A War of Words
We have no choice but to speak candidly about Islam and its
effects—a war of words, if you will. Truth will send Islamists writhing
into convulsions and gnashing of teeth as they fight not only the rest of
the world, but the millions of people ready to leave Islam but for the
threat of death due to apostasy. Millions more “cultural Muslims” are
beginning to see a wider world despite the brainwashing of the murderous
mullahs. Via television and the Internet, they are seeing the rank
hypocrisy and failure of virtually every Islamic state due to Islam’s
inherent contradictions with modernity and tolerance. Islam may well be in
its death spiral, and we must not let it take us with it.
To make it perfectly clear, this essay does not
promote, indeed condemns, violence against Muslims. It is written in the
same spirit that academia that has used to “deconstruct” Western
culture by analyzing its roots. Please keep in mind the harsh condemnation
of Western culture by many university academics before listening to
fearful administrators who may censor any genuine criticism of Islam.
Islam is a choice
Islam is a religion, not a race or ethnic group. In the later two,
membership is generally mandatory, whereas with religion, a person
theoretically chooses to practice one or not. It is because of this
difference that many people view Islamic terror as less “evil” than
racist terror, although this makes little difference to a person soon to
be beheaded. It is also for this reason that criticism of Islam is even
more valid than much leftist criticism of Western culture, which often
degenerates into ethnic slurs and blood libel. Regardless, despite its
flaws Western culture has played leading roles in human rights, influenced
by its progressive heritage of science and philosophy.
That said, Islam nevertheless straddles the
boundary between Arabic ethnicity and faith, crossing into racism. Arabs
enslaved millions of Africans, putting a strong emphasis on color. Indeed,
the word "abed" in Arabic means both black and slave. Apologists
note that Arab slavery wasn’t as strictly racial as American slavery.
Yes, but neither was Spanish slavery. This may be due to the less
pronounced color line and longer exposure to African culture than for any
“anti-racist” reason. Several hadith and sura in fact demean dark
skin, and the much ballyhooed universalism and equality expressed in some
early passages of the Koran is superseded, clerics say, by later passages.
These often consist of death threats to non-Muslims, due apparently to
Mohammad becoming frustrated with trying to convince local Jews and
Christians of his greatness. Additionally, Arab slavery was more brutal
than European slavery. First generation "pagan" death rates were
astonishingly high, although Arab/slave offspring were somewhat better off
due to their Muslim status. Castration was legal, and the slave era lasted
far longer, without a native abolition movement ever developing. The Arab
slave trade did not end officially until world pressure ended it just a
few decades ago, although it still persists in places like
Sudan
, location of two million Christians and animists murdered by jihadist in
the last twenty years.
Muslims: the real colonialists
Many in the self-critical media, as well as many faint-hearted
politicians, bemoan phantom Western intolerance while they chase the
unicorn of “true” Islam. These paragons of tolerance are the first to
intolerantly libel Western culture for creating the jihadists, via some
conspiracy of connections related to colonialism. Such Westerners
patronize jihadists as simple reactionaries incapable of critical thought
much less systematic evil, not the reality of highly educated jihadists
like Muhammad Atta, et al. Tellingly, the “colonialism” strawman
argument never includes mention of the millions of Muslims who have
immigrated to the West, while virtually no (traditional) Westerners move
to Muslim countries. Many countries grant citizenship only to Muslims. Who
then are the real colonists?
The West has been engaged in a power struggle of
its own between various socialisms such as communism and nazism, and
traditional democratic capitalism. This helps explain the seeming
inability of the West to properly unite against the jihadists. Even more
utterly alien to jihadists in beliefs than the right, the left nonetheless
has embraced some aspects of jihad ideology, especially the
“anti-colonial” aspect. Jihadists have been gracious enough to exploit
these “useful idiots” for their own gain.
It’s true that aside from the truly deranged
jihadist, most Muslims are of moderate temperament and simply want to pass
through life with a moderate degree of comfort. Unfortunately, this is of
little consequence to the rest of us, as the exact same could be said of
Germans under the Nazis. Perhaps the Nazis could have sailed under the
radar and established their “Nordic” pagan state were it not for
Hitler’s megalomania. Islam has sailed under the radar for 1300 years,
forcefully converting, butchering or enslaving millions before there was a
comprehensive media to document its atrocities properly. Even the United
States had an early experience with jihadism, still noted in the Marine
Corp Hymn in the lyrics “the shores of Tripoli,” alluding to when
Marines rescued kidnapped sailors from Arab pashas who demanded that
American “infidels” pay tribute before passing through the
Mediterranean Sea.
Jihadists: Unveiled evil
All that being said, it is now time to ignore the appeasers and tell
the truth. The emperor has no clothes. Islam is not a religion of peace.
Islamic terrorists are terrorizing every region on earth, and have done so
for centuries. There are no common root causes for their behavior except
the Islam itself. The current worldwide state of terror was started by
jihadists, the Muslim version of missionaries, who would as soon kill as
convert for Islam.
The menace of Islam threatens billions of people
and keeps a billion more as hostages, unable to convert out of this
belligerent ideology because of the death threats placed upon so-called
apostates. Americans are losing their civil liberties and privacy and
being subjected to physical indignities and delays because of Islam. There
is no other reason. Even the much maligned Patriot Act came as a result of
Islam’s assault on us. Ironically, many cultural Muslims seem to fear an
Islamic state as much as anyone. For instance, when
Israel
offered to trade some land with the Palestinian Authority, the Muslim
Israelis living there were among the loudest against the idea, fearing the
day of living in an Islamic state ruled by Hamas.
Jihadists speak of non-Muslims as “kufr,” not worthy of human dignity.
The superiority that Muslims feel over non-Muslims is identical,
neurologically speaking, to the way Hitler’s willing executioners felt
toward non-Germans.
The early Nazi party attracted the “misfits” of society—brutes,
dorks, neurotics, the sexually confused, paranoids, demonics, and the
delusional. Both bullies and wimps found that being a Nazi gave them power
in economically strapped
Germany
. And so it is with Islam, only far more successful. The Mafia-like
mullahs, strong-arm leaders, and assorted demagogues together with the
typically wimpy, sexually confused suicide terrorist all find common
ground in Islam. It is a way for them to exercise power over others,
usually cultural Muslims and especially females, while saving the worst
for “infidels.” As jihadist Mohammed Bouyeri, convicted murderer of
Dutch director Theo Van Gogh told the mother of Van Gogh in court: "I
cannot feel for you ... because I believe you are an infidel."
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