“The individual as a moral entity is at the heart of limited government. The left, which denies the individual, viewing him only as a representative of a race or a class, of a brainwashed polity in thrall to movements and false beliefs that must be crushed, has no room for limited government. Neither does Islam, which rejects human free will, for the moral imperative of the Jihad and the forced conversion of infidels.
“Democracy without the individual means as much as a million monkeys composing Shakespeare. Without the individual, the ballot box is only a tool for collectivist impulses and identities, for a makeshift insecure majority imposing its will on a minority or a coalition of insecure minorities doing the same thing to a majority. There is nothing special or exceptional about such behavior.”
Very well put.
That was my favorite observation, too. Excellent article.
The United states established democracy in Germany and Japan after WW II, and in Korea after the Korean War. Those countries were different from the Muslim countries in that they were made up of like-minded people. That cannot be said about the Muslim nations. They will always be fighting tribal warfare.
Look at Iraq. The Shites are always fighting the Kurds and the Sunnis, and also any Christians that get in the way. It’s impossible to install any democracy in countries like that. We have to get out of the Middle east and let them fight among themselves. And we should give citizenship to the Christians in those countries and trade each Christian refugee for one muslim by deporting them. They will never assimilate.