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Where are the Protests to Ban Islam’s Black Flag?

Jun 29, 2015 8:13 am By Ralph Sidway

Even Southerners are calling for the retiring of the Confederate Flag. Where are the Moderate Muslim protests to ban the Black Flag of Islam? 

Over at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher has a really stirring piece in which he grapples with the complexity and pain of the guerre du jour, the movement to finally banish forever the Confederate Flag (a movement so sweeping that the classic film ‘Gone With The Wind’ may itself soon be gone with the wind). Dreher is a born and raised Southerner, and shares his inner struggle over the issue:

From the time I was old enough to realize what slavery and the ideology of white supremacy that sustained it, and that remained after slavery died, I have had a troubled conscience about the South. I found it so difficult to reconcile the place and the culture into which I was born, and which I loved, and do love, with the hideous facts of our history.

That is the tone of honesty grappling with reality. There’s much more, for Dreher strives to place himself (and his readers) in the shoes of any and all who have dark shadows in their cultural and societal and ideological history. To wit: 

Even though your people may have thought and behaved wrongly in a particular instance, you may try to explain the context in which the sin was committed, and to point out the complexity of the situation — not to excuse it, necessarily, but to shed light on the broken humanity of the phenomenon…

I would assert that such issues of situational “complexity” and “context” won’t wash when it comes to Islam and Muslims, because in Islam, it’s not about what Dreher calls “a few bad actors” in “particular instances.” It’s about a lot of bad actors — beginning with one in particular — consistently acting badly over fourteen centuries, under the black flag of divine sanction and command.

Indeed, if anyone has dark shadows in their history, it is Muslims. Yet we rarely if ever see from them any self-examination or troubled conscience such as Rod Dreher and other Southern progeny are displaying now. President el-Sisi of Egypt comes to mind, but most Muslim critics of Islam are ex-Muslims (think Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq). 

The darker side of Islam — jihad, genocide, sharia, apostasy and blasphemy laws, honor killings, abuse of women, child marriage, FGM, and that whole supremacist culture which eternally demands for Islam to reign supreme — is analogous neither to the white-supremacist side of Southern Culture, nor to other examples Dreher uses, such as the challenges within Black America or the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandals, all of which derive from the flaws of human nature in each person, extended at times to the mob.

As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”

Yet this is precisely why the case of Islam and American Muslims is radically unlike that of any other cultural, racial or religious group. The evils being perpetrated by the “bad actors” of Islam do not merely stem from the human heart of darkness, “the line dividing good and evil [which] cuts through the heart of every human being.” 

No, Islam’s “bad actors” are acting out of deeply held beliefs created by one man — Muhammad — who fourteen hundred years ago unleashed upon the world his own tormented heart of darkness. His devotees take the words he recited (the Quran) as the literal words of God, investing in them eternal validity and unbounded dominion. And they adopt his example as the lens through which to view, understand and apply those words, emulating Muhammad in every manner possible, the more devout they become. 

Mass beheadings of Christians by Muslims in Libya, the rape and sexual assault of thousands if not a million British schoolgirls by Muslims, the death penalty for apostasy, blasphemy, and criticizing Islam: all stem from Muhammad’s example and the commands in the Quran. 

Another example of Islam’s dark allure is what Daniel Greenfield calls “the Nice ISIS Jihadist Next Door.”  How is it we keep seeing more and more American Muslim men and women — “moderate” Muslims: affluent, college-educated, successful — sneak off through Turkey to join the Islamic State, or simply become “lone wolf” jihadis here at home? “Until they began killing people, they seemed just like the rest of us. And with one difference, they were.”  

That one difference, my friends, is Islam, Muhammad, the Quran.

Even Southerners now are calling for the removal of the Confederate Flag from public display, yet Muslims can’t seem to raise more than 24 protesters against jihad attacks in North America. 

We have even seen a Pope (John Paul II) publicly repent over and ask forgiveness for the treatment of Jews, women and minorities under the flag of Christendom over the centuries. Yet where is the Muslim mea culpa for 14 centuries of warfare, land expropriation, slavery, persecution and genocide?

Islam now has a new caliphate and a reinvigorated global jihad, and Muslims are committing a new genocide against Christians in the name of Allah. Yet where are the Moderate Muslim protests against the Black Flag of Jihad? Where is the Muslim repentance and soul-searching analogous to what we saw in Rod Dreher’s lament over the “hideous facts of our history”? 

There is none. Instead we see Muslim condemnations and death fatwas against those brave souls who try to shine light on the dark recesses of Islam and its endless threat against all non-Muslims. We see Muslims saying they have no reason to apologize for Islamic terrorism and jihad.

As long as Muslims see no reason to apologize en masse or reform Islam, we shall continue to hammer on Islam’s crimes against humanity, on the fact that 80% of mosques in the United States promote jihad and sharia law over the Constitution, and nearly 30% of U.S. Muslims think violence is justified against those who insult Muhammad. 

We are at a critical moment in human history, when proclaiming the truth about evil is essential for any people anywhere to have a free future. Solzhenitsyn warned that it is essential to expose evil itself — the evil ideology — as well as to punish the evildoers. Behold the Epitaph of America and Europe, from The Gulag Archipelago:

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. 

Let’s get the Confederate Flag out of the news cycle and concentrate on the real threat to free people everywhere: the Black Flag of Islam. Let us not keep silent about the evil. 

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Ralph Sidway is an Orthodox Christian researcher and writer, and author of Facing Islam: What the Ancient Church has to say about the Religion of Muhammad. He operates the Facing Islam blog.

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  1. ich says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 8:18 am

    Presidents come and go.
    Prime ministers come and go.
    They go off into the sunset. Set forever. Obama becomes
    a late night guest on shows till people get tired of him.

    In short. ROCK STARS.

    The people meantime are left to pick up the pieces.

    This is not the America I love.

    We need a mass protest. All the states & provinces all lover the world.
    A simultaneous NO MORE

    • Concerned Citizen says

      Jun 29, 2015 at 8:35 am

      You are absolutely spot on my friend!! I feel more vulnerable now than I have ever been in my life!!

  2. Concerned Citizen says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 8:31 am

    From what I understand about our history was that a black man was the first to own a slave and their own people sold them out! Of course, I thought it was horrible and wrong, but it was way before any one person on this earth was born. How can it be our fault? I’m an American Indian and I don’t hold a grudge whatsoever! Why would I? That was how they lived back then! Why do we keep getting blamed for it and keep giving in on EVERYTHING?? I am serious when I say this, I see people everyday being racists against me. I truly feel they keep the race alive….. Liberals and blacks because they know it works! I love all kinds of people, so I am not racist, but why hate on me! I am sure there are lots of white people that are racists, I get that….but more and more black people have this entitlement that we owe them something! I work my butt off to have what I have! This goes for blacks and WHITES and all in between….if you grow up, not educated, not hard working, not passionate and not set some goals, then yes you will live poor and won’t amount to anything! BUT if you put your mind, soul, heart, get educated and have motivation to work hard for it, then you will achieve anything!! Unfortunately I see it go from generation to generation, where they feel like they (whites and blacks) are entitled to something and their family is teaching them how to live off the government! I see it in my own family! It’s very concerning! We are going to end up like Greece…once we run out of money, then the government is going to start seizing the taxpayer’s assets and we won’t be able to get our money out of our banks!

  3. KrazyKafir says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 8:42 am

    Muhammad, and his legacy, are the key to all of the Islamic aggression, its moral inversion, and Muhammad is also the key for the west’s enlightenment, albeit only if the truth about what an evil warmongering child molesting the monster he was is not willfully buried by liberals and stealth Jihadists. Once someone learns the TRUTH about Muhammad, and how this evil cretin is the, model of excellence, for all Muslims , then the tumblers start to fall into place. Provided of course, one’s mind isn’t hopelessly afflicted with cognitive dissonance.

  4. Renee says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 8:59 am

    If the cartoons are blurred or not shown,then those flags should be blurred or banned. Why not start here on this website?

  5. Don McKellar says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 9:00 am

    Now how in the world could you expect “moderate” moslems to protest to ban a flag which says:

    “There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God.”

    The “moderate” moslems would be protesting against their own beliefs.

    • William Ash says

      Jun 30, 2015 at 5:40 pm

      Yes exactly Don, those were my immediate thoughts as well.

  6. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 9:23 am

    “From the time I was old enough to realize what slavery and the ideology of white supremacy that sustained it, and that remained after slavery died, I have had a troubled conscience about the South.”

    That’s what Ron Dreher wrote in the American Conservative. Did you understand it? I can’t even parse it. It seems that a verb should go with the “what”, which indicates an indirect question, but I can’t find the verb. Is it just me, or don’t they have, like, editors over at the American Conservative to check articles for coherence before they are published?

    • Angemon says

      Jun 29, 2015 at 10:51 am

      That confused me too – there’s definitely something amiss.

    • Ralph Sidway says

      Jun 29, 2015 at 4:39 pm

      I noticed that too, and left it as it was when I grabbed the quote. Dreher is a prolific blogger (this was not a tightly written article), and so I think, like many bloggers, he misses some of his grammatical blunders from time to time.

  7. Richie says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 10:22 am

    The gay rainbow flag ( a truley leftist flag) now flies in front of my city hall and local schools. I find that flag ujtterly offensive, but leftists will defend only things that support leftisst narratives. The left supports Islam because oif a shared hatred of Christians, Jews, America and Israel- The left will defend the Jihad flag as much as their vile gay flag

    • Agent of Liberty says

      Jun 29, 2015 at 1:56 pm

      Your truly an idiot Richie! “The left will defend the Isis flag as much as their vile gay flag” Your not making sense!

      • Western Canadian says

        Jun 29, 2015 at 3:38 pm

        Whether or not you agree with her, yes, she is making sense. The islamic (RTC) flag and the rainbow flag represent two absolutely mutually exclusive ‘viewpoints’. The left back both of them. They are the idiots.

  8. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 11:45 am

    Why not to start burning publicly those black flags? No books should be burned, that’s stupid, even evil books. Better learn from them and counter their message. That’s ideological battle. But their evil symbols? Look: how many times we saw Mohammedans desecrate American Flag? So yes, desecrate THEIR symbol, symbol of evil! Why not, somebody who knows Arabic, would create caricature their flag with some “anti” shahada inscription on it?

  9. Januk36 says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    How long before the call to take down the US flag ? Symbol of the genocide expansion of the US at the expense of native indians..

    ..of every flag, symbol of nationalism, colonialism, borders ? The cross, symbol of torture, superstition and bigotry.

    While we are at it, take down every symbol, including the alphabet, symbol of cultural supremacism at the expense of hunter and gatherer societies.

  10. Agent of Liberty says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 1:49 pm

    London gay pride parade protested the Isis flag with a mock Isis flag covered with dildos and butt plugs. Breitbart posted it and now have taken it down. They had a photo iincludd. It was A CNN story. I guess Breitbart didn’t like the story because it showed gays protesting ISIS. And Breitbart wouldn’t want to be supporting any kind of gay anti terror group would they?

    • jayell says

      Jun 29, 2015 at 2:23 pm

      Congrats to the Gay Pride people and serves the muslims right – they’ve been burning Union Jacks and your Union Flag amongst other nasty things in their ‘demos’ for years, and no-one’s done a thing!

  11. somehistory says

    Jun 29, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    There isn’t much truth being allowed today.
    First of all, not all people of Southern heritage and culture, are from a background of feeling, thinking, and promoting of *white supremacy.* Some of us Southerners, white being our color assigned by DNA…have never been taught by our ancestors that we were better than other races. Some of us have friends, and yes, family members with DNA that instructs for dark skin.

    Second….having many friends who, by their DNA are black in color….I learned long ago that *white supremacy* is also a part of *Northern* thinking, culture, etc. One friend, having been born in a very northern state before moving to the South, related that the supremacy thing was much stronger from where she came than where she ended up.

    There is also just as much untruth in the discussions about islam, But as many people don’t want to admit that the North had *slaves* and *supremacy* problems, they don’t want to admit that islam is the worst of all in its teaching and practice of a mindset of being superior to other humans who don’t think, act, and believe as they do.
    And some of those same people equate Christianity with what isis and boko haram are doing….without acknowledging, of course, that those atrocities are founded in islam and that they have never known a single Christian that approves of such, nor would any Christian they might know, do any such things as isis and bh are doing.

    Because truth is in short supply, it must not be used too often….is their way of thinking, I suppose.

    • Bezelel says

      Jun 29, 2015 at 3:33 pm

      somehistory, I have heard it said that in the north whites as a rule don’t care how high up blacks get as long as they don’t get too close And in the south they don’t care how close blacks get as long as they don’t get too high up. There’s a point in there somewhere. I do know that white southerners are slandered mercilessly by northern blacks and whites as if that makes them any better. Truly the human experience denies us all of perfection regardless of geography or DNA etc…Except muslims of course who have decided claimed the right to cast the first stone and any other act of violence they deem applicable.

      • somehistory says

        Jun 29, 2015 at 4:19 pm

        Truly the human experience denies us all of perfection regardless of geography or DNA etc…Except muslims of course who have decided claimed the right to cast the first stone and any other act of violence they deem applicable.
        ****************************************************
        This is all true. And sad that the truth of it is in such short supply.

        BTW: I have worked at several places where my supervisors, both immediate and above them, were Black. What matters to me is character, and it doesn’t come with any colors attached…
        What is funny to me, is when one studies art, or light, or a combination thereof, one learns that *white* is a combination of all colors, and *black* is the absence in light, and absorption of all color…hence, it shows as black. Very mysterious, is “nature”.
        Just a little thinking of something different than the evil of islam, of which I am so very tired.

  12. underbed cat says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 1:05 am

    As they say ‘racism” is a universal trait…that can be molded many different ways, depending on circumstances, personalities, local culture as long as one uses no violence, verbal abuse and has genuine feelings of tolerance, friendships can develop and race is irrelevant. Unless a person wants power over….then things go south.

  13. torino390 says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 2:40 am

    please excuse my ignorance, I’m a little behind on this story. so to what extent has the confederate flag been banned? locally, globally or what? what does this mean in real terms then? are all such flags to be destroyed or something? and t-shirts, posters etc. and what about the roof of my friends ’69 Dodge Charger? it’s all getting a little bit silly…

    • somehistory says

      Jun 30, 2015 at 10:59 am

      It has been removed, or is going to be removed, from many different places throughout, and on line businesses are not selling it any more. It hasn’t been *banned* yet, that I am aware, and most likely, they won’t be going that far. Your friend’s car is likely safe…at least from anyone doing anything legally.
      It is silly. No one down here is thinking about killing in the name of that flag. But, beyond that, many people are calling for any person related to the war of so long ago, not be represented in statue form if they served under that flag.
      People in these times tend to focus on things that are really unimportant in the larger scheme of things.

      • torino390 says

        Jun 30, 2015 at 2:36 pm

        many thanks. I’ve been doing a little research, and I still can’t believe things are getting this crazy.

  14. Keith Jordan says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 9:11 pm

    I’m not against Black Flag. Let’s spray Black Flag in their faces!

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