§ The interviewer seemed shocked to hear that I do not have any Arab
or Muslim friends who are protesting President Trump's ban, and that many
immigrants of Islamic origin support the ban and are fed up and embarrassed by
what jihadists are doing.
§ The lesson America needs to know is that the West is not doing
Muslims a favor by constantly treating them as children who should be shielded
from reality. They hungry for the truth: that their educational system and
mosque preaching are full of incitement, are abhorrent, hate-filled and the
foundation upon which violent jihad is built.
§ Muslims need to know that the world does indeed have a justifiable
and legitimate concern about Islam and actions done in the name of Islam by
Muslims.
§ Muslims need to look at themselves in the mirror and see the world
from the point of view of their victims. Instead, the West is sacrificing its
culture, values, laws, pride and even self-respect.
§ It might compassion that leads the West to take in millions of
Muslim refugees but it is reckless compassion. Do Westerners question the
motivation of Islamic theocracies as to why ultra-rich Arab nations are sending
us their refugees but taking in none?
§ Some "tough love" is urgently needed if Muslims are to
be motivated to change and reform.
Early this morning an Arabic radio
station in the Middle East called asking my opinion about President Trump's ban
on refugees and citizens of seven Muslim nations. The radio host, who sounded
angry over the ban, was a Christian Arab. She was surprised to hear that I
supported the ban and think that it should have taken place the day after 9/11.
She then asked me if I knew any Arab
American activist who was against the ban because she wanted to interview
someone against the ban. She seemed shocked to hear that I do not have any Arab
or Muslim friends who are protesting the ban, and that many immigrants of
Islamic and Middle East origin support the ban and are fed up and embarrassed
by what jihadists are doing.
She said that all she sees on CNN and
other channels are riots that portray almost all Americans supporting Muslims
and against Trump. I am upset over the success of the leftist propaganda all
over the Middle East. It brings back memories of the life of the hate
indoctrination and misinformation I lived under for most of my life.
What would Muslim countries do to the
West, I asked, if 19 American terrorists flew airplanes into Arab capitals and
their government and military headquarters? What did she think Arabs would do
if every week or so American terrorists would conduct synchronized killing
sprees all over the Muslim world, gunning Muslims down, blowing them up with
homemade pressure cookers, ramming into crowds with trucks? There was silence.
She then started calming down and said
that of course she is against terrorism, "but". I asked: "Do you
see what jihad did to your Christian community in the Middle East?" She
was silent for a minute, then it occurred to me that she might be afraid to
continue the conversation because her bosses were probably Muslims.
I was sure she was going to hang up on
me, but to my surprise she asked me to please hold. Then she was back, live
from the studio, and started interviewing me and asked the same questions on
air. I poured my heart out in Arabic to the Arab listeners.
The lesson here is that Arabs are hungry
to hear the truth; this Arab station, instead of rejecting these ideas, ended
up putting them on air. The lesson America needs to learn is that the West is
not doing Muslims (especially the reformists) a favor by constantly treating
them as children who should be shielded from reality.
Muslims need to know that the world does
indeed have a justifiable and legitimate concern about Islam and actions done
in the name of Islam by Muslims. Muslims need to look at themselves in the
mirror and see the world from the point of view of their victims. Instead, the
West is sacrificing its culture, values, laws, pride and even self-respect.
Muslim culture needs a wake-up call telling them that, sooner or later,
non-Muslim nations will close their doors to any kind of Muslim immigration if
the jihad culture continues. That will also be a strong message to Muslims
already in the West who still believe in jihad.
The Muslim people are hungry for the
truth: that their educational system and mosque preaching are full of
incitement, abhorrent, hate-filled and the foundation upon which violent jihad
is built. The Islamic commandment to do jihad sacrifices Muslim men, women and
children to kill and get killed.
As long as the West continues its
appeasement of Islamic jihad, Islam will never reform and the West will lose.
So far, the West has continued to extend a lifeline to the religion of Islam; a
religion for which the number one enemy is the truth, and which struggles to
suppress the truth.
It might be compassion that leads the
West to take in millions of Muslim refugees, but it is reckless compassion. Why
isn't Saudi Arabia taking refugees temporarily until things settle down in
Syria and Iraq? Do Westerners question the motivation of Islamic theocracies,
as to why ultra-rich Arab nations are sending us their refugees but taking in
none?
Who is really benefiting from the policy
of appeasement, the acceptance of Sharia-stricken theocracies and their
jihadist, hate-filled education? Some "tough love" is urgently needed
if Muslims are to be motivated to change and reform.
Nonie Darwish, born and raised in Egypt,
is the author of "Wholly Different; Why
I chose Biblical Values over Islamic Values"
