All over the world Muslims in their sermons, newspapers, TV shows, books and statements slander, insult, damn and attack Christians, Jews and all other un-believers on a daily basis–check MEMRI-TV’s website. Yet, we are reluctant to comment, much less attack or criticize Islam or Muslims in any way for fear of causing offense or being uncivilized. Instead, we should be trying, with all our might, to dismantle the Islam project.
I’m afraid we’ve become way too soft these days and too averse to conflict. WWII was won by a “greatest generation” that had been tempered by the Great Depression and I suspect many today would judge them as undereducated, unsophisticated, provincial, easily led and prone to violence. Unlike our generation, they were un-pampered, largely unsentimental and not easily fooled and they had the common sense to see our enemies for what they were and the courage to fight them. They sacrificed their lives for us and for our benefit yet, many of us, their heirs, value our comfortable lives so highly that we refuse to look up from our pursuits and pleasures to see the onrushing war and fear to put ourselves in harms way to defend our way of life and our country; thus the public insistence on denial of the threat and its character, source and dimensions.
The greatest generation’s victory made possible our prosperity, longevity and health but it has also led to most of us having been shielded from reality and from true evil and it also led to the idea that any conflict or violence is wrong. Post WWII Postmodernist thought-Multiculturalism, Diversity, Moral Relativism and Political Correctness–has played a substantial part, too, in disarming us, because it deprives us of the ability to analyze our enemies, the yardsticks by which to evaluate them, the vocabulary to name them and the freedom to discuss and debate; it also robs us of a sustaining faith.
The mindset for victory by our side is just not there anymore and it will take extraordinarily determined leaders and individuals with vision and persistence and, unfortunately, probably another 9/11 or two before enough people wake up to reality and decide to fight as whole heartedly and ruthlessly as we fought our enemies in WWII.
