George Rebane
[This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 August 2014.]
It is now twelve years since WSJ Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by Muslim terrorists. Since then countless thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims have been murdered by Muslims in the name of their ‘religion of peace’. A couple of weeks ago we were reminded by journalist James Foley’s gruesome execution that nothing has changed. He was killed by the new emergent Islamic State or ISIS that seeks to re-establish an Islamic caliphate in the Mideast, and eventually raise its flag over the White House.
In this twelve year period many of us in the west have become desensitized to the daily words and deeds of radical Islam that now operates with impunity on several continents, and vows to bring the world under the dictates of their prophet Muhammad and his sharia law. Anyone who stands in their way or visibly opposes them is marked for death. There is no negotiation about this, nor has there ever been.
Today the ante has been upped by the evolution of ISIS from Al Qaeda. Many of our media people still call them terrorists, but that is only a reflection of their abysmal ignorance and the new lows of today’s professional journalism. ISIS implements its theo-political ideology through a military government that has a rapidly growing fielded army which numbers in the tens of thousands. It is sufficiently disciplined, trained, and armed to have defeated both Syrian and Iraqi army units in pitched battles as they conquered the large land mass with over eight million people now under their control.
ISIS is also well financed, receiving large influxes of cash from selling black market crude oil, robbing captured banks, and being funded by various Persian Gulf Arab states that are supposed to be American allies. All the while they implement fundamentalist Islamic terror to subdue and extort the populations under their control. Summarily shooting and beheading civilians, whom they don’t trust or want to use as examples for compliance, is a daily occurrence.
Hamas is another Islamic counterpart that likewise owns territory, is funded by rogue Islamic states, and governs millions of Muslims. Hamas also gratuitously murders its own Palestinian people while it promotes its objective to erase the state of Israel. In doing so, Hamas again displays the culture and morality of Islam by fighting from behind women and children in their hospitals, schools, refugee centers, and mosques, thereby inviting Israeli counter fires that inevitably also kill the innocents.
Given all that, the point I want to raise here is the response of the touted millions of ‘moderate Muslims’ who, we are told, are neither terrorists nor support the radical Islamists who are in a self-declared war with western civilization. And let’s focus here on the moderate Muslims who live among us in Europe and America. When talked to individually, these people denounce what is happening in the Mideast and Africa. They claim to have no part in such campaigns. Yet seen as the Muslim-American community, they are strangely silent. They make no aggregate peep when, month after month, their brothers in the Prophet slaughter thousands of Muslims, in addition to Christians and people of other faiths.
Within the safe and civilized lands of Europe and America, why are there not gatherings and street demonstrations of Muslims protesting the ongoing slaughter and denigration of their proselytized ‘religion of peace’? Why are the moderates not out there making their collective voice heard and inviting us to join them in their outrage? Save for a few brave Muslims, could it be that there is no such outrage in the Islamic communities that are expatriate from their lands of origin? Or could it be that Islamist terror is already so well established in, say, the US, that the moderates don’t dare gather to voice opposition for fear of being killed by their own. Have we forgotten those living among us who detonated the bombs in Boston, and who caused the Ft Hood slaughter that is cynically labeled “workplace violence”?
These are the questions that none in the west want to ask or seek to answer as more jihadists begin returning to America and Europe in the coming weeks and months. So as the worldwide massacres continue, we are truly witness to the silence of the lambs.
My name is Rebane, and I also expand on this and related themes on georgerebane.com where the addended transcript of this commentary is posted with relevant links, and where such issues are debated extensively. However my views are not necessarily shared by KVMR. Thank you for listening.
[Addendum] Today any critical discussion of Islam always brings up the social sins of medieval Christianity. Islam’s apologists have a lot of history on their side that speaks to Christendom’s bloody internal conflicts in which Christians gleefully visited unimaginable horrors on other Christians. And, of course, the militant spread of Christianity from its European base is now the stuff of legends. So the friends of Islam counsel the rest of us to shift our perspective and understand that today’s headlines just reflect Islam going through its own growing pains as did Christianity centuries ago.
But what these apologists miss is that Christianity also received vigorous push back from other kingdoms practicing other religions – most certainly the Muslim-Christian feud started very early after the Prophet’s heirs decided that Allah wanted an Islamic instead of a Christian world. The result was a slowly boiling war between the followers of the Prophet and the followers of Christ – existentially a war between two major civilizations.
It’s hard to say when that war took a breather before starting up again in the 21st century. Most historians point to Islam’s 1683 defeat at the Battle of Vienna when the Poles saved Christendom’s collective rear end. Others say that the defeat of the Ottomans in WW1 put a kibosh on Islam’s further expansion. However, if you speak to the Serbs and Croatians, they’ll tell you that Muslims continued their push up the Balkans well into the 1990s. In any event, Christianity has essentially been retreating since being pushed out of the Holy Land which they had reconquered with the Crusades. OK, so the Spanish had a little victory in 1492 when they expelled the Moors from that end of Europe.
But all of that was then, and this is now. When was the last time anyone held a sword over someone’s head and shouted, ‘Accept Christ or die!’? For some time now things have been the other way around. And that, dear reader, is the world we are living in now. Actually, today things are even much worse because we have instant global communications, 24hr global travel, and marvelous nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction.
And that’s not the end of it. Things go down from there because today we no longer understand the mindset of our sworn and dedicated enemy. The west has pretty much turned its back on God, accepting various forms of secular humanism to answer life’s deepest questions. The Muslims haven’t, but we like to think that they have, else we draw a blank when we attempt to penetrate their thinking.
Islam today is the world’s most dominant end-timer religion. By that we mean that its taught cosmology, in the context of which devout Muslims see themselves, has a definite endpoint when Man’s affairs on earth come to an end, and Allah’s kingdom becomes manifest to all believers. Non-believers will find themselves somewhere ranging from oblivion to hell. Everything done now on earth is a preamble or preparation for assuring a good life in the eternal kingdom to come. And here’s the most important point, dying in the service of Allah’s kingdom coming sooner than later is a guaranteed ticket to early entry into paradise.
As shown by the years-long blather from the mouths of western leaders, we don’t do very well in figuring out how to deal with people like that. In fact, within the public sphere of international discourse, we don’t even believe that people like that exist. In my reckoning, this is perhaps the greatest weakness in the west’s ability to defend its civilization and way of life. Most certainly the radical elements of Islam know this, and make a big deal of it as they successfully recruit thousands of disaffected, rudderless, and disenfranchised young (mostly) men of Muslim ethnicities.
Our leaders are totally dumbfounded by the dedication, faith, and zeal of the cadres of suicide bombers and fighters, and the large supportive factions of their friends, neighbors, and relatives in the communities from which they emerged. I say they are dumbfounded because they never talk of that tremendously powerful attribute of our enemy’s fighters. Yet we recognize its rare expression in our own fighters when they make on the spot decisions to sacrifice themselves. But we would not dream of making it an explicit tactic and assemble specific military units in which individuals are trained to become one-time intelligent components of a destructive weapon system. Our culture does not allow it.
But Islam does and celebrates its doing. The least we could do for our own sake is to recognize the sheer power of a religion that effectively entices so many of its adherents to a faith of incomparable commitment in which they gladly give their all to please their god. (I spoke more elegantly of this in my ‘Of Ragheads and Racism’ which has given so much stomach acid to our tongue-clucking liberal neighbors.)
So much more can be said about the war about which we are in denial, but I want to conclude this little addendum by just listing a few teachings of Islam as widely practiced by its more zealous adherents, quietly accepted by the ‘Muslim street’, and denied by Islam’s politically prudent public relations cadres of both Muslim and secular humanist persuasions.
1. Killing apostates and reluctant infidels,
2. Honor killing their own children and relatives,
3. Taqiyya – sanctioned subterfuge, dissimulation, and lying to advance Islam,
4. Murdering and welcoming the killing of their own in sectarian violence,
5. Fighting from behind their own women and children to solicit their injuries and deaths,
6. Their emigrants colonizing instead of integrating into western societies.
And finally, check out this demonstration that recently took place in Miami. In America, we tolerate and provide succor to our obvious enemies. How would such a reciprocal demonstration be received in Ramallah, Baghdad, Tehran, Riyadh, …, or even Istanbul?
[30aug14 update] There is an extremely informative and relevant interview – ‘Inside the Mind of the Western Jihadist’ – in today’s (30aug14) WSJ. The interviewee is Shiraz Maher, a former British jihadist, who is now an academic researching the western jihadism movement at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization, King's College London. Backed up by data, the information he presents about how westerners are drawn into radical Islam is chilling in both its facility and scope. He shows how it is Islam by itself, absent any cultural preambles, that is sufficient to create the kind of dedicated raghead monsters capable of all that is described above and more. It is definitely a valuable and timely read for anyone who wishes to know Islam beyond its politically corrected trappings on prominent display in the west.
[5sep14 update] RR has long reported that Muslim communities in the main seek to colonize the west rather than integrate into western societies. Evidence for this is nowhere more obvious than the Muslim enclaves in Great Britain, Norway, Swededn, Germany, … setting up alternative sharia law dominant civil jurisprudence areas with the concurrence of their host countries' progressive government agencies (more here and here). More astute observers of Islam then point out that such implementation of sharia is never a stable and satisfactory achievement for Muslims, but simply a foot in the door as part of a more comprehensive program of colonization. The success of such a strategy is evident from the almost non-existent response by their sensitive, caring, inclusive, and culture-tolerant European hosts, none of whom seem to either understand what is happening or give a crap. As is also evident from these pages, we replicate their welcoming behaviors.
[11sep14 update] There is a small Islamic light hidden in Pakistan that we must recognize. We see a report on the back pages of today’s WSJ about a Muslim cleric Tahir ul Qadri who has written a voluminous fatwa denouncing Islamic terrorism, and now leads a movement in Islamabad against Pakistan’s corrupt government. We are told that Mr Qadri -
…is a frequent frequent speaker at conferences dedicated to dialogue with Christians and Jews. Proud of having been educated in a Catholic school, he blasts Saudi Arabia as "the biggest problem of the Muslim world" for exporting its conservative strain of Islam, and says that his goal is to eliminate Islamic academies known as madrassas by replacing them with schools that teach secular subjects. … "I am trying to lead the Muslim world toward the right, moderate, path, to bring the leadership and the people out of this confusion of extremism and terrorism, towards humanism and a peaceful society,"
On this day of remembrance we celebrate any port in the storm that rages worldwide.
[more] Continuing to give credit where credit is due. Check out this meeting of Muslims in Dearborn posted on Glenn Beck's site.
[14sep14 update] And then we return to the real problem of Islam described here by a learned man brought up as one of their own.
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