Life and Death
This entry was posted on 8/29/2006 5:05 AM and is filed under Religion.
Excellent article in the Wall Street Journal by Shelby Steele, subtitled "Western guilt blinds us to the nature of Islamic extremism."
"If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her. And now much of the West is in a similar position, living in a state of ever-heightening security against the constant threat of violence from Islamic extremists. So here, from the Muslim world, comes an unappeasable hatred that seems to exist for its own sake, a hatred with very little actual reference to those it claims to hate. Even the fighting of Islamic terrorist groups is oddly self-referential, fighting not for territory or treasure but for the fighting itself. Standing today in the rubble of Lebanon, having not taken a single inch of Israeli territory, Hezbollah claims a galvanizing victory."
Read the whole thing here.
