Romesh Ratnesar Says Radical Islamists Are a Dying Breed

August 17, 2010 at 10:30 PM Leave a comment

According to Ratnesar, Islam is hardly a threat anymore

Nothing really to worry about here, folks. Radical Islamists are less of a threat than we think. In fact, they have almost become non-existent. Wait! They are actually “an enemy that may no longer exist.” [1] This is according to Time Deputy Managing Editor, Romesh Ratnesar.

That is truly amazing, isn’t it, folks? Here we’ve been blogging about the real and present threat of Islam encroaching on America’s shores and freedoms only to learn that Mr. Ratnesar says I am obsessing over an enemy that may no longer exist. Well, what do you know? Obviously, I’ve been spending too much time seeing things that are not really there and believing that they are there.

Ratnesar bases his claim on a number of things, but primarily on the Ground Zero mosque debacle and debate. Here is the kind of brilliant verbiage presented by our fearless Deputy Managing Editor:

“Should Muslims be allowed to build a mosque at Ground Zero? Merely posing the question is an act of deliberate distortion. As its defenders point out, the Community Center at Park51 will occupy not a solitary inch of the 16-block site on which the Twin Towers stood. Once built, the center will indeed house a mosque, “open and accessible to all” — but also a swimming pool, basketball court, auditorium, library, day-care facility, restaurant and cooking school. The center is being built by a private organization on land it legally owns. Twenty-nine out of 30 Lower Manhattan community-board members voted to approve it. By every legal standard, the case for allowing Park51 to be built is, in the words of conservative UCLA constitutional-law professor Eugene Volokh, “open and shut.”

First of all, apparently Ratnesar believes the rhetoric about the mosque being accessible to all. Anyone who knows anything about Islam knows that while non-Muslims might be given TOURS through a mosque, they are not welcome or allowed during actual times of worship.

What bothers me even more than his apparent ignorance, is the fact that as a journalist, he obviously has not even taken the time to do some basic research on Islam. He follows up the above vapid statements with more of the same.

“Many opponents of the Park51 project claim that the mosque itself isn’t the problem; it’s the idea of building it so close to the World Trade Center. Such misgivings have some validity. But the heat the mosque controversy has generated, on both the left and right, is unhealthy, misplaced and ultimately self-defeating. It reflects our tendency to exaggerate the real threat posed by Islamic extremism and what America should do about it. And nine years after 9/11, the fight over the mosque near Ground Zero shows how obsessed we remain with an enemy that may no longer exist.” (Emphasis added)

Again, how does someone come to the point of actually believing what they say and print? I’m a bit confused about the whole thing. It is difficult to understand a journalist who fully believes that Islam is just about over as far as being any kind of threat, while people from politicians to the average blogger across the globe, are constantly writing about the dangers that they face daily from Islamic extremists. Someone is obviously wrong. I’d prefer to go with the opinions of the two Muslim journalists from Canada we highlighted in an earlier post (Muslims in Canada Speak Out Against Ground Zero Mosque “Fitna”; August 15, 2010).

Ratnesar ties things together with these pearls of wisdom: “For all our anxiety about the rise of religious extremism, no government in the Arab world has been toppled by forces sympathetic to al-Qaeda since 2001. And though some militant Muslims surely wish us harm, their ability to actually inflict it has eroded; it has been more than five years since the last successful al-Qaeda attack in the West.”

Hey, by the way, did you hear that a suicide bomber in Iraq killed 60 people just today (August 17, 1020)? Whew. I am GLAD the Islamic threat is over! Now, we can get on with our lives! Did you also hear that the Taliban is making a comeback, and just yesterday stoned a man and a woman to death for adultery. Last week, the Taliban attacked and killed a humanitarian group of ten individuals.

I don’t know…maybe TIME is simply trying to obtain more readers through controversial comments that appear to be based in intelligence, but wind up severely lacking the same. Who knows, but maybe Ratnesar is hoping no one will really notice. Of course, let’s not forget that this is the same TIME magazine that put Aisha on the cover, a woman who had suffered abuse at the hands of the Taliban, including having her nose and ears cut off, for wanting to leave her physically abusive husband. (Where do these people come from?)

[1] http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2010/08/17/time-contributor-americas-obsessed-enemy-may-no-longer-exist

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