The answer is obvious ā but nobody talks about it.
For the worldās billion-plus Sunni Muslims, al-Azhar University in Cairo is the center of the theological universe, its faculty and scholars the most authoritative voice on the meaning of Islam. It is not very far from Tahrir Square, ground zero of Egyptās revolution. It was in Tahrir Square last Friday that the Muslim Brotherhood began shunting aside other opposition leaders, including Google executive Wael Ghonim. The million Muslims jamming the square hadnāt turned out to hear a good corporate citizen of the Left. In this nation, where a strong majority of the population desires the implementation of sharia, Islamās legal and political system, the throng turned out to hear and hail Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the Brotherhoodās top adviser ā who, with his al-Azhar doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence, is sharia personified. Tahrir Square is also the place where, in the frenzy after Hosni Mubarakās fall, CBS news correspondent Lara Logan was seized and subjected to a savage sexual assault by an Egyptian gang. Coverage of the attack has been muted. There have been testimonials to Ms. Loganās courage, and one anti-American leftist lost his comfortable fellowship at NYU Law School for failing to conceal his glee over the atrocity. We have heard much about the attack, but have heard next to nothing about the attackers. You are just supposed to assume it was a āmobā ā the sort of thing that could have happened in any setting where raw emotion erupts, say, Wisconsinās capitol. Except it doesnāt happen in Madison. It happens in Egypt. It happened in Indonesia, the worldās most populous Muslim country, in the riots that led to Suhartoās fall ā as Sharon Lapkin recounts, human-rights groups interviewed more than 100 women who had been captured and gang raped, including many Chinese women, who were told this was their fate as non-Muslims. It happens in Muslim countries and in the Muslim enclaves of Europe and Australia, perpetrated by Islamic supremacists acting on a sense of entitlement derived from their scriptures, fueled by the rage of their jihad, and enabled by the deafening silence of the media. In full from the National Review........... |
