When freedom's 'genie' meets radical Islam

Recently, as I sat in the sprawling lounge of a large urban airport waiting for a flight, I observed two airport workers who appeared to be as impatient for their break time to arrive as I was for my flight (albeit for altogether different reasons). Pretending to be preoccupied on my Blackberry, I mused about a not-so-impossible-to-happen scenario that could unfold based on the "unintended consequences of cause and effect."

You may think I've finally "gone around the bend," as the Morgan Freeman character suggested of the Jessica Tandy character in the opening scenes of "Driving Miss Daisy." But I assure you I haven't.

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First, let me note that both coworkers appeared to be college age – the young lady was black and the young man was of undeniable Arab derivation. Pursuant to aspects of my "cause and effect" musing – radical Arabic Muslims view themselves as superior based on their adherence to strict legalistic, theocratic precepts. I hasten to add that the same can frequently be said of the evangelical self-view as well. The difference is that you won't find males in evangelical families beating or murdering their children or siblings for dating or marrying outside of their religion. And in evangelical churches, the couple can, without fear for personal safety, attend the denominational church to which one or the other belongs.

The "cause" for radical Muslims being so fanatically rigid in forbidding, in their eyes, such apostasy is their determination to maintain absolute control of the minds of the people. Thinking for oneself, freedom to evaluate the validity of said religion cannot be permitted.

The "effect" of allowing their people to question and/or challenge the idea of stoning, their theory of creation, sexuality, the role of women, salvation, beheadings, or even the measure and existence of their god himself – would allow and indeed encourage their people to think for themselves.

The "effect" of that would be more threatening than American military mortar fire, because once the freedom of thought genie is out of his bottle, there's no putting him back. And if that genie were to escape their theistic bottle, one could but wonder how long it would be before dramatic fundamental changes started taking place in Muslim countries and neighborhoods.

It was clearly obvious that the two young coworkers were more than just glandularly interested in one another. The possibility of his not being Muslim notwithstanding, I perceived that in the absence of any peer pressure to counter the young man's interest, it was the Western mating ritual in its purest form.

Call me clueless, call me unobservant, but it was the first time I can remember ever witnessing such interracial interaction – which brings me to the potentially "unintended consequences" of Muslims, specifically those predisposed to the radical side of Islam.

First-generation Muslim immigrants, like all immigrants, tend to cloister in communal neighborhoods – but what about the second and third generations that move beyond? What happens when the bedrock of Western Civilization, i.e., freedom to think for oneself, starts to become engrained? Is it possible that they are headed for a "Hannibalinian" collapse?

Hannibal ruled the Roman countryside, and there were Romans who actually joined him. However, he was ultimately defeated, and while Rome would also eventually fall, it stands today not as a symbol of Carthaginian triumph, but the home of Catholicism and commerce, her troubled history notwithstanding.

Radical petulant Islam rules because it is a martinet. The consequences of the least infraction, perceived or real, are extreme, even unto death. But how long will future generations living in a Western culture subscribe to such theocratic dictatorship? Theocratic mobocracy doesn't work in perpetuity in America.

At the turn of the century, Italians, Jews, Polish and the Irish were considered separate races. Theodore Roosevelt stated publicly that the Irish were an inferior race. And while one might argue his bigotry was actually a prescient view of Teddy Kennedy – the late President John Kennedy single-handedly destroyed his premise.

Without question, as I have often pointed out, and as the world has witnessed, radical Muslims have been a festering cancer in the countries in which they abide. I realize I am reaching here, but maybe the young couple I witnessed are on to something not even they realize – a far greater antibiotic for inbred Islamic radicalism.

Then again, maybe mine are the musings of a weary, early morning traveler looking for positive solutions when the only real solution is to exercise the Truman strategy.

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