re: #767 Pastorius

736 Kilgore Trout,
So what do you think ought to be done about Islamism? Should we just wait, like the Dutch politician said, until Muslims have enough people to vote Sharia into law?

Or perhaps, we ought to wait until they have enough to amend the Constitution? Is that it?

If you have any ideas, I’d like to hear them.

There is no easy answer. There is no single swift stroke that will solve the problem in an instant. The only answer is to endlessly strive to “fight the good fight,” which would mean take extremely labor-intensive steps that will only have marginal success over the course of decades. To wit:

a. Each person to the best of his or her ability try to educate as many people as possible to what Islam is really like. Not to distort or slander Islam (which isn’t even necessary), nor to whitewash it Karen Armstrong-style, but just reveal the truth about it. And I suspect that the vast majority of Americans would recoil in horror from a totalitarian philosophy.

b. Oppose any outbreaks of shari’a individually, as they occur, whether it be discimination against blind people and dogs by Muslim taxi drivers, or imams demanding special treatment on airplanes, or shari’a courts discriminationg again women, or employees demanding special priveleges to pray or wear hijabs, or whatever.

c. Encourage our government to decrease immigration from Islamic nations.

d. Etc. etc.

I know there is a strong temptation to just “ban” this or this and “solve the problem” with one swift gesture, but by doing so, we undermine our national principles.