The Weak Link In Our “War on Terror” (A rare moment of lucidity at 'Chronicles')

There are many lessons of September 11. The most important one, which has yet to be fully grasped by many Americans, is that Islam as such poses a threat, not some allegedly aberrant variety of it. This fact creates a serious conceptual problem for them. They find it hard to grasp that the “tolerant” and “peaceful” Islam we hear about in the media is, for the most part, something like the unicorn: no matter how detailed is our description of it, and now matter how much of an imaginative effort we make, the thing simply does not exist.

It is somewhat disconcerting that reasonable, patriotic, and well-informed citizens still deem it necessary, today, to debate whether Islam is “peaceful” or not. That debate should have been over by now. Thank God they did not debate whether Soviet Communism was “peaceful” after the Berlin Blockade of 1949, or the aggression in Korea a year later, but acted effectively to contain it by whatever means necessary and available. Had they not done so the history of the world could have been very different indeed.

Of course back then we did have a legion of Moscow’s apologists, character witnesses, moles and fellow-travelers, assuring us that the Comrades want nothing but social justice at home and peaceful coexistence abroad.

They held tenured chairs, staffed the New York Times’ Moscow bureaus, controlled many Hollywood studios, and dominated all smart parties on both coasts.

They explained away and justified the inconsistencies and horrifyingly violent implications of the source texts, Marx’s and Lenin’s writings.

They explained away and justified the appalling fruits: the bloodbath of the Revolution itself, the genocidal crime of the great famine, the show trials and purges, the killing machine that destroyed millions of innocents known as the Gulag, the pact with Hitler, the works.

Today their spiritual heirs in the academy and the liberal media establishment act as Islam’s mostly unpaid apologists, character witnesses and fellow travelers. They explain away, with identical scholastic sophistry and moral depravity, the dark and violent implications of the source texts, the Koran and the Hadith.

They explain away and seek to justify the deeply unnerving career of The Man, Prophet Muhammad, as conveyed by the Muslim tradition itself. That career, in addition to revelations of varying coherence, consisted of armed robberies, of dozens of individual murders, and ultimately of genocide and ethnic cleansing, on a scale limited only by the technology of its time, not by intent.

They explain away and seek to justify 14 centuries of conquests, wars, slaughters, subjugation, decline without fall, spiritual and material misery, and murderous fanaticism. Now that Marx has failed — a fact reluctantly conceded even by a few tenured professors at Boulder — it is Islam that offers an alternative, and a helping hand, to those who want to subvert the tradition of the West.

Apologists for communism and apologists for Islam share the same circular, self-fulfilling and self-justifying world outlook, part-religion, and part-totalitarian ideology. In both cases, brainwashed propagandists work tirelessly to square the ciricle, and prove that black is white and that up is down. In both cases it is the lie that needs to be invented and defended, while the truth exists and only needs to be presented.

The ridiculous claim that jihad should be understood in the “spiritual” sense is a lie. The truth is that generation after generation of Muslim warriors applied a very literal and very physical definition of jihad when they attacked, conquered, and subjugated much of the world.

The “Peace” of Kuran is only attainable under Islamic lordship, once the Jihadists defeat all non-Muslims and conquer their lands, kill the men, take their women, and enslave their children. This is exactly the same definition of “peace” that was used by the Soviet empire in the period of its external expansion, from 1944 to 1979: yes, “peace” is the goal, but it is fully attainable only after the defeat of “imperialism as the final stage of capitalism” and the triumph of the vanguard of the proletariat in the whole world.

The majority of Americans and most of the people in this forum still think of Islam as merely a religion.

It is an idealogy masked as a religion and because of that, there is no stopping it and the Muslim world knows this.

There is even a target date that has been set that scholars in Islam often discuss and plan for.

Joseph Farah exagerated on a few things in his report, which is perhaps why many simply have dismissed it 'out of hand' but he is correct that "The Islamization of America" is in fact being organized and planned for.

It is often a subject of debate here where I live (Wawasan 2020), many of the American diplomats here seem to ignore the "islamization process" called for in "Wawasan 2020" and report back to Washington that the vision merely sets a target for Malaysia's modernization. That is not the complete truth. Much of the hardcore stuff is not in English and so it is perhaps not reported but there are plans being discussed on every level about how the islamization of America will in fact be implemented. If I had the time and money I would be happy to translate a lot of the stuff. Im willing to bet that our government does not have one single person who can speak, read and write Kelantanese and Malay. /smirk

I think a lot of people would be amazed to find out that the terrorist attacks are only one stage in a long process of the islamization of America. In some respects, it is a distraction. Daniel Pipes is on to something and he toys around with it a lot, but he is not getting the message out. He seems to think there is a good Islam and a bad Islam and that the good Islam can somehow ally idealogically with the West. He is mistaken. He has the knowledge of Islam, but not the understanding.

I honestly believe that Islam will in fact conquer America by the year 2020. The reason is that there simply because their is no defense against it. America regards Islam solely as a "religion" and therefore it is protected. Secondly Americans don't take the Islamization process seriously, even the diplomats here "whitewash" it and/or don't even report it.

Im not the only American sounding the alarm. There are others who are trying to get the message out to little or no avail. You might also notice that many of the ones sounding the alarm the loudest are people who have personally had direct exposure to Islam or have spent a considerable amount of time in a Muslim country. Perhaps that should tell you something.

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