You say there’s a moderate Islam? Prove it.

In a broadcast in 2004, radio host Michael Savage offered a test to prove that there is such a thing as moderate Islam. While Savage’s style is not mine, his logic is irrefutable:

SAVAGE: I’d like to see them [Muslim extremists] hanging from lampposts in the entire Middle East. I’d like to see the Muslim world rise up en masse. … [T]hen I as an American will believe—and you know what I’ll believe? I’ll believe there’s a difference between the two. Not until then. Otherwise, until I see that day, that they’re strung up from lampposts, they’re lying to me. And that they’re really secretly getting off on these murderers, because they don’t have the guts to do it themselves. Okay, that’s when I’ll believe in the heart of hearts—when I see them hanging from lampposts, with their guts hanging out, then I’ll believe that there’s a difference between radical Islam and the rest of Islam over there. But if I don’t see that—if I don’t see the massive uprising against them, I can only assume that they’re the shock troops of all of Islam in the Middle East. How do you like that? That’s my opinion. I’m not George Bush running for office, and this message was approved by Michael Savage.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 30, 2005 01:19 PM | Send