QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 12:17 P.M. ET:   It comes from Muslim commentator Amir Tahiri, whom I had the privilege of hearing just a week ago.  He discusses a phenomenon he calls Islamophilia, an irrational love of Muslims on behalf of Western elites.  From the New York Post:

The Islamophilia crowd do a great disservice to both Western democracies and to Islam itself. They invite Americans and Europeans to sacrifice part of their own freedom in atonement of largely imaginary sins against Muslims in the colonial and imperialist era. They also invite Muslims in the West to learn how to pose as victims and demand the rewards of victimhood as is the fashion in Europe and America. To the Muslims world at large, the message of Islamophilia is that Muslims need no criticism although their faith is being transformed into a number of conflicting ideologies dedicated to violence and terror.

Never mind if Islamic theology is all but dead. To say so would be a sign of Islamophobia.

Never mind that God makes only a cameo appearance in mosque sermons almost entirely obsessed with political issues.

All that Western intellectuals or leaders need to do is stop flattering Islam, as President Obama has been doing for the past seven years, claiming that virtually anything worthwhile under the sun has its origin in Islam.

Many Muslims resent that kind of flattery, which takes them for idiots at a time that Islam and Muslims badly need to be criticized. The world needs to wake from its slumber and ask: What is going on?

COMMENT:  Wonderfully stated from a great and quiet man.  I love his line about Obama claiming that "virtually anything worthwhile under the sun has its origin in Islam."  Obama probably got that idea from the old Soviets, who'd claimed that everything good had been invented in the Soviet Union.   American comedians used to use that claim as a laugh line. 

Read all of Taheri's piece.  Wisdom well delivered.

December 13, 2015