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Fitzgerald: 95 things that fuel Muslim extremism
"The American presence in Iraq fuels Muslim extremism."
-- a conclusion concluded from the National Intelligence Estimate by
many concluders in solemn conclusory conclave assembled.

Ninety-Five Other Things That Also Fuel Muslim Extremism:

1. Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses."
2. The British government's protection of Salman Rushdie.
3. The American coup against Mossadegh in 1953, cited by some Iranians
as the direct cause of the takeover of Iran by the Ayatollah Khomeini
more than 25 years later.
4. The remarks of Pim Fortuyn about Muslim attitudes toward liberal
Dutch mores.
5. The movie by Theo van Gogh about the subjection of women in Islam.
6. The election of Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the Dutch Parliament.
7. Hindus passing by mosques as Friday Prayers end.
8. The failure of Americans in Iraq to sufficiently subdue the Sunni
insurgents.
9. The failure of Americans in Iraq to sufficiently subdue the Shi'a
militias.
10. The failure of Americans in Iraq to sufficiently subdue the Kurdish
desire for independence.
11. The failure of Americans in Iraq to give Baghdad an instant
makeover so that it resembles the most prosperous and advanced American
city.
12. The failure of Americans to solve every economic problem in Iraq,
to make Sunnis and Shi'a friends, to get the oilfields pumping at
full capacity, and to make donations even beyond the many tens of
billions spent directly on reconstruction in Iraq.
13. The failure of the Americans, in obtaining debt relief from all
Infidel creditors for Iraq (but not from any of the Muslim Arab
states), to persuade those same Infidel countries to supply another
$50-$100 billion.
14. The refusal of the French state to permit the wearing of the hijab.
15. The insistence, by the French state, that texts by Voltaire,
Montaigne, Proust, and other writers deemed or perceived to be
anti-Islamic by Muslims, be assigned to students, as required reading,
by the Ministry of Education.
16. The selling of alcohol by Christians in Basra.
17. The existence of Christians in Basra.
18. The continued functioning of Christian churches in Baghdad.
19. The Copts in Egypt who complain when Muslims attack their churches
and other institutions, or kidnap and forcibly convert Coptic girls to
Islam.
20. The Filipinos who try to hold private religious services in Saudi
Arabia, land on which no non-Muslims should be present in any case.

21. The American airmen who were assigned to bases in Saudi Arabia and
who showed insufficient obeisance to their Saudi masters, all daggers
and dishdashas, with their sneers of cold command.
22. The obvious superiority of Western economies.
23. The obvious superiority of Western education.
24. The obvious superiority of Western medical care.
25. The obvious superiority of Western artistic achievement.
26. The obvious superiority of Western (fill in here whatever you
like).
27. The failure of Muslims living in the countries of Western Europe to
have a standard of living equal or superior to that of non-Muslims.
28. The continued refusal of non-Muslims in the West to institute a
formalized long-term system of Jizyah, by which Muslims can be
supported; they now must make do only with the benefits provided by
Infidel taxpayers on a year-to-year basis.
29. The financial support given by the Americans to the Mubarak regime
in Egypt that enrages the Muslim Brotherhood.
30. The financial support given by the Americans to successive
Jordanian kings and kinglets, which enrages the Muslim Brotherhood.
31. The diplomatic and other support given by the Americans to the
corrupt Al-Saud family of "Saudi" Arabia, which enrages Al-Qaeda
and its local supporters.
32. The threats by some in the United States to withdraw support from
the Mubarak Friends-and-Family Plan, which whips up anti-American
sentiment among Egyptian Muslims.
33. The threats by some in the United States to withdraw support from
Pakistan if it does not collaborate less meretriciously in the
soi-disant "war on terror," which whips up anti-American sentiment
among Pakistani Muslims.
34. The temporary withdrawal of Infidel support for the
"Palestinians," who deserve to receive Infidel aid of every kind,
and permanently.
35. The discussion by some in the West of ways to diminish, in order to
prevent further global warming, the use of oil -- which discussion is
seen as damaging Arab and Muslim interests, and must therefore be
regarded as a deliberate attack on Islam.
36. The reference by Pope Benedict to a 14th century Byzantine
emperor's remarks in the course of a scholarly address at Regensburg.
37. The refusal of Pope Benedict to continue to apologize, and his
apparent refusal to completely humiliate himself, before Muslims
demanding such humiliation.
38. The Israeli "occupation" of Sinai, Gaza, and the West Bank
after the Six-Day War.
39. The Israeli "occupation" of Gaza and the West Bank after the
Camp David Accords.
40. The Israeli "occupation" of the West Bank after the full
withdrawal from Gaza.
41. The Israeli "occupation" of the sacred Arab and Muslim soil on
which the only Jewish state was created in 1948.
42. The presence of Jews in the Middle East.
43. The presence of Jews, uncowed, anywhere in the world.
44. The presence of a strong, self-assured community of Christians in
Lebanon.
45. The presence of Copts in Egypt, who sometimes act as if they, too,
too, have a right to regard Egypt as their land.
46. The refusal of Italian authorities to prosecute, before her death,
Oriana Fallaci.
47. The refusal of Italian authorities to ban Dante in schools because
of the mention of Muhammad in The Inferno.
48. The refusal of Italian authorities to remove or cover over frescoes
in Bologna that depict Muhammad in an unflattering manner.
49. The refusal of the government of Denmark to punish a Danish
newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, for daring to exercise the right of free
speech.
50. The refusal of Hindus to abandon any claim to ancient sites, where
Hindu temples once stood until destroyed by Muslim invaders.
51. The refusal of some Hindus to forget the history of India.
52. The refusal of some European governments to permit Muslim mosques
of any size to be built wherever, whenever, and with whatever towering
minarets and electronic amplifying equipment, as Muslims believe is
their sacred right.
53. The attempts by some Western police to enter mosques where they
have found, in the past, false passports and other documents, as well
as weapons including guns and explosives, sometimes hidden in false
ceilings.
54. The attempt to permit Europeans to continue, even outside Denmark,
to exercise the so-called right of free speech, as has happened with
Charlie-Hébdo and other French newspapers.
55. The refusal of the University of Geneva to renew the contract of
Tariq Ramadan.
56. The public displays of piggy-banks, and of allusions in English pub
names such as The Saracen's Head, which may offend Muslims.
57. The discussions by some national authorities in Holland and state
authorities in Germany of the need for more stringent qualifications
for nationalization, and in some cases the institution of those more
stringent qualifications.
58. The single mention by President Bush of the word
"islamofascism" -- a word which Muslims all over insisted must
never again be repeated by him, and which he never again repeated.
59. The behavior of American soldiers who have on several occasions
returned deadly fire coming at them from mosques in Iraq.
60. The behavior of the British police in not notifying Muslim
authorities well in advance of any planned raids on any suspected
Muslim terrorists in Great Britain; this is a grave offense which has
now apparently been rectified in order to win Muslim hearts and Muslim
minds.
61. The belief that some in the West continue to hold, that Jews do
have a historic as well as religious connection to the part of Dar
al-Islam they call Israel.
62. The outrageous way in which Infidels refer to the Prophet Muhammad
as if he is not universally regarded as the Perfect Man, uswa hasana,
al-insan al-kamil.
63. The mention by Infidels of aspects of Muhammad's life -- such
as the Khaybar Oasis attack, the Banu Qurayza decapitation, the murder
of Asma bint Marwan, the marriage to nine-year-old Aisha; these are not
true, or if true, are not things which Infidels have any right either
to discuss or even to know about.
64. The belief of some Infidels that those who give up on Islam, who
are apostates and therefore traitors to Islam, could after their act of
treason conceivably continue to know anything about Islam, given that
Allah clearly takes away from such people all their previous knowledge
of Islam at the very moment when they decide to apostasize.
65. The outrageous belief by some Infidels that nonetheless they may
have reason to listen to the testimony of ex-Muslims as to the real
contents of Islam.
66. The outrageous and insulting mention, by Infidels, of such words as
"taqiyya" and "kitman."
67. The outrageous mention, by Infidels, of the word "dhimmi,"
about which they can not possibly have any accurate conception, and
which they have no right to discuss in the first place unless they are
Muslims.
68. The outrageous attempt to suggest that people are not born Muslims.
69. The outrageous attempt to suggest that the spread of Islam was ever
undertaken through violence, when everyone knows it was a case of
sudden mass conversion.
70. The refusal of this or that Infidel religious leader, political
figure, writer, artist, comedian, or simply you, or simply I, to
exhibit the proper attitude toward Islam, Islam, Islam.
71. The wherewithal provided by OPEC revenues that enables the Saudis,
especially, to fund mosques and madrasas worldwide and thereby to
naturally increase the numbers of "extremists" in the Lands of the
Infidels.
72. The wherewithal of OPEC revenues that pay for an army of Western
hirelings, including former diplomats (mostly English and American),
former intelligence agents, former and present journalists (especially
those covering the Middle East), public relations experts, businessmen
eager for contracts in the Gulf, and many other fixers and middlemen.
This helps delay the day of new energy policies that could conceivably
diminish the OPEC oil revenues that fund the Jihad, and also prevents
the unwary from regarding Saudi Arabia as anything other than a
"staunch ally."
73. The willingness of journalists to overlook obvious links between
the practice of Jihad and the doctrine of Jihad, encouraged by
journalists who still do not feel any obligation to learn about Islam.
This encourages Muslims to make demands for changes in political and
legal institutions in the West, or to insist that outspoken Infidels --
the Pope, Theo van Gogh, Jyllens-Posten -- must stop speaking or
writing about Islam. Any such refusal to comply with Muslim demands
engenders -- "fuels" -- Muslim "extremism."
74. The refusal of the Buddhists in southern Thailand to stop being
Buddhists.
75. The refusal of the Christians in the southern Philippines to submit
to the demands to hand over lands to the Muslims of As Sayyaf.
76. The refusal of Christians in Sulawesi to stop holding church
services.
77. The refusal of the Israeli government to stop trying to protect
ancient archeological sites in Jerusalem, many of which have been
severely damaged by the Muslim construction on and deep within the
Temple Mount.
78. The refusal of Hindus in India to concede to Muslim demands for the
full application of Shari'a to the Muslim community.
79. The refusal of Orthodox priests in monasteries in Bosnia and Kosovo
to abandon the monasteries to Muslims who are clamoring to destroy
them.
80. The outrageous insistence by the world's Armenians and by many
others that Turkey stop denying the mass murder of Armenians by Muslim
Turks between 1915 and 1920.
81. The outrageous demands by many Infidel lands that outside forces be
brought in to protect the non-Arab Muslims from the Arab Muslims in
Darfur, despite the express opposition of both the government of the
Sudan and the Arab League.
82. The outrageous demands by some Infidels that Muslims should be
permitted to open mosques only on the basis of reciprocity -- that is,
on the basis of similar permission being granted to non-Muslims in
Muslim lands.
83. The outrageous refusal of some Infidel countries to prevent
transmissions of Al Manar and other satellite channels run by terrorist
groups.
84. The refusal of many Western countries -- Great Britain, Germany,
Canada -- to yield to demands of local Muslims that they be made
subject only to the Shari'a and not to the manmade laws of the
Infidels.
85. The refusal by Australia to cease contributing troops to help their
American allies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
86. The continued existence of Jews.
87. The continued existence of Christians.
88. The continued existence of Hindus.
89. The continued existence of Sikhs.
90. The continued existence of Buddhists.
91. The continued existence of followers of Confucius.
92. The continued existence of agnostics.
93. The continued existence of atheists.
94. Everything.
95. Nothing.

Some, especially in Lutheran lands, may be satisfied with these 95
theses. Others may prefer to round out the polemical embonpoint by
adding another five items to the list. Still others may wish to keep
adding to the list from the rich profusion of items offered by each
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