Saturday, December 17, 2005

Further to requests to re-publish this essay, I have decided to re-publish it today:

Islam: The enemy of democracy and freedom!

Until 9/11, the western world was largely ignorant of the religion of Islam, of its goals, of its aspirations. Indeed, even since 9/11, most people, and that includes our politicians, would not score very highly in a test of their knowledge on the subject. It should be obvious to all thinking people that our politicians are actually unaware, dare I say blind, to the dangers that Islam will increasingly cause us. It is truly a case of the blind leading the blind! That means to say, uninformed and unthinking politicians leading an ill-informed electorate. But folks, this is what we have right now. The same can hardly be said of Muslims in the Islamic world, though; for their knowledge of Christianity far surpasses - even though much of their knowledge is quite distorted - any knowledge of Islam by the man in the street in the West.

As the old saying goes, knowledge is power. But what we often don't hear uttered is its converse: Ignorance is weakness!

The West is far weaker than it need be because of this ignorance of Islam, since Islam is our greatest enemy. The greatest enemy since Nazism and communism. I'll give you some good reasons why this is so. And none of them - absolutely none of them - are based on hatred!

Islam is the enemy of the West for a plethora of good, solid reasons, and if we wish to survive as a civilization, we are going to have to bite the bullet and deal, head on, with the issues these reasons raise. Let us begin...

First and foremost, we are dealing with a religion which does not recognize any separation of politics and religion, any separation of the political from the spiritual. For Muslims, life is one coherent whole: the political and spiritual both meld into one. This has always been so, and always will be. No re-classification of the religion into two separate parts is possible because of Islam's very nature.

In Islam, all power rests with Allah, the god of Muslims. The Qur'an, their holy book, is always taken literally. Those words are considered to be the actual words of Allah. Therefore, none of these words can be changed, for to change any of them would be tantamount to tampering with Allah's words. This would be a grave sin in their eyes.

For the same reason that the words contained in the Qur'an cannot be changed, they cannot, therefore, be re-interpreted either. So do not hold your breath for any kind of reformation in this religion, because it ain't gonna happen!

In Islam, all power rests with Allah, and it filters down via his vice-gerents on earth to the people. Hence the great desire among Muslims to restore the caliphate. Contrast this with the Western model of government!

In the West, the ideal political system is democracy. In democracy, all power rests with the people, and they exercise that power at the polls. In a democracy, all power filters in the opposite direction from Islam. In democracy it filters up; in Islam, down! Herein lies the greatest barrier to the miscibility of the two worlds: the western world and the Islamic world!

Without digressing too much here, I should like to add that this is the main reason why George W Bush and Blair's venture into Iraq to bring democracy there was a grave error of judgment. How can one bring democracy to a region of the world where the people who inhabit that region believe that all power rests with Allah, and where they believe that Allah has prescribed their way of life for them for then, for now, and for all time?

I would suggest that where such a dichotomy exists, the most sensible and prudent thing to do would be for us to lead our lives as we see fit, and for those people to be allowed to live their lives as they see fit. That way, there would be hope of some peace in this world.

But this is not what we have done. We have done the very opposite of this: We have entered the Middle East in the hope - the vain hope in my opinion - of bringing our way of doing things, our way of life, to them; furthermore, we have allowed millions and millions of Muslims into the West - and at the very time when Christianity, the religion which underpins the West, is greatly weakened anyway - which will only give us headaches for the years ahead. Why? Because Muslims who immigrate bring their hopes and dreams and aspirations with them of establishing Islam everywhere on earth. To Islamize the world is the main aspiration of the Muslim; and we have seen these past weeks, the manifestation of aggression in its cause in France. For what happened in France was in no small part because of the Muslim's desire to establish Allah's caliphate here on earth. These were the first rumblings, the first roar of the lion! Expect more of this in the future, as Islam grows stronger and stronger.

Muslims, by and large, do not respect non-Muslims. How can they? Their religion does not allow them to do so. Their religion preaches that Muslims are superior to non-Muslims; indeed, they use the derogatory term infidel for us. This word to some Westerners might simply mean that they call us infidels because we are people who do not subscribe to their faith. This, after all, would be quite logical, since to us it simply means not fidele, or not true to the faith. But this does not completely describe what Muslims mean by this term. To Muslims, to be called an infidel is an insult indeed! It has connotations of inferiority, backwardness, and even uncleanness!

You see, Muslims believe that Islam is the perfection of religion for man for all time. They call it ad deen al kamal, the perfect religion. People, in their eyes, who have not yet submitted to the will of Allah, are in a state of pre-Islamic chaos, a state known to them as Jahiliyyah! To Muslims, all Muslims, the whole world is classified in two parts: that part of the world which has submitted, and is therefore in the Islamic state, known as Dar al Islam, and that part of the world which has yet to submit, and is therefore in a pre-Islamic, chaotic, jahiliyyic state, known as Dar al Harb, or the House of War!

The House of War is the part of the world which has yet to be taken over, and must at some point be taken over in the future. We, I am sorry to inform you, are in the House of War. So we can expect anything at anytime.

Some people would ask why we were able to go for quite a long time without problems with Muslims. The answer to that is a simple one indeed. First of all, there were relatively few Muslims living in the West, so the ones that did live here were not powerful. Secondly, Muslims living in the Islamic world were, for the most part and for many years, poor by anyone's standards. This all changed with the Oil Embargo of the 70s - a time when the price of oil on the world markets soared. As a result of this, the Islamic world became rich and empowered. Money is power; and it talks loudly! In recent years we have seen evidence aplenty of Islam being on the move. I tell you now: If we do not find a way of clipping its wings here in the West, we shall lose our democracy, and we shall be in deep, deep trouble.

So the trouble we will have with Muslims will not come only from without, but in the future we can expect trouble from the Muslims within. The millions of Muslims living here in the West will not integrate, because it is not in their worldview to do so. It is also forbidden them by their very own Prophet Himself, the Prophet Muhammad. He forbade Muslims even to befriend infidels. He also exhorted them to kill us. And he certainly told them that they should live separate lives, and dress and behave differently, so that they could easily tell themselves apart.

No Western politician is going to be able to change these facts. For facts they are indeed. Moreover, as Islam will grow here, their numbers will become greater and greater, and they will be able to use our democratic system to outvote us and introduce their form of government based as it is on their beloved Shariah, or quranic laws! How do you propose we shall be able to stop them? We shall be outnumbered, and as the outcome of democratic elections depends on the number of votes cast, we shall be able to do nothing about it! This time will come quicker than we might think, because so few babies are being born to infidel families.

The only thing left for people to do, will be to fight. Inevitably, at some point, civil war will ensue. If the political process fails people, then this will be all that will be left for them: civil war, guerre civile, Bürgerkrieg, call it what you will.

But one thing I can assure you, no politicians' sweet talk, posturing, or manœvring, will get us out of this one without conflict at some point in the future.

You see, one of the biggest problems for the West is its devotion to the concept of freedom of religion. This is a lofty concept and ideal indeed; but this devotion blinds people to one important reality: Islam is not just a religion, but a political system also. Indeed, it is more of a political system than anything else, and it is, in addition, a political system diametrically opposed to our own. It abhorrs freedom of choice, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of anything that we so cherish! The only thing one is free to do in Islam is become a Muslim, and submit to the will of Allah!

These two systems are totally immiscible, and unfortunately, we have imported this immiscibility right into the heart of the West! To our own great disadvantage, and to the disadvantage of our long term peace and security. What, I ask you, will the Americans do when the ever growing Muslim population in America starts wanting to tinker with the Americans' beloved Constitution? When Muslims will see their way clear to supplant the Constitution with Shariah law?

Questions like these are the ones we should be grappling with NOW. To wait until the time comes would be foolish indeed.

Wake up to the harsh realities of life in the twenty-first century! We've got some collective thinking to do if we wish to save ourselves from darkness! Perhaps we shall, indeed, be forced to think about having to re-classify Islam as a political system first and foremost, a political system immiscible with our own, and one whose advance needs to be forestalled. This may be one of our only sensible alternatives. Since to give complete, unhampered freedom to Islam to grow here in the West is tantamount to digging our own graves!

©Mark Alexander

20 comments:

Mark said...

JudahQ:

Thanks for this comment. It's interesting that it verifies what I say; though obviously I am not surprised.

Always On Watch said...

Mark,
This is so good! And this information needs to be distributed far and wide.

Jason Pappas said...

Excellent summary! It will take some time before people learn about Islam. Until then our political leaders will continue to be well-intentioned but misguided. I’m not saying that there are no strategic goals but a sustainable democracy isn’t possible as long as Islam has a strong hold. I’m not sure when we’ll hit the Islamic wall in Afghanistan or Iraq. However, it is my hope that some of us will be prepared to explain why they (not us) have failed to create a sustainable democracy … and how it’s been that way for 14 centuries. It will take time and, unfortunately, experience before people will think deeper and open their eyes. But it is slowly happening ... and each of us is working to make it happen. Keep up the good work.

Mark said...

Thanks, Jason. I appreciate very much your comments.

Mark said...

AlwaysOnWatch:

Thanks to you,too, for your positive comments. They're very much appreciated.

Always On Watch said...

Mark,
I've had to shorten the length of some of my comments for a while. Christmas is coming!

But I am still carefully reading all your articles.

Papa Ray said...

Mark said: "Islam is not just a religion, but a political system also. Indeed, it is more of a political system than anything else, and it is, in addition, a political system diametrically opposed to our own. It abhorrs freedom of choice, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of anything that we so cherish! The only thing one is free to do in Islam is become a Muslim, and submit to the will of Allah!"

Mark, there is a shorter and imho better way to say this.

Islam is an evil cult that is not compatabile with civilization.

Yours sounds better, but mine saves time.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

The Truth Teller said...

Mark,
Another superb and eloquent article! So much is quotable here, but I've chosen this bit: "Muslims, by and large, do not respect non-Muslims. How can they? Their religion does not allow them to do so." So, their charisma, which some perceive (I don't, but maybe I've become immune), can be a very, very dangerous front.

Mark said...

Bld:

You're a riot! :-)

Fortunately, (I had better say this quietly and cross my fingers, too) Duren hasn't been around for weeks. He kept coming back and forth when the cartoon controversy was raging. He was furious that I had placed them up on my site. Now that they are no longer here, except a link to them (and he probably hasn't noticed that), he has disappeared. Needless to say, I haven't lost any sleep over his disappearance! :-)

George Mason said...

Truth Man and Durien: Please continue to post. You give us the opportunity to see how your Muslim minds operate, and that is a good thing. Yes, your English is poor, but then your thinking is worse and is exceeded only by your ignorance. But, don't take my word for it. If you can read, start with Mark's book. If you can't read, get Imam Fuqq to teach you. Watching the truth enter your minds will be as thrilling as watching quantum physics when matter meets anti-matter.

Mark said...

George Mason (PBUH):

Beautifully stated!

Mark said...

Truth Man:

This thread is about whether Islam is the enemy of democracy and freedom. To talk about anything else is irrelevant.

You might have noticed - though it seems that you haven't - that people who comment on this forum are erudite and sensible. They generally do not engage in ad hominem attacks, and address the issue being discussed. You do not follow this code: You talk of irrelevant things, and you attack the person putting forward the argument. This is infantile, and shows lack of intellect.

If Islam is so great, then show us why! I'm willing to learn. Please show us where we are going wrong in our understanding of your great religion.

Mark Alexander

George Mason said...

To Truthbro or whatever name you give yourself at any moment:

The finest thing you have ever said is "i will not b bak again on this site, i will not waste my time, not that u lot will be bothered much :)"

Thank you.

What keeps you from embarrassing yourself to death? I know that this becomes a rhetorical question since you say you have left permanently, but Muslims lie.

I read your "reply" to my remarks earlier today. I saw no evidence of your capability for rational discourse. For example, your wonderful Muhammad, whom you glorify as though he were just another hero of the Enlightenment, indeed was really good with women and children. Yes, he was good at screwing them, as long as they were other men's wives and little girls. He was a pervert. YOUR ISLAMIC DOCUMENTS DOCUMENT THIS.

If you don't like these documents, too bad, but at least educate yourself about Islam. You are embarrassingly ignorant of your own history and doctrines, yet you are so willing to flaunt your ignorance in public, as though it were something to be proud of. Stop and think about this. Do you not have more pride?

Because logic and principles of thinking seem not to have become part of your cognition as yet, you just emoted explosively about my three points. Let me restate them a little differently: (1.) Prove to me or to anyone that there is an Allah, by reference to the facts of reality, following logical rules of evidence; (2.) Show me or anyone even as much as ONE shred of factual evidence that the koran was the revealed word of Allah, and that it was revealed to Muhammad; (3.) Show me even one shred of factual evidence that Muhammad was appointed as the final prophet by Allah as he claimed. While you are at it, show me that the biography of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq lied about the perverse and perfidious nature of Muhammad.

You have read the koran, ahadith, and the rasul, haven't you?

You will not be able to show me any evidence for any of the three Islamic assertions. The reason is that they are all lies. They are lies clothed in emotional beliefs, which require you to suspend your thinking in order to accept that which is not real. That is one of the big reasons you Muslims are so blood thirsty--you can't argue with words, so you threaten. This is the year 2006 A.D., not 632 A.D. A lot has happened to advance logical discourse since then. Catch up.

That my words got to you means that there is a message in them for you. Are you savvy enough to get it?

If you are an Englishman, as you say, your atrocious language skills are seriously hurting you. Take it from me, no one will take you seriously using language this badly, except equally ignorant fellow Muslims--to that prospect, I say, beware the company you keep.

You boast about how Muslims destroyed the Roman Empire. Now, really, is that something to take pride in? Most peoples take pride in the things they create and construct. So, let's see, it was 1453 A.D., some 2000 years after the founding of Rome. Your Muslim barbarians took out Constantinople, killed, raped, and plundered--then did not do a constructive thing except mess up the Sophia with tacky Islamic decorations until the world gave itself a long overdue Ottoman Empire enema after World War I.

Why throw in your lot with people who have accomplished for 1400 years or so that which no others have done: literally NOTHING. Become a part of something, not nothing. Get positive; it will do you a world of good.

Why not open your mind? Get educated. Get thoughtful. Critically examine Islam after you learn about it. Then dare yourself to have the fortitude to face what Islam really is and turn your back on it. When you do, you will have a real chance for the pursuit of happiness.

There is hope for you if you are as young as you say. You do not have to condemn yourself to a life sentence of being a Muslim. Life is good, and there is so much to be enjoyed, and so much to accomplish--not destroy. Come on. Join the world. We welcome you.

Anonymous said...

Interesting discussion but I see no need to insult anybody - the same basic ideas can be discussed honestly without calling people names and without pigeonholing anybody.

Muslims claim to be color-blind but can't seem to get along even with fellow Muslims. They claim to be good to women but keep multiple wives and keep them barefoot and pregnant and all covered up like walking bathtowels.

Westerners claim to be enlightened but they have a horrid teenage pregnancy rate and divorce rate and DWI rate, and voting machines that wink wink.

We all have something to learn from one another and we all need to be more honest about our shortcomings.

Is Islam compatible with democracy? It depends on which version of Islam you are referring to. No country that has a state-sponsored religion can ever be a true democracy. It's not just Islam.

A moderate version of Islam would be as compatible with Western democracies as a moderate version of most religions. Are all religions nonsense? This is an endless and needless debate. Nothing wrong with someone believing in the supernatural as long as they don't go around killing because of the voices they hear from their god(s).

Mark said...

Anonymous:

Interesting discussion but I see no need to insult anybody - the same basic ideas can be discussed honestly without calling people names and without pigeonholing anybody.

Muslims claim to be color-blind but can't seem to get along even with fellow Muslims. They claim to be good to women but keep multiple wives and keep them barefoot and pregnant and all covered up like walking bathtowels.


What is this except for an insult? Aren't you guilty of the very thing - calling people names - you are accusing others of?

Westerners claim to be enlightened but they have a horrid teenage pregnancy rate and divorce rate and DWI rate, and voting machines that wink wink.

Yes, alas! They are obviously not following the teachings of our Lord!

We all have something to learn from one another and we all need to be more honest about our shortcomings.

We certainly do. But there's no need to go around beheading and killing other people when they don't agree with you!

Is Islam compatible with democracy? It depends on which version of Islam you are referring to. No country that has a state-sponsored religion can ever be a true democracy. It's not just Islam.

No, Islam is certainly NOT compatible with democracy. How can a religion be compatible with democracy when it doesn't even recognize the first principle of democracy: To separate politics from religion?

A moderate version of Islam would be as compatible with Western democracies as a moderate version of most religions.

No, it wouldn't! Christianity renders unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar, and unto God, that which belongs to Him. Islam doesn't do this. Period!


Are all religions nonsense? This is an endless and needless debate. Nothing wrong with someone believing in the supernatural as long as they don't go around killing because of the voices they hear from their god(s).

That's for you to decide!

Mark said...

Liberty Lover:

A very warm WELCOME to this forum!

Mark, I have you to thank for two nights in a row of very little sleep ;-).

I'm so sorry to learn of your inability to sleep. I am especially troubled that your inability to sleep was caused by me and my book! :-)

I have just finished reading your book. Awesome, but very worrying. I have been researching Islam for years now and your book is the latest and by far the most frank and to the point about this very real and massive problem at hand. From one page to the other I thought about people in my street, my town and my country who are blissfully unaware of the impending peril.

This is an awesome book review. Thank you so much. I appreciate your assessment greatly.

Would you be so kind as to allow me to reproduce this on the sidebar on the front page of my blogspot?

I looked for an email address to email you with some thoughts/questions regarding what we can do to get this message out there. To quote another famous author "My people perish for lack of knowledge".

You can email me at markalex@ntlworld.com
I shall look forward to hearing from you shortly.

hellosnackbar said...

As a comment concerning the appalling english as used by your "muslim scholars"such as"peaceman911"who purports to be an englishman,I have read on various sites the protestations of the followers of Islam, the same idiotic ravings.
They express themselves in "textspeak" they are educationally incapable of engaging in the language of the country that gave us Shakespere,Milton et al.
They are the product of a semi- isolationist muslim culture(if one can call it such)that teaches them
the idiotic musings of an illiterate 7th century murdering itinerant,whom they extol as "the perfect human being".
He may not be anything like this description to anyone who has reached "an age of reason"but he must have been one hell of a "salesman"to peddle the sort of twaddle written in the"Koran".
Literally interpreted the "holy book"is nothing more than a manual
for psyschopaths and indeed that is precisely how it is used by muslim zealots.
It is my view that ""Islam"should be the subject of unrelenting derision;with the hope that the unfortunate souls who are born into this benighted faith, might be
persuaded to abandon it and join the civilised world.

Mark said...

Hellosnackbar:

That's one hell of a comment! Good on ya, as they say Down Under. How could anyone argue with that?

L. Frank Morgan said...

totally agree with Mark ---too bad he is no longer open to anyone on the internet ---it certainly is understandable ---I do wish him the best for sure, forevermore!
Frank Morgan of Newhall,CA USA

Mark said...

L. Frank Morgan:

Thank you for your good wishes. I'm so glad you agree with me.

Unfortunately, I rarely allow comments on my website anymore. But on rare occasions, I still do. However, you can always get a message across to me on an old post like this one.

Best wishes to you. And thanks so much for your great comment.