With all the noise about the ABC miniseries in the last two weeks, a film at least as interesting has gone relatively unnoticed, and that would be the release as a DVD of "United 93". This film is not fiction; it is recent history.
To my thinking, it should be almost impossible for a non muslim to watch this film and still want Islam to be legal in his country.
From everything I've managed to read and learn about Islam over a long period of time, two major ideas strike me as glaringly obvoius:
- Islam is not like any other religion and cannot be treated as if it were, and any nation which ignores this reality is basically on a path to national/cultural suicide.
- A non muslim nation with as many as one muslims residing in it, other than as ambassadors, will ultimately have three choices in dealing with Islam:
- Submit to Islam.
- Ban Islam.
- And there may or may not be a third choice, which would be to either find or create some tamed version of it to officially sanction and tightly control, while all the others are banned.
IF that third choice is to exist, which is a very big if, then a very long list of changes would have to be made from present practices. In the United States, we would have to start by eliminating the wahhabi influence, which would entail rounding up and deporting pretty much all Islamic religious officials in the country. The hate sermons would have to go, the little hate schools would have to go, and I would want to insist on armed soldiers of other faiths attending all Islammic religious activities with orders to immediately arrest anybody engaging in anything which could be viewed as treason or sedition. I would also want loyalty oaths from any American citizens practicing the religion and sworn statements of peaceful intentions from anybody else practicing it within the borders of the country.
Like I say, whether all of that is even possible is a big if. My own preference at this point would be to ban the religion outright within the United States, practitioners being told they had thirty days to find another religion or another country, and simply get it over with.
The 80% of muslims who lead rational lives would find other religions, and the rest would be well gotten rid of.
I'd be curious as to the opinions of those who have seen "United 93".