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Asia Bibi and the Muslim View of Multiculturalism

31 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by Defend the Modern World in Anti-Modernism, Asia, Conservatism, Culture, Islam, Multiculturalism, Muslims, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized, Violence

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Last week a reader drew my attention to the suffering of a young Christian Pakistani girl called Asia Bibi. Ms Bibi, as you may already be aware (it is to my shame that I was not), is currently in prison facing the frighteningly common charge of ‘blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad’, a charge she denies.

According to ChristianToday: “Bibi was accused of blasphemy in Pakistan for sharing her faith in God to other women… She was then sentenced to death, although an appeal has been filed at the Supreme Court with no news yet on when her case will be heard. But time is running out for the Christian woman since her health has been steadily declining… She’s suffering from internal bleeding. She requires urgent medical treatment. She vomits blood. She suffers terrible pain, and she can hardly eat.”

Though pressure is being relentlessly applied by Christian organisations and charities in the West, Ms Bibi’s fate remains uncertain. Many have been punished viciously for the same ‘crime’ before, and since Ms Bibi herself is surely aware of this, one can only attempt to imagine the mental torment she must be experiencing. In July of this year, Pakistani authorities announced that the death sentence is ‘suspended’, but this is subject to challenge from the country’s powerful religious establishment. As of the time of writing, Ms Bibi is in limbo.

Of course, this story will not surprise any regular visitor of this site. We all know well enough the reality of Islam and its relations with competing belief systems. Those who wish Ms Bibi to die are being entirely faithful to the commandments of Islamic law and follow a precedent dating back to the Islamic Salaf (the early companions of the Prophet). This is what Islam does. We have no right to recoil in shock anymore.

But it is nevertheless worth remarking – in case there remains any doubt – that cases like this wholly exonerate the West from any obligation to uphold or respect ‘multiculturalism’ for the benefit of Muslims. Since Muslims themselves reject and despise the idea of multiculturalism, why on Earth should we allow them to enjoy its privileges?

Years ago in America, during the white heat of the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ controversy, the host of Fox’s satirical ‘Red-eye’ show was dead on the nail when he proposed that the mosque should only go ahead if a Synagogue was built in Mecca (the source of much of the project’s funds) first.

It really is as simple as that. Quid pro quo. Like for like.

Multiculturalism is not the natural state of the world. It is a modern invention, the product of a warped and unaccountable academia. It is unique to the industrialised West and considered bizarre and self-destructive to every nation outside of it. Japan wouldn’t allow a Mosque to be built in the shade of a Shinto Shrine. Saudi Arabia wouldn’t allow a Synagogue to be built in the shade of a Mosque. Only the West remains open to all and sundry. Is that fair?

No, simply put, it isn’t, and so a shift in policy is long overdue. No more Mosques in the Western World. If the Muslim world will not tolerate Christianity, the West has the right to expel Islam wholly from its midst.

D, LDN.

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The Compassion of Capital Punishment.

03 Monday Nov 2014

Posted by Defend the Modern World in America, Conservatism, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Politics

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If you committed or were uncontestably framed for murder or rape, would you rather be sentenced to a maximum security jail for the rest of your life, or painlessly put to sleep by poisonous injections?

The answer to this question – I find – is usually quite revealing of the human personality. I myself would likely plump for the second option and this is for reasons directly tethered to my political and philosophical worldview.

Life is (as the optimists say) the greatest luxury and there is something sacred about the opportunities afforded by it. But almost all of the benefits of living are contingent on personal freedom, and without it, the value of life collapses. Death, in and of itself, is not anything to fear. The reason we fear it is because we would rather carry on enjoying the fruits of liberty.

Because of these considerations, the debate around the death penalty has always seemed to me rather warped. The greatest cruelty available to the state is not execution, but surely incarceration with no hope of parole. I’m far from alone in this sentiment.

The other day I watched a BBC documentary on the Russian prison system (often thought of as the world’s worst). In that film, a prisoner was interviewed about the Putin regime’s commutation of sentences from death to life imprisonment. The prisoner noted that it was common for inmates on death row to hang themselves upon receiving the news that they were to serve life instead.

That’s not surprising. In Russia, murderers (and other serious offenders) are confined to their cell for 23 hours of the day. During the day time, they are forbidden to lie down on their beds and must instead sit on hard chairs or stroll up and down their undecorated 7 or 8 ft cell without the consolations of television or even literature. They have no contact with other prisoners except at mealtimes and they are monitored 24/7 by extensive cctv. Imagine living like that for the rest of your natural life.

We could learn from Russia here in the West. The lobbies of justice currently shouting for the death penalty should instead focus on supporting harsher and more dreadful prison environments for rapists and murderers; environments so hideous that even death would seem a sweet release.

D, LDN.

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