Why Muslims don’t like us

A reader writes:

Look at Chapter 5 of the Koran, verse 51: “O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.”

Isn’t it funny how we allow people in this country whose governing book commands that they not befriend roughly 90% of Americans? How can any rational people allow this?

Yes, and not only commands that they not befriend us, but that they strike terror into our hearts and strike our heads off. And not only allows them into the country, but, as with Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain, makes them knights of the British empire. I am more deeply shocked by the news about Sacranie than by any other single incident of Western surrender in the last 20 years. Generally, despite the suicidal trends of the West, I remain hopeful (though it may seem to go against the available evidence) that we can turn it around. I have that hope in me because I believe that the lies of liberalism are not sustainable forever. But when I discovered that Britain had knighted this manifest enemy, that told me that Britain is beyond cure. I know the feeling will pass, and that my hopes of Western recovery will return. But it would not be honest to conceal that the thought and the feeling, “It’s over,” came to me when I learned about Sacranie’s knighthood.

In case the meaning of the title of this blog entry is not clear, I am referring to the liberal belief that if Muslims don’t like us, it is because of some personal bias or hatred they entertain, which in turn is always attributed to the alienation they experience living in Western society, which in turn we are responsible to cure by means of ever greater outreach efforts to make them feel more welcome and at home among us. In reality, of course, as shown by the Koran verse quoted above, Muslims don’t like us because they are commanded by Allah not to like us, indeed, to have nothing to do with us other than to convert us or subjugate us through jihad. Somehow I suspect that this is not the sort of intergroup “misunderstanding” that is likely to be resolved by liberal outreach efforts.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 28, 2005 01:54 AM | Send