February 15th, 2008

Appeasement makes moderate Muslims turn radical?

» Posted in irrational, islam at 9:46 am

A strong case is made in this article that the hyper-tolerance toward Islam seen in the West today is having the opposite effect on Muslims than the appeasers want.

clipped from worldnetdaily.com

Could it be the more the West exhibits hyper-tolerance, the more it turns
some moderate Muslims, who believe the world will submit to Allah in the distant
future, into fundamental violent Muslims, who view this tolerance as evidence
the world is submitting to Allah now?

“Personal” tolerance in the West is rooted in Judeo-Christian concepts like
“love your enemies” and “turn the other cheek,” but Franklin D. Roosevelt warned
regarding “national” tolerance in a Fireside Chat, Dec. 29, 1940:

“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”