SHOULD AMERICANS FEAR ISLAM?

I just got through getting thoroughly pissed-off while watching a town hall panel debate - 'Holy War: Should Americans Fear Islam?' - that was moderated by Christiane Amanpour on ABC This Week. Among those contending that we should fear Islam was the Reverend Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham. It was quite obvious that Amanpour sided with those who said we have nothing to fear from Islam.

During the debate, Amanpour turned to Reza Aslan, an Iranian-American writer and a professor at the University of California, who was appearing on screen from the Netherlands. Ironically, the Netherlands is a nation that is being torn apart by its Muslims.

Aslan laughingly ridiculed Graham, as well as Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. It wasn’t the fact that Aslan disagreed with everything Graham and Spencer said that pissed me off - rather it was the smart-ass way he went about it.
　
Since Amanpour got Aslan to apppear on the program while he was in the Netherlands, she could also have given time to Geert Wilders, chairman of the Dutch nation's third largest political party, the Party for Freedom. Wilders has been warning audiences in Europe and America that there is much to fear from Islam. With her worldwide connections and those of ABC, I am sure that Amanpour would have had no trouble contacting Wilders and getting him to appear on her program.

For any of you who might be interested in Geert Wilders’ warnings about Islam, you can read some of them on my blogs, ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE (2-16-09), WILL THE ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE SPREAD TO AMERICA? (9-19-09) and ESSENCE OF ISLAM (1-20-10). Wilders, a member of Parliament, goes on trial Monday facing five charges of inciting hatred against Muslims for comparing Islam to Nazism and the Koran to Mein Kampf.
　
Most American Muslims have fully assimilated into our society and we have nothing to fear from them. But to the true believers in Islam, those Muslims are infidels. American Muslims are sort of ‘ersatz’ Muslims, just like America’s Reform Jews are sort of ‘ersatz’ Jews, or Christians Without Christ as orthodox Jews like to call them. That said though, we need to be concerned about an alarming increase in the number of fundamentalist Muslims that are being spawned in many of America’s mosques.
　
Now this brings us back to the question: Should Americans fear Islam? You bet they should!