The knife's message - The Washington Times: Commentary

This commentary makes some strong points. They aren't points that the politically correct wish to hear or discuss. Radicalism - especially that based on religious belief - is dangerous. In today's world, the most radical - and therefore dangerous - are Muslims. It's just a fact:

"It is perfectly obvious to all but the most obtuse observer, which of course includes the editorial board of the New York Times, that an excess of tolerance is what got the Netherlands and the rest of Europe into this mess in the first place. The Netherlands has leaned over backward to welcome immigrants from the former Dutch colony of Indonesia - to the point where a majority of children under age 14 in the four largest Dutch cities are Muslims. Muslims now comprise 6 percent of the population, but their numbers are surging through large families and continued immigration (about 30,000 yearly).

Some 300,000 of the 1 million Muslims in the Netherlands fervently support the radical imams and mosques that preach jihad against the Jews, the West and all infidels. The Dutch have prided themselves on tolerating everything from legal prostitution, to euthanasia, to freely available marijuana and other drugs. But in tolerating the intolerant Muslims, they have swallowed a serpent. "

There are Christian radicals as well. The fundamentalists who, in recent years bombed abortion clinics in the "name of God", are as guilty as any when it comes to crimes against the general population. Those crimes, however, pale in comparison in terms of numbers and deaths.

All Muslims, as all Christians, are not radical. The problem is, the majority of Muslims are not condemning - at least publicly - the actions of the radicals. This was, and is not, the case with the Christians. Those that committed the violent attacks on the abortion clinics were loudly criticized by fellow Christians and others. The question for the majority of Muslims is, "Where's the outrage?"