CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MAY 24, 2018
PROFESSOR BERNARD LEWIS, WHO DIED LAST WEEK, WAS AN EXPERT ON ISLAM AND ITS GOALS.
IN A 1976 ARTICLE IN COMMENTARY MAGAZINE, LEWIS WROTE THIS:
“…Islam from its inception is a religion of power, and in the Muslim worldview it is right and proper that power should be wielded by Muslims alone. Others may receive the tolerance, even the benevolence, of the Muslim state, provided that they clearly recognize Muslim supremacy. That Muslim should rule over non-Muslims is right and normal. That non-Muslims should rule over Muslims is an offense against the laws of God and nature, and this is true whether in Kashmir, Palestine, Lebanon or Cyprus…. Islam is not conceived as a religion in the limited Western sense, but as a community, a loyalty and a way of life…. The Islamic community is still recovering from the traumatic era when Muslim governments and empires were overthrown and Muslim peoples were forcibly subjected to alien, infidel rule. Both the ‘Saturday people’ and the ‘Sunday people’ are now suffering the consequences.”
YOU CAN’T GET MORE CLEAR THAN THAT. THE PROBLEM FOR EUROPE AND THE U.S. IS THAT WE REFUSE TO BELIEVE HISTORY AND EVIDENCE AND SO WE, TOO, ARE LIKELY TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES IF WE CONTINUE IN DENIAL ABOUT ISLAM’S GOALS. I’M CAL THOMAS IN WASHINGTON.
