Posted on 07/28/2005 6:38:08 AM PDT by Pokey78
It's a Churchill quote, btw.
Victor David Hansen was a guest on Savage the other night (Savage has been drawing better guests lately), and he made the argument that it isn't even about Wahabism. It's about the same culture that in the past used Pan-Arabism, Baathism, and Naziism to try to gain back the dominance of the glory days of the Ottoman Empire. Actually, he didn't mention the Ottoman Empire, that just occured to me. But his point was that they will ride whatever wave is available to help them acheive their goal, which is the destruction of Western Civ.
He said the point was well illustrated by Saddam who, starting as a communist, was building mosques by the end.
"‘The right to live. The right to go to work on the Underground. The right to have an ID card.’ Human rights-wise, that last one is right up there with the right to be subject to confiscatory taxation."
If I ever have a daughter I think I'll name her Sharia. It sounds like a nice name.
But honestly, what a pathetic example of pointless gesture politics: if you’re a fancypants North American business traveller in town for less than 24 hours and splashing a ton of hard currency around the West End, the Home Office goes through a big hoop-de-doo about saying you’ve no entitlement to welfare. But if you’re a Somali and you want to live in public housing at public expense for six years while you fine-tune your plot to blow up Warren Street Tube station, pas de problème!
And this was one of the best parts!
Wars you win, struggles you wage.
Interesting post. Thanks for the insights.
Does anyone else here see the common thread here?
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Exactly. Idleness is the devil's workshop ping.
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The most destructive aspect of a nanny-state welfare system is that it cultivates large numbers of useless malcontents.
We must remember that it is the left in this country, really just underground Communists, who foment much of this discontent. That is their MO all over the world. Often their tactic is not to find a grievance but to create a grievance.
The poor have been with us forever and being poor in itself does not bring discontent. Most of the world has been poor for its entire history. As long as there is not starvation, poverty is routinely tolerated. By simply following the dictates of the Bible, or any religion other than Islam, it is apparent that happiness is not in worldly possessions or positions of power. Being content with poverty is not an aberation of human nature.
But let someone come on the scene and start telling you how terribly you are being treated by the rich and powerful and pretty soon many will become unhappy with their lot in life, a lot they were content with shortly before. Before long they have aggressive discontent with the powers that be. The agitators then use this discontent to gain power for themselves.
This present wave of Wahhabism is directly connected to the rise in Communism, which incidentally does parallel the end of WWI, and its cousin Nazism. The Nazis took an active role in the ME before and during WWII and the Communists took up the slack afterward. Ever since the Muslims have been imbued with an active hatred of democracy, and therefore, the West and Israel.
The Communists aren't dead, they are just playing dead and operating in stealth around the world, no where stronger than in this country and specifically in the Democrat Party and even more specifically through Hillaryski. The Wahhabis a just their latest surrogates.
Today that would be the Communists. In this country they masquerade as Democrats.
Great article. The West doesn't yet realize, or care, that this is a fight to the death.
Actually, it is the Communists who are reenacting the Phoenix scenario and they are the ones trying to bring down Western civilization. Multiculturalism is simply one of their tactics.
Who keeps the racial pots boiling? Who promotes, no insists upon, political correctness and multiculturalism? Who divides women from men? Who keeps the poor in poverty with programs supposedly designed to get them out of it but is really just an extension of big government?
The answer in this country is the Democrats. The Democrats are following the principles of Communism and have strong ties to Communism, though they will scream if you confront them. The Democrats are our enemies just like their allies the terrorists. We should treat them as such.
As I just said above, it is the Communists. The Roman empire was pagan and persecuted the Christians. With no abiding moral principles which stand independently of the government, a society will crumble on its own.
Who is fighting overtime to rid our country of religion, especially Christianity? No prayer in schools, no Ten Commandments, abortion, promotion of homosexuality, moral relativism, etc. It is the Democrat Party, performing as a stand in for the Communist Party, and we should stop skirting the issue. The Democrats are our enemies and must be treated as such.
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