Feinstein Talks Sense About Islam And Terrorism
Its not often I agree with Senator Feinstein, but she hits the nail on the head with this:
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A top US Senator urged Muslim leaders across the world to issue a slew of religious edicts denouncing terrorism and warned that mosques in “many places” are enabling terrorists.
Senator Dianne Feinstein spoke in the wake of Saturday’s bombings in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where 88 people were killed, and the July 7 attacks in London, where 52 people and four suicide bombers died. A new attack in London failed Thursday.
“I think until the mosques in the Muslim world and the imams in the Muslim world in a major way issue fatwa after fatwa denouncing jihad and denouncing terror that we’re not going make any progress,” the California Democrat told CNN.
“I don’t see many, if any, major imams throughout all of the Muslim countries coming together and saying: Enough of this. Stop. This is not Islam. You know, we object to it,” she said.
“Until there is something like an excommunication that would take place in the Catholic Church where, if you are going to engage in this thing, do not frequent our mosques, you don’t see this,” Feinstein said.
She added: “What you see in many places is that the mosque becomes an enabler one way or another.”
Exactly.
The only way we’re going to defeat Islamic terror is to convince the most devout followers of that faith that terrorism and extremism are not acceptable practices. Now if we could only convince Senator Feinstein that bringing western-style liberty and democracy to Iraq will go a long way toward bringing about that kind of shift in middle eastern culture we’d really be getting somewhere.
