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The Coming War with Islam
Sierra Times ^ | John Campbell

Posted on 09/09/2002 9:41:25 AM PDT by Sir Gawain

"The Coming War with Islam"
By John Campbell
Published 09. 9. 02 at 7:43 Sierra Time

An attack on Iraq will "open the gates of hell." It will be considered "an attack on all Arab Nations".

So threatened the Arab League last week in Cairo. A restatement of what the Arab Nations proclaimed at their summit in Lebanon last year.

One wonders what more Muslims have to say for our Leaders in the West to get the message.

If we still had leaders like Churchill, they could today deliver the same words he delivered in 1938.

Having seen Nazism paraded before the world at the Munich Olympics, Churchill said this: "Do not suppose this is the end. It is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first taste of a bitter cup that will be proffered to us year by year unless, by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time."

Today Churchill would have seen clearly that Saddam, although he needs to be dealt with, is not the real threat to the Western world and Judeo-Christian values.

Addressing the real threat does require today, as in Churchill's day, "a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour", if we are to avoid tasting the "bitter cup" being proffered to us daily. If it were as easy as deposing Saddam, no real resurgence of those qualities would be required. In varying degrees, most agree that the Saddam threat exits; the question is how to address it.

The danger today is as politically unpalatable as it was in Churchill's day. The threat is being proclaimed every day, not only from some identifiable 'enemy state' led by a manic despot and at the Arab League, but right from within our midst. But our Leaders and the media stubbornly, and willfully, refuse to recognize or even acknowledge it.

On the contrary, they warn their own people that any criticism of our self proclaimed enemies will not be tolerated.

And who or what is this enemy? It is Islam. Let me explain why.

Albert Schweitzer said this in his book "Civilization and Ethics" (Third English Edition 1946, p27): Islam shows itself "to be in all points unoriginal and decadent."

Why would someone with such philanthropic, humanitarian and intellectual credentials come to such a conclusion? Perhaps he, unlike our current leaders and media intelligencia, knew something of the Koran.

The Koran proclaims that the Jews read falsified scriptures (2;40-86 & 87-121, and see Commentary 46). Accordingly, the peoples having the strongest enmity to Muslims are the "Jews and Pagans" (Chapter 5 verse 85).

And the Christians? "[T]he Christians [went wrong] in raising Jesus the Apostle to equality with God". The Koran goes on to deny the Crucifixion [4:157], declare that Christ is not God and it is blasphemy to claim such [5:19], and likewise it is blasphemous to proclaim the Holy Trinity [5:76]. For good measure the Koran calls "God's curse" on those who "Call Christ the Son of God" [9:30].

And what does the Koran have to say about the "deluded" People of the Book? It says this: Fight those who do not "acknowledge the Religion Of Truth [i.e. Islam], (even if they are) of the People of the Book (i.e. Christians and Jews), Until they pay the Jizha [a kind of compensation] With willing submission, And feel themselves subdued." [9:29] [my emphasis]

Verses 20 and 38 of Chapter 9 exhort "those who believe" to fight with their goods "and their persons" in Gods [i.e. Islam's] cause. Verse 38 admonishes those who hesitate to sacrifice their lives when "asked [by their spiritual leader] to go forth in the cause of God" because "little is the comfort of this life, as compared With the Hereafter."

So Muslims can preach such contempt and incitement in Western countries. Would any Islamic State permit my comment, or more correctly quotes, in their county? In fact, can I quote from the Koran to remedy disinformation in any Western country? Even less, can I call for "moral health and martial vigour", to "take our stand for freedom as in the olden time".

I fear not. We in the West have elected to remove the foundation of rock from our heritage and have built a new house on sand. And as Christ prophesied, when the floods come our house will be washed away. If we do not act the West will not "arise again", whether we remove Saddam or not.

So how is it that the West has come to give such succour to those who hate and despise us?

Liberal Fundamentalism! The resurgence of this reality-free, logic-free doctrine has delivered to the enemies of Judeo-Christian values and life an unfettered license to go about their business of undermining our entire civilization, with the ultimate intention of dismantling and replacing it with an Islamic system of the likes seen in the Middle East.

Our defensive wall has been breached by Liberal Fundamentalism's favorite 'buzz words': equality and tolerance. Not in the proper meanings of those words, but in Liberal Fundamentalism's naïve and simplistic interpretation.

Equality, we are told, entails equal merit of all values and beliefs. On an individual level, all people being equally entitled to pursue their own religion, beliefs and destiny. On an International level, all States should thus be equally sovereign.

And every one of us in the West must thus be tolerant towards others holding "equally valid" beliefs, opinions etc.

The problem is that the naiveté and intellectual simplicity of this doctrine does not withstand the tide of reality and reason.

Let us take for example the case of Iraq (although this reasoning can be equally well applied to all facets of life).

In the Liberal Fundamentalist model, all nations should be equally entitled to develop the same weapons that other nations possess. So Iraq, and any other Islamic State, should be entitled to produce weapons of mass destruction. On its face, Liberal Fundamentalist doctrine can not dispute that premise; it is founded on it.

But, they will scream, equality is tempered in such a case by International Law; law, that favorite refuge of dictators. The problem is that International Law is 'man made' law. Islam does not recognize such law as superseding 'Gods Law' where they come into conflict. In fact the Koran itself has this to say about "equality": "Yet those who reject Faith Hold (others) as equal. With their Guardian Lord." [vi,1]. And the Koran envisages, or is it prophesies, the establishment of Islam on a world wide scale. It says this: "But the Unbelievers,-never Will disaster cease to seize Them for their (ill) deeds, Or to settle close to their homes, Until the promise of God Come to pass, for, verily, God will not fail in His promise." [xiii,31].

So, in fact, Islam turns the Liberal Fundamentalist model of equality, tempered by 'man made International Law', on its head. Equality simply doesn't apply when Muslims are fighting in the "cause of God", I.e. Islam. The current 'imbalance' of destructive weapons is just another "ill deed" of the Unbelievers.

So the Liberal Fundamentalists, with their vacuous concept of 'equality', run head long into reality. They end up where the philosophers and prophets of old started out: who or what determines right and wrong?

And the deeper one digs the more stark becomes the problem. As a great philosopher said, without God there can be no right and wrong. However hard philosophers have tried to rationalize a non-dualist model of right and wrong, of civilization, it comes up against the anti-dualist cornerstone of 'equality'. There will always be someone, or group, or 'majority', who determine and impose their concept of right and wrong on someone else.

That is the simple delusion that is currently gripping Western leaders and media.

Muslims categorically 'know' right from wrong: it is the Koran. And it is diametrically opposed to Western concepts of equality tempered by 'law'. And never the twain shall meet.

The West was built on Judeo-Christian values. Until we recognize that it is only those values which can provide objective concepts of right and wrong, of good and evil, we are in peril.

Ultimately, and I fear sooner rather than later, Islam and the West will descend into a cataclysmic conflict, or, as was said by the Arab League, the gates of hell will be opened. Not because the US attacks Iraq, but because Islam ordains that its 'Truth' will be established throughout the world and Muslims must fight with their goods and their persons to do so.

As Churchill would have said, we in the West need "a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour" if we are not to leave an Islamic legacy to our future generations. We need first to rid ourselves of the self-delusion inflicted upon us by Liberal Fundamentalism. We need to rediscover our Judeo-Christian values. And we must bring the inevitable conflict with Islam to a head before there is an 'equality' of destructive power.

If we ever allow such 'equality', we only have to look to the onslaught against Israel, the suicide bombings, and the 9/11 attacks, to get a "taste of the bitter cup which will be proffered to us."



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1 posted on 09/09/2002 9:41:25 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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2 posted on 09/09/2002 9:41:44 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: Sir Gawain
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3 posted on 09/09/2002 9:45:00 AM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: Sir Gawain
Albert Schweitzer said this in his book "Civilization and Ethics" (Third English Edition 1946, p27): Islam shows itself "to be in all points unoriginal and decadent."
4 posted on 09/09/2002 9:47:34 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Sir Gawain
The revenge of Ishmael, belies the succour of Esau.
5 posted on 09/09/2002 9:54:56 AM PDT by Carry_Okie
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To: Sir Gawain
So how is it that the West has come to give such succour to those who hate and despise us?

Liberal Fundamentalism! The resurgence of this reality-free, logic-free doctrine has delivered to the enemies of Judeo-Christian values and life an unfettered license to go about their business of undermining our entire civilization, with the ultimate intention of dismantling and replacing it with an Islamic system of the likes seen in the Middle East.

Though I disagree with the conclusion of instituting an Islamic system, the premise of liberalism is DEAD ON ACCURATE.

Look at university "research" projects in the human sciences (psychology, communication, sociology, etc....) over the past 15-20 years, and the trend toward Qualitative (where the FACTS don't matter, just what people FEEL is the correct conclusion to hypothetical constructs)....

The Worldview II (i.e. Qualitative) approach undermines true logic and factual-based research methodology.

No wonder the studies are out recently showing most professor's (90%+) are liberal democrat or greens.

I only know of one, ONE professor, though a "independent," but still teaches Quantitative research methodology as the only "proven" method of proving research hypotheses...and, he's the only professor in the department that regularly publishes his work...qualitative is harder to publish (go figure) and even harder to glean anything useful from...

6 posted on 09/09/2002 9:56:11 AM PDT by NorCoGOP
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Nice Folks. Islam is a religion of peace!
8 posted on 09/09/2002 10:04:57 AM PDT by STD
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To: Sir Gawain
Religion of Peace bump.
9 posted on 09/09/2002 10:05:46 AM PDT by spodefly
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To: Sir Gawain
"One wonders what more Muslims have to say for our Leaders in the West to get the message."

One wonders what more the U.S. has to say to get lunatic Muslims and left-wingers to get the message.

10 posted on 09/09/2002 10:15:06 AM PDT by MEGoody
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11 posted on 09/09/2002 10:38:13 AM PDT by Bedford Forrest
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To: Sir Gawain
The issue is not religion but freedom. Most of the islamic leaders use religion and religious issues as an excuse to help them obtain the will of their people. This is why islamic countries are run by dictators and self proclaimed monarchs.

The middle eastern person sees the Christian world with America as its leader which allows and tolerates: drugs, homosexuality, divorce, womens rights, abortion, imorality, any religious belief or atheism, support for democratic Israel, and countless other issues that are not tolerated in their societies but are allowed to exist in ours. They see are great wealth and judge us from all our music, media, movies, and think that those are the real Americans as portrayed by the secular mega media corporations.

This does not give an excuse for their hatred of America and the west, but it shows how they can stir up their people to focus their ignorant masses on hating America and not the repressive regimes.

Suadi Arabia especially fears a conquered Iraq with a free democratic secular islamic society. Iran fears this as well. Freedom is infectious and would spread through the region. This is why the islamic countries hate and fear Israel. Not because they spread Judaism, but because they are free. This is also why the so called Arab leage does not call for a free and democratic palestinian authority and supports Arafat as a dictitorial leader.

Christianity preaches love and tolerance and lets God sort out the weeds from the wheat. Islam wants to burn down the field and will let the whole crop go up in flame in their attempt to burn out any faith that is not islam. To them we are all weeds that must be put to the threshing and mixed with the mud of dead Isralis to make bricks for an islamic world. They are about to bring about the next crusade and this time it will be the end of islam forever.

12 posted on 09/09/2002 10:58:40 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: Sir Gawain
Great posting. Accurate and to the point.

The only addition I can make is that Islam is not only the enemy of CHristianity and Judaism, it is also the enemy of every other belief system on earth. Ask the Zoroastrians, the Ba'hais, the Buddhists, the Hindus and the Sikhs. They and many others have been victims of that mad man Mohammad and his followers.
13 posted on 09/09/2002 11:03:03 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: Sir Gawain
Coming? It began September 11th, 2001.
14 posted on 09/09/2002 11:04:30 AM PDT by rintense
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To: Sir Gawain
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15 posted on 09/09/2002 11:05:25 AM PDT by Charles Martel
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To: Sir Gawain
ping for later read.
16 posted on 09/09/2002 11:07:42 AM PDT by Mr_Magoo
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To: Sir Gawain
League of Arab States Islamic Conference

17 posted on 09/09/2002 11:11:31 AM PDT by Consort
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To: Sir Gawain
HEAR HEAR, INDEED!
18 posted on 09/09/2002 11:12:21 AM PDT by Quix
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To: Sir Gawain
"The Coming War with Islam"

Looking forward to it with a bit of relish actually. It's time that their crimes be paid back with interest.

19 posted on 09/09/2002 11:14:58 AM PDT by Centurion2000
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To: Sir Gawain
Liberal Fundamentalism.

What a nice phrase! It has a nice ring to it.

20 posted on 09/09/2002 11:19:04 AM PDT by Cicero
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