Islam vs. Vioxx
January 12th, 2010
Last night I read a great article by David Warren:
“Islamism” is thus to be taken not as religion, but as cult, or an assemblage of cults. There are other cults in Islam, as in Christianity, as in Hinduism and all major religions — each bearing some relation to the religion itself. “By their fruits ye will know them,” as the Founder of my own Church explained.
All such cults have living force, so long as they reside within living people. But I would maintain, further, that they survive, as legacy, long after the last true believer has died. Habits of mind, forged in religious experience — whether orthodox or heretical is not the issue here — pass down to subsequent generations.
It got me to thinking about Islam as a death cult, which it is. Many cults deemed dangerous to greater society are banned, freedom of religion notwithstanding. Any cult that puts vast numbers of their own women and children in danger get busted up, Janet Reno riding the gun of a tank Dr. Strangelove style, for the greater good. Children are taken in by government agencies. Possession of weapons is prohibited. Visas and other government-issued documents are withheld. But Islam seems to get a special pass.
And finally it occurred to me: There’s no money to be made from Islam on a large scale, so why should we care? The example that came to mind was Vioxx, the arthritis drug that was pulled from the market about a decade ago over an increased risk of death. People began suing Merck over heart attacks and wrongful deaths. Merck stood to lose huge amounts of money for the liability, so they pulled the drug, despite the fact that it did a world of good in a majority of patients.
We can’t sue “Islam”. It isn’t a company, it doesn’t have a financial structure or a central figurehead (unless we want to go after the House of Saud, which we apparently don’t). Islam can’t be taken off the market to keep the P&L balanced. The FDA can’t hold hearings about it. No one stands to gain or lose financially whether Islam stays or goes.
Hundreds of thousands of people (a very conservative estimate) around the world have been murdered in the name of Islamic ideology, but we still haven’t busted it up for the death cult that it is. There are no assets to be seized, so governments merely shrug and let Islam keep the moniker of “religion” instead of stating what it really is: A death cult.
More people have been killed by Islam today than were killed by Vioxx in the entire time it wasa on the market. Won’t someone please pull Islam from the shelves?
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