I read an interesting Q & A in the National Post (the nation is Canada for you foreigners) with a young, unemployed self-proclaimed Islamist Pakistani immigrant in Toronto. I remember the type (usually Pakistani for whatever reason) from high school. One bit in particular caught my eye:
Q) You reject democracy, you support the Taliban and you believe that fundamentalist Islam is the only way to live. So why do you choose to live in Canada, a democratic nation with freedom of religion that is at war with the Taliban? Isn't it hypocritical of you say you believe what you do, while you sit in Toronto enjoying all the benefits of Western society?
A) Yes, I reject democracy and all other forms of governance except Islam. Yes, I support the right of Taliban to live freely and to defend themselves from any invasion based on lies and deceit. And yes it would have had been hypocritical of me to stay in the West had there been an Islamic state and still I would have had been living in the West but since there is no state in the entire world which has complete Islamic system in it and the Islamic world is full of either dictators supported by the West or leaders who are ready to crush any uprising calling for an Islamic system. Therefore it is better to be in the West where at least one can openly preach what he believes in unlike the so called Islamic countries where you can be jailed, tortured and even killed for speaking the truth against the government. Besides I was forced into coming to the West as my parents shifted here and I was not self sufficient enough to provide for myself back home. And believe it or not, me and many Muslims like me are willing to migrate ASAP to an Islamic state as soon as it emerges.
It is my opinion that the West should support the creation of an Islamic state so riffraff (and I do not use the term lightly) like Naeem Muhammad Khan will have somewhere to go where they won't bother the rest of us. The perfect place would be Somalia. Somalia almost had an Islamist government not long ago before the West backed an Ethiopian invasion to topple the short-lived regime. This was a mistake. Somalia is already, excuse the colloqualism, a literally pirate-infested shithole: what do they really have to lose by having an Islamic government? It would in fact serve several valuable functions for the world. One, it would give the people currently hijacking random boats off the coast of East Africa something to do; two, as previously stated, it would give fundamentalist parasites somewhere other than Canada to live; three, the example of a real Islamic state in all its kite-banning glory would actually serve to the world a living advertisement of how pathetic bin Laden's ideal world really is. Of course if the Somali Islamic "Republic" started harbouring terrorists we'd have to send in proxy crusader state Ethiopia again, but what are regional allies for? I support the battle against Islamic fundamentalism; but I hate the generally crass and stupid way the United States has gone about fighting it. It is impossible to fully rid the world of kite-hating pricks like Naeem Muhammad Khan, but it is possible to contain them. Giving them free plane tickets to Somalia would be a good start.
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