Cleaning House

In an article at The Daily Beast, former government official Leslie Gelb says Muslims need to do a better job of self-policing to fight terrorism. But what's more, they're cleaning house in all the wrong ways:

Not a week goes by, it seems, without Muslims blowing up other Muslims, and often themselves in the process. Dominating their co-religionists appears to be the top priority of fanatics. When the opportunity presents itself, they will also kill infidels in America, London, Madrid, Indonesia, and anywhere else they can. It’s astonishing to count the number and variety of insurrections, wars, civil wars, incidents, and insurgencies Muslims have ignited. The list includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Chechnya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Gaza, the West Bank, and on and on.

Of the terrorist killings and maimings that have taken place over the last three years, over 90 percent have been Muslim on Muslim, Shiite on Sunni, Sunni on Sunni, or Shiite on Shiite, with rare exceptions.

Gelb omits non-Muslim factors in the above list, but you still gotta wonder: who wants to be part of a faith where so many of the faithful kill each other off?

Fanatical Christians may harass you and tell you you're going to burn. Bible-quoting zealots may do a few bombings. But for the most part, they don't try to blow up planes or crash them into buildings. Real Christians, those who correctly apply GOD's word, don't do these kinds of things, period. They don't take Old Testament verses outlining who should be put to death out of context. They use JESUS as the model for their lives and follow HIS examples.

Christians, by and large, pray for those who aren't getting it. And JESUS lets us know in allegorical form that some people just can't handle GOD'S Truth: Matthew 7:6 (NIV): "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces." Note the violence here is perpetrated by the animals on believers, not the other way around.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but too many terrorists are Muslim. That's not racial profiling -- it's an uncomfortable, inconvenient, politically incorrect truth. And moderate mainstream Muslims can't seem to rein them in.