Cultural Jihad

The story below ran yesterday in The Australian Higher Education publication. We share it with you because such requests for unreasonable accommodations are being repeated over and over again in the countries of Western Europe, and are slowly becoming more commonplace here in America.

In the story below, Muslim students want classes to be rescheduled to fit in with their prayer timetables, as well as separate male and female eating and recreational areas established.

Imagine the havoc wreaked on society if our public universities were to accommodate such unreasonable requests as these from Muslims. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, etc., etc. etc., would then rightfully step up and ask for unreasonable accommodations for their beliefs as well. Yet it seems that, not only are more and more Muslims around the world requesting - even demanding - such accommodations, it is clear they believe they have every right to such accommodations.

Simultaneously, it does not seem to occur to these Muslims that requests like those in the story below blatantly infringe on the rights and beliefs of other students, professors and staff. Or if it does, the attitude is that the rights and beliefs of others must give way to the practice of their Islamic faith.

Which begs this question: Why?

Why do these Muslims believe they have the right to subordinate the rights and beliefs of others? While we cannot read their minds, it is reasonable to conclude that such a belief emanates from the Qu'ranic doctrines of Islamic supremacy and forceful subjugation of all other beliefs to that supremacy.

After all, if you accept what the Qu'ran and the Hadith teach about the supremacy of Islam and Allah, about not only the right but the duty of Muslims to forcefully subordinate all other beliefs to Islam and Allah, then it is perfectly logical to conclude that you have the right to demand accommodations for your beliefs that subordinate the beliefs of everyone else to yours.

This is the theological rationale and justification for Islamic Jihad, whether by violence or "Cultural Jihad" - the subversion and ultimate conquering of a society from within by means other than physical violence. For what is Jihad but the call to subjugate "infidels" to the "supreme" religion of Islam and Allah?

It is one reason why sociologists and authors who are studying the migration of Islam around the globe regularly note that most Muslims do not "assimilate" in societies to which they migrate that are not Muslim. Even when they are in a small minority in a society, it is not uncommon for Muslims to demand special accommodations that no other religious belief in that society would demand.

Therefore, even if a Muslim denounces "terror" and the concept of "jihad," but at the same time demands unreasonable accommodations for his beliefs that result in the direct subordination of the rights and beliefs of others to his Islamic beliefs, he in effect acts as a "warrior" for Islamic jihad, whether he acknowledges it or not.

And as the Brits have learned, the more a society submits to these demands, the more emboldened the militant Muslims become and the more demands they make. Small wonder the Archbishop of Canterbury recently stated that the imposition of sharia law in Great Britain was "unavoidable" and necessary for "social cohesion."

In submitting to militant Muslim demands for accommodations for their beliefs, a society communicates to the militant Muslim that he is correct and that his belief in the supremacy of Islam and Allah is justified. This is why submitting to cultural jihad is every bit as dangerous as submitting to violent jihad.


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Muslims want unis to fit prayer time

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23269447-12332,00.html

Richard Kerbaj and Milanda Rout | February 25, 2008

MUSLIM university students want lectures to be rescheduled to fit in with prayer timetables and separate male and female eating and recreational areas established on Australian campuses.

International Muslim students, predominantly from Saudi Arabia, have asked universities in Melbourne to change class times so they can attend congregational prayers. They also want a female-only area for Muslim students to eat and relax.

But at least one institution has rejected their demands, arguing that the university is secular and it does not want to set a precedent for requests granted in the name of religious beliefs.

La Trobe University International chief officer John Molony said several students had approached the Bundoora institution about rearranging class times to fit in with daily prayers.

Mr Molony said the university was attempting to "meet the needs" of an increasing number of Muslim international students, including doubling the size of the prayer room on campus.

La Trobe University International College director Martin Van Run said that although it was involved in discussions with the Muslim students who had made the requests, the university was not planning to change any timetables.

"That would seriously inconvenience other people at the college and it is not institutionally viable," he told The Australian. "We are a secular institution ... and we need to have a structured timetable."

Mr Van Run said that Saudi students were fully aware that the university was secular before coming to study there. "They know well in advance the class times," he said.

A spokesman for RMIT University would neither confirm nor deny reports that Muslim students had requested timetable changes.

One university source told The Australian that the requests by Muslim international students for timetable changes included a petition.

"Some of the students would prefer that lecture times were organised so it would be easy for them to attend prayers," he said. "But it wouldn't be a good precedent to set."

Islamic leaders yesterday backed the push by Muslim students to have their lectures arranged to accommodate prayer sessions, but said such a move would be essential only for congregational Friday prayers.

Female Muslim leader Aziza Abdel-Halim said yesterday it was a religious duty for those who followed Islam to preach with their fellow believers on Fridays.

But the former senior member of John Howard's Muslim reference board said there was nothing in Islam that indicated men and women be segregated when it came to educational activities.

"There's nothing in Islam that says there should be complete segregation, especially in educational institutions," said Sister Abdel-Halim.

She said afternoon prayers for Muslims - Zhohor, at 1.10pm, and Asr, at 4.50pm - could be performed until 10 minutes before the following daily prayer, so it was more appropriate to alter prayer times than lecture schedules.

"It's reasonable to ask for the lectures to be shifted around on Friday," Sister Abdel-Halim said. "But if it's going to cause havoc with the timetable, I don't think it's really feasible to ask for every single prayer to be catered for."



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