Bart Simpson: Radical Islam

I want to put my thoughts down here as concisely as possible, because I see a very important aspect to it that isn't discussed. There are those that speak against Islam and then they're shouted down and chastised as "Islamophobic" and nothing ends up getting done and ISIS just keeps getting more powerful and killing more people.

Now, when you bring up this topic of radical Islam, the counterpoint is that most Muslims are peaceful people who never hurt anybody, and of course that is a fair point to make. Most of them are great people and nobody would argue against it.

However, there are many items in the Quran that are extreme and do lead certain followers to become extreme. What it reminds me of is the controversy after the Columbine shootings. If you recall, the Trenchcoat Mafia (as the killers called themselves) were big fans of Marilyn Manson, and there was a concerted effort following the massacre to blame the band on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaming_of_Marilyn_Manson_for_the_Columbine_massacre

Feel free to read about it there if you're unaware. The general feeling of course was that Marilyn Manson had nothing to do with the killings, and to blame him on it is ludicrous. Sound familiar? Just as Islam has nothing to do with ISIS terror attacks, music had nothing to do with killings.

However, you need to look at the lyrics of Manson's darkest songs and anyone can admit that if someone is already messed up in the head and they hear these things, they might start thinking that it's talking to them, and that they need to go kill people. That's when you get into the difficult topic of censorship, and how art should not be ruined just because of a few twisted people, and Islam should not be defamed for the acts of a few. To make a musician change what they believe in goes against freedom and everything we stand for as Americans.

Here's where the stories are different though. After that Columbine Massacre and all was said and done, the discussions of Manson's music causing these things went away naturally by lack of any further actions taking place. The mass shootings certainly continued, but none of them seemed to be influenced by Marilyn Manson after investigations took place. 

Not so with Islam. Coordinated attacks by large, well-armed groups continue, and they will tell you that it is for Islam and that they want to bring death to America and Israel and establish a global Islamic caliphate.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. While there is not a problem with Muslim people, there is something in the Quran, in Shariah, and in their upbringing that is causing several of them to become extremists and kill as many people as they can in the name of Allah. This strategy of holding back because we don't want to hurt the feelings of the good ones is not working. ISIS is not slowing down, and they're going to keep raising children to follow in their footsteps.

When people started getting lung disease and cancer all the time, they started doing research and found out that it comes from smoking, and they started telling us hey, you probably shouldn't smoke! Well, we know what's causing these sects to become extreme, because history has already proven it to us. What are we going to do to fix it?