Manifesto - Dexter Van Zile

Manifesto - Dexter Van Zile writes as able a Western, anti-Islamofascist manifesto as I've seen, in the Washington Dispatch.

You've blamed the United States, Israel and the West in general for the inability of Muslims to create a place for themselves in the modern world. The poverty from which the Muslim world suffers has nothing to do with the existence of the state of Israel, the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia or the alleged Godlessness of the West, but has everything to do with the contempt you and those like you have for knowledge, ideas and the free expression of the human spirit.

Your people are poor not because of what the West has done to them, but because their leaders have squandered the opportunity to build just and vibrant countries afforded to them by the presence of oil in their region. Consequently, the Muslim communities that have the highest standard of living reside in that part of the world you most despise -- the West. Just as our wealth is the consequence of our values, the poverty of the Muslim world is the consequence of the fatalism that underpins your thinking.

You've mistaken our secular system of governance for Godlessness and to cure us of this, you would force us, through violence to embrace a system of belief contrary to our traditions, temperament and long-held beliefs. You will not succeed.

The whole thing is worth a read.

Posted by Mitch at March 16, 2003 06:21 PM