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The Future is Muslim, European or American
Town Hall ^ | February 25, 2003 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 03/02/2003 1:18:31 PM PST by yonif

The world's future is being decided at this time.

Such moments are extremely rare in history. And when they have occurred, they have between two, not three, competing ideologies.

But there are now three ideologies competing to shape the future of mankind. They are militant Islam, Western European secularism and socialism, and American Judeo-Christianity and capitalism. The first is being spread both peacefully and violently, the second is being spread peacefully, and the third is not being spread.

Though most people ignore the fact, almost all of the world's believing Muslims believe that all of mankind should be Muslim. This, in and of itself, is not troubling -- after all, most Christians would like the whole world to be Christian, and most Westerners would like the whole world to democratic. What is troubling is that if only 10 percent of these Muslims are prepared to use violence to impose their religion on others, we are talking about 100 million people.

This is the reason about one million non-Muslim Sudanese have been killed in the last 15 years -- because they are resisting the violent imposition of Islam by the Islamic government in Khartoum. This is the reason for the Muslim-Christian violence in Nigeria -- Christians there, too, are resisting the violent imposition of Islam. And this is the reason for Islamic terror -- to weaken those countries, particularly the United States and Israel, that stand in the way of an Islamic takeover.

The second ideology seeking to dominate the world is secularism and socialism as practiced in Western Europe and supported by educated elites around the world. This is a primary reason for the anti-American demonstrations in Western Europe and in the United States. They were far more against America (especially the America of George W. Bush) than they were against war. Most of these people could not care less about the wars of the world. They have been silent throughout the mass murder of Sudan's blacks, during the genocide in Rwanda, during China's crushing of Tibet, and during Saddam's wars against Iran, Kuwait and Iraq's own Kurds. American and European "peace" activists have found those atrocities and wars quite boring.

Western European socialists and their American (and Canadian, and Latin American) supporters are as passionate about secularism and socialism as believing Muslims are about Islam. And they want to dominate the world as much as militant Muslims want Islam to. Their vehicles are the United Nations, the European Union, international treaties such as the Kyoto Protocols, and international institutions such as the International Court.

Regarding the American way, there are serious impediments to its success.

First, while the first two ideologies -- Islam and socialism/secularism -- dominate many countries, the third ideology only dominates one -- America. There is no other country that claims to be Judeo-Christian and no other that has such strong support for capitalism and small government (the opposite of socialism). Therefore, while both the militant Muslims and the socialists/secularists have supporters around the world, American values have few. That is why America goes it alone -- with the partial exceptions of Israel and Britain, no other society has the same values as we do.

Second, neither Judeo-Christian nor capitalist values are secure in America. Many Americans, including almost its entire intellectual class, are as hostile to Judeo-Christian and non-socialist values as the militant Muslims and European socialists are.

Third, almost no one is teaching the next generation of Americans (as almost no one taught the present adult generation) what is unique, let alone superior, about American values. Our children are overwhelmingly educated by people who believe in Europe's values, not in ours.

As neither China nor the rest of Asia, nor Africa, nor Latin America are offering an ideology that can dominate the world, either Europe's, or the militant Muslims', or America's way of life will prevail.

But the American way can only prevail if Americans believe in it. That is why, as important as the military and ideological battles against militant Islam are, the most important battle is the ideological one within America. But with America's universities, unions, professional associations, mainstream news media, and one of its two major parties ideologically aligned with Europe, and with big businesses constantly undermining Judeo-Christian values, the battle within America itself for America's unique values is far from won. And given that only America offers a viable alternative to both militant Islam and secularism/socialism, if we lose the battle here, humanity has a very dark future.


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: american; clashofcivilizatio; european; future; geopolitics; islam; islamonazi; muslim; waronterrorism
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To: Bobby777
I respect your belief and the sincerity of it, but I can also respect many who do not believe the same as you do.

All the best,

cerb

81 posted on 03/03/2003 3:31:26 PM PST by cerberus
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To: yonif
Bump
82 posted on 03/03/2003 3:32:27 PM PST by Fiddlstix
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To: cerberus
A Christian respects that others may have their beliefs and I do ... by the Bible a Christian is not allowed to accept other beliefs, serving no master other than Christ ... however we do not make converts by the sword (though it has been tried) ... a person can only become a Christian by personal choice ... indeed the sword only makes enemies and false converts ...

thanks for your post ... FReegards

Romans 10:9-10
83 posted on 03/03/2003 3:38:50 PM PST by Bobby777
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To: cerberus
That's a hoot! "My collage Professor said so..." Ya, that makes it so...
84 posted on 03/03/2003 3:47:33 PM PST by DB (©)
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To: DB
That's a hoot! "My collage Professor said so..." Ya, that makes it so...

What's a "collage professor" and what does it have to do with this topic?

85 posted on 03/04/2003 12:16:14 PM PST by cerberus
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To: cerberus
Okay... "college professor"

Does that work for you?
86 posted on 03/04/2003 3:43:50 PM PST by DB (©)
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To: DB
That's a hoot! "My [college] Professor said so..." Ya, that makes it so...

Well, if [a college professor] did, does it make it false?

What if I sighted 20 reliable historical sources? How about 100?

I have a feeling it would make no difference to you.

That's alright of course, you can believe whatever makes you feel good, as long as your not teaching my kids.

87 posted on 03/04/2003 5:38:22 PM PST by cerberus
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To: cerberus
Though most people ignore the fact, almost all of the world's believing Muslims believe that all of mankind should be Muslim.

Hmmm. Don't an awful lot of Christians believe the same thing about Christianity?


Yes, and if you would have taken the time to read the next sentence, you would have seen that the author pointed out this fact. The difference being, of course, that Christians don't jihad to that end, but instead convert through friendship with an underlying principle of free-will.

Obviously, some followers of Islam present serious problems in our world today, but I am not convinced that there are not a good many moderate Muslims.

Of course there are. I know some of them. But don't expect them to stay their more hostile brothers' hands when they finally obtain the power to force islam on the world.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism are all branches of the same tree and worship the same God--a fact that Muslims are much more aware of than most Christians.

No, they are not. This is a very harmful myth used by the ignorant and liars to give the cult of islam some sense of legitimacy. I urge you to read the history of islam more carefully--it developed from a moon-worshipping cult. The one they worship as Allah is akin to the Judeo-Christian Satan.
88 posted on 03/04/2003 6:26:38 PM PST by newguy357
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To: cerberus
The common roots of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are common knowledge to anyone who has taken Comparative Religions 101

Mythological roots? Most believe that the people living in the middle east now (and 2000 years ago) are the physical descendants of Abraham's son Ishmael. That said, they are most certainly not the spiritual descendants of Abraham. That is, their religion is not from "the same tree" as Judaism and Christianity. Again, if you take the time to look up some middle eastern history, it is quite clear that pre-muhammad arabs were outright pagans. They did not follow the Judeo-Christian God in any way. Later, muhammad took elements of Judeo-Christian doctrine and tried to mix those with a moon-worshipping cult. That is Islam.
89 posted on 03/04/2003 6:42:23 PM PST by newguy357
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To: cerberus
That street goes both ways. And yes I'm glad you're not teaching my kids as well. Our faith does not have its roots in Islam. Islam is a perversion of the Judo Christian faith, which was around long before Mohammad invented his cult.

The average [college professor] will also tell you the world's ills are caused by America, does that make it true?
90 posted on 03/04/2003 7:25:07 PM PST by DB (©)
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To: DB
Our faith does not have its roots in Islam.

I did not say that Christianity had its roots in Islam. I said that Christianity, Judaism and Islam have common roots which is a fact.

Indeed there are problems with many of our institutions of higher learning but that does not make all knowledge moot. You cannot paint them all with the same brush whether college professors, Muslims, Blacks, Jews, etc.

91 posted on 03/05/2003 3:55:12 AM PST by cerberus
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To: newguy357
muhammad took elements of Judeo-Christian doctrine and tried to mix those with a moon-worshipping cult. That is Islam.

If you want to go down that road, one can cite many similar origins for Yahweh going back to the Sumerians, but I don't think anything will convince you.

92 posted on 03/05/2003 5:00:30 AM PST by cerberus
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To: cerberus
"I said that Christianity, Judaism and Islam have common roots which is a fact."

No, what you said is that all three worship the same God.
93 posted on 03/05/2003 7:23:34 AM PST by DB (©)
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To: DB
No, what you said is that all three worship the same God.

That is true also.

They all worship the "God of Abraham" though there are some who don't want to hear about it.

94 posted on 03/05/2003 4:59:46 PM PST by cerberus
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