Last week in the Austrian daily
Die Presse
Michael Ley about the new anti-Semitism and the role of the Left in the
Islamization of Europe. JLH, who has kindly translated the piece,
includes this note:
The Muslims’ faithful reprise of Mohammed’s original
temper tantrum at the Jews makes Sicilian vendettas and Appalachian
feuds look like cocktail party spats. Modern leftist Jew-hatred, on the
other hand, is an echo of the age-old search for a scapegoat — any
scapegoat — guided by the Alinskyite technique of identify, isolate, destroy, but older than socialism and its acolytes. Just think Fiddler on the Roof.
This is a very effective picture of how and why Islam and Leftism
suit each other so well, and how they are bound by anti-Semitism. The
example of wheat happened to the Left after Khomeini at least offers
some ironic feeling of poetic justice.
The translated article:
Who Owns the World?
Criticism of Islam is often denounced as “the new racism.” Hostility to Jews, on the other hand, is as old as Islam itself.
Taking aim at the new anti-Semitism.
by Michael Ley
Anti-Semites like to compare Jews, Zionists and Israelis to Adolf
Hitler. Recently, Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey certified that the
Israelis are worse than Hitler. “What Israel is doing to Palestine and
Gaza is beyond what Hitler did to the Jews.” In the Arab world, this
equivalence has the status of legend. It was not only Yasser Arafat who
made use of this smear. It is a part of Arab identity. This extreme
hatred of Jews has long since spilled over into European societies and
spread quickly through the Muslim parallel societies. The image of the
radical rightist anti-Semite is overdue to be augmented by the Muslim
Jew-hater. The French political scientist Pierre-André Taguieff
determined years ago: “The originators of violence against Jews are no
longer mostly from the extreme right. They are recruiting above all
among young immigrants, especially from the Maghreb*.” Hatred of Jews is
a part of their cultural identity.
For several years sociologists have been confirming a “new
anti-Semitism” which is above all else a Muslim anti-Judaism. The
contemporary violent excesses and Jew-hostile slogans of the Muslim mob
are energetically supported by many from the Left and are also
sympathetically received by leftist media personnel. In the leftist
daily taz the editor Stefan Reinicke recently wrote: “In a free
country, it must be possible to question Israel’s right to exist.” From
there to questioning the right of Jews in general to exist is a shorter
step.
Hostility to Jews is nothing new among Muslims or leftists — it is as old as socialism or Islam.
Islam exhibits an extreme anti-Judaism. The Koran is permeated by
Jew-hostile stereotypes overlapping with those of Christians. The Jews
have the hardened hearts of the uncircumcised; they have broken the bond
with God and killed the prophets; they lie and have falsified God’s
word; they do not honor treaties; they are usurers; they steal money;
they do not believe in the afterlife. The Jews appear in the Koran as
evil characters. Thus the battle cry: “Fight against them until they are
humiliated and pay the tax.” (9:29) The Koran portrays Jews as not only
warmongers guilty of every misdeed on earth, but also curses them as
“apes and pigs” and assigns them the lowest, subhuman rank: “And you
have surely known those among you who broke the Sabbath. Then we said to
them: ‘Be outcast pigs and apes!’’ (Surah 2:56) Because the Jews did
not recognize Allah, they were dehumanized and became as animals: “Say
this: ‘Shall I teach you of those whose penalty from Allah is even worse
than that? They are those who have cursed Allah and whom he has scorned
and made into apes, pigs and idolaters. They are in an even worse
situation and have wandered still further from the right path.’” (Surah
5:60) This motif occurs again and again.
Islam’s end-times prophecy sees the annihilation of the Jews. The
pertinent Hadith says: “In the final hour, Muslims will fight against
Jews. Since Jews belong to the army of Satan and Muslims are the
soldiers of the Prophet Jesus, they will fight against each other, and
the Muslims will be victorious until every stone and tree will say:
‘Come here, Muslim. A Jew is hiding behind me. Kill him.” But Islamic
anti-Judaism is only the tip of the iceberg in the battle against the
infidels.
Jihad is the highest duty in Islam and no Muslim may evade it.
Martyrs of jihad go directly to paradise, while Muslims who refuse jihad
are threatened with “the torments of Hell.” So long as Muslims are a
minority in a non-Muslim country, there can be no offensive, militant
jihad. If Muslims expand to an appropriate percentage of the population,
they must arm for the forthcoming battle: “And arm yourselves against
them with men and horses a much as possible, in order to menace Allah’s
enemy.” (Surah 8:60) If Muslims have enough power and influence, then
they must pursue jihad. Every Muslim is duty-bound to kill infidels who
refuse to convert. “Kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and seize
them and besiege them and lie in ambush for them in every nook and
cranny.” (Surah 9:5) The only alternative to conversion is subjection as
a dhimmi and payment for “protection.”
From the Islamic point of view, the world belongs to Allah.
Theologically, jihad is simply re-conquest of Islamic territories. Jihad
signifies permanent war against infidels and precludes any peace with
them. The battle against non-Muslims may only be interrupted by a
“truce” and this may not last longer than ten years. Truce based on
treaties may be rescinded by Muslims at any time. The holy war knows no
lasting peace. However, jihad can also be prosecuted peacefully: by
conversion, propaganda and bribery.
Class war was the secular left’s jihad, through which the original,
perfect world was to be restored. Many anarchists, socialists and
communists saw in the Jew the spear-point of the class enemy. In his
diatribe “On the Jewish Question,” Karl Marx wrote: “Let us not seek the
secret of the Jew in his religion, but the secret of the religion in
the real Jew. What is the worldly basis of Jewry? Practical need, self
interest. What is the worldly cult of Jews? Usury. What is their worldly
god? Money. The ultimate meaning of Jewish emancipation is emancipation
of humanity from the Jews.” Marx is in the tradition of an older,
leftist hatred of Jews. Early French socialists at the beginning of the
19th century dreamed of a worldly redemption of humanity, and proclaimed
a political religion whose flip-side was anti-Semitism. They
secularized, so to speak, Christian anti-Judaism to modern, political
anti-Semitism.
Charles Fourier preached a utopian socialism and saw himself as the
new prophet, claiming to recognize the Jews as the bane of humanity. His
students, Pierre Leroux and Alphonse Toussenei, likewise saw absolute
evil in the Jews. Toussenei warned of Jewish world domination. The
philosopher, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, proclaimed: “The Jew is the enemy
of humanity. This race must either be sent back to Asia or annihilated.”
His anti-Semitism became the model for modern Jew hatred, which the
left has to this day not been able to discard.
In the postmodern era, proletarians are no longer the subject of
human salvation. They have been replaced by immigrants, who are the new
stylites** of the leftist utopia for an old, doomed society, still
bourgeois in places. Millions of immigrants will dissolve old Europe to
make way for a new culture of multiculturalism. It will be national
identities making way for diversity in ethnicities, religions and
identities.
Western apologists for Islam and those who represent the interests of
Islamic organizations never tire of denouncing any criticism of Islam
as “new racism.” The new definition of racism is: Anyone who seeks the
causes of Islamic terrorism and the lack of desire to integrate on the
part of many Muslims in the religion of Islam, and does not
overwhelmingly hold the Crusades, colonialism, imperialism and European
xenophobia responsible for it, is displaying a racist attitude toward
Islam and Muslims.
Every criticism of Islam must be denounced as “racism” or
“Islamophobia” and this is preparatory to eliminating all religious,
cultural and social criticism of Islam. Consequently, doubt is cast on
all the positive cultural and political achievements of the modern West
in favor of a multi-ethnic state whose basis is relativistic values. A
society that gives up its own obligatory norms and values is preparing
for its own disposal. Exclusive social self-criticism and compulsive
xenophilia are the expression of a serious collective neurosis and
testify to an incomparable political foolishness.
The political goal of the mainstream Left — transforming society with
massive immigration — will be reached in the foreseeable future. But
the result will shock the most naïve of do-gooders. The goal of orthodox
Islam and its organizations is the Islamization of European society,
and in this context, the Left plays the role of the useful idiot who
believes it has found in orthodox Islam an ally in the struggle to
overcome the despised bourgeois society.
Islam’s representatives, however, are not in the least interested in
the utopia of a new human being in the sense of multiculturalism or
diversity. They want to overcome any life form that is not Islamic. If
Islam should succeed in several decades, the leftists would be the first
victims of this most dangerous political religion of the 21st century.
The Left did not learn this lesson in its fight alongside Ayatollah
Khomeini against the hated Shah. After the takeover, they were
ruthlessly persecuted and liquidated.
The goal of orthodox Islam and the Islamists is Islamic theocracy,
which has no place for decadent Western society. Therefore, all radical
organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafists, the Wahhabis,
and/or groups infiltrated by them, as well as the foreign
representatives of the Turkish religious authorities must be banned.
Radical imams and their mosques must have no place in an open,
pluralistic society. Islam’s jihad is the greatest threat to the freedom
of Europe and signifies no more nor less than a new descent into
slavery, the final death of Western civilization.
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Germans and Austrians — struggling with their Turkish
residents — might disagree with this identification of “North Africa
west of Egypt.” As might the Brits, whose earliest colonial
retro-invaders were likely from India and Pakistan (with a significant
difference between them in their relationship to their adopted country). |
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Christian ascetics who lived standing on top of columns. ( Don’t ask me. I can’t stand still for two hours.) |
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