People, even on the right, are sick of Iraq and Afganistan and “the war on terrorism.” This is a shame but also a fact.
We can revive morale, dedication and passion by re-focusing on the war at home: creeping sharia in the West.
Daniel Pipes gets it, and so should we all:
A first step is for Westerners to mount a united front against the Shari‘a. Facing near-unanimous hostility, Islamists back down. For one example, note the retreat last week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in a dispute concerning guide dogs used by the blind.
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CAIR’s capitulation contains an important lesson: When Westerners broadly agree on rejecting a specific Islamic law or tradition and unite against it, Western Islamists must adjust to the majority’s will. Guide dogs for the blind represent just one of many such consensus issues; others tend to involve women, such as husbands beating wives, the burqa head coverings, female genital mutilation, and “honor” killings. Western unity can also compel Islamists to denounce their preferred positions in areas such as slavery and Shar‘i-compliant finances.
Other Islam-derived practices do not (yet) exist in the West but do prevail in the Muslim world. These include punishing a woman for being raped, exploiting children as suicide bombers, and executing offenders for such crimes as converting out of Islam, adultery, having a child out of wedlock, or witchcraft. Western solidarity can win concessions in these areas too.
If Westerners stick together, the Shari‘a is doomed. If we do not, we are doomed.
Although I do take a sick satisfaction in the news that “Australian Human Rights Commissioner Graeme Innes and his guide dog” are “often denied service by taxi drivers.”
If only non-Muslims would shun Canadian Human Rights Commissioners wherever they go!
