Weekly Think Piece ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Enablers of Radical Islam
Weall know that that the Left has done its best to get into bed with Islam
through appeasement and apologies. They have had a good deal to do with
enabling political Islam to grow in the free countries and moderate Muslim
countries like in Asia. Through books,
speeches, web sites, institutions, organizations and universities, the
incessant denial of political Islam runs rampant. As political Islam's useful
idiots they have helped advance it throughout moderate Muslim and non-Muslim
countries.
But the useful idiots of the Left not only enable
the political agenda of Islam to move forward with its denials but even moreimportant the Left, over the last 40 years has, systematically fertilized thedriving strategy of radical Islam with its liberal manure or what they like to
call their Progressive ideology. Over the last 40 years, and thanks
to the liberal Left throughout the world, freedom has lead to license and our
culture has devolved into a 'classless' society - one that the tenets of Islam
can not tolerate.
And I'm not talking about the utopian dream of Karl Marx 'classless'
world.
By class, I don't mean snobbery, arrogance or conceit. Nor do I mean
something reserved for the well to do, affluent or wealthy. No. I'm talking
about a something that endures and remains the same throughout the ages and not
limited to a social group or type of person. I'm talking about class as style -
a style that never goes out of style.
Anyone can have class - even a society. Someone with class has a certain
elegance of style, taste, and manner, one that is altruistic, noble, selfless -
even courageous. This is the class I'm talking about - the class that
Progressive Liberals have done a good job driving from ourselves and our
society over the last 40 years.
The liberal Left that has raised classlessness to a high art. It now
permeates every facet of our society and psyche. We want it. Crave it. We can't
seem to get enough of it. Everywhere we turn we see it. Newspapers and
magazines shout it from supermarket checkout stands, TV wantonly parades it
through our living rooms, and talk shows scream it from our radios. Bumper
stickers assault us with it. T-shirt phrases insult us with it. Video games
indulge in it. Kids' dress delights in it.
Yep.
Marx, that utopian dreamer, would be proud. The liberal Left under the banners
of free speech and political correctness has done a pretty good job of driving
class from our society. And it has done another thing. It fuels the Islamist's
agenda and shows to the vast majority of everyday Muslims that western
civilization is decadent and a threat to their values and beliefs. The
Islamists point out time and time again how our 'freedoms' have lead to a
self-indulgent and immoral society.
A case in point is Muslim women. An ABC news article reports that Muslim women want western rights, but not western culture.
"A new Gallup survey - which conducted 1,000 face-to-face interviews in countries including Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - found most Muslim women wanted the right to vote freely, to drive on their own, to work outside the home, and even to undertake leadership roles within their society. Though Muslim women acknowledged women had more rights in the West, the study found they didn't want their own societies to adopt Western values. The Gallup study concluded Muslim women tended to regard Western culture as morally corrupt and obsessed with sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
Dalia Mogahed, executive director of Gallup Muslim Studies, who conducted the survey, says Muslim women see a breakdown of traditional values in the West.
"Sexual freedom portrayed in Western media is actually degrading to women,
not a form of liberation."
Traditional values? Hmmm. Sound familiar? Isn't that the mantra of the conservative?
America is a threat to the Islamic culture but it's not the conservative right that is
to blame, but the Left itself. Look at what the left defends. This is their
agenda.
Pornography, Gangster Rap, classless TV and radios shows like Sex in the City, South Park, Family Guy and Howard Stern, nudity, sex and vulgar language in movies, homosexuality, single parent families, freedom of speech and expression
unrestrained by responsibility, and attacks on the Judeo-Christian religion, to
name just a few.
The agenda of the Right - family values, anti-gay marriage, anti-single parenthood,
celebration of religious holidays in public, and upholding the Judeo-Christian
culture. Almost the direct opposite of what the Left holds - and interestingly
enough - a lot of what Muslims believe - except for the Judeo-Christian culture
part.
Yep. I can see the rotten fruits and vegetables - or worse - ready for throwing for
what I said about our supposed freedom of expression without responsibly for
that expression. The Spice Girls are a perfect example. They berate our country
and then whine when people don't buy their albums because of their political
rantings. Ditto for lefty celebrities.
Last week, the IBA referenced an article in the Sunday Sun where Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said perceptions of Muslims were so negative there was a danger that
people's minds would be "poisoned as they were in the Thirties". The unspoken
meaning of his choice of words was that he believed Britain was turning into Nazi
Germany.
That of course is absurd and though he didn't actually say the word 'Nazis' in the
article, we pretty much knew what he meant. Anyone following the incessant
attempts of Muslims to paint themselves as victims as they try to impose their
values and beliefs on a non-Muslim world knows right away that this was just
another way of saying that Muslims were the new Jews.
I read the comments that were left by readers of the article in the Sunday Sun
and was struck by this one.
Personally I don't have any problem with what he has said
and judging by the comments here (terrorists, immigrants) it is obvious he is
right. How many of you actually know any people from the Islamic community or
take the time to find out? None I suspect
Why should people go home when they are born here? Stop drinking in public
places - makes sense to me. Divorce, one parent families, binge drinkers,
thugs, dwindling church congregations, failing education, killings, shootings,
stabbings - this is the real state of English society. It's always the English
way to blame it all on Johnny foreigner though - wake up to reality? We can
certainly learn from others.
Muslim reactions to those of our modern social values are very close to
those of fundamentalist Christians like Pat Robertson, and others like him, who
abhors Halloween, who thinks that 9-11 was a punishment of God for us
supporting gay people, and other fringe ideas that would bring the Christian
religion back to the days of witch burnings.
I'm ducking the bricker bats. But I'll go on from a Muslim point of view and how
the Left has unknowingly enabled the spread of political Islam.
In an article at the Islamic Thinkers Society (ITS) entitled 'Freedom or
Free-dumb: The Shocking Truth', the author, who remains anonymous, makes
the case that freedom as practiced by the secular democracies is a farce, and
that in reality, freedom is nothing but uncontrolled license. And he
does have a point but his understanding of the challenges of a free
society do not necessarily point to his solution. As Charles Krauthammer noted
in Townhall.com, one of the reasons Islam is fighting "the great jihad" against
America has to do with sexual depravity. The jihadists claim that wherever freedom
travels - "especially in Americaand Europe - it brings sexual license and
corruption, decadence and depravity."
The writer of the ITS article states examples like "In UCLA, two in every
three males said they would rape a woman if they knew they would not get
caught. Wait, it gets better. When Uncle Sam's not around, some love practicing
"freedom" on young children by molesting them. The North American Men's and
Boy's Lovers Association (NAMBLA) even encourages molestation, and maybe if
they got enough money they could lobby as democracy allows, and legalize it.
What also should be noted are the ever-evolving laws under Democracy. Several
years ago Homosexuality was prohibited, now it's legal. Once pre-marital sex
was an abomination, now it's natural. Perhaps rape and child molestation
(NAMBLA), now considered horrifying will be legalized one day."
Does he exaggerate? I don't know. Ask the Left.
His reason for these 'atrocities' against humanity is that "man, with his
limited mind, is incapable of legislating justly. With reactionary laws,
democracy is impotent when faced with new and ever occurring problems of
society." He's supported in his ideas by, a foremost thinker of contemporary
political Islam, Sayyid Qutb in the 1950s who maintained that "a deep
civilizational crisis of the West' would be resolved by creating an Islamic
dominance."
You know where this going, don't you? But bear with me.
The far secular Left sees the world in relativistic terms. All people are
equal. All societies are equal. All ideas are equal. I'm OK, you're OK.
Everything is shades of grey. There is no black and white. No good or evil -
just misunderstood people. To hold the view of relativism means one sees no
differences. But if you are unable to comprehend differences, how can you
perceive when something will harm you? In the case of Islam, an alien culture
that is as different from us as one from Mars. One that is incompatible with a
21st century civilization.
That's the reason why the political Left can't bring itself to see the
threat of Islam. It can't. If it admitted that Islam is counter to and the
direct opposite of a free democracy, the Left will have to change it's
basic Progressive ideology and its social agenda.
That they can't do unless they undergo a
reformation of ideas as Islam has to have a reformation of its beliefs.
But back to the author of the ITS piece. He goes on with the expected rant
of how democracy is responsible today for slaughtering millions of Muslims,
exploit the world's resources, etc. etc, etc. But then he comes to the real
point. "So what is freedom you may ask? Freedom is when one stops being a slave
to one's desires and to society and becomes a slave and worshipper of Allah.
This alternative is a system devoid of error. A system based on a definite
belief, which can be established rationally and rules humanity justly. THE
ISLAMIC SYSTEM lasted for over thirteen centuries securing peace and justice
for the oppressed and humanity in general."
Or in other words, the same form of governing that the western world threw
off their backs hundreds of years ago - a theocratic form of government where
the church and state are the same. When the western world was free of the dogmatic,
suffocating system of being governed by the 'representatives' of God, we
advanced and created a civilianization that the world had never seen before
where even the poor in the free democracies live better, healthier, and longer
than the Pharaohs of Egypt.
The struggle with Islam is over people's minds. If
the radical Islamists can show the large majority of Muslims that their way of
life, their women, their sons and daughters are being threatened by western
culture then they have reached their goal of turning the Muslims of the world
to their side. Why hand them that weapon? And if we decide not to than the
outcome goes to the one who is the strongest. It has
been estimated that about one third or over three hundred million Muslims are
sympathetic to the terrorists cause. Hitler and Tojo combined did not have
nearly that many potential recruits.
There's been much talk of Mark Steyn's new book America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It and his warning of the use of demographic jihad against the
non-Muslim world. But there is another warning he gives in his book that
parallels my analysis. Charles Colson sees another side of Steyn'e book not
widely reported - what we have lost by what we have gained from becoming too
much of a secular society.
As Steyn sees it, one major reason the Islamo-fascists
hate us is not that our beliefs are inimical to theirs, but that more and more
of us believe in nothing at all beyond self-indulgence. And they look down
on us for this but they are also learning how to use it to their
advantage. Observing the rapid growth of radical Islam in Europe,
Steyn writes, "If you're a teenager in most European cities these days, you've
a choice between two competing identities-a robust confident Islamic identity or a tentative post-nationalist cringingly apologetic European identity."
Radical Islam is not luring Europeans away from a solid belief system; it's
providing many of them with the first real belief system they have ever had. It's
filling a void for people who have nothing else to believe in or hold on to.
Steyn says that Secularists in Europe - and in America as well - do not understand
this.
"One reason why the developed world has a difficult
job grappling with the Islamist threat is that it doesn't take religion
seriously. It condescends to it." That condescension makes secularists
unable to see what's going on right under their noses. It's similar to the
situation that's been going on in our prisons for years now, which I've talked
about several times on "BreakPoint." Prisoners all share one thing: a
need for something to fill the emptiness in their lives. We have seen this in
the thousands of prisons we work in. Radical Islamists know this, and they have
made a point of targeting prisoners for conversion. Their brand of religion
offers people that sense of belonging, of something worth living and dying for,
that people need - the very thing that postmodern secular societies do not
offer. And that's a big part of what makes radical Islam so dangerous.
If we don't stand up for our Judeo-Christian mores and morals, the Left will
stand up for nothing except 'do your own thing', 'I'm OK, you're OK', 'all
cultures are equal', there is no such thing as black and white, good and evil -
only shades of grey. That is, if you believe in everything, you believe in
nothing. If we believe all things are relative and equal and that personal
rights prevails over personal responsibilities, then we are ripe for an
aggressive absolutist ideology to overwhelm us.
The greatest offense against an aggressive absolutist ideology like Islam is a
strong, absolute belief in our Judeo-Christian culture.
A blogger at IBA I very much respect commented that the
classlessness we have in our today is the exhaust of a free society. That may
be true. But a lot of exhaust is pollution and we are polluting the very
atmosphere of our social reality.
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