Pan-Islamism Challenges Idea Of Nation-State (Mark Steyn: Meet The Real Globalists Alert)

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 08/13/06 | Mark Steyn

[livius]

Excellent analysis of the lefist program and its origins as a program.

Leftists love authoritarianism and hate freedom, and one thing that Steyn didn't mention is that Islam is a cult that views itself as a political system as well as a religion. It is an authoritarian political system, ruled by a particular class, accumulating the wealth in the hands of the few while spouting a sort of collectivist babble to cover it up - and, in other words, right up the leftist alley.

The secret with leftists is that they always assume that they are going to be the ones in charge in any authoritarian system; after all, they know better than anyone else, and it is their right to be in charge. They won't be the ones suffering in some benighted goat-ridden village 200 years hence, when our societies have regressed to 8th century conditions; they'll be the ones with the carefully tended and still functional jet, who get to go off to the Saudi pleasure palaces (which will still have electricity) on the coast of Spain to enjoy the women, alcohol and drugs permitted to Allah's elite.

Leftists are authoritarian elitists, and are so self deluded it's impossible to reason with them. But that's how they envision their life under Islam. They're special.

[Carry_Okie]

Cultural Marxism would never have found accommodation in the United States had the Roosevelt Administration not imported the Frankfurt School when they fled Germany. Don't think for a minute that America's elite didn't know what they were doing.

The perfidy of the collectivist American elite has an extensive history, sir, long before the emergence of Gramsci.

[sauropod]

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[sauropod]

Yep.

[sauropod]

I am coming to the conclusion that the elites in the left are not purblind, not the misguided victims of their own worldview, but cynical high-stakes gamblers who risk plunging themselves and us into a new dark age if it will enhance their own chances to rule. Unless one believes that the top elitists on the left genuinely do not see the threat to Western civilization posed by a Muslim theocracy, there is no other plausible explanation.

Correct assessment. But I think it's more lethal than that. The Left is not viewing this as a high stakes poker game. They believe that they are Born to Rule and They Know So Much Better than the Rest of Us.

Just ask them. They'll tell you.

[OregonRancher]

Morning backhoe!
You're preaching to the choir...

Rancher with a case extendahoe

[3AngelaD]

Enoch Powell was right about Rivers of Blood being the eventual result of Britain's immigration policies.

[3AngelaD]

Not only not allowing Muslims from anywhere to immigrate, but sending them all back to their home country hell holes.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Gritty]

Absent a determination to throttle the ideology (pan-Islamism), we're about to witness the unraveling of the world

This is a dead-center shot right to the very heart of the problem.

It should be plastered on every billboard in the world.

[Pokey78]

Thanks!

Steyn ping!

[Burlem]

Bump and thanks

[expatguy]

You are not alone FRiend.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[gcruse]

"Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we're about to witness the unraveling of the world."

It would have read better, and been more typical of Mark, to have said, "Throttle the theology," but even Mr Steyn isn't quite ready to admit what we're up against.

[gcruse]

Not a religion???? Islam worships an invisible man in the sky. If that doesn't qualify, neither do some others I can think of.

[backhoe]

Morning backhoe! You're preaching to the choir... Rancher with a case extendahoe

Aw, I know- maybe the repetition reaches a few who haven't seen it.

You must have an extendable dipper- that's a handy extra feature on a 'hoe.

[backhoe]

Thanks- I'll pass your link along.

[happygrl]

I'm a fan of Mark Steyn, but here he goes down a cliched road to a dead end in analysis.

I consider myself a Christian first, an American second.

That sequence is not what is at issue.

It is the nature of Islam, which is more of an ideology than a religion, as we are used to considering such allegiances.

And as an ideology, and a religion, its current practices are wicked.

If Islam's practices were life-enhacing, it wouldn't be significant that young Britons consider themselves Muslims forst, and Britons second.

It's the religion, stupid.....

[dennisw]

bttt

[nothingnew]

The difference is that, for Western do-gooders, it's mostly a pose: They may occasionally swing by some Third World basket-case and condescend to the natives, but for the most part the multiculti set have no wish to live anywhere but an advanced Western democracy. It's a quintessential piece of leftie humbug. They may think globally, but they don't act on it.

The money paragraph in this piece as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks for the ping Pokey.

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