The modern American culture is stuck in an even flow of "attack and protection" when it comes to the issue of radical Islam. Some European nation is attacked, and dozens of people are massacred. The culture responds with the instant "terror has no religion" cliché. Then, once again, new attacks come and go from Islamic extremists. We have three examples just from this week of such attacks. Brussels' airport was bombed and over 34 people were killed. On Good Friday, a Catholic priest was captured from an old person's home and was subsequently crucified. And then a bomb in Pakistan targeted and killed 70 Christians. All of these attacks were planned and carried out by Islamic extremists.
And, of course, the instant and scurried response was to scream "racist!" at those criticizing the Islamic ideology which was the baseline for these slaughters. Of course, not all Muslims are terrorists, and the vast majority of those in the Islamic faith do want peace, but that does not change the fact that Islam has recently had a violence problem. Continuing the open border policy in Europe and expanding refugee asylum in the United States will lead to more terrorist attacks, and the more we continue to deny the problem, the more these attacks will happen. More people are going to die, and we will once again end up protecting the people responsible.
Saying that "most Muslim attacks and deaths are against other Muslims" does not change the point. In fact, it only reinforces it. People are being mutilated and killed every day under sharia law and Islamic extremism, and the social justice warriors of western culture keep repeating the religion of peace narrative. The leftist governments of Europe keep repeating the same story, while within their borders, women are being raped and molested in groups by the same people their government is claiming are not threats. Now before you repeat the argument that deranged Christian men are guilty of mass killings themselves, remember that these killings are not religiously based and are embedded in different roots. Do not cite the Crusades as another comparison between radical Islam and Christianity. These wars were fought a thousand years ago and do not hold any relevance to today's problems. Do not talk about the internal corruption within the Catholic Church and the misery it brought upon Europe. The Catholic Church was completely split, congregated, and ultimately had a revolution that cleaned the Church's corruption. Islam has not had such a revolution. Please do not keep writing off the fact that things need to change within these Islamic nations by arguing that it is not just Muslims who kill. While terrorist attacks stem from a large pool of different ideologies and beliefs, you cannot deny the frequency of attacks coming from this religion largely outnumbers others. Don't think so? Here's a chart showing attacks based on ideology:
These Islamic nations do not assimilate well, if at all, with the secular Western culture. That is why these attacks will keep happening until we decide that enough is enough, and stop the problem at the route. It is not xenophobic, racist, bigoted, or any other word for hatred. It is for the safety of the citizens of these nations, and our collective protection. If you really want to help Islam and its followers, we need collective solidarity to start addressing the internal problems it is having, rather than denying that there is a problem now. I am not a bigoted xenophobe who is spouting out hate at a different religion than my own. These are just facts that are being denied daily, as more people are being raped and killed. I do not hate the Islamic religion itself; I hate those who are bastardizing it by killing dozens of people at a time. All we should collectively want is to stop the collective global violence at hand, and in order to do so, we need to address the actual problem of Islamic violence itself, rather than claiming that "terrorism has no religion."
