Islamofascist Awareness Week Wrap-Up

Across the nation on university campuses this past week, students sponsored Islamofascist Awareness Week events. Predictably, the looney left elements and some, but not all, Muslim Organizations protested. I guess the week was a success for breeding controversy, because only through controversy do the events get widely publicized.

Let us be quite clear. The term Islamofascist does not refer to all Muslims, or the term would not even be necessary. The term refers (in oversimplified fashion) to those Muslims who believe that they have a right to kill those who will not convert to Islam after being called upon to do so. Osama bin Laden periodically makes such a call to nonbelievers in Islam.

If Muslims who reject the Osama bin Laden approach to Islam would embrace, promote and join in Islamofascism Awareness Week and similar events. the distinction between bad Muslims and good Muslims would be quite clear. There would be no better way to persuade the rest of us that to a majority of Muslims, Islam truly is a religion of peace (which I believe they believe, despite the mass of ancient Islamic scholarship to the contrary).

However, instead of acting in a manner to persuade the rest of society that United States Muslims are truly against the Islamofascists, they protested or remained silent.

Bad strategy. Unless or course, they secretly sympathize with the bin Laden camp...

For an interesting wrap-up by David Horowitz, the organizer of the week, click here.