Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. R. Clay Reynolds
George Rebane
As these pages long attest, for me the answer to the title question is a resounding YES. And our western governments aid and abet that as being the reasonable response. The progressive tsunami of proscribing anyone who evinces fear of Islam ranges from Mayor Bloomberg banning any and all inclusion of religion in the upcoming commemoration of 9/11 at Ground Zero, to Canadian police giving Muslims a pass on physically assaulting non-Muslims in public. (Read this piece in the 2aug11 Toronto Sun by David Menzies)
A more compelling and terrible look into the mind of Islam is the tragic story of a young Palestinian woman who lived in Gaza. She was severely burned in a propane cooking accident about a year ago. Requiring more treatment than available in Gaza, she and her care givers pleaded with Israeli officials at the border checkpoint to be allowed to seek help at a nearby Israeli hospital. She was given a compassionate pass, proceeded to the hospital where she received treatment for her burns, and after recuperating she was released to return home.
A year later, she arrives with three small children at the same checkpoint in hijab (nearby picture), looking obviously pregnant, and requesting to revisit the hospital to be checked for how her healing has progressed. The Israeli border guards sensed that something didn’t add up, and took her into custody. She was placed into a now standard interrogation/isolation compound nearby and asked to disrobe. Thereupon and in great distress, she confessed that she was a suicide bomber with a mission to go into the same crowded ward where she received her treatment, and then, surrounded by medical personnel and patients, she would detonate herself.
The Israeli video here shows the last moments of her interrogation and her detonating the twenty pounds of high explosive she had strapped to her belly. It is a devastating record of a dedicated and determined servant of Allah willing to kill without mercy the very people who showed her kindness and compassion, and all for the sole purpose that they were the most proximal infidels that in her zeal she could reach. That consideration overarched everything else in her life.
As recorded here many times, I have the most genuine respect for Islam’s stated and demonstrated objective to become the one-world theocracy commissioned in the Quran. Their willingness to die and wantonly kill by the thousands in an ongoing daily round is beyond my comprehension. And since they purpose themselves to destroy everything that I hold dear, and have demonstrated palpable success in that enterprise, I fear them.
My fear is amplified by those simple souls among whom I live, those who do not share any of my Islamophobic concerns, and instead, view me and those like me as unreasonable and unreasoning ‘racists’. These same people issue a constant stream of pabulum about how such terrorists make up an insignificant fraction of Islam, a culture which seeks nothing but to live in peace with its non-Islamic neighbors. Anyone who does not believe this message of sweetness and light is asked to go to the nearest Islamic center (an ever more easier task today than yesterday, and even easier tomorrow), and just sit down for a conversation with our Muslim neighbors.
I don’t know how to approach such a visit to the nearest Islamic center. If I believe them to be devout in their religion, I know that they are taught the practice of taqqiya (religious dissimulation). I have witnessed their worldwide silence and their overseas mass celebrations in response to the atrocities performed by their brothers and sisters. What are we to believe when exposed to a regular stream of blatantly acceptable wholesale murders by Muslims who moments ago were our accepted countrymen in Europe and America?
Our own government dares not make the obvious connection. The lame excuses given for the avalanche of evidence range all the way from attempting to argue symmetry with examples like McVey and Breivik, to pointing out that the majority of Muslims among us will reject the call when it comes, and throw in with western values when choose they must between these civilizations.
But then we recall that one of the most cultured of peoples, those who gave us Goethe, Schiller, Beethoven, Einstein, … , were silent and compliant when a minority band of brown shirts took over the Reichstag, and started their murderous genocides leading to the greatest of all wars. And these same people remained silent and compliant right into the eve of the Götterdämmerung in 1945; I saw it with my own eyes, I was there.
And we in the west are to believe that Muslims lack such cultural loyalty and adhesion, qualities that they daily demonstrate across the world? Dear reader, I don’t claim to have a solution, but only the considered viewpoint that if we do continue hiding the truth from ourselves, as also witnessed by the examples I give above, we will not save western civilization as we know it. As a child, student, and defender of that civilization, I worry for my children, grandchildren, and, already, great-grandchildren.
[update] Two Black Americans were elected to congress this cycle, and both are Republican. Col. West is from southern Florida. He won in a walk. Below you can see why. H/T to RR reader.
[1sep2011] These kinds of interviews and news items flood the Islam streets daily. They are invisible to our multikulti progressives who bend over backwards in the attempt to show that orther cultures – especially Christianity – are just as rapacious. Here is a typical one from the Middle East Media Research Institute that never makes our lamestream outlets. H/T to RR reader.
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