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February 09, 2006

Forget About Offending Radical Muslims; Let's Assert Our Values and Win Over the Moderates

A bloody clash of civilizations with the Islamic world isn't inevitable.

A great many Muslims haven't any desire for it, and the vast majority of Westerners want to avoid it too. Islam, Judaism and Christianity have co-existed peacefully at various times in history; it can be so again, especially as many Muslims voluntarily choose to leave Islamic countries for the Western world, where opportunities abound and freedom of religion is ubiquitous.

Westerners must understand, however, that avoiding a clash of civilizations isn't primarily a matter of tip-toeing around Muslim sensibilities. To avoid a clash of civilizations, our mindset and our strategy must change from a defensive attempt to refrain from insulting Muslims to an aggressive attempt to win over moderate Muslims to our side.

If we aren't willing to make the case for our values who will be?

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We must understand this:

Radical Islamists aren't upset when Europeans are seen as offending Muslims. Rather, they celebrate any offense taken. Their goal is to provoke a clash of civilizations. When Muslims are somewhat offended by cartoon images of Mohammed they don't lament the fact that their prophet has been blasphemed; they create more offensive images to further inflame whatever masses will go along.

Radical Islamists are betting that despite their military inferiority they will triumph in a clash of civilizations. It is why they blow up American naval vessels and crash airplanes into skyscrapers. It is why they behead Westerners, unleash suicide bombers on European capitals and flush their own Korans down toilets to create the illusion of Western abuse. It is why they stand on the streets of London holding signs that say "The Real Holocaust is Coming."

We know that radical Islamists resort to these most depraved tactics. We know they've desecrated their holy book and spread forged images insulting to their own prophet to gain a tactical advantage.

Even knowing this, however, we seem to take their outrage at face value when they provoke the burning of embassies, the kidnapping of foreigners and the threats of mass murder. Sure, we don't condone those things. But we treat them as the response of Muslims angry about cartoons rather than the handywork of provacateurs searching for any pretext to stir up an angry factions ready to riot on command.

Radical Islamists firebomb buses full of Muslim children in Iraq. They allow Saudi women to burn alive rather than evacuate them from a burning building without their burkas. They send their own children off as suicide bombers.

Yet we somehow believe that they've suddenly cultivated sensibilities so delicate that Western insensitivity is at the root of all this mayhem--that if only we wouldn't have offended their suddenly delicate sensibilites with cartoons they wouldn't have stirred up the radical fringe of the Muslim masses with propoganda tours, organized protests and violent actions a few months in the making.

Ask yourself which is more likely: are such men genuinely outraged by the cartoons, or did they see a strategic opportunity to stir up the masses? Now ask yourself if our strategy ought to be aimed at 1) avoiding genuine offense or 2) finding a way to win over moderate Muslims so that when the inevitable attempts to stir up violent resentment come they are seen for what they are: a radical fringe unrepresentative of Muslims, and thus unable to provoke a clash of civilizations.

The former strategy is foolhardy. Islamic radicals stand ready to use any pretext to inflame the masses--no perceived offense is too trivial, and if actual offenses are in short supply made up offenses will suffice. We are talking about societies where the official media report that food aid packages dropped by the United States contain poison, and where the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are disseminated as historical documents.

Additionally, our own freedom of expression ensures that some Westerner will offend some Muslims at sometime in the future.
Does anyone believe for a moment that we can censor, whether officially or unofficially, all speech that Islamic radicals will be provoked by? What kind of a strategy is that?

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Here is the reality we face: Many thousands of Muslims are truly offended by images critical of their prophet. Any American who finds that reaction unreasonable ought to be reminded how many thousands of Americans feel when they see someone burning the Stars and Stripes. Sure we ought to respect the religious symbols of different cultures; of course we shouldn't gratuitously insult Muslims.

Neither should we assume, however, that all Muslims are deeply offended by the images, or that those who are support violent extremism as the reaction.

Many American thinkers have long identified such assumptions as a pitfall to avoid in the War on Terrorism. If you fight against violent extremism you can attract moderate Muslims to your side. If you fight against Islam you will send many moderate Muslimes to the other side.

Now consider how the Danish cartoon affair has brought us to a dangerous moment where a clash of civiliations is more likely than before.

Jim Geraghty writes:

I know, from my experiences, that there are significant numbers of Muslims who have no beef with the West, who want to live the American dream, who can practice their faith and coexist with other religions. I’ve documented their efforts to take back their faith from the bin Ladens of the world. But apparently they are too quiet.

I wonder how many Muslims understand how the actions of the embassy-torching maniacs define their faith to so many. I wonder how many don’t know, how many don’t care, and how many do know and care but are too scared of the consequences to stand against the violence committed in their name. I’m trying to articulate my positive experiences with Muslims over here to my readers, but it’s not as powerful and penetrating an image as screaming lunatics burning down embassies and threatening to behead anyone who they believe has insulted them. And frankly, I’m not all that wowed with the reaction of moderate Muslims. I’m not sure how much further I want to stick my neck out defending a faith community that won’t loudly and firmly police or rebuke its own members.

Geraghty's sentiment is both understandable and increasingly common (see the numerous examples in his post). Certainly I wish that more moderate Muslims--the silent majority I desperately want to court--begins to be more vocal about their own views, undercutting Islamic radicals who attempt to speak in the name of Muslims everywhere.

While those moderates cannot escape blame for their relative silence, however, we must acknowledge that the Western response to the cartoon affair is hardly making it any easier on them. We are implicitly allowing the Islamic radicals to speak for all Muslims every time we accept the premise that uncontrollable outrage is "the Muslim response" to these cartoons, or that all Muslims are offended by them, or that apologizing to Muslims will stop the violence.

Western Civilization must be clear that freedom of expression isn't a value we're willing to compromise on, and that we won't tolerate attcks on us for exercising it no matter how offensive its content. Nor are we willing to compromise on the equality of women, the freedom to choose one's faith, the depravity of anti-Semitism or the separation of church and state.

If we aren't willing to categorically defend these values when they are challenged how can we expect moderate Muslims in oppressive communities to do so?

If our first reaction to arson, violence and threats of mass murder is to credulously condemn the cartoons that supposedly provoked them--implicitly accepting the notion that angry Muslims rather than radical Islamists are the root cause of all this--how can we expect moderate Muslims to bear the burden of refuting our mistaken notions?

If we are unwilling to make the case for Western values and their compatibility with moderate Islam how can we expect moderate Muslims to make it?

Thus far, our behavior and that of moderate Muslims has been disappointing. Before we give up on them, we ought to see what happens if we defend and articulate Western values ourselves. Confident assertions attract more allies than half-hearted defenses.

Posted by Conor at February 9, 2006 02:47 AM


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I am a devout Christian, who believes we should “ALL� love our fellow man as well as our enemies. But, after witnessing most Muslims (both moderate and extremist), rejoice in the streets of many Muslim countries because their brothers in Islam crashed jets into our buildings, blowing up subway trains, killing thousands, I am compelled to speak out. I see there a double standard taking place. Many Muslims across Islam openly display their hatred toward the west and Jews without regards to our feelings or religion. They display anti-Semitic propaganda in their own newspapers as cartoons defiling the Jewish tradition. They have created cartoons depicting Christians as wrong-doers, and associating the Star of David with evil, still yet they cry “Foul� when the reverse is on the table.
I am one who will admit that I cannot see a true distinction between moderate and extremist Islam. I view Islam as a religion that claims tolerance for us, but then goes out looking for Christians and Jews to decapitate torture and defile in the name of their religion. Middle Eastern media continuously and openly support the efforts of the Jihadists to drive the west into compromising positions where we must obey and submit to their demands at the expense of our religion.
Still yet, no moderate Muslims have spoken out in our defense, or openly condemned acts of hatred and violence toward us.
We all should remember that Christians and Jews as well as Muslims come from all walks of life, portraying all of us a culture of people and not a distinction of a single race or nationality. We all have the right to exercise the practices of our own true religion as we see fit, but not at the expense of other religions.
The Muslim’s Cree is to conquer the world and convert all mankind to Islam…even by the sword if necessary. So, in-light of these known facts of defiling both Christian and Jewish religion, killing innocent women and children, imposing the will of Islam into our culture, and openly calling for the death of thousands of Jews…I wonder what religious figure in Islamic tradition allowed such atrocities to be incorporated into a religion? Since this religion’s founder is the prophet Mohammed, are the published cartoons that far from the truth?

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