Warshaw Wrong on Islam, Racism, and Enlightment

In light of the poor British woman in the Sudan who will be so savagely attacked for allowing a child to name a Teddy bear Mohammed and the poor rape victim who will receive 200 lashes in Saudia Arabia, I believe many on this campus have come to see the truth: Islam, as currently practiced, is a religion of pieces, not peace. This post, therefore, is a challenge to any and all that would defend the idea of Islam, as currently practiced and understood, is often violent.

I had hoped that this would have been confirmed by Judea Pearl, parent of Daniel Pearl, who spoke at the Athenaeum, but I found no press in any of the newspapers addressing the talk or commenting on the sheer barbarity of those who severed Mr. Pearl's head from his body. Too bad.

One of those who was silent was Nick Warshaw. Apparently, Democrats, notably Nick Warshaw on this campus, has allowed his own myopia and political dogma to have severed his own head from his knee-jerk reaction. As we shall see, this myopia has a lot to do with the current problem.

And contrary to being called out, he's praised by such newspapers as the school-funded, Forum for being a "major player" at Claremont McKenna. Where's the journalistic probing of his positions to which we are entitled?

I hope you will allow me the discretion of posting on a press release from late October from Warshaw himself. In it, he challenges the notion of Islam-based violence by encouraging us to ignore our lying eyes. (You may remember that I accompanied the Claremont Republicans to USC to hear Ann Coulter speak about the threat we face from Islam's most Fascistic tendencies.)

"The College Republicans seem so proud of their political incorrectness and of this week's publicity stunt to spread hateful ideas. Our country has already been through struggles for racial integration. We are supposed to be living in a free, enlightened society. It is ludicrous that college students would be the proponents of an awareness week like this," said Nick Warshaw, President of the California College Democrats.

Proud we were of the campaign to fight Islamic-based violence and by Islamic-based, I mean violence inspired by the Koran and supported sometimes explicitly, often surreptitiously, by a plurality, if not a majority of Muslims.

Anyone who has been listening to news lately knows that threat is real, that the aims are explicit, and that we, Dar al Kafir -- the land of the infidels are threatened with nothing less than extermination at the hands of Muslim jihadis. Contrary to what Mr. Warshaw would have believe, there was nothing racist about criticizing a religion. Sometimes terrorist supporting groups like CAIR peddle the term "Islamophobia" as part of a failed effort to equate legitimate criticism of Islam with the entirely illegitimate Antisemitism directed against Jews, be they ethnic or religious. Of course, CAIR knows lots about Antisemitism given their history of frequent use.

A free, enlightened society's tenets are chiefly opposed to the fascist-like tendencies of Islam, contrary to the implicit appeasement and cultural suicide that Mr. Warshaw defends through his press release.

I have heard many complaints by sharia-apologists, but the argument that targeting and informing the public about the violent campaign is somehow racial discrimination is folly from its onset. For starters, Islam is a religion, not a race. Therefore Mr. Warshaw's point about racial integration is quite off topic. Because religions are founded on ideas and ideas in a free, enlightened society are subject to debate and inquiry, the topic of Islamic violence is well-justified. What makes this kind of violence Islamic based? Is it the language of the Koran and hadiths? What makes Muslims in particular so found of killing non-Muslims (and Muslims that disagree with them)?

We, college students, are the future. Information campaigns that label the threat and advocate for action are not only essential to the preservation of the free, enlightened society that Warshaw so extols, but key in our education. This threat will not go away by wishing it away or by burying our heads in the sand or sequestering ourselves in the ivory tower. The barbarians are at the gates. It's time to stand to defend Western Civilization.

Those who cannot or will not debate ideas that are politically-incorrect or heresy in a religion to which a majority of Americans do not and will not subscribe are ceding cultural suicide. By implicitly -- and often explicitly -- ignoring the harms of Islam-based violence, they accept a second-class citizenship that is fundamentally un-American.