The Extremists of Islam and Judaism

Islamist extremist

I would never compare Charedi Rabbinic leadership to the apologist western Muslim leaders. Who well dressed in fashionable Western garb always come forward to condemn a terrorist attack by Fundamentalist Muslims. They almost always say that these people are not us. They do not represent in any way the ‘religion of peace’.  

Charedi extremists

The bottom line is that this is not that different than leaders of American and other Western Islamic leaders coming out with their tepid condemnations of their terrorists. Saying they do not represent Islam is the same thing as saying that these Charedi extremists do not represent Charedim. The fact is… they are Charedim just like Islamist terrorists are Muslim. They are just extremist Charedim!

Even as the politicians issued their usual bromides against considering all Muslims potential ax-murderers, the less sophisticated average man scratched his head, as Ali put it, over the attempt to portray a murder committed by someone shouting “Alla-hu Akbar” as having nothing to do with Islam.

 The spokesmen in Western suits and women in fashionable headscarves would have a good deal more credibility, she opined, if instead of issuing the usual laments after another horrifying attack, they had embarked on a public and persistent campaign to discredit these Islamist advocates of mayhem and murder. Had they done so, their nattering about the “religion of peace” would ring truer.

WHILE THERE IS NO OTHER REMOTELY comparable phenomenon to Muslim terrorism, Hirsi Ali’s observation that preventative efforts speak much more loudly than post facto disavowals has wider application.