Islam Needs a Reformation
BY Linda Chavez
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| Linda Chavez |
Islamic terrorism has become the single biggest threat to
stability in the world. Attacks killing many hundreds have occurred over the
past 18 months in Bangladesh, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya,
Egypt, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, France,
the United States and elsewhere. But fighting this threat will require more
than drone attacks to take out leaders of groups such as the Islamic State — or
even full-scale assaults to recapture territory claimed by the terrorists, as
we did recently in Iraq.
As the terrorist killings in San Bernardino, Orlando and Paris
prove, Islamists' poison can reach into the very heart of the West to infect
those born and raised in nations that value freedom, promoting attacks on their
fellow countrymen and neighbors. What is to be done?
Unfortunately, there are few bright lights in
that firmament. The two major sects of Islam, Sunni and Shiite, have both
spawned terrorist movements; and whatever their differences, they share a
common enemy in modernism and Western values. And in both, the denigration and
subjugation of women plays a fundamental role. But there are glimmers of hope,
one of which will be on display in Paris on July 9.
Iran continues to be a major state sponsor of
terrorism, as well as ruthlessly suppressing freedom for its own populace. The
chief opposition to the regime is the National Council of Resistance of Iran,
whose president-elect, Maryam Rajavi, is an outspoken critic of fundamentalism
and the convener of the Paris conference.
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