Separating Violent and Peaceful Islam
13th December 2015
Americans by and large aren’t bigots, but the outbreak of Instant Jihad Syndrome last week convinced them that something was broken, and that the whole mechanism of Muslim immigration should be mothballed until the problem was fixed. They know perfectly well that some Muslims want to live in peace with non-Muslims and other Muslims want to burn down the world, but they don’t know how to tell the difference. As information about the couple’s longstanding terror connections trickles into the press, the public doesn’t trust its guardians to tell the difference, either. That was the lesson they learned from the jihadi Bonnie and Clyde of San Bernardino.
It can’t be done. History teaches us that there is no reliable way to distinguish between a ‘peaceful Muslim’ and one that will, unexpectedly and without warning, go batshit-crazy jihadist — because that’s what the Koran teaches, and you can never tell when somebody will decide to take his religion seriously.