from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 30 Jun 2009 07:18 PM PDT

Talk of colonialism and imperialism is all the rage when
academic leftists sit down to critique the problems of terrorism and the
clash of civilizations. But where a century ago terms such as colonialism
and imperialism were easy enough to define, back when European governments
held actual colonies and protectorates in Africa, Asia and the Middle
East-- what do the terms actually mean today?

There are no European colonies today. And the lands that are at
the center of the controversy are themselves non-Muslim. When Muslims
attack Europe, America or Israel... it may very well be imperialism and
colonialism, but it is no longer European imperialism and colonialism, but
Islamic imperialism and colonialism.

It is Islamic ideologies and
nations that seek Lebensraum, that work to expand their way across borders
and even oceans, to create colonies on foreign soil, spread their religion
at the expense of native beliefs and hold governing power abroad.

Today it is no longer the European who sails to foreign countries
to spread the faith and "civilize the savages", it is the Muslim. The new
Cecil Rhodes' and William Walker's are a lot more likely to be based out
of Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. Their oppression and ruthless is equally
directed at Europeans, as at Africans, Jews, Filipinos and any number of
native peoples who stand in their way.

Long before the sun stared
without setting down on the British Empire, Islamic Empires had been
carved with brutal unyielding force across the face of the globe. Long
before the American South saw a single slave, Muslim slave traders were
moving human cargo back and forth, kidnapping and seizing slaves from
Africa to the English coastline.

Islamic imperialism and
colonialism was there long ago until recent times. The current clash of
civilizations is the product of the Islamic attempt to revive those
ancient empires they consider to have been wrongly taken from
them.

To argue as the left does, that Islamic terrorism is the
product of oppression, is as absurd and false as describing Nazi violence
as the product of oppression. Any honest academic should have as much
sympathy for Bedouin Muslim territorial claims to Israel or Spain, as he
would for French claims to Algeria. Yet the academic double standard
treats European colonialism as illegitimate, and Islamic colonialism as
legitimate.

This brings us to the obscene charade in which the
world denounces one of the Middle East's native peoples for managing to
form their own country and defend its narrow borders against its former
Bedouin Muslim conquerors. Only the ugliest forms of historical
revisionism could paint the Jews as foreign interlopers with no rights to
a piece of land that is recognized as theirs by three of the world's major
religions... and the Muslim Bedouin hordes who overran the land, wiping
out native religions and cultures as the "oppressed peoples".

This sort of obscene political farce goes on all over the world. Muslims today
hold equal rights in Europe, America, Israel and Australia. By contrast
Europeans, Americans and Jews are inferior under the law throughout the
Muslim world. Muslims have free access to Jerusalem and Rome. Jews and
Europeans have no access to Mecca, despite the fact that it had a
substantial Jewish presence, before being massacred and enslaved by the
murderous warlord, Mohammed, who is also considered by Muslims to be their
ultimate prophet.

When the likes of Jimmy Carter bellow that Israel
is guilty of Apartheid, while ignoring that his Saudi sponsors have actual
Apartheid, not simply for non-Muslims, but even for Muslim women-- they
perpetuate the agenda of Islamic Imperialism.

When American or European civil rights groups raise a storm
over some remark made to a Muslim-- while turning a blind eye to the fact
that these very same Muslims are importing the vilest bigotry, misogyny,
anti-semitism, homophobia-- the teachings of Islamic Imperialism inherent
in the Koran, the resulting rapes, murders, hate crimes and bombings
become the fruits of Islamic Colonialism.

What is the awful and
terrible crime being committed by Western nations, the acts of colonialism
and imperialism against the Muslim world. It is nothing more than the
desire to survive. To not be murdered by bigoted savages in bomb vests
determined to resurrect their lost slave empires at any cost. The desire
to be free in one's own country from bombings, robberies and gang rapes by
Muslim youths who have been told by their Imams that under Koranic law
they have a right and a duty to fight the infidel and seize what belongs
to him.

Checkpoints, walls of separation, immigration restriction;
these are what academics use to charge the West with imperialism and
colonialism, while turning a blind eye to the fact that these measures are
only defenses on home soil against Islamic imperialism.

Survival
has become the new colonialism and imperialism in the West. We have come
to that out of a failure to confront the new wave of Islamic imperialism.
Just as Nazi Germany's reign of terror was born out of the guilt of the
Allies and their failure to hold Nazism to account-- Islamic imperialism
is the product of guilt and cowardice. It will take courage and moral
certainty to confront Islamic Imperialism, to fight back and hold it to
account.