I am an apostate according to the Church of Cultural Relativism, which is functionally the  dominant religion of our country and Europe.  Most liberal Christians and Jews belong to the CCR, Muslims mostly do not.  I am an apostate because I believe in discrimination.  This is my pitch to get you to join in the rebellion against the CCR.    

I parted company with the CCR because its members refused to acknowledge and act on the standards of acceptability we apply to any ideology that wants a home in America.  These standards are set out in our Constitution and our laws.  Most of my father’s generation discriminated against German National Socialism and Russian Communism without regret or apology.  On a smaller scale, we said that the Mormon belief in polygamy was unacceptable, and most of them complied.    

But during my lifetime, the CCR has gained such a firm grip on our views of right and wrong that its members are unable to discriminate against the latest ideology designed to compete with liberal democracy—the one contained within Islamic law. 

This ideology fails to qualify for membership in the American family of ideologies for many reasons, but the main ones are its use of violence to spread its dominance and its failure to promote equality.  In Islamic law, spreading the dominance of Islam is the prime directive and the use of violence toward this end is not prohibited.  It fails to qualify by our standard of equality for all because Muslims are favored over non-Muslims and men are favored over women.  These failures are compounded and magnified by the lack of separation between religion and politics in Islamic law.   

One of many ironies in this situation is that members of the CCR criticize apostates for failing to follow the American principle of equality.  They claim we are stereotyping Islam.  They claim that Islam is just a variant of Christianity and Judaism, and no threat to anyone.  Where do they get their information about Islamic law?  From professional Muslims whose life work is to sell Islam.  CCR members want to be told that there is no problem, and that is what they hear.  They prefer to hear that comforting message rather than the disquieting truth about Islam by former Muslims who have the courage to speak out.    

I do not expect that they would undertake research into Islamic law, and it is unnecessary.  Simply reading the headlines of the news coming out of the Islamic Middle East should cause them to have doubts about Islam.  Just looking at the conditions prevailing in Islamic countries should make them wonder.  If they read about what is happening to the Copts in Egypt, they will get a more realistic view of how Islam operates.  Certainly politics and cultural issues play a part, but the central role played by the religion cannot reasonably be missed. 

I see three main reasons why members do not recognize that Islam is unqualified to be in America. 

The first is that the members of the CCR are afraid of Muslims.  Many Muslims have died to produce that effect, and many Muslim leaders maintain a very aggressive stance built on that fear. 

The second reason is that they fear being labeled with names that will ostracize them, just as they attempt to do to apostates.  This comes with their realization that they do not have the knowledge of Islam that could defend them from name calling and worse, should they decide to leave the church.  So they remain in the fold and attempt to suppress their fear by showing contempt for apostates.    

The third reason is that they cannot imagine that Muslims actually believe what the Koran says.  CCR members are mostly secular-minded people, even if they identify with a religion.  They cannot grasp the power of true belief.  So they discount the reports of apostates who claim that Muslims actually do believe what the Koran says.  They somehow manage to maintain this attitude even as they see daily events in the Middle East and Asia that prove the opposite. 

So, if my pitch has worked you are ready to leave the church but feel the need to learn more.  You will be attacked, so arm yourself with knowledge.  Start here and here.