Despite my extensive studies of Islam’s history with the West, which is full of conflict, I do not hate Muslims, since that would be illogical and counterproductive. However, it’s Islamic leaders like Musa ibn Nusayr who started the aborted Islamic conquest in Europe, Osama bin Laden in the present day, and leaders in between like the villainous Almanzor (who sacked Santiago de Compostela and razed and plundered churches), the brutal Arouj Barbarossa (a vicious pirate, and his brother Haireddin wasn’t such a nice guy either— he massacred the entire town of Fondi because one woman escaped), the ruthless Mohammed II (the destroyer of Constantinople), the treacherous Lala Mustafa (who promised a Venetian general if he surrendered he and his men would be allowed to leave, but instead enslaved the soldiers, beheaded their officers, and had the general flayed alive), and so forth, who earn the rest of Islam a bad name. Those who come into the West and demand that the West change its ways to their ways are not aid in countering this impression.
You don’t want to eat pork? That’s fine. But don’t tell me I can’t have my Sunday bacon. You don’t think it’s alright to drink wine? Then don’t drink it, but don’t tell me I can’t. You don’t like Jewish people? That’s your business, but if you insult, attack, or hurt them, then it becomes everyone’s business. You don’t like church bells or religious music? That’s okay, but you don’t get to silence them while at the same time demanding the right to boom your call to prayer from loudspeakers five times a day.
You think child grooming is okay, or that it’s okay to force someone to marry against her will? You are in the wrong part of the world. You can disagree with us all you want, but you can’t demand we be silenced when it comes to your prophet. If I want to say Mohammed was a pedophile bandit (although that’s a gross simplification) I’ll say it. That’s how it goes here.
This isn’t Saudi Arabia, where you can ban churches. This isn’t Egypt, where you can treat the minority Christians like shit and no one can do a thing about it. This definitely isn’t Turkey, where you can just wipe out or expel all religious and ethnic minorities, erase any and all signs they were ever there, and get away with it.
If you have a problem with this, may I suggest a return to whatever primitive sandbox you came from? The sooner the better.
Ethics Alarms 
Steve, bravo! You said what so many are thinking, accurately and succinctly. I’m with you especially on the simple truth that anyone who goes to live in any country must at least to attempt to assimilate, or leave. Thank you for this blunt and honest post.
Steve, bravo! You said what so many are thinking, accurately and succinctly. I’m with you especially on the simple truth that anyone who goes to live in any country must at least to attempt to assimilate, or leave. Thank you for this blunt and honest post.
Just swap “Muslim” with “Communist,” or “Nazi,” and the supposed offensive nature of the comment vanishes, which is how you can see that the outrage mob is being dishonest, as usual.
Islam isn’t a race, like Black people. It’s an ideology, like Communism. Leftists want us to feel the same way about Islam as we do about people’s immutable characteristics, like racial heritage. That’s twisted and wrong, but it works for them, which is why they’ll keep doing it.
Amen!
Always an education when Steve holds a History lesson
Peter Boghossian and Raymond Ibrahim had a conversation recently about Muslim immigration. It’s mostly about how it’s affecting Western Europe. I thought it was interesting, but their cameraman objected. (The meltdown isn’t until near the end.)