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Entry: The Lie of Assimilation Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_lie_of_assimiliation#8915 Post contents: @GM: What's "alarmist" about what I wrote? Seriously--point something out, rather than throw out words like alarmist. <i>Despite a population that ranges from three to six million, from 9/11 on, there isn’t a single incident of terrorist violence attributable to an American Muslim.</i> Really? So all those cases of "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" that I've written about on this website and others, and those that Srdja Trifkovic has written about in <i>Chronicles</i> and on our website, simply didn't happen? I'm sure the victims at the L.A. Airport, and the Jewish community center in Seattle, and in Salt Lake City feel much better knowing that the Muslims who attacked them weren't engaged in terrorist violence--even when they said they were. Oh, except for those victims who are dead. I guess they don't get the chance to feel better, now that you've set the record straight. <i>Moreover, consider this fact in light of the prejudice directed toward Muslims since 9/11, the one-sided support of Israel by the US, the invasion and destruction of Iraq, the repression of civil liberty by the government,.... Obviously, American Muslims are well integrated and fairly supportive of the US.</i> <p>Consider what? Are you saying that the things you listed, all of which I have opposed, would have justified that terrorist violence that you claim hasn't happened? If not, what are you saying?</p> <p>By the way, in your attempt to downplay what's going on at our local mosque, why didn't you respond to the Derrick Shareef case? Or did Shareef not exist, either?</p> <em>To support his (bigoted) position, Rickert cites a few polling questions . . . </em> <p>From a Pew Research Center study that is widely considered the most extensive one ever conducted on the demographics and attitudes of Muslims in America. And one that has been extensively cited by people who believe, as you do, that Muslims are "well integrated and fairly supportive of the US."</p> <em>. . . and a single anecdote about a Dr. Siddiqui who supposedly expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden 5 months after 9/11 and headed a mosque and Islamic school in Rockford, Illinois.</em> <p>How many anecdotes about Dr. Siddiqui and the school would you like? Over the past five and a half years, I've published a half-dozen articles on my day-long visit to the school. Dr. Siddiqui (who has received copies of my articles) has never denied a single quotation. So much for "supposedly."</p> <p>The point about the school and mosque here is that it is often held up as a shining example of mainstream Islam. The Chicago Tribune and the Rockford Register Star wrote glowing articles on it in the wake of September 11. Somehow, they failed to have the same discussions that my colleague Aaron Wolf and I had with Dr. Siddiqui and his colleagues and the students at the school.</p> <p><em>Chronicles</em> did the work; the others didn't.</p> <em>The alleged 26% support of suicide bombing in defense of Islam is a bit more worrisome, but again what type of situations are we talking about. It isn’t clear. Certainly, Christian, Jews, Hindus, and so on might resort to extreme actions to defend their faith.</em> <p>Put up or shut up, GM: Show me one defense of suicide bombing, under any conditions, by a mainstream Christian.</p> Sent at: 2008 07 09