Richard Cohen, a respected contributor to the Washington Post, and not always sympathetic to Israel, is nevertheless perplexed by an Economist magazine review of a forthcoming book on "one of contemporary Islam's most important thinkers, Sayyid Qutb" a founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. The reason?
Cohen refers to the " Economist's unforgivable silence on Sayyid Qutb's anti-Semitism"
This should not have puzzled the good Mr Cohen. The Economist only reflects a mind-set in the contemporary UK which glosses over anything in Islam or Islamic Fundamentalism which can be construed as being ideologically anti-Christian or anti-Semitic. Only today, David Willetts, defence correspondent of The Sun, headed his take on the recent murder of ten aid workers in Afghanistan, and specifically the British Dr Karen Woo, as follows: "Taliban sect killed Dr Karen 'for being Western".
In fact, the Taliban themselves stated that they killed Dr Karen Woo 'for being a Christian'.
Until the UK realises that the war with the Islamists is indeed a clash of civilisations, it is a battle that cannot be won.
Cohen refers to the " Economist's unforgivable silence on Sayyid Qutb's anti-Semitism"
This should not have puzzled the good Mr Cohen. The Economist only reflects a mind-set in the contemporary UK which glosses over anything in Islam or Islamic Fundamentalism which can be construed as being ideologically anti-Christian or anti-Semitic. Only today, David Willetts, defence correspondent of The Sun, headed his take on the recent murder of ten aid workers in Afghanistan, and specifically the British Dr Karen Woo, as follows: "Taliban sect killed Dr Karen 'for being Western".
In fact, the Taliban themselves stated that they killed Dr Karen Woo 'for being a Christian'.
Until the UK realises that the war with the Islamists is indeed a clash of civilisations, it is a battle that cannot be won.
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