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July 29, 2008 - 5:33 am - by Richard Fernandez
Chip
2008-07-29 21:39:59

Wolf’s right about one thing, at least: they think they’re winning and we’re soft. The Islamic revival/awakening, the Sahwa, is viewed as moving from victory to victory especially in Europe. The EU is a prime mover in the triumph of Islam, it’s their policy. From suppressing secular checks on Islam in Turkey to favoring unrestricted immigration with massive welfare benefits for actual jihadis in the UK (inter alia). Human rights law as applied in the EU most protects those mujahideen who want to commit murder because their home nations (wisely) want to get rid of them.

“There will be blood.”

Of course there is now. But we miss every opportunity to really destroy terrorist infrastructure because it’s usually in mosques, at rallies, politically connected, or surrounded by nominal civilians.

The same psychological dynamics which made it possible to win WWII haven’t developed despite a longer time frame and almost as (sometimes more) brutal enemy tactics. The Japanese beheaded prisoners but didn’t sell videos in London.

I no longer look for so-called “wakeup calls.” Our civilization is apparently too soft and intellecutally stunted to respond properly to genocidal movements which act in a piecemeal fashion and often through education, politics, law, ‘outreach,’ and business.

Make no mistake, though you’re invited to Islam (da’wa), the alternatives are second-class status (under sharia, paying the jizya) or death. Where did all those large non-Muslim populations go in every so-called Muslim nation on Earth? Massacres feature prominently when someone is accused of something like throwing a rock at a mosque or tearing a page out of a Quran (violations of the dhimma — treaty of protection — like Mafia protection). Project this behavior out over nearly 1,400 years and that’s where all the missing kuffars went, if they didn’t run screaming ASAP after the Muslims took over.

Some Jewish examples, and a few mentions of other non-Muslims feeling the ‘peace’ of Islam throughout history.

All polling of modern Muslims suggests history is now as well, and getting more aggressive as people cravenly appease their every threat and ridiculous demand.