Science-Fiction/Fantasy author Orson Scott Card is very frustrated by the murder of a Coptic Christian by a Muslim extremist. More specifically he is frustrated my the lack of outcry from the American left (note, Mr. Card is a Democrat, but I am pretty sure he voted for President Bush).
...Don't you get it yet? There's a war on, which was started by fanatical Muslims in the name of Islam; it's a war conducted by suicide bombs, terrorism, and acts of murder.
...But there must be loud condemnation by Americans of every political and religious group -- and insistence that individual Muslims and Muslim governments and Muslim religious leaders everywhere join us in that condemnation of murderers and assassins and terrorists.
...Here is the truth: I am not an enemy of Islam. I'm a believer in religious freedom, and any Muslim who accepts religious freedom -- including the freedom of Muslims to leave Islam if they choose -- is my friend, not my enemy. Let them persuade as many converts as they wish, in any country -- as long as they allow the same freedom to believers of other faiths.
Because ultimately that's what this war is all about. Freedom of religion versus the Islamicist claim to have a right to force Islamic law on everyone in every nation, and to kill anyone who opposes them.
That's the first freedom in the Bill of Rights.
And while the American Left is busy using that clause to tear down Nativity scenes and keep the Ten Commandments out of courtrooms, Americans and others, here and abroad, are dying because one religion -- Islam -- refuses to abide by the rules of religious tolerance.
His point is backed up by the statement issued by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the post below. Besides I thought I could gain solice in the fact the even professional writers can make sweeping statements and stereotype poltical groups...pour vous A.E. ;)
