The late Rodney King said it after Los Angeles was engulfed in riots in his name in 1992: “Can’t we all just get along?” It’s a simple and succinct statement of the indispensable ingredient of a pluralistic society: everyone has to be willing to put up with some people who hold different values, have different priorities, and approach life in a completely different way. Yet can a tolerant society tolerate a radically intolerant subgroup? It looks as if Americans are going to find out.
A young man named Mohammad Nusairat, who recently graduated from the University of Illinois Chicago with a bachelor of science degree in Data Science, and who is now pursuing a master’s in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recently gave a lecture to a group called Men of the Ummah, which describes itself as a “Chicago-based organization dedicated to cultivating Muslim men. Our mission is to seek the pleasure of Allah through hosting events centered on three pillars: 1. Cultivating brotherhood 2. Fostering leadership 3. Engaging with the community.”
In the course of his remarks, Nusairat said, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): “Unfortunately, these days we don’t repeat this enough, or we don’t have this doctrinal concept firm in our minds – that Islam did not come to coexist.” Wait, what? Doesn’t Mohammad Nusairat know that leftists are counting upon the Muslim crescent to form the C on the COEXIST bumper stickers? Isn’t Nusairat aware that those who drive around with that sticker on their cars assume that any obstacle to Muslims being a part of that coexistence comes from racist, right-wing “Islamophobes,” and not from Muslims themselves?
Apparently, Nusairat either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about any of that. He quoted Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, saying: “Islam is always superior and should never be surpassed.” Then the young data science wiz added: “Islam is raised high, and nothing is raised above Islam.”
But wait a minute! Doesn’t Nusairat, who lives, after all, in the belly of the Great Satan, and enjoys all the perks and privileges of doing so, envision a society in which all people have equal rights and get along with one another in an atmosphere of mutual respect? It certainly doesn’t seem as if he does.
To those who would call for Christians and Muslims “to live together, to be friends,” Nusairat declared: “We can’t think of Islam that it came to live with these other religions in the sense that Islam is a religion amongst those religions, and they have a share with the truth, and they have a share of justice, and they have a share of the correct worship Allah. Islam came to correct all of that. Islam came to remove the oppression of all those religions, and it is the only truth, and it is the only way to justice.” Removing the oppression of those religions means removing those religions, or at very least subjugating them under the hegemony of Islamic law, as the Qur’an (9:29) directs.
The Qur’an even refers to non-Muslims as “like cattle” (7:179) and as “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). Leftists who preach that everyone should “coexist” have never acknowledged even the existence of people such as Mohammad Nusairat or the point of view they represent. Instead, they have repeatedly spoken as if the obstacles to dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians are all on the Christian side, and that if Christians would only discard their “Islamophobia,” all would be well.
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Yet even if some Christians heeded this advice and embraced the mass, unvetted migration of Muslims into Europe and North America, they would be in for an unpleasant surprise. Some, and likely not an inconsiderable number, of the Muslims they so wholeheartedly welcomed would not have any interest whatsoever in reciprocating their good will. Instead, they would behave as if Muslims had come to “remove the oppression of all those religions,” and particularly Christianity. They would behave as if “Islam is always superior and should never be surpassed.”
Even though that is already happening all over Europe and has been for years now, leftists seem determined to ignore it, and to keep on pretending that the main problem is “Islamophobia.” They are sure we can all get along. They want you to be sure, too. About the Muslims who view the world, and the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, in much the same way that Mohammad Nusairat views it, they have nothing to say.
