"The Muslims are coming", Wajahat Ali in the New York Times.
Nothing like erecting a good ol' strawman in your first para, so you can spend the rest of the article tearing it down.
Here's Wajahat Ali's man of straw: "… some Americans… holding on to the ridiculous belief that the world's 1.8 billion Muslims hate America…".
Of course it's ridiculous. Because it's not true. Not even the most rabid critic of Islam would claim that all its votaries hate the United States.
So then it's all too easy for Ali to knock it down and spend the rest of the article telling us of various good Muslims, "proud Americans" all, who are vying for political office in upcoming mid-terms.
Of course they're all "proud Americans"; that's a given in US politics, and anyone not mouthing this platitude won't get to the starting line.
And of course they're all nice people.
But to compare them with Kennedy? A president who "happened to be Catholic"? So these are politicians "who happen to be Muslim". Well, I for one, an atheist, don't fear Catholics, because I'm not an attending choir boy. But I do fear Islam, because it is an assertive and supremacist ideology. Unlike Catholicism, it seeks suzerainty over non-Muslims. There are enough examples in history and around the world to make it superfluous to repeat them here.
It may be, and I'll even stipulate, that all the Muslim politicians Ali mentions are fine people, secular and democratic-minded in outlook. But their faith, the ideology of the faith to which they openly and proudly adhere, is most assuredly not.
It's the case that there's a direct correlation between increase in the percentage in the number of Muslims in a country and the decline in freedoms. See here.
One cannot find any country in which the increase in Islam, in which Islamisation, has been a benefit. If there is one, please tell me.
So, I cannot be a cheer leader to the increasing number of Muslims in politics. It doesn't bode well.
