Dispelling the ‘Only a Few Extremists’ Myth -- the Muslim World Is Overcome with Hate

National Review ^ | 12/07/2015 | David French

[SeekAndFind]

It is simply false to declare that jihadists represent the "tiny few extremists" who sully the reputation of an otherwise peace-loving and tolerant Muslim faith. In reality, the truth is far more troubling -- that jihadists represent the natural and inevitable outgrowth of a faith that is given over to hate on a massive scale, with hundreds of millions of believers holding views that Americans would rightly find revolting. Not all Muslims are hateful, of course, but so many are that it's not remotely surprising that the world is wracked by wave after wave of jihadist violence.

To understand the Muslim edifice of hate, imagine it as a pyramid -- with broadly-shared bigotry at the bottom, followed by stair steps of escalating radicalism -- culminating in jihadist armies that in some instances represent a greater share of their respective populations than does the active-duty military in the United States.

The base of the pyramid, the most broadly held hatred in the Islamic world, is anti-Semitism, with staggering numbers of Muslims expressing anti-Jewish views. In 2014, the Anti-Defamation League released the results of polling 53,100 people in 102 countries for evidence of anti-Semitic attitudes and beliefs. The numbers from the majority-Muslim world are difficult to believe for those steeped in politically correct rhetoric about Islam. A full 74 percent of North African and Middle Eastern residents registered anti-Semitic beliefs, including 92 percent of Iraqis, a whopping 69 percent of relatively secular Turks, and 74 percent of Saudis.

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The trend toward Muslim anti-Semitism continues even when Muslim nations are far removed from the Arab–Israeli conflict. A solid majority -- 61 percent -- of majority-Muslim Malays harbor anti-Semitic attitudes, while only 13 percent of neighboring majority-Buddhist Thais are anti-Jewish.

The next level of the pyramid is Muslim commitment to deadly Islamic supremacy. In multiple Muslim nations, overwhelming majorities of Muslims support the death penalty for apostasy or blasphemy. Collectively, this means that hundreds of millions of men and women support capital punishment for the exercise of the basic human rights of freedom of expression and free exercise of religion:

Moving beyond Islamic supremacy to the next step of the pyramid, enormous numbers of Muslims are terrorist sympathizers. It is still stunning to see how popular Osama bin Laden was early last decade, and even as his popularity plunged (as he grew weaker and more isolated), his public approval remained disturbingly high:

But what about ISIS -- the world's most savage and deadly terror organization? The latest polling data show that while a majority of Muslims reject ISIS, extrapolating from the populations of polled countries alone shows that roughly 50 million people express sympathy for a terrorist army that burns prisoners alive, throws gay men from buildings, and beheads political opponents. In Pakistan a horrifying 72 percent couldn't bring themselves to express an unfavorable view of ISIS:

But sympathy for terror is different from active support, and here's where the numbers are difficult to pin down. I know of no reliable database that shows how many Muslims give to jihadist charities, spread jihadist propaganda on social media, support radical preachers, or otherwise take concrete actions to advance the terrorists' cause. We do know, for example, that anti-Israel terrorism is so popular in Saudi Arabia that a telethon once raised $100 million to support the 2002 intifada. Shows of support included this charming scene:

A 6-year-old boy, with a plastic gun slung over his shoulder and fake explosives strapped around his waist, walked into a donation center and made a symbolic donation of plastic explosives, according to Al Watan daily.

It is from this fertile soil that jihadists grow. And here the numbers decisively belie the "few extremists" rhetoric. In Iran alone, the Revolutionary Guard represents a proportionate share of the population similar to the combined strength of the active-duty Army and Marines here in the United States. Between Boko Haram, the Al-Nusra front, ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Yemeni militias, Libyan militias, and many others, the number of active jihadists numbers in the hundreds of thousands; some estimates indicate that 100,000 are fighting in Syria alone.

To give a sense of proportion, the United States is a nation that honors military service, respects its veterans, and engages in a massive military recruiting effort that includes offering soldiers generous salaries, pensions, benefits, and the best military equipment in the world. Even then, only about 0.4 percent of the American population engages in active-duty military service at any given time.

Jihadists, by contrast, have low life expectancies, second-rate gear, low salaries, and often have to break domestic laws and journey across battlefields to join terrorist insurgencies, but still they join. In Britain, for example, more Muslims join ISIS than join the British army.

Simply put, America's leaders actively deceive the American people about the sheer scale of Muslim hatred and commitment to jihad. Rather than tell us the truth, the Obama administration and the media aristocracy constantly lecture Americans about discrimination, apparently believing that only their scolding keeps the great redneck masses at bay.

Telling us the truth won't send Americans on an anti-Muslim killing spree. Instead, it will make us no more radical than Egypt's president, who briefly made headlines earlier this year after calling for a "revolution" in Islam and decrying faith traditions that he admitted had been "sacralized over the centuries." Telling the truth can demonstrate the scale of the problem and at least begin the process of convincing the American people that there is no quick fix, that the defense of the nation will require courage and resolve over the long term.

Islam has a problem. It is Muslims' responsibility to reform their own faith. It is America's responsibility to defend itself and its citizens. Neither goal is advanced by telling convenient, politically correct lies. After 14 years of war, can we finally tell the truth?

-- David French is a staff writer at National Review, an attorney, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

[TigerClaws]

Can we travel to their countries and preach Christianity?

Trump again is the only person taking the heat and taking a tough stand.

[Red Badger]

If only 1 in 10 of the world’s muslims were ‘radical’ then we’re talking over 100 million radicals..........................

[going hot]

Wow, someone should talk about not letting them into this country.....

[mbarker12474]

In 1932, Hitler received “only” 37% of the vote for German president, losing to Hindernberg. Also in 1932, the Nazi Party won only 37% of Reichstag legislature seats. The violent SA Brownshirts were “only” 400,00 strong, or about 0.6% of a nation with a population a little over 65 million.

Today, about the same number of persons — 63 million — in several heavily Muslim nations have a “favorable” view of ISIS. (See the Pew survey data.) If one adds those persons in those nations who have a “don’t know” opinion of ISIS, this number would increase to 273 million.

Happily, these 63 million or 273 million numbers are substantially smaller than those who have an “unfavorable” view of ISIS. As Pew reports, the view of ISIS in these mostly-Muslim nations is “overwhelmingly negative.”

Whew!

And happily, of those 63 million persons who have a “favorable” view of Isis, I am sure that only a small minority would ever, ever, ever personally engage in any violent acts.

Have a happy day, and be sure to read the Quran and Hadith.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/17/in-nations-with-significant-muslim-populations-much-disdain-for-isis/ft_15-11-17_isis_views/

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The Plague of Islam

If the civilized world is to survive, Islam must be understood for what it really is: It’s not a religion, form of government, or anything recognizable to the civilized mind. Islam is a disease, an incurable disease of the mind that is highly contagious among the feeble minded and is now spreading among the world’s feeble minded at an epidemic rate. As with any disease, one can’t reason with this disease, negotiate with it, or treat in any manner other than how one would treat any other incurable disease.

As past efforts to contain this disease have failed, carriers of this Plague of Islam must be eradicated wherever they’re found, for if they’re not, this disease will eventually end not just Western Civilization, but it will undo over 5,000 years of human civilization.

One viewing of the following ISIS Recruiting Video will erase any doubt that Islam is a disease that reduces the infected to sub-human monsters:

http://videos.videopress.com/m3YZFJZO/d986d8b4d98ad8af-d982d8b1d98ad8a8d8a7d98b-d982d8b1d98ad8a8d8a7d98b-d8a8d8a7d984d984d8bad8a9-d8a7d984d8b1d988d8b3d98ad8a9_hd.mp4

[arthurus]

Islam is violently expansionist when it has the resources to be violently expansionist and quiescent when it lacks those resources. Moslems gain those assets by constant raiding, and in the past, by piracy. When their target societies become too strong and inflict truly massive defeats on the Moslem forces repeatedly until the paynim have insufficient resources to continue the Jihad then they fold in on their own countries and tend to their sheep and their dates until another time when the Infidel nations lose awareness and become weak. In the twentieth century the infidel West eagerly plied the Moslem world with resources for Jihad by buying the oil instead of taking it and by copious foreign aid.

The Umma does not produce sufficient surplus of its own to be able to expand and if raiding and piracy are prevented or totally defeated then it cannot wage its Jihad. The Umma needs only sufficient production to support a tiny ruling class in splendour and the millions at bare subsistence. The People do not produce any more than for their survival because the Sultan or the Bey confiscates everything else. Commerce is carried on by the rulers and minimally by others who lose most of their gain to the Sultan. That is all why when Israel turned over the lush and profitable greenhouses the Israeli residents had built in Gaza to the arabs they destroyed it all. They could not profit from the operations but they could take rare and momentary pleasure in the destruction.

[savagesusie]

Christianity is Love—it is all about self-sacrifice. Marxism and Islam is the opposite which are both totalitarian systems of “faith”. Only Christianity created the idea of Free Will (Choice) and Individualism and Right Reason (Modern Science (as apposed to majority tyrannies/emotional rule over Reason).

Faith is in all ideas, but only Christianity was based on Right Reason and Natural Laws (God’s Works) and Revelation (God’s Word). (not in that order) in the 13th Century.

Our schools since 1930 have been normalizing hate/grouping of people in childhood to create the herd “instincts” (multiculturalism/diversity/bullying) -—and hate the “Other”-—true diversity. They embed emotions using operant conditioning—to destroy that Love that is embraced in all true Christians.

Erase Virtue in children-—hyper-sexualize them so emotions rule always—and you remove Reason (like with the snowflakes) and get ignorant, easily controlled sheeple-—Vice creates slavery always and tribal, Inca mindset. The Greek Masters stated that, followed by St. Augusitne and St. Thomas A. and all the great minds in Western Civ who formed the US Constitution which enshrines Free Will (choice) and Freedom to promote VIRTUE only—a true “Justice” System. All Just Law only promotes ‘public virtue”. (Montesquieu/Founders).

The way the elites are destroying this nation—is by creating a mass of ignorant, emotional drones, in public “skools” indoctrination centers—using sodomite-controlled MSM, who actually believe the most evil, vile absurd things, like Jenner is a “woman”. They use the “arts” to promote and normalize evil.

When you get that irrational—radical egalitarianism—that males are interchangeable with women-—it is a complete dehumanization—and removal of God and Truth and Natural Law (basis of American Jurisprudence). You will be removed from Realtiy, Truth, and God-—to such a degree, the culture will collapse into chaos or totalitarianism-—which is what the Marxists planned in the 19th century in Europe when they declared “God is Dead” (Christianity) and in the 30s when they took over the “education” system completely.

How could this takeover happen? Justice Holmes and evil infiltrators actually destroyed our “Justice” system to make it into a Vice system-—and as the Founders knew-—when Free Rpublics promote vice, it will collapse. The same with Machiavelli and the military——you especially have to ONLY promote Virtue in the military since it is extremely dangerous to let evil males control such power-—and the first thing the sodomite muslim does is normalize sodomy and bestiality in our military-—to drive out and demean all Christian Ethics/men.

Pure evil is being promoted 24/7 in our so-called “Justice” system and schools-—to remove Reason and the Christian Worldview of “Love” and “Free Will” to make slaves of all (promoting vice to children will warp and destroy Virtue).

Sorry for the rant again-—but this is ALL just Common Sense (which created a Revolution and the most free, brilliant political documents in the history of the World).

[onedoug]

“It’s in the book!”

[I want the USA back]

It’s a political movement, and an ideology, not a religion.

[ecomcon]

Utterly satanic.

This is Islam.

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[Noumenon]

I’ve been aware of madness in the Islamic world. I’ve written about it. The madness of people who have fallen behind technically, and who do not have the will to make the intellectual effort to catch up. I was aware of the religious hatred, I was aware of the indifference to life. I was aware of the anti-civilization aspect of the new fundamentalism. But I had no idea it had gone so far — the madness. The idea of their strength is an illusion. Nothing is coming from within. The terrorists can fly a plane, but what they can’t do is build a plane. What they can’t do is build those towers. I think people have spoken much rubbish about that event. The poor revenging themselves on the rich! It’s nothing but an aspect of religious hatred. And that is so hard to deal with, or even contemplate. You can deal with the poor striking out, but you can’t deal with the threat of a universal religious war.” Though he approved of the recent war in Afghanistan, he is keenly aware of the inherent absurdity of the current war on terrorism: “Your biggest enemy is your great ally — Saudi Arabia — and the foot-soldiers of the terror come from your other ally — Pakistan.”
-- V. S. Naipaul from Beyond Belief

[Noumenon]

The Truth About Islam

The history of Islam's practitioners speaks for itself. Islam, by the very nature of its own doctrine, history and by the actions of its followers has shown itself to be the existential enemy of Western civilization. Dr. Andrew Bostom's The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims

provides insight into Islamic history and the Islamic mindset and what its ascendancy might mean for the rest of us:

Lee Harris' outstanding work, The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West explains why and how the West's days may be numbered. We are our own worst enemy unless we face up to the hard choices necessary to remain a free and prosperous people.

If anyone is still having trouble wrapping their minds around the fact that Western civilization does in fact have mortal and existential enemies, take a quick turn through Lee Harris' Civilization and Its Enemies

Let us also dispense with the idea that Islam is a religion. Islam is not so much a religion as it is a supremacist, totalitarian political ideology, a destructive and murderous meme impervious to moderation or change, and with a narrowly circumscribed set of rituals that define every aspect of its followers’ lives. As for 'tolerance', here's a quote from the Muslim Brotherhood and their mission in the U.S, calling for...

"...a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions."

Speaking to the “Islam is a religion of peace," assertion that we hear from Muslims and ignorant (yes, ignorant) Westerners, when Muslims assert that Islam is a “religion of peace” they are not engaging in al taqqiya, they are actually making an assertion in good faith.

The problem lies in the fact that Islam has, from the Western point of view, a defective concept of peace. In semitic languages like Arabic, the consonants are the “root” of the word: islam = submission, and salam = peace have the same root, slm.

The only concept of peace in Islamic jurisprudence is the peace between the conqueror and the conquered, between master and slave. There is no concept of a negotiated peace between nations in Islamic law (note that law is the defining property of Islam—their clerics are jurists, schools of Qu’ranic interpretation are called fiqh, a legalistic term)—Muslims may negotiate a “hudna” or armistice of limited duration with non-Muslim, but not a definitive enduring peace.

In that regard, Islam was, is and will continue to be a serial murderer of entire cultures and peoples. This is precisely what Islam has done throughout its entire 1400 year history. This is what it has done whenever it has finally gotten the upper hand in whatever culture it has infiltrated. This is what has been inextricably interwoven into the DNA of its operating system. Those whom Islam does not destroy, it enslaves, diminishes and impoverishes. Islam strives for the conversion, enslavement or death of all who do not conform to its cruel and sadistic vision of Mankind. Advocates of Islamic ‘reform’ are sadly mistaken and deluded. Islam cannot be ‘reformed’ in the light of our Western values of humanity and freedom. Were that so, it would no longer be Islam. For its psychopathic and brutal misogyny alone, Islam is an abomination and worthy only of extinction. The best and most concise description of the Arabic/Islamic mindset was laid out almost as an aside by noted historian and philosopher, Carroll Quigley in his landmark Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. Here, he describes what he characterized as The Pakistani-Peruvian axis. An excerpt from that work is shown below:

Another aspect of Arabic society is the scorn of honest, steady manual work, especially agricultural work. This is a consequence of the fusion of at least three ancient influences. First, the archaic bureaucratic structure of Asiatic despotism, in which the peasants supported the warriors and scribes, regarded manual workers, especially tillers of the soil, as the lowest layer of society, and regarded the acquisition of literacy and military prowess as the chief roads to escape from physical drudgery. Second, the fact that Classical Antiquity, whose influence on the subsequent Islamic civilization was very great, was based on slavery, and came to regard agricultural (or other manual) work as fit for slaves, also contributed to this idea. Third, the Bedouin tradition of pastoral, warlike nomads scorned tillers of the soil as weak and routine persons of no real spirit or character, fit to be conquered or walked on but not to be respected. The combination of these three formed the lack of respect of manual work that is so characteristic of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis.

Somewhat similar to this lack of respect for manual work are a number of other aspects of traditional Arab life that have spread the length of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis. The chief source of many of these is the Bedouin outlook, which originally reflected the attitudes of relatively small group of the Islamic culture but which, because they were a superior, conquering group, came to be copied by others in the society, even by the despised agricultural workers. These attitudes include lack of respect for the soil, for vegetation, for most animals, and for outsiders. These attitudes, which are singularly ill-fitted for the geographic and climatic conditions of the whole Pakistani-Peruvian area, are to be seen constantly in the everyday life of that area as erosion, destruction of vegetation and wild life, personal cruelty and callousness to most living things, including one’s fellow men, and a general harshness and indifference to God’s creation. This final attitude, which well reflects the geographic conditions of the area, which seem as harsh and indifferent as man himself, is met by those men who must face it in their daily life as a resigned submission to fate and to the inhumanity of man to man.

[Noumenon]

Let Lo-retta Lynch send her messengers to find me in heaven. If they don’t find me there, then she can seek me in the other place herself.

(with apologies to Shakespeare)

[mikey_hates_everything]

Go to their lands and you see and feel the hatred. At best they might be “friendly” if they think you have some value to them. Otherwise, they would just as soon wish you dead. Fortunately, almost all of them don’t have the balls to actually do anything unless they can be sneaky about it (”assassin”, an Arabic word and concept, BTW, or suicide bomber) or are in an angry mob and can gang up. People who pull up the rare examples of “nice, friendly” muslims as a counter have no clue of what they are talking about.

[alloysteel]

The thing is, it only takes a very little for the some 9 out of 10 Muslims who are “peaceful” and “tolerant” to suddenly come alive to the basic tenets of the Islamic “religion”, and go all Jihadist on the world.

A “born-again” Islamist, like Syed Rizwan Farook, who meets (or is intentionally introduced to) Tashfeen Malik, another “born-again” Islamist, and they begin planning (with a great deal of clandestine financial assistance) to go on a rampage and take out at least a few of the Kufir, is a giant now in slumber who is stirring awake.

Ann Coulter, September 14, 2001, writing about her good friend, Barbara Olson, who perished in the intentional crash of a plane into the World Trade Center.

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”

[Red Badger]

Barbara Olsen was murdered in the plane crash into the Pentagon.....................

[Riflema]

Slightly off-topic, but your (highly accurate) quote caught my eye:

The Umma needs only sufficient production to support a tiny ruling class in splendour and the millions at bare subsistence. The People do not produce any more than for their survival because the Sultan or the Bey confiscates everything else. Commerce is carried on by the rulers and minimally by others who lose most of their gain to the Sultan.

Sounds like the missing link, policy wise, between our OneWorld would be masters and the IS, no?