Sweeping reality about Islamic jihad under the politically-correct carpet is the equivalent of a doctor diagnosing lethal cancer as a minor cough, because he fears upsetting the patient with the truth.
In medical practice, failing to diagnose an illness correctly will make curing the illness a matter of chance and may doom the patient.
By the same token, political leaders and commentators who doggedly dismiss the inherent nature of Islam as the motivation for jihad are imperiling our national survival.
Read Christopher Geisel’s City Journal review of Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, by George Weigel.
Some quotes:
I recently attended a briefing by a U.S. Air Force colonel who declared that the current terrorist threat had “nothing to do with Islam.” Such well-intentioned statements appeal to political correctness at the expense of meaningful understanding…
In Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, Catholic theologian George Weigel presents the War on Terror as an existential and generational conflict between the free world and radical Islamists—representatives of “jihadism,” a militant branch of Islamism that seeks “nothing less than a global Islamic state.” Weigel rejects the claims that jihadism is the result of American foreign policy, Third World poverty, or actions taken by the state of Israel. Instead, he identifies the historical and theological roots of jihadism in the early Muslim world, providing a brief summary of Islamic history from the early days of Muslim expansion and the development of political Islam through the birth of Wahhabism and the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood right up to Osama bin Laden’s “global jihad.”
Weigel sharply criticizes professionals in government, the media, and the academy who trace modern notions of democratic freedom to secular influences, and who therefore believe that the solution to Islamist extremism must be the secularization of Muslim societies.
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