Radical Islam in America

There was a powerful piece in a recent National Review the dealt with the Boston Marathon bombers. The pair of brothers who instigated this terrible act were examples of what's happening to many other Muslims as they enter Western nations. They are being told to integrate but not assimilate.

Radical Muslims have a strategy. They want to convince Western leaders and decision-makers of their right to live according to their faith. Now, that sounds good to our ears, because we all want the right to live according to our faith; it's a fundamental guarantee in the United States.

But Muslim supremacists stretched the definition of the word "faith." They are not talking merely about what we would consider religious tenets. Instead, they're talking about full-on sharia law, with its social and political boundaries, its regulation of every detail of people's lives.

These radicals don't want to join the rest of us at America's ecumenical table. What they are demanding is the establishment of autonomous Muslim enclaves within a society of which they are irrevocably hostile.

So the Boston bombers sucked up the ideology that creates terrorism by insulating its adherents and dehumanizing non-believers. But what does our government do about this? It often appeases supremacist agitators.

Consider Sheikh Qaradawi. He is probably the most influential Islamic scholar alive today, being found on advisory boards all over the West. Never mind the fact that he has issued fatwas endorsing suicide bombings against Israel, terror war against American troops in Iraq, and the death penalty for homosexuals. He is a darling of Western universities and academics, who present him as a leading "moderate" intellectual.

Until we get our head out of the sand, we will see more Boston-type events in our future. This is something we can and must fight.