Islamolepsy: The New Pathology
The sort of contentions we have been witnessing could only occur in favored societies — the U.S. no less than Europe — for which the real world lies somewhere beyond their borders, despite the blows they may have received. As a result, they can preoccupy themselves with febrile pieties, idle or inexpedient disputes, recondite theories, sentimental indulgences, intellectual fantasies and utopian schemes that must inevitably fail. These are societies that are able to preen themselves on their sophistication and enlightenment only because they have managed to retire into an arbor of relative peace and considerable opulence. They feel no hazard in inviting the 7th century into the 21rst while deprecating their own traditions, usages, and foundational premises. It should be conceded, however, that the chief culprits in the charade of self-delegitimation derive mainly from the more advantaged and connected strata of society.
This is certainly true for three of Park51’s most prominent champions, the American president himself, New York’s bleeding heart mayor Michael Bloomberg, and America’s doyen libertarian, the ineffable Ron Paul. These influential appeasers don’t seem to understand what is going on out there beyond their insulated thought bubbles — though some, it may be, only pretend not to. They don’t seem to be at all disconcerted by the far more serious problem to which Michael Ledeen draws our attention, the 1200 radical mosques that stipple the American landscape, breeding grounds for the Islamization of the United States.
The propitiators among us are equally blind to an attendant and escalating phenomenon, namely, jihadi training camps like Islamberg in upstate New York where recruits and converts to the Faith Militant are taught to handle firearms and acquire bomb-making skills. As Paul Williams, author of The Day of Islam, discloses, Islamberg is only one of thirty such compounds across the U.S. affiliated with Jamat al-Fuqra, a paramilitary organization founded by Pakistani cleric Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani. These are Waziristan-type enclaves on American soil which are being allowed to ramify and which have already committed acts of violence, including firebombings and assassinations going back to the 1980s. And yet little is being done to police or dismantle them.
Perhaps the most distressing fact of all is not so much the craftiness of the Muslim actors in the current drama — this is to be expected — but the utter naivety and mental sclerosis of our media mavens, public intellectuals, and a hefty segment of the political class who have rallied to the Islamic cause — though perhaps this too was to be expected. The “willful blindness” that Andrew McCarthy speaks about, and explores more fully in The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, has descended upon us like a biblical plague, which is now beginning to look like a permanent condition. A toxic mix of credulousness and fear has infected an entire generation of ingenues, sophists, socialist fellow-travelers, timeservers, and sycophants who are devotedly bringing their country into harm’s way. How can we explain what is nothing less than a passion for self-immolation, a welcoming of the encroaching darkness?
What we are observing, I suspect, is the onset of a debilitating disorder which manifests as a seizure of the mental organ, a lack of elasticity in responding to complex and threatening situations. It is as if the mind has been paralyzed by a variant form of cataleptic fit, characterized by fixity of posture, obliviousness to external stimuli, loss of control, and diminished sensitivity to pain. The malady is induced by profound emotional shock accompanied by withdrawal from reality — an unconscious way, perhaps, of amortizing the great multicultural blunder for which we are responsible but cannot admit to ourselves. Knowing subliminally that we have been instrumental in soliciting our own ruin, and too weak to respond decisively, the only asylum that remains is a species of dementia that shields us from the truth.
In other words, those who suffer from the distemper, as it emerges in the social and political sphere, are simply unable to acknowledge, absorb, and confront the magnitude of what is transpiring before their very eyes. They cannot discriminate among the external stimuli or recognize them for what they are. Suicide bombings, terrorist strikes, multiple casualties, stealth jihad, meretricious vouchers of good intentions, legal assaults, cultural implosion, a billion-strong adversary riding the wave of the future — it is all too much for our Islamoleptic media, intelligentsia, entertainers, and political masters to fully take in. It appears they have sought refuge from the unassimilable in a classic fugue state or succumbed to split-mind syndrome. As Martin Amis astutely comments in The Second Plane, “The death cult always benefits, initially at least, from its capacity to astonish and stupefy.” I quibble only with Amis’ “initially.” The trouble is that once stupefaction sets in, it tends to make itself at home.
The etiology of the affliction that merits the name of Islamolepsy issues, it bears repeating, in a host of predictable symptoms: the rejection of personal complicity, the denial of palpable reality, the construction of an alternate world in which a bellicose and inimical claim to ascendancy is blithely endorsed, the rigid and untenable conviction of superior insight, the false consolation of intellectual torpor and, of course, the tendency to fall back on moral histrionics to discredit those who can still see clearly.
The prognosis is not encouraging, for Islamolepsy resembles the most tenacious and virulent of pathologies. Perhaps it is even incurable.
We need an antibody like a Charles Martell. Unfortunately you are not likely to see that until the Jihadist start waging open war, and they cannot do that yet. There are still too many well armed and well trained Americans who would crush them. Give the left some more time though; they’ll even the odds for the Islamists if they can. They’ll send the FBI to raid non-Islamic militias while utterly ignoring more obvious facilities like Islamberg.
“But, golly, it’s religious freedom for Islamist to dominate us like slaves,” the left/liberal dhimmis will say. “Otherwise they’ll get offended, not like us and riot violently!” No conquest mosque, no dhimmitude!
I’m afraid that, for far too many people, the fear of being designated ‘racist’ today takes precedence over the distinct probability of being overwhelmed by Islam sometime down the road.
Thus it’s easier, and perhaps safer within their social sphere, for most people to ignore what will happen in the, to them, ‘distant future’ and therefore they focus exclusively on fitting into the “La la I can’t hear you” cadre and restricting their opposition to those they know cannot and will not hurt them.
“…the fear of being designated ‘racist’…”
It is time to stand up, and all together,
or in sequence, announce that
“I am Spartacus!”
We had a chance to stop them on 9/12 but the feckless GWB instead of saying all Muslim immigration must be halted when the entire country would have supported him, told the American people that Islam was a “religion of peace”, instructing Americans to go pray in their churches, synagogues, and MOSQUES sealing our doom. Now we have Obama.
Their invasion of our country continues in ever record breaking numbers due to our suicidal immigration policies while the left including the media is now supporting them to the point where their last Supreme Court judge, Kagan, has actually backed Sharia law in the past. Mosques have been sprouting like mushrooms and we are engaged in an insane debate over a mosque being built to commemorate the followers of Muhammad and their victory at Ground Zero.
Islam is mainly a political ideology not a religion simply concerned with saving souls while doing God’s will. There are as many Buddhists in America as Muslims yet they bother no one and there is no controversy.
The Ground Zero mosque drives this point home. What religion would demand that their place of “worship” has to be at this location under these circumstances when, unfortunately, they could build it anywhere else. The reason is they want to make a political statement to celebrate their victory at Ground Zero.
We must stop the invasion and stop ALL Muslim immigration and start deporting all those who follow Muhammad’s commands to wage eternal jihad and impose Sharia law on all of mankind. Meanwhile, no more mosques to facilitate them in their war against us.
>”We must stop the invasion and stop ALL Muslim immigration and start deporting all those who follow Muhammad’s commands to wage eternal jihad and impose Sharia law on all of mankind. Meanwhile, no more mosques to facilitate them in their war against us.”<
Nicely summed up. May be this should be sent to Big Zero and Mayor Bloomy Khan!!!
Islam is a cult – not a religion and should rightly be banned.
4. Samuel: “Islam is mainly a political ideology not a religion simply concerned with saving souls while doing God’s will. ”
5. Tomp: Islam is a cult – not a religion and should rightly be banned
13. Bill Lawrence: It’s not about fighting a religion, how one describes and relates to God, but fighting about a value system
The above merely illustrate my previous point: in the West, we have tried to separate “religion” from “morality” and from everyday life (something, BTW, that Screwtape would have highly approved of). We pride ourselves in our “separation of church and state” – not merely, as the Founding Fathers designed, to keep the state from favoring one religion over others, but to the point where we actively condemn any public practice of religion. But truly, and this is evident in the non-Western world, religion is the mirror and basis of society. All morality (and laws are nothing but publicly mandated and officially enforced morality) are reflections of the people’s religious faith. Slavery was not banned nor women given rights in Muslim or Hindu countries first, but only in Christian countries. We expect immigrant Muslims to accept our separation between religion and everyday life; they in turn think that we’re insane and asking the impossible.
See my post #4 for further elaboration. The whole point went right over your head. Islam is mainly and foremost a political ideology whose main goal is to destroy us. Their texts clearly state this as fact. Because it has religious aspect does not make it a religion. Furthermore, religious discourse in the public square is part of our country. Our rights are derived from God not man and certainly not from Allah. As I stated previously, although I’m a Christian I have no problem with Buddhists, as an example, they are here in equal numbers to Muslims and pose no threat nor any controversy. We would any American care about what a Buddhist believes?
Never do pro Muslim people cite the Islamic texts or Muhammad. Why? Because their arguments can be torn to shreads by any body who has read and studied their evil texts. Start your learning with Islam 101 – http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam-101.html
Islamic ideology is not protected by our Constitution and ALL Muslim immigration needs to be halted. We must also stop the spread of facilities that they use to further their war against us. No more mosques. No more immigration. No more Obama.
Muslims enslaved Hindus. Hindu Kush means Hindu Killer or Hindu Slaughter ( http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/hindu_kush.html ) because so many enslaved Hindus died on route to the slave markets in Central Asia and Middle East.
“Black Power” was to usher in a new age of militant ascendancy in an, up to then, marginalized segment of the society. Many were disturbed by it. In the end it fizzled. Perhaps the appeasers of Islam have the same model in mind.
Wow…I think this is a great analysis of a dire problem confronting us…but I’m not sure…I’m still looking up the definitions of all the many words I’ve never seen before…
The US has opened the back door to an Islamic takeover due to a few prominent factors.An Infiltration in the making….
The leftist takeover of most of the cultural, academic, media institutions has allowed the brainwashing of the next generation of leaders to become a dire reality.
Further, the notion that PC sensibilities takes precedence over national security is another fatal flaw, a sure fire death blow to the Republic.
Moreover, and most insidiously, the besieged mentalities of Americans has become more pronounced since 9/11/01, whereby on a continual basis one hears about Muslims attacking, or attempting to attack, western countries.
Therefore, it is no small leap to suggest, the US will be in dire peril-following in Eurabia’s sandal steps-unless five alarm fire bells start blaring all over the country!
Interesting. We baby boomers grew up “questioning authority.” Authority in those days was the “square” values the conservatives are now espousing. Looking at the videos of the Beck rally, I see many (mostly?)baby boomers in the crowd. Now we are “questioning authority” but “authority” is the very political correctness we once espoused as anti-establishment. Guess what? We baby boomers don’t like being told what to think or to do.
Islamolepsy partakes of two fundamental human failings: the desire not to see the unpleasant, and the desire to wish away what unpleasantness one has seen clearly.
There is no question that Islam is toxic to human life. Its practices are vile beyond comparison. No one who spends as much as half an hour on the Qur’an, on the history of Islamic military expansionism, or on Islam’s treatment of non-Muslims could sincerely believe otherwise. Therefore, all representations to the contrary are either ostrich behavior or willful deceits. Analyses of the deceits are best left to another tirade.
Freedom has always had enemies. America, the best representative of freedom remaining in the world, draws their chiefest ire. That one such enemy represents itself as a “religion,” though it’s nothing of the sort, changes nothing of importance.
Be watchful.
Stop all Muslim immigration in the West, Europe, Australia, NZ, and America. This has to be the first step in curbing Islam and Muslims in the West. this is not xenophobia and bigoted policy, our survival is at stake and we are not even defending ourselves. if anything, we are helping Muslims achieve their goals. all those PC crowd people, MSM, our leaders, academia and other neolibs would have their heads separated from their shoulders once the Muslims take over. In fact they will be the first in the long line of beheadings. are these people so stupid and morons that they don’t understand this???
Very good, Jaladhi, at exposing what maybe a fundamental question about the enablers:”are these people so stupid and morons that they don’t understand this???”
I would say that yes, people can throw away their survival instincts and be willing to die or be destroyed. Like the long playing drug wars, there is required both a buyer and a seller. In the case of the liberals and the jihadists, we may well have two parties willing to commit themselves to extinction. Both seem to be nuts about producing an utopia world. If only it were so simple, in that they would cancel each others tickets and leave us out of the mess to be had. If only Abraham had sorted his sons out better.
People wishing to become American citizens have to pass a basic exam. One question should be: “Do you support the concept of individual rights and personal liberty for all?” On second thought, this might not work since Muslims have a special dispensation that allows lying (taqqiya or something.)
While I appreciate the satire and humor in this commentary, I cannot be as sanguine. My more somber take is that the white, left hates their race, ethnicity and themselves. It is either a pathology or the result of indoctrination.
What is astounding to me is that the self-hating is so complete. It is as if they are committing suicide by cop only the cop is Islam. How else do you explain the Faustian relationship the left has with Islam knowing that what the left stands for and Islam’s tenents are diametrically opposed to each other.
The Left allies with radical Muslims to overthrow the Left’s primary enemies, the USA, WEstern Civilization, and capitalism. Only radical Islam has the strength today to do that. That old Commie terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, saw this in the mid-1990s and converted to Islam in prison for that exact reason. The Leftists figure that they will use the Islamist jihadists to smash the hated Western Civilization and capitalism, then smoothly take over the resulting wreckage and build the Brave New World on it. This strategy is what they tried during the Iranian Revolution that overthrew the Shah.
The problem is that the radical Muslims are smarter than the leftists and it will be the former who win out over the latter in the end. Again, this is what happened during the Iranian Revolution. The leftists think the radical Muslims are a bunch of rubes because they are religious believers. But it is the Leftists who are the real rubes. Islam has enough spiritual content to attract people alienated by the spiritual wasteland of post-modern, secularist Wesstern Civilization. This anomie is a contributor to the growth of Muslilm population in Europe: conversion. So Islam will be more attractive, if the jihadists and the leftists succeed in their war against us, in the wreckage left behind after the fall of the West, than the emptiness the left has to offer.
Another excellent column, Mr Solway… This should be a must-read to anyone truly concerned about the survival of Western civilization. Though certainly so damn truthful that many people might be afraid to look at it for what it is, as Roger L. Simon has pointed out regarding those who dismiss Geert WIlders’s warnings (such as Charles Krauthammer), it’s the truth. Denying it won’t change anything about it. Facing it and taking it on by the horns, on the other hand, is our only choice to change it to our advantage.
It’s not about fighting a religion, how one describes and relates to God, but fighting about a value system, what actions may be mandated or prohibited by force.
If we cannot articulate why Sharia is wrong Sharia is going to be the future.
Building a gay bar next to a mosque is not going to show why Sharia is wrong.
Good article. There is cause for some concern. But in the US each mosque amounts to little more than an eyesore and an isolated cell of true believers and, ironically, this is probably how their masters in places like Saudi Arabia would have it for the time being.
What Americans primarily need to watch out for will be offers by Islamists to, for instance, help ‘educate’ American schoolchildren in the ways of Islam for the purposes of multicultural ‘enrichment.’ Of course, school boards in some localities might freely cooperate with this indoctrination. After the protests of outraged parents civil liberties groups can be expected to step to assist the Islamist with legal action against the parents and perhaps even against uncooperative school boards. Islamists want to create controversies like this because it is the sociopolitical equivalent of throwing or planting a bomb in an advanced society. And they can always count on American politicians making token cessions to them after they have been beaten up in the court of public opinion. The GZ mosque is a harbinger of many such tests to come (and didn’t Obama already reward them?). It is the hope of any Islamist to flush out the usual foolish PC types in this way because it always enrages and debilitates Americans to see their politicians making such wrongheaded statements. It also boosts their morale to see talking heads debating an issue like the GZ mosque literally to exhaustion and beyond.
Sharia law will never take root in the US for reasons that Muslims here are either willfully ignoring or are oblivious of—and it is a good bet they will remain oblivious of these reasons, given the scope of their ambition in wanting to build a victory column near where the towers stood. Needless to say, the Islamists have a great deal of faith in the capacity of our politicians to assist them and so far they have been fairly right on the money. But in other ways these people have already miscalculated.
The disease mainly infects the self-appointed elites. The ordinary New Yorker like the ordinary Londoner recognizes that the term “radical muslim” is a redundancy and would go conveniently narcoleptic if all Muslims were packed off bag and baggage onto a return flight to wherever they came from.
But London has Ken Livingston and New York has Mike Bloomberg to counter the majority will. Recall that the first action by the State Department after nine-eleven was to hustle all of Osama bin Laden’s Saudi relatives onto outbound flights so that they wouldn’t be inconvenienced by FBI interrogators.
See also “Caliphate” by Tom Kratman (http://www.amazon.com/Caliphate-Tom-Kratman/dp/1439133425/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283267359&sr=1-1). While fictional, it is well researched and depicts the author’s fears as to what may happen.
The main problem here in the U.S. is: how can we maintain our vaunted right to freedom of religion while targeting one religion for special treatment? Even more importantly, how do we convince people that we do not wish to extrapolate this treatment to other faiths, that Islam is unique? Most people in the U.S. fail to see that Western civilization, while nominally agnostic, has its legal and cultural roots in Christianity, dating back to the Byzantine empire and that Islam (like Hinduism – although the latter is not nearly the threat that Islam is) has a completely different social basis. They simply cannot accept that yes, many (not all) immigrating Muslims simply do not wish to accept our society the way that it is and assimilate, they do wish to import Saudi society and Arab social norms.
The last time the West made a really concerted attempt at suicide was the 1930s. The attempt very nearly succeeded. With leftist economic/cultural policies undermining our strength and sense of self-preservation along with attendant submission to creeping Islamization, we’re making a concerted attempt again.
People like Bloomberg — and they’re legion among Obama supporters — are the useful idiots of Islam, a “religion” that excuses deceit and enjoins the faithful to kill apostates.
apparently to the liberal elites it is worse to be called a racist, islamaphobe, intolerant than to be dead from a bomb. liberal elites are deep into a death wish but they are trying to take us along with them. no to liberalism and suicide; yes to survival and civilization.
Worrying about what people are going to call you is no different than worrying if you’re wearing the latest fashions; if your car is impressive enough; if you’re using the current cute slang; or if you need a facelift. It’s nothing more than desperate popularity seeking, and it’s yet another sign of America’s shallowness that set in with the Youth Movement in the “Media Age.”
If you don’t have at least three children and do not actively preach either the gospel or other pre-modern world view then you shouldn’t complain. You should all be busy creating the America you want,not sulking about the present government.
And are you reading Homer and The Bible to your children in the evening instead of sitting them in front of the t.v? Muslims often take these things seriously, so do middle class parents. If you can’t even be bothered to know the foundations of your own culture how can you show its superiority? There are too many lazy people in the U.S and Europe who have got used to an easy life. They are not bad people but they are not really alive. If they could just get passionate about the potential in their lives then they would see how powerful they really are. Until this happens there is no good defence against Islam.
Good luck to Glen Beck etc,not my style but at least he has some guts!
…that the chief culprits in the charade of self-delegitimation derive mainly from the more advantaged and connected strata of society…These influential appeasers don’t seem to understand what is going on out there beyond their insulated thought bubbles
Insulated strata that might well consider themselves immune.
— but the utter naivety and mental sclerosis of our media mavens, public intellectuals, and a hefty segment of the political class who have rallied to the Islamic cause — though perhaps this too was to be expected…— it is all too much for our Islamoleptic media, intelligentsia, entertainers, and political masters to fully take in.
And so the fallback position as rationalization through multicultural mewling.
(Mayor Bloomberg is the poster child for this weakness)
What is most astonishing is that the question (of the GZ Mosque) even needs to be raised in the first place.
Forty+ years of brainwashing and dis-education in America’s schools have obviously taken their toll.
This writing is among the best exposés of the inner workings of these phenomena I’ve read, Mr. Solway.
isn’t it hypocritcally ironic. how progressives are outraged,when someone shows up at a tea party rally,with a sign,comparing the similarities of liberalisms religious beliefs,and socialist policies to histories most evil dictators all conservatives,especially biblically principaled,conservatives are labeled,intolerant racist.but when islamic groups,who are on record,that they are,and expect shari’a law to share power,or exalt its power over our u.s. constitution,and the bill of rights that all people are endowed by their creator,not governments nor,covet from thy taxpayer,through religious zealot cult,fiat.but liberals have always loved religions,that commit adultery with lucifer’s goverments,and lucifer’s laws;that exalt themselves above.god,the ten commandments,the symbol,of the crucifixion cross,the holy bible,the u.s.constitution,the declaration for independence,the bill of rights,individual,and religious freedom.truth,equality,and justice for all who believe,protect,and defend the same.i must thank some of these” my way or the highway” bullies and true oppressors,against human life,and liberty,traffickers;you have shown your true colors,to such,an extent,that even the many that voted for you,and believed your polices legitimate.now see what conservatives have fought against since,freedom,and america,began.how,when,and why;and that it has always been progressive liberalism that has,defended evil,against good,wrong,against right,death,and oppression,against life,and liberty;and called it social justice;the koran makes clear that muslims must be shari’a law compliant,in order to inheirit,a sexual orgy with 67 virgin minor children;by the way our education system,media,and entertainment industry are obsessed with sexualizing our children;it’s not a wonder why liberals like that part of islams after life;there are muslims that do not believe in these thing’s thats true;but the koran does,just as the new testament is true christianity;abraham,moses,john the baptist,and jesus christ;made the creator the giver of life,and liberty;none of them committed adultery with government;”lucifer”all liberal churches,synagouges,mosques,and secularist,individuals,groups,organizations,businesses,and corporations do;”know them by their fruits;”warning;there is no such thing as a conservative democrat,or a moderate independent,liberatarian,or republican;they are all progressive liberal selective constitutionalist;according to their own beliefs,and rights;rule of law,truth,equality,independence,life,liberty,opportunity and justice for all,of humanity,according to rule of law;or america will reap what it sews;people get ready for the train is coming;picking up gods passengers from coast to coast;the time is now to choose who you want to govern your life;you,or lucifer’s house of ill repute government;and if you do choose yourself.you also must stand in defense,of others who are being denied the same rights,and principals,promised them by god the right to exist;jimmy joe “the liarfryer”
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Excellent column, thank you.
But I think that we should remember the courageous efforts of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, and others.
There are many Freedom Fighters who have taught the truth about the islamic invasion to many many Americans.
And they are paying a very high price for that: Pamela receives a lot of death threats and she is in need of our help to pay for her security.
Have a look at her blog:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
And we must never forget the great work carried on by
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
We are long past the phase of just panicking, many honest Americans are working to debunk the lies of the CHIMERA (that’s how I call the aliance of marxist subversives, jihadists, and elitists).
This is no Europe and the fact that the jihadists are helped by the billionaires, by the elitists, and supported by the marxists is nothing when compared to the force and the determination of the American People.
The jihadists should have never attacked us. They will pay a very high price, an historical price.
Sherab-Mr Spencer also-he travels with up to 6 full-time security personnel, according to his own website.
Sherab-you are correct-ISLAM has better pray that America never gets an after Pearl Harbor mentality into them. There finished if Americans put together the willpower to destroy there perverted ideology. No country in this world(yes including Red China-there whole economy is built with OUR factories.) can stand up if America develops the will to win. Thats what weve been lacking.
It’s also that “ignore it and after awhile it will go away” mentality.
Ignore it long enough and we will go the way of France, Sweden and the UK.
http://prophetofdoom.net/
Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
The good people in Europe did nothing and look where they are now.
Great quote. I want a bumper sticker! (Seriously.)
PJM readers must see what our brave men in Afghanistan are being forced to fight for. This heartbreaking story being told by Diana West needs to be told or we are complicit in this crime. Little boys are being sold and raped daily on a huge basis in Afghanistan. It goes right to Karzai’s own family. I find it truly heartbreaking to see the horror these young boys suffer on a daily basis. God cries out for us to tell the story of their suffering. Please read this because if I know this be damned sure that our leaders do too –
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1497/Afghan-Pride-Updated.aspx
I want to add that Diana West writes for the Washington Times. She is documenting the massive pedophilia in Afghanistan and maybe beyond that our government is turning a blind eye too. That includes Barack Hussein Obama.
Is this just the first that we are hearing of rampant homosexual pedophilia occurring in Muslim lands?
Please read this column by Diana West if you believe you can do God’s justice -
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1497/Afghan-Pride-Updated.aspx
Hitler, Germany and the Nazis before WWII. The world was asleep, narcotized so to speak. We paid plenty for our sleepwalking, especially the Jews of Europe and the Russians.
I don’t believe for a second that the elitists in Europe or the US plan to capitulate to the Islamists. They aren’t that stupid.
The Ruling Class in Europe and America has formed an alliance of convenience with Islam to overthrow the power the American public has in the US. It’s just like the alliance between Russia and Germany before WWII. It’s temporary and fragile. The ruling class doesn’t want to face Islam until they secure absolute power.
Once the pesky and willful middle class in the US is eradicated, the Ruling Class plans to turn it’s attention to Islam. The New West (with control of American military power), China, and Islam will then contend to be the masters of the new dark age.
Note that the alliance also explains the strange deference Obama shows for the Chinese, who he certainly hates as much as he hates white Americans.
I dont disagree with your assessment one bit. With one samll caveat. Once the Red Chinese attain energy independence, they will deal with Islam most decisively. A few well-aimed nukes at a strategic earthquake fault might work wonders in the most unstable fault line on earth(the fault runs thru Southern Turkey, northern Iraq,Northern Iran, and SE into Afghanistan and Pakistan. There isnt much of a regard for human life in Red China, just getting the job done most definitively.
“…the alliance between Russia and Germany before WWII…”
And that turned out so well for the Soviets, at least when they were able to acquire logistical help from the USA; but, they still took over 20MM casualties (if not more – I doubt if anyone will ever know the true number).
If what you say is true, those “elites” have just embarked on a “perhaps they’ll eat us last” quest, for without America’s heart (the Middle-Class), there is no one to defend them from the expanding Caliphate.
Excellent!! None of the insanity about “moderate Islam”. Only through an enormous effort to remain ignorant, can any person who possesses even the slightest capacity for reason, contend that Islam should be tolerated because of the American commitment to religious freedom.
I have never been able to understand how those who claim to be defending liberty by defending Islam can reconcile that stance with the FACT that Islam allows its subjects no freedom of religion; no freedom to leave their religion or choose another religion if they desire
Islam IS the antithesis of religious freedom, not to mention that it has no concept of separation of church and state.
Islam is 100 per cent incompatible with the United States Constitution. This column By David Solway should be required reading for everyone who does not wish to see the world returned to the seventh century.
Well said, David Solway. And I envy your courage in writing very long sentences that work.
Yes, it is true the we in the U.S. are insulated from what happens “beyond the fence” of what by historical standards are our comfortable and usually quite remarkably safe lives, with our longevity and health, mobility and riches, lives that former generations could only dream about–we have access to such knowledge and forces today that we live like Kings or even Gods compared to those of past centuries and even earlier, more primitive times; a situation that is the culmination and legacy of the sacrifices and often man and woman-killing work put in by our forbearers, and their century’s worth of often back-braking toil by the light of the sun and moon, and of fireplaces, and candles, and oil and kerosene light, and of their enduring cold, starvation and malnutrition, the attacks of wild animals and Indians, and crippling injuries and shortened lives, and because, too, of our soldier’s sacrifices on a hundred battlefields, that we might sleep safe in our beds, enjoy our many comforts and our longer, healthier lives, and raise our perilously diminished number of children in comfort and safety.
But we have become too comfortable, we have become too soft, we have become too naïve, many of us so far removed from the Earth and Reality that we take our children out to a “petting zoo,” to see a pig or chicken or goat, and often don’t know just how most of our food is produced, or what trees and bushes and plants and animals it is produced from or how—for I believe that many of us think it, somehow, just magically appears, just comes to us—in cartons and nice, colorful packages, and boxes, and cans–and we flinch at the thought of conflict and blood (which is the stuff of stories, or of beautiful TV programs by National Geographic or CNN about far away lands, outside the fence), and we shiver when we hear wolves in the night, and we hide under the covers, and tell ourselves that we did not hear what we heard and that, in any case, we have watchmen and soldiers, and that they will take care of any predators.
I attended college and graduate school and have been an avid reader all my life—I even have a degree in History–and I thought I knew History. But after 9/11, when I started to research Islam and its history, and Muhammad and what he said and did, and the content of the Qur’an, the Hadiths and the Sira, and the 1,400 year history of Islam, and discovered its ancient and unceasing Jihad against all “unbelievers,” I was amazed to find that, although I had not directly or in any depth studied these things, the impressions about these things that I had picked up willy-nilly, here and there, were almost entirely wrong, were usually outright lies; confections created by Muslims, their agents and their allies, and by Islamophiles and “experts” who were in love with Islamic “civilization,” confections meant to satisfy and divert, that covered a very harsh and bloody history, and a deadly, menacing, Islamic ideology which, if directed–as it is–against us, I realized was a personal and direct and unmistakable threat to our entire civilization, and to our freedom, and to our very existence.
And I was amazed to find that once you start to investigate, the truth is all right there, virtually out in the open, but we refuse to look, and take the word of those who are Muslims and their agents and partisans for what Islam really is, and what the Qur’an really contains, and what Muhammad really said and did, instead of investigating and reading the primary sources for ourselves, and, in consequence, we are lulled to sleep, we are blinded, and lied to and deliberately mislead and deceived, and very deliberately pointed down the path that leads to our defeat.
9/11 should have been enough of a wake up call, but it obviously wasn’t. Muslim Jihadi attacks since then—which, despite MSM and official attempts to minimize or disguise them, seem to be picking up in number and seriousness—Maj. Hasan’s Ft. Hood Massacre (say the authorities, an instance of “workplace violence” by a poor, discriminated against soldier who the Army refused to even name, as they also refused to mention “Islam” in their 86 page report) and the Times Square Bomber (a young man with a family (how nice!) who came upon hard times and was “foreclosed on,” poor baby, so, naturally, he started to build a car bomb to kill thousands of innocent “unbelievers”–it is all so reasonable and understandable, no need for messy discussions about Islamic ideology, and Jihad, and the Qur’an’s “Verse of the Sword” and all the other bloodthirsty verses urging Jihad and killing or enslaving and despoiling the accursed “unbelievers, ” who are “the spawn of pigs and apes”) haven’t awakened enough of us up yet.
Too many of us are still asleep and/or blind—as things like the controversy over the “Triumphant Mosque of the Nineteen Martyrs” next to Ground Zero that shady Muslims, with a straight face, say we should accept as a their gesture of “reconciliation” and to demonstrate our “tolerance,” and the news over the last two days about what was obviously a terrorist “dry run,” and probing actions that took place in several airports and on several flights, and the apparently frantic efforts by the “authorities” and the MSM to explain away—the $7,000 in cash carried by one of the two Yemeni Muslims, their pattern of changing planes, the knives, and simulated IEDs and timers in their luggage–as somehow very normal and unobjectionable, and in no way suspicious or indicative of Muslim terrorists probing for weaknesses, shows that we are not anywhere near awake enough yet, and I fear that—God forbid–it will probably take a successful Jihadi attack with mass casualties to have any chance at all of waking enough of us up.
Although, with what seems to be our leaders and our almost infinite capacity for denial, and a crypto–Muslim in the White House, even such a catastrophe might not be sufficient, and we will have to be hit again and again, until some sense is pounded into us, and we recognize just who and what our enemy is and we fight –all out, no holds barred—for our survival.
American politicians should invite Western European families to apply for US citizenship! If they come with children, reward them with a one-time grant toward the purchase of a foreclosed home. This policy will have the effect of strengthening America and bringing home the seriousness of the European predicament to its leaders. If Europe closes its doors to further Muslim immigration, then America can rescind its offer to European families.
Please recall that immigration has been used politically for quite a few hundred years in America, including the importation of Black Africans as slaves and the indentured servant system. I am not a historian, but the other events that stand out in my mind are the importation of Ukrainians and Slavs with fascist histories at the end of World War II by Richard Nixon to counter the influx of Jews and other Western European liberals following the Holocaust. Of course, there is also the Catholic Church’s support of South American immigration as a response to the weakening of the Catholic Church’s natural constituents as a consequence of their disagreement with Catholic social policy. Today, of course, we have the Democratic Party’s support of “immigration reform” with the goal of strengthening its voter power base.
A bit over three hundred years ago, the West made a tacit agreement that we would not fight over religion. Religion would make no claim to political authority, and political authorities would not meddle in religious doctrine.
That agreement was a reaction to previous centuries of immensely destructive wars over religion. It served the West well. Hostility to any sort of coercion in religion is a reflex in “enlightened” Western culture. That’s what induces the paralysis, not deference to Islam.
But there were costs to it. There is no authority to deal with religion that becomes a motive for crime or other anti-social behavior. (One function of the Inquisition was to break up cult groups by deprogramming members. With no established church, that function is left to “vigilante” groups.)
Today we are faced, for the first time in 300 years, with religiously motivated war.
The problem today isn’t necessarily Islam. Only a small proportion of Moslems are engaged in jihadist violence. (That small proportion still numbers in the hundreds of thousands or millions.) The root problem is that there is no agency to declare formally that the jihadist interpretation of Moslem scriptures is false and suppress the preachers of jihadism by force.
Efforts to assert the falsity of jihadist Islam by mere authority don’t help much, because the Moslem scriptures are favorable to jihadism. One can refute jihadism from the Koran, but it’s a lot easier to justify it.
The failure to enforce the anti-jihadist interpretation rigidly means that a small proportion of Moslems will go jihadist, enough to cause an intolerable threat to civil society.
But such enforcement breaks a foundational principle of modern civil society.
Besides, who is to do it? There is no Moslem body with the requisite authority. It would be absurd for non-Moslems to do it (“We don’t believe in your Prophet or your scripture, but we will tell you when you interpret it wrongly.”), but there may be no choice.
A general proscription of Islam? That is an attack on all Moslems, including the non-jihadist majority, for actions they didn’t do and may not even approve of.
Exclusion of Moslems? That doesn’t help nations which have substantial long-established Moslem minorities, like India and Israel, or non-Moslems in predominantly Moslem countries such as Egypt, Lebanon, or Malaysia. Nor does it address the issue of trade with Moslem oil states. The world can’t boycott the Gulf States.
Given all these factors, inaction is not surprising.
Update: The Mosque and the Glaciers
Trying to keep up with the news nowadays is like liberals/leftists/”progressives” trying to make sense of their lives and trying to fit themselves into their advertised profile of caring, generous, sensitive lovers of humanity and all things that live on God’s green Earth.
It’s nigh near impossible.
Of course, we should strike the word “God” from that last phrase since most libs/lefts/”progs” either don’t adhere to a belief in the Almighty or don’t believe that He was in any way a participant in making the United States of America the exceptional nation that it still is despite their efforts to alter that.
We should also qualify that concern for “all things living” since pre-born babies don’t count.
Nevertheless, let’s give a shot at keeping abreast of things going on in the world on two fronts, mosques and glaciers:
The Monster Mosque and Its Monstrous Supporters:
The extraordinarily contentious issue of whether Muslims should build a mosque 2 1/2 blocks from Ground Zero where almost nine years ago other Muslims destroyed the World Trade Center and, by downing those two iconic towers, destroyed 2,996 innocent lives, was brought to a head last week when those who oppose and those who support the mosque gathered to demonstrate their opposition or support.
Islam’s constitutional right to erect such an edifice has never disputed. Islam’s discretion and sensitivity toward the feelings of 9/11 survivors and loved ones and its sensitivities toward every New Yorker or American who died a little that day are the chief issues of contention.
At those Ground Zero rallies on August 22nd, 2010, the two opposing forces met, head to head, virtually mano-a-mano. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1871)
I can’t find Koran 16: 106 in my Koran.
Don’t know if I will get any heat for saying this, but, there should be a moratorium of some kind on immigration. Visas (limited) used strictly for college, and for companies who need to have their overseas counterparts here. Strictly enforced!
How long a moratorium, don’t know. But enough time to clean up the mess we now have in this country. And validate who is here. Who these people are. There are too many visa overstays (can’t find them) and too much run amuck (identity theft, SS numbers stolen, illegals etc). Blowback – tough! We need to also do something inside the Government Agencies running immigration. Something is amiss.
How are so many Muslims able to come into this country and are they all ‘legal’? How does this happen?
We need to get assertive our leaders are too soft. We are being overloaded and its becoming unsustainable. I am sure the Left (and right) and special interest groups do see we are overloaded, and, again, their head in the sand
strategy, boils down to the Almighty DOLLAR, VOTES, POWER, and PC.
Isn’t it ironic how much the left will try to “capitalize” on so many “unsustainable issues” while dennouncing the ‘capitalization’ of sustainable issues?
Social Justice” is ruining this country.
This is the result of a portion of the globe that the developed world historically ignored because quite simply it lack resources.
The Spanish were seeking gold and silver….others furs….others fertile land to relieve population stress.
The Russians conquered Central Asia as much as to suppress a culture of brigands….much like Spain, France and Italy finally colonized the Mahgreb to suppress Barbarry Pirates.
Then Petrolium became the fuel of developed economies and by chance it was a resource in abundance in an area neglected due to an otherwise lack of resources.
Shelley (the poet) described it best…..”….an antique land….”
Now we have a “nouveau riche” flood of violent primitives in our midst…no longer “outre-mer” much like Europe after the wistful crusades. Yes the Crusades were whimsical because conquests resulted in no worthwhile resources beyond arid land inhabited by backward primitives. Then following the Spanish Reconquista, Europe experienced the depredations of the Barbarry Pirates slave raids.
The solution, conquest of the Mahgreb, is the one Andrea Doria inspired….smite them hip and thigh.
You used to be better than this, David.
its desire is reification, and the article goes downhill from there. Why not just write, “They breed like rabbits!” and be done with it?
according to Salim Mansur, sunni-arab, most knowlegable journalist, for the
TORONTO SUN,, newspaper.. he analyses Islam, as a political system.. masquerading as a religion…..
this is straight from an internal, credible source…. WHAT MORE EVIDENCE IS REQUIRED…???
with all that has happened, with Isalm, not only in America, but world wide… an immediate ban must be proclaimed , making Isalm a terror organization.
this must be followed, by the demolition of all mosques..
so what, if we’re called Islamophobic…… at least we’ll have our dignity/self-respect back..
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