Not All Cultures Are Created Equally

You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours

That was said by Charles James Napier when he went to India on behalf of the British government. Indian locals came to him complaining about the prohibition against Sati, the practice of burning the widows of dead local men.

Napier understood that Sati was considered critically important to the culture of the local peoples, and that logic or threats would not not convince them to behave otherwise. So, rather than approach his opposition as rational, and bend over backwards to accommodate them, he took a firm stand. That is something we in the West seem utterly unwilling to do in this day and age. In the era of multiculturalism, it seen as bigoted and uneducated to speak critically of foreign cultures, regardless of what the espouse. And we seem unwilling to impose certain standards when dealing with an enemy, for fear of angering those already hell-bent on our destruction.

And the story of Omar Khadris the perfect example. At 15, he went to join Islamists in Afghanistan, fighting alongside anti-Western Taliban forces. Never mind the fact that he is an American that was engaged in treason, by fighting in the Eastern region. After the building in which his military cell was all but destroyed, and it was believed that all the insurgents inside were dead, US Special Forces entered the building. And they got one hell of a surprise. Khadr was still alive, and threw a grenade at the soldiers. As Sergeant Morris noted, “he’s lucky, because he killed one medic. The second medic saved his life.“

A 15 year old kid, the youngest ever war criminal on Earth, attacked the medics who tried to save him, killing one of the two. And why did he do it? Because that is the type of ideology his religion teaches. While there are many peaceful people that call themselves Muslims, as I’ve pointed out before, those people would be considered apostates by traditional standards, and would be subject to death for defying the will of Allah. The Jihadists are following the Quran. There is a reason that Islamic terrorism and genocide are so widespread. It is time that we as a society accept this, and modify our strategy accordingly.

Many will use terms like “racism” and “xenophobia” to decry critics of Islam. But they have to do that. Appealing to emotion and concern over image is all they can rely on, since the facts aren’t on their side. The Quran calls for the murder of infidels through Jihad, the establishment of global Islamic hegemony through a caliphate, and the subjugation of the few non-believers that don’t fall to the sword, through an extorting protection fee called the jizyah. Until we are ready to accept that, and realize that those nations that follow Islam through their laws are rogue states that we cannot partner with (Saudi Arabia and the UAE come to mind), we will never win the war. Two cultures are at conflict here. We must be willing to assume that ours is superior, and thus defend it from the rising threat of Islam while there is still time.

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