Death of Democracy? - Part II

The Gatestone Institute ^ | February 12, 2018 | Denis MacEoin

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The irony, of course, is that so many people, have adopted a way of interpreting human rights and liberal values in a manner that often undermines them.

It is time for some home truths. Islam has been at war with the West for some 1,384 years, with very little respite. When Muslim Arab armies invaded Syria in 634, went on to destroy all but a rump of the Christian Byzantine empire (which it finally defeated when the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453), took control of Spain, Portugal, Sicily and other lands on the north Mediterranean coast, it was the start of endless jihad wars.

Most importantly, we seem unable to understand that Islam is, above all else, a totalitarian project covering all aspects of human life from the spiritual to the material, from law to government to clothing to food to sex to taxation and more. This totalitarianism rejects democracy in the most basic way, as having come from mere humans rather than divinely, from Allah.

Unfortunately, concluding that modern terrorism "has nothing to do with Islam" or that "Islam is a religion of peace" visibly contradicts the historical record.

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from article: One man, Edward Said, did grave damage to public perceptions of Western values, including democracy. His 1978 book Orientalism was held -- mystifyingly -- in high esteem by many scholars who should know have known better, considering his manifold deceptions, as, for example: (here), (here), (here), (here,> (here), (here), (here), and (here)

Of course, many people who also should have known better, believed in mirages such as Communism, and many still believe – despite such examples as the catastrophe of Venezuela -- in Socialism.....and that of Greece?

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Informative, but sad.

The west is dying and democracy will die soon thereafter.

He real problem it seems is the lefist Monopoly on education and media(including google and Facebook).
The same people that are teaching our kids to hate themselves and their culture by focusing exclusively on our cultures sins and other cultures virtues,this is of course little better than propaganda.

They are now also resorting to cultural facism in a desperate bid retain domminance over a civilization they have been activity trying to kill.