Too soft to survive!
This is a very bad time for Islam to be advancing. Westerners have grown unaccustomed to struggling and fighting for survival.They have become too used to their creature comforts, their many holidays abroad, their several cars in the driveway, and their altogether high standard of living. They have become acquisitive and complacent with it. They somehow believe that nothing should take these things away from them. After all, they managed to vanquish communism; and they feel sure that all people deep down really wish for the same way of life. How wrong can they be!
Muslims are cut from a different bolt of cloth. Acquisition to them is far less important than their devotion to Islam and its eventual triumph over their traditional enemy: the Christian West.
Many here would deny that the West is now that Christian at all; and it would seem that Christianity has indeed suffered greatly in recent years. The empty church pews are testimony to this. To Muslims, however, the West and Christianity go hand in hand. And they wish to triumph over it. After all is said and done, this is their bounden duty: to conquer the West and spread the faith.
As we all know, the home of Islam is Arabia. That place is home to some of the most hostile terrain in the world, and home to some of the toughest people in the world, too. Hostile environments breed tough people. The Bedouin therefore is not known for his softness; on the contrary, because his environment is so hostile, he is brought up with a strong instinct to survive. To a Bedouin, the world is a tough place. And only the stongest survive it.
I have experienced first hand just how tough these people can be. Compassion is not second nature to the Bedouin! He is exceedingly proud, and this pride will not allow him to compromise easily, either. Cross a Bedouin one day and see just how vengeful he can be! If you cross one, I can assure you that you will have made an enemy for life! It is rare indeed for these people to forgive.
Islam has all the hallmarks and characteristics of the people who founded it. For example, Islam teaches its adherents to be hospitable. It is the hostile environment which has fostered this habit in its people. It is essential to extend hospitality and a welcome to the wayfarer where the climate and terrain are so difficult. If you extend hospitality today, you can expect it to be returned when you need it.
But it is the Bedouin's stong instinct for survival, and his toughness in his dealings with others, which should concern us. For this toughness has crossed over into Islam itself. Even a cursory glance at some of the surahs in the Qur'an show just how tough Muslims are expected to be. And how many times in recent years have we been appalled by the beheadings in the news?
Westerners were once tough, too. Especially when life was harder. Take the cowboy as a case in point, or the seafarer of yesteryear. But life has become soft for the majority today. The poor in many Western countries are cared for by the welfare state. Even unmarried mothers are given hand-outs. Few, today, need go hungry.
But this caring society has brought with it a softness which is not helpful when our countries are under attack, partly because it renders people incapable of taking the tough measures necessary for their own survival. Indeed, one has to question whether we have lost our instinct for survival! You can be sure that your countrymen have grown soft and weak when they start clamouring for unnecessary legislation, legislation to ban this or that. Things that we have lived with for centuries. This is no good sign. It shows that society is in decline when people fuss about trivialities when there are far greater things to worry about!
That this is so can be seen here in Great Britain. Our Prime Minister busies himself interfering in the private lives of the people, by banning this and banning that. His time would be better spent dealing with the encroachment of Islam on our daily lives!
We have before us a choice: either we stiffen our resolve to fight and win, or we let all that has been fought for, and won, by previous generations slip away for the lack of stomach to fight.
When our backs are against the wall, there is only one thing to do if we wish to survive, and that's to fight for our survival. It seems that few today are willing to do what is necessary.
People today have been cossetted. There hasn't been a major war since 1945. That is precisely 60 years ago. One can be sure that not having lived through a war makes most people quite incapable either of comprehending how dire life can be or of comprehending why war should ever be necessary. People want peace. Quite naturally. Nobody in his right mind would choose war over peace. But we have to be careful that we don't have peace at any price. That is never a good thing.
The way we are dealing with the advance of Islam would suggest that this is precisely what we have got: Peace at any price!
We shall have to find our backbones again soon if we wish to maintain our liberty for future generations. They won't thank us if we do not!
©Mark Alexander
5 comments:
Bill, how right you are!
I, for one, am anything but a rabid radical. I'm just applying what I like to think is a bit of common sense to a serious situation. To me, it is not a left versus right issue. ALL should be concerned about the growth of Islam in the West because it will eventually impinge on our freedoms. In fact, here in the UK it is already beginning to do so, and will even more with the proposed loss of freedom of speech because of that ridiculous Race & Religious Hatred Bill.
Moderate Muslims, as you rightly state, are lapsed ones. But even they can turn as they get older, too - as they grow more conservative.
As for targeting Islam... Well, whenever was it possible to win a war without targeting the enemy? Islam is the enemy of freedom; and that's a fact, even if our governments and citizens do not wish to accept it.
When I hear the garbage being spoken, it makes me want to pull my hair out!
Mark,
You're on target with this commentary. Westerners were once tough, too. Especially when life was harder.
True words!
Have you read Sufferings in Africa, Captain Riley's narrative? : an authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce, wrecked on the western coast of Africa in the month of August 1815 : with an account of the sufferings of her surviving officers and crew who were enslaved by the wandering Arabs on the great African Desart, or Zahahrah
Riley, James, 1777-1840.
Shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, Captain James Riley and members of his crew were made slaves to a band of nomadic Arabs. His dramatic account, which counted Abraham Lincoln among its admirers, is a great travel-adventure narrative of the times.
[I took the above blurb from the web site of the Fairfax County Public Library.]
Riley's book had a great influence on Abraham Lincoln, as he developed his abhorrence of the institution of slavery. Lincoln listed this book among the three books which had most influenced him (The other two were The Pilgrim's Progress and The Bible.
You mentioned, I have experienced first hand just how tough these people can be.
Interesting statement, that!
Bill said, Too many of those predisposed to fighting back still believe that we can be inclusive of Islam while fighting the radicals.
They don't understand that the two are the same.
No stampede of moderate Muslims, is there?
And make no mistake...If the caliphate comes to be (God forbid!), the left and right as we know them will sink into dhimmitude or into extinction.
Always On Watch:
No, unfortunately, I haven't read the book you refer to; but it sounds as though I should. I shall have to put it on my wish list. If it was good enough for Abe Lincoln, then it will be good enough for me!
As you rightly say: No stampede of moderate Muslims, is there? Strange, isn't it? Interestingly, however, there appears to be a stampede of people wishing to apologize for them!
The only people I hear talking about moderate Islam are infidels! That says it all, as far as I am concerned.
Heloise:
Thanks for the compliment.
What do we think of Paris burning? Well, I am not sure what the general population thinks; but I know what I think. I think that this is the tip of the iceberg. This is certainly not the end of France's problems.
We have allowed ourselves to get into this mess by our own ignorance and lack of understanding of this faith. We're in it - up to our necks in it, actually.
It will be interesting to observe how our mealy-mouthed leaders are going to get out of this one; for be sure of one thing: This might well spread and spill over even to the UK. Though naturally one hopes - nay prays -- that it won't.
What do we think of Paris burning? Well, I am not sure what the general population thinks; but I know what I think. I think that this is the tip of the iceberg. This is certainly not the end of France's problems.
We have allowed ourselves to get into this mess...
Yes, this trouble in France is the beginning. A few short months ago, I thought that such a thing would not happen until I was old and senile--or dead and gone. I was wrong!
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