Is Islam A Threat to The West 2
In my previous article three
examples were given on how Islam is featured in the American Media. I am
certain that a great many more examples exist, but they are inaccessible to the
writer due to their unavailability.
As for the article of
Kruthammer we need not say much sine Rev. Speight’s comments in his newsletter
are quite sufficient, and we can’t agree with him more. (As for his incentive
to defend Islam may be taken in another article)
Speight said, “ The
information in that column is badly distorted. The worst thing in it is the
statement that Islam is engaged in a concreted movement Worldwide. There is a
central authority in Islam, so any political or ideological struggle on a
global scale is out of question.”
Then Speight gave his
recommendation on the matter by saying that readers must be “ alert to counter
such unreasonable attacks as Kruthammer’s with authentic information regarding
Islam and the World where Muslim peoples are involved. Here we must thank and
appreciate Rev. Speight’s words. Moreover we wish that his newsletter be widely
distributed in the US. Where many writers like Kruthammer are spreading their
poison.
The case of Professor Lewis is
quite different. He is an acclaimed scholar of Islamic History an Islamic
currant affairs. What he voices out is taken for granted to be the truth.
However, his lecture has drawn wide reaction among Muslims and non-Muslims in
the USA. Though I believe that it is too little to counter an influential
speaker such as Lewis.
These articles were as
follows:
1-
An article by Mike
Feishllber in the Oak Tribune on May 5th. 1990.
2-
Professor T. B.
Irving’s article in the Impact International, 27 July –9th. August
and reproduced in the Hong Kong Herald in August 1990.
3-
Opinions by Mowahid H.
Shah in the Christian Science Monitor on July 30th.1990.
4-
Editorial of “ Muslim
Media Watch Newsletter, May –June 1990.
However, before reviewing the
above articles we must say that there are many who support Bernard Lewis. One
of these is the article appeared in the Christian Science Monitor on May
7th. 1990 by Rushworth Kidder in which he said:” His theme is (Lewis’s) the revulsion against western
values and manners that is spitting from Fundamentalist segments of the Islamic
World. He concluded that America as the “heir of European civilization “ has
become the focus on which (the Muslim World’s\) pent-up hate and anger
coverage” Kidder also said that Lewis’ lecture “ could not have been more
timely.”
To turn to Lewis’s critique,
we find that T. B. Irving summing up in two sentences as follows:” on May 2,
1990 Lewis read a 26 page diatribe against Islam at the Library of Congress in
which he viewed Islam as an enemy of the West, with the United States as its
principal adversary.”
Another critique of Lewis and
that is the editorial by the Muslim Media Watch Newsletter in which the
editor wrote: ” as if all the anti-Islamism shown by the Media was not enough,
how a government agency has joined the effort. The National Endowment for the
Humanities has paid 10,000 dollars to Bernard Lewis, a retired Professor of
History who has been selling stereotypes, oversimplifications and
distortions—all carefully packaged ant-Islamism—to gullible audience.
The Newsletter goes onto say
about Lewis “ starting with the loaded question “ why Muslims hate America?
Lewis has been telling his audience “ resentment and anger of the Muslim masses
toward America –is only the latest outbreak in a long struggle between Islam
and Christendom.” What the newsletter did not say is why should such an ardent
Zionist take the case on behalf of Christens? What is the real attitude of
Islam toward the issues raised by Lewis, Kruthammer and the Vice President and many
other writes?
Hope to
tackle these issues in other articles.
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