I quoted Sherman in a medium length rant I sent out on 9/12/01.
Would that our national leadership had similar historical grounding. Instead, we got “Islam is a religion of peace,” the expenditure of way too much blood and treasure over far too many years, and damned little to show for it.
The problem with the West and its relations with Islam are two fold.
One, the fallacious mantra, “Islam is a religion of peace”, even if it were true, ignores the fact that Islam is an entire world view, religion, commerce AND government rolled into one that, by definition, requires dominance.
“Islam” means submission!
Islam demands submission, either voluntarily or because of the sword, to the governance of Islam. Our “intellectual elites” have some fuzzy idea about quaintly praying 5 times every day and making the Haj, “you know, all that National Geographic stuff.” For all their pretensions about Women’s Liberation, the Elites seem to have very little problem with the burka and everything that goes with that mindset.
The second problem with our Western Elite “leaders” is that they are running as hard and fast as they can from God, the one true God of Abraham and Moses, who came to Earth as Jesus to redeem us. The Elites prefer to worship themselves, but often Reality bites them and they are forced to acknowledge a power greater than themselves. Their problem is, many will choose to worship ANYTHING other than God.
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce