Carnal Reason

The letter is quoted from SteynOnline.

Your Irish correspondent, Brian Barrington wrote, “Muslims might be prepared to listen to a measured well-intentioned critique from a non-Muslim.”

My sister attends a small church in London Ontario. They have, for the last decade been sponsoring Christian refugees from the Sudan. One of the Sudanese women from her church lived in a village in southern Sudan with her husband and their five children.

Several years ago the Muslim militia flew into her village, rounded up all the men, loaded them on their troop plane, flew them over the village and forced them to jump from the plane in front of their wives and children. They all died.

The women prayed the soldiers would fly away. But it was not to be. They came back and, noticing her baby, they pulled him out of her arms and, in a Herodian display of evil cut off her breasts. She survived but had to suffer watching her child die a slow agonizing death with no sustenance. She now lives in London Ontario with her remaining children.

Every one of the dozens of refugees their church has sponsored has a similar story to tell. There is nothing “measured” or “well intentioned” about this kind of behaviour and it’s very difficult, to be “measured” in response. Indeed a “measured” response to such evil would be evil itself.

“Moderate” western Moslems should surely have something to say about their co-religionists behaviour. But with a few rare exceptions we hear nothing. That’s the point Mark is making.

As to American foreign policy, America is not in the Sudan. These Muslim are doing this to their own countrymen.

Barrington alleges, “Your particular brand of anti-Islamic diatribes…can only serve to radicalize Muslims further.” Considering 9/11, Abdul Rahman, Danish cartoon response, wholesale slaughter and mayhem in the Middle East and around the world, it’s hard to imagine how much more radical Muslims can get. But, no doubt, there’s more to come.

I expect Mark isn’t writing for a Muslim world that could hardly be more radical, but for the deaf, dumb and blind western world. People like Mr Barrington maybe.

Hermina Dykxhoorn
Calgary

I’m glad to learn that Canada has not entirely disappeared.

Posted on April 21st, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: politics, religion, war