EMBRACING 'ISLAMIC VIOLENCE'

'Islamic violence' - thinking about it a bit lately, as one is want to do given recent events here and overseas, it occurs to me that the real issue is not so much who is responsible for recent acts of terrorism – we know that and cannot or will not take the only certain logical course to address it. No, the real issue is how much of it will we have to experience before we stop whining and acting all shocked and disconcerted about it.

Australia has a growing Islamic community.

Islam’s teachings contain much violence, especially the teachings of the Prophet’s later career, along with many reasons why the violence is permissible and even required.

What stops all Muslims being violent ‘extremists’ is their personal choice not to follow certain directives to the letter. Forget this rubbish about Islam being a religion of peace. It is only a religion of peace extended to other Muslims in an Islamic society. 

If you doubt this, it is clear you're familiar only with the Greens' expurgated overview of Islam....the one without the exploding gannets. 

People seem to think that some Muslims choose to be hard core jihadists. In fact all Muslims are required to be Jihadists and all are called upon to prosecute their law violently if required. 

2000 feared dead in Boko Haram slaughter, Nigeria, January 2015

What keeps us moderately safe is surely the fact that most Muslims are reasonable, rational folk who choose to be moderates by judiciously cherry-picking the teachings of the Prophet. And believe me, there's rarely a day goes by that I am not sincerely grateful for this small concession, right down to my Jewish roots.

So as the Australian Islamic population grows and given they will all be reading the same scriptures, the percentage of people choosing the hardcore path must surely grow, if only gradually, with the overall population and with it the percentage of actions we associate with the naughty Muslims. 

If you believe this to be flawed logic, believe me I'm all ears.

Ergo it seems to me the simple solution for the problem is to accept it’s going to get worse and without surrendering all our beloved civil liberties, which of course no-one wants to do save for one, there is no way to stop more and more people doing increasingly evil stuff.

We need to accept that in this day and age, stuff explodes, people get shot randomly from rooftops or while drinking coffee and buying chocolate and perhaps the odd building will tumble and plane fall from the sky, all because we value religious freedom and as the price of that freedom, stoically accept and weather all the violence and oppression likely to accompany it.

We need to seek solace in the fact that because we've made gun ownership illegal all the evil doers will hand in their AK47s and rocket launchers just like they did in France, so the very worst we have to worry about is the threat of a group of crazed killers wearing balaclavas yelling Allahu Akbar while chopping away feverishly at the pylons of the Harbour bridge with axes...and we'll be able to reason with those guys!

Welcome to the future as the Greens would have you live it.

Anyway, I'll get outaya way now...

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