Ben Franklen: A rational person will never be able to understand the appeal of Islam when all it has ever wrought is slavery, suffering and destruction to any land where it has been ascendant. I have said before that if we can figure out what is missing in the hearts and minds of people on the left, or who are adherents of other, similar barbaric death cults not founded by Marx that makes them embrace totalitarianism then we will be well on the way to solving the problem. You see it writ small in such things as trans-fat, dancing or smoking bans and writ large in environmentalism, Islamism or communism but the base desire to control the actions of others when they are no threat to you is a strong one in the human psyche. It is so strong that we will make up entire religions or “scientific” fields of study whose sole purpose is to appease this instinct.
Since no one has cracked this nut yet we have a handy short-hand way of referring to such a propensity… we simply call it “evil”.
Outstanding post, every letter and dot of it. Please contribute more often. May I post the above quotation elsewhere? (With attribution, of course.) It really sums up the inhuman bonds between Leftism and their (erstwhile), pet Muslims. Lacking any better understanding of the two, we are most certainly better off knowing that they must be called “evil”. The inability to do so is leading our world to the precipice of another World War and bringing America to the brink of a new Civil War.
Srdja Trifkovic has also identified the mysterious inability of modern Western leaders to clearly label this ongoing assault upon civilization:
The elite class has every intention of continuing to “fight” the war on terrorism without naming the enemy, without revealing his beliefs, without unmasking his intentions, without offending his accomplices, without expelling his fifth columnists, and without ever daring to win. Their crime can and must be stopped. The founders of the United States overthrew the colonial government for offenses far lighter than those of which the traitor class is guilty.
