious presentation about how journalists needed to join with the organization in promoting peace, tolerance, and reconciliation. I knew something about ISNA and asked Syeed why—if his group truly supported peace and suchlike—its board included members directly linked to Islamic extremism and anti-Semitism, including the notorious Wahhabi-trained Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj. The professorial Syeed dropped his polite mask, shook his fist at me, told me that I would one day “repent,” and compared my question with a Nazi inquisition." [emphasis added]If the moderate Muslims in the United States really want to be part of an inclusive group, part of the national discourse than they must give up the idea that they are entitled to extra r.e.s.p.e.c.t. just because they are Muslims. I don't expect any extra measure of respect because I am a Christian, a male or a college educated individual. I don't pass out respect blythfully either and neither should anyone else. Respect must be earned and the shenannigans of the Dallas Muslim group is not doing so. Mr. Dreher, you have this blogger in your corner. Read all of the link to Mr. Dreher's post, and if you are a conservative, and even if you are not you might consider adding City Journal to your list of favorites. I have, and there is some mighty good reading there.
Posted by GM Roper at February 5, 2007 08:03 PM | TrackBack
City Journal also has Theodore Dalrymple.
I have been reading Mark Steyn's America Alone, which multiplies many examples like this. I don't want to be a person who prejudges. Muslim leaders are giving me less and less choice each year.
Posted by Assistant Village Idiot at February 5, 2007 08:12 PM
The key lessons I find are standing firm and not falling for their poor, misunderstood victim-embrace in the name of tolerance and ecumenism schtick. And above all, be armed with the facts. Sounds like Mr. Dreher should be added to the winners' circle.
Posted by civil truth at February 5, 2007 10:49 PM
I agree with your good opinion of City Journal. That's another good thing about the internet, because I don't recall reading City Journal before I came across it on the web. On a related note, I worry about the state of Muslim affairs in Texas, especially in the DFW area.
Posted by DRJ at February 5, 2007 11:09 PM
I have been studying Islam since I wanted answers to the Iraq Sunni/Shiite split and the lack of MSM reporting the truth. Muslims are liars because their religion tells them to be. They want to give us the sense they can be trusted when in reality they what us slaves to their ignorance. I am a devote reader of Faith Freedom because it is my belief to know Islam it is best to learn from an exMuslim who knows what Islam is and how it works.
I suggest your readers go to:
http://lionheartuk.blogspot.com/
If they really want to see what is in store for America. This blog site is run by a British man who is fighting to save Britian from the Islamic cancer that has invaded. He has some really good stories that we had better read to prevent here what is happening there.
Posted by Mike at February 5, 2007 11:20 PM
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'm clicking over right now.
Posted by Jeremayakovka at February 8, 2007 12:40 PM
Rod Dreher - Islamo-Probe
Posted by Jeremayakovka at February 8, 2007 12:58 PM
