Strict Islamic Orthodoxy

 By Their Fruit You Shall Know Them

A murderous Islamic shoots down Jewish schoolchildren in Toulouse. He also murders French paratroopers.  He calls a radio station to boast of his crimes and expresses regret that he has not done "more". 

The supine western media, always fearful of Islam's long reach against them (death threats, etc.) quickly move to assure us all that killing is not part of Islam.
 

Instead, they (the media) went into full-on Islam whitewashing, citing the usual liberal bromide that poverty causes Islamists to murder Jews. The Telegraph’s Ed West wrote: “Islam is not to blame for the Toulouse killings … It is not religion that turns some young Muslim men in the West violent, but the sense of alienation and frustration that inevitably comes from being a second-generation immigrant.”

OK, so immigration is the problem and the cause.  Alienation of second generation immigrants does that, don't you know.  Unfortunately, the pattern of this poor chap's alienation is all too familiar.  According to the NZ Herald:

A stand-off between French police and a gunman suspected of a spate of killings in the southwestern city of Toulouse is entering its sixteenth hour. It's has been revealed the suspect, Mohamed Merah, had been under surveillance for years for having "fundamentalist" Islamic views following visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The wider family of the murderer has also been involved.   These recent atrocities are not an act of spontaneous rage, but follow a long considered, long planned course.  There is a trail of conspiracy to murder and actions consistent with those plans. 

Prosecutor Francois Molins said the gunman was a self-taught radical Salafi who had been to Afghanistan twice and had trained in the Pakistani militant stronghold of Waziristan.  Molins said the gunman's brother Abdelkader had been implicated in a 2007 network that sent militant fighters to Iraq.

An Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Merah has been under surveillance for years for having "fundamentalist" Islamic views.

But, we are assured that Salafi teachings and Islamic terrorist groups are not responsible in any way.  It's only the alienation of a second generation immigrant, don't you know.  This, despite Salafi orthodoxy advocating murderous jihad against civilians not just as a legitimate expression, but a required act, of Islam itself.  This, also despite the fact that salafi'ism is at the very centre of Sunni orthodoxy. 

So how is that alienation thing working out in non-immigrant land?  Let's go to Iraq.  According to Al Jazeera: 

Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks that killed 46 people across the country this week, and said the violence exposes how weak government security is ahead of the upcoming Arab League summit in the capital, Baghdad.

The statement by the Islamic State of Iraq, posted on a website on Wednesday, said its "Sunni lions" targeted the plan of the "fool government preparing" for the summit. Attacks on Tuesday struck Shia pilgrims in the holy city of Karbala, set cars on fire near a police headquarters in Kirkuk and targeted security forces and government officials in Baghdad.

In all, the extremist groups struck eight cities in just under six hours, killing 46 people and wounding 200.  "Within a few hours, all the security measures adopted by the Shia government have collapsed and the enemy was taken by surprise," the statement said. "Several government and security headquarters were attacked."

But Islam is in no way responsible.  Its all those second generation immigrants in Iraq--disaffected, alienated, poor, Sunni Muslims. They oh-so-understandably vent their frustration and alienation by killing other (Shia) Muslims. 

The supine, guilt-ridden Commentariat in the West overlooks one big fat reality.  All these "extremist" Muslim groups (Salafi's, Wahhabi's, Al Qaeda) have a common theme: each claims to be strictly following the teachings of Mohammed himself as they kill and maim.  This is not to be compared with, say, nominal Jews who joined Stalin's cause.  Not for one moment did they claim that their communist ideology was due to their strict following of the Torah.  They were lapsed Jews, liberal Jews, apostate Jews--and everyone knew it, including they themselves. 

Islam is a violent, oppressive, bloody false religion.  That is not to say all Islamic people are thus violent, oppressive or bloody.  It is to say that those who seek to follow its teachings strictly inevitably are. 

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck . . .