Category: Islamism

Muslim Groups Fomenting Hysteria over Rep. Pete King Hearings

Brace yourself for the crapload of liberal-left blather sure to inundate us  over the 'McCarthyism' of the Pete King investigation.  Hats off to Pete King, a true profile in courage, who stands up to militant Islam and its liberal-left enablers.  Here is Steven Emerson, an expert commentator on these matters (emphasis added):

The line of attack is now familiar: If King (R-L.I.) were truly interested in violent extremism, his hearings would focus on a wide range of groups that wreak havoc on America, including neo-Nazis and others; by focusing solely on Muslim extremism, the argument goes, he is betraying his bias.

This is utterly ridiculous. Our organization, the Investigative Project on Terrorism, recently did an analysis of all terrorism convictions based on statistics released by the Justice Department. These stats show that more than 80% of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda. Though Muslims represent less than 1% of the American population, they constitute defendants in 186 of the 228 cases the Justice Department lists.

The figures confirm that there is a disproportionate problem of Islamic militancy and terrorism among the American Muslim population.

Read it all!  And political correctness be damned. 

The ‘Religion of Peace’ Strikes Again

A London man was viciously attacked (face slashed, skull fractured) "for teaching other religions to Muslim girls." 

I guess the Brits haven't learned that toleration has limits and that allowing mass immigration of uncivilized and uncivilizable elements can't lead to anything good.  (Or do they perhaps have a death wish?)  One hopes that the Brits wise up in time.  England is the mother country.  Every true American feels a certain fondness for her, regardless of ethnic origin.

And here  Alan West shows how to respond to an apologist for Islamism. 

The Shame of Britain’s Muslim Schools

Here.

Why are Western societies allowing themselves to be infiltrated?  Does liberalism have a death wish?  Imagine a toleration so tolerant that it tolerates its own destruction.  Do you think that toleration just might have limits?  Does asking these questions make one an 'Islamophobe'? 

UPDATE.  An English correspondent comments:  It's true, what's going on in Britain's Muslim schools is shameful.  What's even more contemptible is the fact that while the authorities  wink at Muslim hatred and violence, they can prosecute any "Islamophobic" citizen who draws attention to it.

What Do We Have to Teach the Muslim World? Reflections Occasioned by the Death of Maria Schneider

Alg_maria_schneider I was one of those who saw "Last Tango in Paris" when it was first released, in 1972.  I haven't seen it since and I don't remember anything specific about it except one scene, the scene you remember too, the 'butter scene,' in which the Marlon Brando character sodomizes the Maria Schneider character.  Maria Schneider died last week at 58 and indications are that her exploitation by Brando and Bertolucci scarred her for life.

Islamic culture is in many ways benighted and backward, fanatical and anti-Enlightenment, but our trash culture is not much better. Suppose you are a Muslim and you look to the West.  What do you see? Decadence.  And an opportunity to bury the West. 

If Muslims think that our decadent culture is what Western values are all about, and something we are trying to impose on them, then we are in trouble.  They do and we are.

Militant Islam's deadly hatred of us should not be discounted as the ravings of lunatics or psychologized away as a reflex of envy at our fabulous success. For there is a kernel of insight in it that we do well to heed. Sayyid Qutb , theoretician of the Muslim Brotherhood, who visited the USA at the end of the '40s, writes in Milestones (1965):

     Humanity today is living in a large brothel! One has only to glance
     at its press, films, fashion shows, beauty contests, ballrooms,
     wine bars and broadcasting stations! Or observe its mad lust for
     naked flesh, provocative pictures, and sick, suggestive statements
     in literature, the arts, and mass media! And add to all this the
     system of usury which fuels man's voracity for money and engenders
     vile methods for its accumulation and investment, in addition to
     fraud, trickery, and blackmail dressed up in the garb of law.

A wild exaggeration in 1965, the above statement is much less of an exaggeration today. But setting aside the hyperbole, we are in several  ways a sick and decadent society getting worse day by day. On this score, if on no other, we can learn something from our Islamist critics. The fact that a man wants to chop your head off does not mean that he has nothing to teach you.  We often learn more from our enemies than from our friends.  Our friends often will spare us hard truths.

Companion post: What Ever Happened to Linda Lovelace?

Terror Attack at Moscow’s Main Airport

NYT account here.   "Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, said the attack was probably carried out by a male suicide bomber, and that authorities were trying to identify him."

Was he a Confucian perhaps, a Buddhist, or a Christian? The Gray Lady provides no clue.  Maybe he was a generic faith-based bomber.  After all, everyone knows that all religions are equal and so equally likely to inspire terrorist acts.

Egyptian Muslims Serve as Human Shields at Coptic Christmas Mass

As things currently stand, Islam is uniquely violent among the world religions and a major threat to Western civilization. That is not to say that all or even most Muslims are violent or evil people.  It is to say that Islam is an ideological superstructure wherein acts of unspeakable violence can be easily legitimated.  To mention but one example, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for the destruction of the state of Israel while in frenzied pursuit of the means thereto.  Where do you think he gets his ideas?  Why don't Western statesmen make similar demands for the destruction of foreign states?

Islam in the 21st century can be usefully compared to Communism in the 20th.  Many intelligent, idealistic, and morally decent people were drawn to Communism in the last century because they believed that in the wake of war and economic depression it was the only way forward for humanity.  Whittaker Chambers and Douglas Hyde are two who come readily to mind.  (See Communism category.)  These decent people, who eventually saw the light, were sucked into a demonic ideology. 

There are many decent Muslims.  Perhaps there is hope that they can begin to reform and enlighten Islam from within.   Here are examples.

 

Report from Pakistan

As things stand at present, Islam is uniquely violent among the world religions and a major threat to Western civilization.  (And its own 'civilization,' such as it is, ought to be judged by its rotten and poisonous fruits.)  To make matters worse, radical Islam has found plenty of useful idiots on the Left to lend them witting and unwitting aid and comfort.  But blinded as they are by their political correctness, one cannot expect these useful idots to be moved by such evidence as is presented in the following report from a courageous Pakistani correspondent:
 
Dear Bill,
 
As you have expressed concern about Islam in the past before on your blog, I thought I should inform you about these developments in Pakistan.  A few days ago, the Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was assassinated by his own security guard, because he had dared to criticize the "blasphemy law" in Pakistan, a law that is held sacred by the fundamentalist Muslims. The worrisome thing is that the whole country went into celebration at this murder and this murder was widely praised and justified. You can read about these reactions here, which have also upset me gravely:
I think these reactions have very significant things to say, and something that the West must be made aware of.
I have expressed my concerns in this blog post:
I would appreciate if you could mention something about this incident and the reactions on your blog. Islam is fast becoming a threat to humanity.  Just a humble request.
 
Regards,
Awais Aftab

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Moderate?

Spencer Case, on his way home from Afghanistan, e-mails:

I recently wrote a column on Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the supposed Islamic moderate.  It's been a long time since I've written a column that was really controversial, but this might break the dry spell. I hope you will share it with your readers not only for the sake of shameless self-promotion but also because your readers need to be warned about this guy. It says a lot about Islam that this guy is considered moderate! The link is here: http://www.pocatelloshops.com/new_blogs/afghanistan/

I urge you to read Mr. Case's column.  This Nasr is obviously no moderate, and his views, at least as reported by Case, are plainly incompatible with Western values.   That Nasr has tenure at an American university is yet another demonstration of the complicity of the Left with radical Islam. Excerpts:

Nasr states in many places and in no unclear terms that he opposes both secular law and “freedom of speech”—placed in scare quotes—which allows for criticism of religion. Most moderates in western countries, Nasr asserts, want the same.

“In the Islamic perspective,” he writes, “Divine Law is to be implemented to regulate society and the actions of its members rather than society dictating what laws should be… to speak of Shari’ah as being simply the laws of the seventh century fixed in time and not relevant today would be like telling Christians that the injunctions of Christ to love one’s neighbor and not commit adultery were simply the laws of the Palestine two thousand years ago and not relevant today, or telling Jews not to keep the Sabbath because this is simply an outmoded practice of three thousand years ago.”

And again: “Since God is the creator of all things, there is no legitimate domain of life to which His Will or His Laws (antecedently stated to mean Qur’anic Shari’ah) do not apply.”

The problem  with Nasr's view as reported by Case should be obvious.  It is plainly incompatible with our Western liberal values — values whose defense, paradoxically enough, is being carried out by contemporary conservatives, the Left having abdicated due to its inherent political correctness. 

ONLY IF we know that God exists AND ONLY IF we know his will with respect to us and our well-being would it be plausible to argue that something like Shari'ah is justified.  But those two necessary conditions have not been met and most likely never will.   Only an uncritical fundamentalist who absolutizes what is relative and conditioned, namely, the scripture of a religion inferior to Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity, a scripture which, even if in part divinely inspired, is mainly a human product, could possibly think that we have in that scripture rules of behavior that should be imposed on everyone.

Read the whole of Spencer's column.  And then make sure you vote next Tuesday, bearing in mind that the Democrat Party is the party of the Left and that the Left does not have the will or the integrity to stand up to radical Islam.