As I noted in an earlier post, Bill OâReillyâs verbal assault on Pamela Gellerâs Mohammed cartoon contest as âstupidâ is based on the faulty premise that if we but abide by Shariaâs anti-blasphemy laws (i.e., we donât insult Muslims by drawing Mohammed), âgoodâ Muslims and âmoderateâ Muslim nations will join our fight against the bad Muslims of AQ and IS. The flip side of this argument is the explicit one OâReilly used to call the cartoon contest stupid: by insulting Muslims by violating their religious precepts by drawing Mohammed, we are driving the âgoodâ Muslims and âmoderateâ Muslim nations away from the existential fight against radical Islamic terroristsâthat is, our âalliesâ like Turkey and Saudi Arabia will abandon us if we donât mind our Sharia Ps and Qs.
Well, folks, as we pointed out, that argument lacks both empirical and logical integrity. Read this latest article about Turkey and Saudi Arabia joining with the âradical Islamic terroristsâ to fight Assad. And why not? Once Assad is defeated, that will weaken if not destroy the Shia/Iranian hold over Syria and allow a Sunni-centered, Islamist/Sharia regime to take control. Precisely the kind of new regime that will use its terrirtory to forge new jihadists in the war against the West. Syria and Turkey wonât careâthey are Sunni Islamistsâmaybe not as openly violent as AQ or IS, but only by degrees or tactics not by the core doctrine of Sharia.