Posted: 09 Jan 2015 08:47 AM PST
"Against
the assault of laughter nothing can stand" Mark Twain
Anyone who seriously believed after 9/11 that victory against the ongoing
Islamic conquest would be accomplished by military force has by now been
steadily disabused of that illusion after over a decade of political
correctness, passivity and misguided campaigns to bring democracy to the
Muslim world.
The
war against Islam is not going to be won with guns or bombs. Force is merely
the final solution to settling conflicts but Islam's violence is for now only
the tip of the iceberg of a much larger campaign to make the world into an
Islamic domain.
While we fight with police actions and holding elections, Islamists are
seizing control of governments by force or by democratic elections. They are
conquering African nations and staging civil wars in pacific ones. They are
importing millions of Muslims to Europe and America as Europe's
'Palestinians' for a coming European Intifada. They are rewriting history to
claim that Arab explorers originally discovered America and Australia giving
them claim to the land. They are aggressively evangelizing hundreds of
thousands a year to convert to Islam through misleading claims and marriages
of Western women to Muslim men.
What we believe is a war, is merely a minor skirmish in a global conquest.
While we spend billions of dollars and thousands of lives to stabilize a
single Muslim country, dozens of non-Muslim countries including our own are
being destabilized day by day.
The true war against Islam is not a military war, it is a cultural war. For
Islam it is a religious conflict by an empire intent on transforming every
aspect of life into one defined by Islam. For us it is about preserving our
way of life. The cartoon controversy woke many Europeans to the fact that
free speech and many of the other attributes of democracy that they take for
granted are incompatible with Islam. Under the relentless pressure of
multi-culturalism, they and we are increasingly deciding that our way of life
has to bow to theirs.
This is the ultimate victory of Islam. Not the fall of the Twin Towers or any
single act of terrorism is as great a victory for Islam as when our own
government and press repeat their propaganda and muzzle their critics. This
represents the submission of the West to their rule. It turns Islam into the
only legally sanctioned religion in Western nations that have long since
instituted separations of Church and State.
Islam cannot be criticized by any public figure without violence quickly
following. Islam cannot be criticized by the press without violence quickly
following. No disrespect, real or perceived, towards Islam can be tolerated
either. This is the lesson Muslim violence is teaching in Europe and much of
the European and American media, politicians and clergy are becoming quick
students. Criticism of Islam by individuals will get you condemned as a bigot
by those very same people who are for all intents and purposes collaborating
with our new tyrants.
While the entertainers, academics and pundits of a liberalized West are free
to criticize and impugn Christianity and Judaism, Islam is a No-Go Zone.
While Judaism and Christianity cannot be taught in the schools of a
liberalized West, Islam can and is. Muslim religious artifacts can be
displayed, Muslim religion taught and its holy books present, where those of
other religions cannot. This elevates Islam to a special status. It gives
Muslims power over other religions and they use that power. In a society
where traditional religion is mocked, theirs is held sacred. Is it any wonder
that sheltered from any criticism or negative appraisal by the same comedians
and academics who tear apart Judaism and Christianity; that the view of many
will be that Islam is a better religion. And this is exactly what Muslims
want.
Our
culture is being invaded. Our nations are being overrun. In England some
government offices banned mugs featuring Piglet on them. In Israel a
woman was sentenced to jail for drawing a cartoon of Mohammed as a pig. In
America defaced Korans are being investigated as hate crimes. This is the
power of the law backing up the power of the cultural consensus of our
politicians and press which prevents any criticism or mockery of Islam as if
this were Saudi Arabia.
We can defeat Islam. We can stop this. If we fight back.
When Mark Twain said that, "Against the assault of laughter nothing can
stand", he was speaking as part of a long tradition of American
humorists who satirized the great and powerful, who knew that nothing so much
cuts a puffed up ego to size and the insecure man hiding behind it, as a well
told joke. Islam in our time is the biggest puffed up ego there is. A
fraudulent religion based on the plagiarism of a vicious desert warlord
turned into a global empire. There is not one thing new in Islam. Its only
claim to power is that it is wielded by men more ruthless and murderous than
any other today.
Muslim rage is not a strength. When Muslims riot screaming in the streets
every time they're offended in some way, this is not the mark of a strong
faith but a weak insecure one. So weak and insecure that it cannot turn the
cheek or look down from a superior position of belief in the true God.
Instead like all pagan savages it goes into a murderous rage because inside
its worshipers know they are not the servants of a living God who can avenge
all insults, but of a faith cribbed from Jews and Christians by an illiterate
bandit who proceeded to win convert by terrorizing everyone who didn't join
his gang of bandits.
Muslim rage does not emerge from a deep respect for Allah but from the
knowledge that their entire system of belief is a fraud that could never
stand up to any scrutiny. If the world's religions were paintings in a
museum, Islam would be a child's dirty smeared finger painting all in one
color.
Islam's drive for world conquest is a sign of weakness. It is a sign of a
deeply insecure faith. But then most killers are driven by their own
insecurities too. The man who opens fire on a crowded cafeteria is weak
inside but that only makes his explosive violence more dangerous and it makes
coddling him more dangerous because sooner or later he will kill.
The way to defeat Islam is never to coddle it, to enable its rages or its
conquest of our lands. It is to stand up to it over and over again. It's to
laugh at it. Yes laugh it and ridicule it. America is a collection of
immigrants with the humorous traditions of dozens of cultures, Irish, Jews,
Italians, Scots, Russians, Asians. We're not just the reservoir of the
world's talent but its humor too and humor is the ultimate weapon against the
balloon that is Islam. Islam can only expand by force. It can't leverage any
real military force against us. Instead it expands by intimidation, by
conformity, by deception, by political correctness. It has no defense against
laughter. Men who are so insecure they would kill over a stray word here or
there, can't stand up to being laughed at, to being ridiculed, to have their
cherished values transformed into a laughingstock.
We're fighting a cultural war and humor is our best weapon. We've spent the
last 50 years laughing and mocking every aspect of our societies. Let's turn
that laughter on Islam full bore. And Islam's defenders will find it
difficult to censor and silence humor, the way they can silence and discredit
political commentary. To try and silence humor is to look like a prig and if
there's anything our politically correct cultural overlords hate, it's to
come out looking like the stuffy humorless totalitarian-minded fascists that
they really are.
The front line of the cultural war between Islam and the West is
right here. It's the internet. It can't be silenced or shut down. It's the
interface point between two colliding cultures. It's the gateway for
information and disinformation. It will also help determine which will stand
and which will fall.
So go on telling those jokes. When the arguments run out and the rhetoric is
exhausted, humor can always be fresh and a weapon no one can argue against.
There's one thing Muslims can't stand above all else and that's mockery. It
drives them mad and when that happens they show their true face beneath the
false polite masks they so often wear, in a way that not even liberals can
long ignore.
Battling Islam with humor quickly clarifies the stakes for the west in an
undeniable way showing that our choice is between maintaining our freedoms or
losing them forever. Islam's apologists, our press, our politicians, our
academics have been cooking us like lobsters in a pot, slowly raising the
temperature until we're broiling and barely notice it. Muslim rage raises the
temperature a lot. It wakes up some of those in the lobster pot as the
murders of Theo VanGogh and the Cartoon controversy did.
A billion plus Muslims around the world are shouting angrily demanding that
we take their perverted homicidal mania of a religion seriously. Let's laugh
at them instead.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger
and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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