Islamic Imperialism - Efrain Karsh

townhall.com ^ | 2006 | Efraim Karsh

[Capt. Tom]

Professor Karsh demonstrates conclusively in this myth-busting book, the real "root cause" of Islamic jihad is the teachings and traditions of Islam itself. snip

How Islam envisages a global political order in which all humankind will live under Muslim rule as either believers or subject communities (dhimmis)

How, in order to achieve this goal, it is incumbent on all free, male, adult Muslims to carry out an uncompromising struggle (jihad) "in the path of Allah"

Why, in the meantime, there can be no peace between Islam and the rest of the world -- only the temporary suspension of hostilities to allow Islam to regain the advantage

Muhammad's massacre of the Medina Jews, who refused to acknowledge his revelations: how it set the pattern for Muslim Jew-hatred down to the present day

How Islam provided a moral sanction to territorial conquest, theft, and enslavement of captives

Slaves: the primary trade commodity in the Islamic empire

How, to this day, many Muslims unabashedly pine for the reconquest of Spain, and consider their 1492 expulsion from the country a grave historical injustice

How contemporary scholars falsely idealize the Ottoman empire as a shining example of tolerance, in contrast with their scathing indictment of Western colonialism

The historic blunder that led to the destruction of the Ottoman empire by the British army -- and the creation of the new Middle Eastern state system on its ruins

How Osama bin Laden and other modern jihadists model themselves on Islam's early conquerors -- and aspire to nothing less than the substitution of Allah's universal empire for the existing international system

Alarming signs -- cultural, demographic and political -- that Europe may come under Islamic domination by the end of the twenty-first century

[Capt. Tom]

Sounds like I wrote the book. The author and many of us freepers are on the same page. - tom

[mlc9852]

Islam is a world-wide cancer that must be eradicated.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Islam is a world-wide cancer that must be eradicated."

Actually, Islam is much like a virus. An idea can be said to infect the brain and cause outward manifestations and lasting impacts on those who accept it.

Islam is a terribly effective virus, in that it incapacitates reason, demands subservience, and makes the infected unproductive and easily suggestible.

Similarly, Western thought (post-Enlightenment) encourages reason, demands individual freedom, makes the adherent productive and inherently skeptical.

What if sociology is just ideas mimicking strands of DNA?

What if the acceptance of ideas yields determinate results for societies?

What if Islam is highly communicable, but ultimately destructive?

Does Islam beget a world of dandelions: Each is a hardy, undifferentiated weed of no value and without hope of progress?

How does an ecology of humans function when the dark ages mob encounters post-modern technorati?

[redpoll]

A lot of this book makes sense, and in that regard I often fear for the future of my own Western civilization. There sometimes seems to be far too few of us who actually understand what we're up against facing Islamofascism. I don't forsee total Islamic domination, though - I don't think the Indians and Chinese will allow their cultures to be destroyed. Our own culture, though? I see the Chomskys and the Michael Moores of the world and feel fear.

[Capt. Tom]

There sometimes seems to be far too few of us who actually understand what we're up against facing Islamofascism

The good news is that more people are becoming aware of the Islamic threat. And that number will rise with future attacks on us.

Unlike the majority of Jews in Israel, Americans will eventually realize we are not going to talk our way out of this problem with the Muslims. Unless we elect another president who thinks Islam is a religion of peace. That would slow down the dawning of the obvious, which is: Muslims are religiously driven to subjugate ,convert or kill us. And that trumps all worldly offerings and logical appeals to stop doing it. - Tom

[Dark Skies]

Unless we elect another president who thinks Islam is a religion of peace.

How right you are.

I support President Bush because I know he is carrying a full load of responsibility...but why does he keep saying islam is a great religion (as he did again today). It is obscurantism at its finest. It deals a blow to the work done by Ali Sina and Wafa Sultan and other ex-muslims and it makes the battle worse for moderate muslims (all three of them). He talks like a first class dhimmi.

[Dark Skies]

Islam is a terribly effective virus, in that it incapacitates reason, demands subservience, and makes the infected unproductive...

I suggest islam is too clever by half to be a human invention. Its essense is anti-life, anti-freedom, anti-growth.

The ultimate power of islam is obviously not comprehended by muslims, the left, or even the President. It is a black hole which, by design, seeks to absorb all the positive energy of this planet (including whatever positive energy moderate or apostate muslims may exude).

[rageaholic]

Time to redefine islam so as to remove Constitutional protections placed upon it under its guise as a religion.

Just like Ketchup is not a vegitable, but a sauce with vegitable content. Islam is not a religion, it is an enemy political ideology, with religious content.

[livius]

the real "root cause" of Islamic jihad is the teachings and traditions of Islam itself.

Surprise! Although, actually, I suspect that many of our current leaders, including Bush, are well aware of this and are simply trying to delay the inevitable with their "Islam is a religion of peace" assurances.

[Teacher317]

but why does he keep saying islam is a great religion (as he did again today). It is obscurantism at its finest.

I think it is for two reasons:
1. Everyone who is not wilfully ignorant knows the truth
2. Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" while feeling around for a large rock.

[rageaholic]

Sorry but if Separation of Church and State means that the 10 Commandments must be removed from courthouses, then the President should likewise refrain from praising pisslam, I mean islam.

[Dark Skies]

You have taken the high road and I can only hope you are right.

However, a huge percentage of the population (including many here at FR) actually believe the President.

[Dark Skies]

Sorry but if Separation of Church and State means that the 10 Commandments must be removed from courthouses

Islam hates the Ten Commandments...particularly the "Thou shalt not kill" part.

[Capt. Tom]

Surprise! Although, actually, I suspect that many of our current leaders, including Bush, are well aware of this and are simply trying to delay the inevitable with their "Islam is a religion of peace" assurances.

I would like to believe that, but when I see how blind he is to Mexican reconquistadors threat , I just can't take it on faith he recognizes Islam for what it is.

And when he made the stupid statement we all worship the same God it made me less inclined to believe he is on to the Moslem threat. - tom

[livius]

Mexico is a whole different thing, the product of our inability to confront a dysfunctional socialist state (Mexico), our lousy immigration bureaucracy that makes it just about impossible to immigrate legally (unless you are a Muslim "political refugee," like the Iraqi militants we settled in OKC), and heavy leftist/Dem manipulation of people who can't even read or write English, and never will, if the Dems and the teachers' unions have their way. Nobody is going to come up with a solution until Mexico is forced to be a responsible state acting like a grownup on the world scene, and not the perpetual temperamental toddler it is now.

But I have been very disturbed by Bush's low-key approach to Islam. However, I think he's trying to avoid radicalizing the few moderates that may exist, and also trying to consolidated an approach for when hour zero strikes. Many people think time is on the side of Iran, but actually, I think it's more on our side, and Bush is giving them the time that we need.

[Alouette]

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[Salem]

"I support President Bush because I know he is carrying a full load of responsibility...but why does he keep saying islam is a great religion (as he did again today). It is obscurantism at its finest. It deals a blow to the work done by Ali Sina and Wafa Sultan and other ex-muslims and it makes the battle worse for moderate muslims (all three of them). He talks like a first class dhimmi."

That's a good question and one dominate in a lot of Conservatives minds post 9/11. But it presupposes President Bush is a monarchist and not an elected official in a Republican democracy (although the unhinged left in America and the world thinks otherwise). He's the leader of the dominate international country leading globalization.

I posted this before, and in doing a quick search, found it posted three other times on Free Republic. It is posted online, but I ordered a regular book copy for myself, as well as one for our Senior pastor.

Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project.[Posted at Free Republic]
Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project. [Government Site]

For a U.S. Government publication, it goes into detail on where the global "elite" and global business community is taking all of us. When reading this—and everyone should read it—the researchers go into detail concerning the potential threats, "derailing globalization." You can than see the decisions being made in Washington and the national and international corporate community as decisions are being made to counter the various "obstacles" to global government and commerce this publication detailed.

Cheap Mexican labor propping up the American economy in the face of even cheaper Indian and the Chinese workers; Islam being portrayed as a religion of "peace" by our national leaders—both Republican and Democrat—in a misguided bid to support "moderates" in the belief system. Like if there was moderate Nazis or imperialist Japanese. All are issues challenging America's founding principles and heretofore original culture.

Our national elites still insist it is a religion of peace, inadvertently high-jacked by a few extremists; the idea of effective confrontation unpalatable (at this time) because wars mess up the global marketplace.

George Bush is one small factor in the global scenario, although one with more influence than Clinton ever hoped for, but as this purpose of this publication alludes to, globalization will continue to be pushed forward come hell or high water. And we are seeing that hell just on the horizon with Iran.

It's all about globalization baby. The hell with the inconveniences of borders and the extremists of Islam. The Muslim world is a potential market whose terrorists and tyrants can be corralled.

You guys really have to read this. It's pretty creepy.

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AMERICA AT WAR
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Translated Pre-War IRAQ Documents  by jveritas
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One FReeper On The Line  by SNOWFLAKE
The Clash of Ideologies - A Review

[kalee]

bttt

[M. Espinola]

A whole ship load of them, a missed opportunity - there will be other opportunities very soon.

(Their English is not worth 'a damn' either.)

[sheik yerbouty]

Globalism is Babelism. It's just that simple..