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October 31, 2006
History: Diversity is Hard, but Islam is Impossible
I'm about to criticize a column by Thomas Sowell, but I feel ambivalent about my upcoming criticism, since I agree with Mr. Sowell's arguments on the whole. But the highlited paragraph below should be criticized: Diversity's Oppressions
[...]What is it that has made Iraq so hard to pacify, even after a swift and decisive military victory? In one word: diversity. That word has become a sacred mantra, endlessly repeated for years on end, without a speck of evidence being asked for or given to verify the wonderful benefits it is assumed to produce.Worse yet, Iraq is only the latest in a long series of catastrophes growing out of diversity. These include "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans, genocide in Rwanda and the Sudan, the million lives destroyed in intercommunal violence when India became independent in 1947 and the even larger number of Armenians slaughtered by Turks during World War I.
Despite much gushing about how we should "celebrate diversity," America's great achievement has not been in having diversity but in taming its dangers that have run amok in many other countries. Americans have by no means escaped diversity's oppressions and violence, but we have reined them in.[...]
Dr. Sowell mentions five instances of ethnic strife leading to genocidal or near-genocidal action: Rwanda, the Sudan, the Indian partition, the Balkans wars, and the Armenian genocide. Of those five, four involve Islam, the self-proclaimed religion of peace.
This is not to say that, at its root, multiculturalism is a fraud concocted by self-hating Westerners as a way to discredit their own cultures; it is. Most of us would agree that all cultures are not equal and that even those cultures we love could use a little improvement, or a lot. (I think "children-free" retirement communities are--what's the phrase--a moral abomination.) But it is important to realize that one specific "culture", or rather the cultures emanating from a single religion, stand above all others in the penchant for ethnic violence, and politically-motivated, large-scale murder.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at October 31, 2006 7:35 AM
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what about the holocaust, stalin, mao, the japanese empire, cambodia, vietnam, etc, etc... No country, state, or civilization is free from a history of genocide. I don't think genocide is something that is particular to muslims. Saying so is just distorting the truth
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at October 31, 2006 6:06 PM
r0245;
You would have made an excellent point, had I claimed in fact that genocide is particular to muslims.
My claim is that Islamized cultures become intolerant of its minorities and aggressively expansionist, and this process has been repeated all over the World for nearly 1,400 years. The Communists become genocidal out of a desire for equality, the Japanese our of a desire for "living space" and the German Nazis became genocidal out of a desire for "racial purity", whatever that was, as well as for "living space." At no point do I deny these things. Please do your best to reply to my actual claims, not to what you think I'm claiming.
Posted by: Ruy Diaz at November 1, 2006 2:19 PM
In your article, you say the following:
"But it is important to realize that one specific "culture", or rather the cultures emanating from a single religion, stand above all others in the penchant for ethnic violence, and politically-motivated, large-scale murder."
I interpreted this as you singling out Islam as a catalyst for genocide. Which i think is wrong, because every civilization committed genocide at one point of their histories. I don't see how genocide is something instrinic to Islam.
Muslim countries represent the poorest and weakest states in the world. They are not a threat to us. No more than the jews were a threat to the nazis. It is very dangerous for powerful people like us to start to fear and have disdain for people we have power over. The fact of the matter is, if we wanted to, we have the power to eliminate all the muslims in the world, but the reverse is not true. So once we start fearing the powerless, we might start acting on this fears. If that happens, we might have a holocaust in our hands, because my god, we have the means to do so, I just hope we don't have the will.
Posted by: r0245 at November 1, 2006 8:02 PM
How dare you say anything remotely defending islam.
Islam has been murdering for 14 centuries...a true record over everyone else.
Did you not notice Russian schoolkids being shot in the backs,the 2nd round of France being burned AGAIN this year, Londonistan trains blownup, Spanish citizens butchered, and the constant demands and threats against the western nations with no response to the muslim marchers?
If anything islam of today is growing worse and more assertive.
Your koran DEMANDS AND ENCOURAGES in 134 verses to kill, enslave, rape, and kidnap ALL NON-MUSLIMS UNTIL ALL CONVERT.
God does not demand anyone to accept him and believe me He does not need weak men as muslim to help Him spreading truth at the point of a sword or gun.
God gives CHOICE and islam demands slavery or death.
That is the difference.
Can you find any Christian or any groups marching, bombing, kidnapping, and raping in any islamic nations?
They would all be shot in the streets with no arrests.
Islam is violent and evil since its inception and no apologist mentality or backpedalling as you provide can change that reality.
You speak unrefined rubbish.
Posted by: Hungarian Crusader at November 3, 2006 11:34 PM
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