The snowball keeps on rolling and keeps on getting larger and larger!

The West has got itself into a fine mess with Islam!. Let’s face it! We’re in a fix with it! In a hole! But we keep on digging away, and the hole is getting ever bigger.

The problem is crystal clear: We inhabit a very different world from Muslims. Ours is one of liberty and democracy. We are free to choose our religion and free not to choose one if we so wish. We are also free to live our lives as we see fit. Muslims, however, inhabit a world that contrasts sharply with ours. They are not free to choose their religion; and they are certainly not free to reject religion. The rejection of Islam – apostasy – is punishable by death in most Islamic countries. Apostates are unceremoniously killed! Nor are Muslims free to live how they wish. Everything is either prescribed or proscribed for them, according to the dictates of their prophet, the Prophet Muhammad.

The Western way of life is anathema to Muslims; yet President Bush thought he could bring democracy to them. This was a foolish idea from the beginning. No democracy can ever be brought to a Muslim nation. Islam and democracy are simply totally incompatible. You cannot have an Islamic democracy. This is an oxymoron. Democracy, by definition, holds to a separation of church and state. Islam does not allow for any separation of mosque and state. So to talk of Islamic democracy is totally ridiculous! It’s like saying you can vote for any candidate as long as he is a devout Muslim! How ridiculous is that!

I have said all along, and I shall say it again: It would have been far better to safeguard our own democracies at home rather than try and bring democracy to Muslims. First of all, it cannot be done; secondly, they don’t want it anyway even if it could be. Democracy to a Muslim is symbolic of the ‘Christian’ West – their historic arch-enemy! They view our attempt to bring democracy to them as a form of Western imperialism; and they don’t want it!

But I tell you now: Most Westerners do want democracy! Sadly, however, we are losing it because of our appeasement of Muslims and the Islamic world; and we don’t want that!

The West has been sent into crisis since 9/11. It’s a crisis that has been totally mis-managed. Why? Because our leaders lack the courage to take the necessary bold steps to stop the advance and furtherance of Islam in the West, because our leaders are largely ignorant of the religion of Islam (they call it a ‘religion of love and peace’ whereas in actual fact it is anything but loving or peaceful), and because our leaders have absolutely no understanding of how to deal with Muslims and the Islamic world.

Ever since 9/11, President Bush and his administration, as well as Blair and his, have been trotting around the world stage making allowances for Muslims and apologizing for them and their religion. This was totally wrong! It was a flawed strategy from the start. The result of their way of dealing with Islam is that it has landed us in a fine mess. And such a fine kettle of fish it is!

The Islamic world should have been put on the defensive from the beginning. After all, it was the Islamic world that committed the atrocity. By letting them off the hook, we have emboldened them; and their demands have grown ever greater ever since. The latest one is that they want us to relinquish our free press, our free speech, and our free expression so that their prophet is protected from criticism. This is absurd!

Over the centuries, millions of people have died for the freedoms we Westerners enjoy today. We should relinquish none of them! In any case, freedom of speech and freedom of expression are indivisible. There’s no such thing as partial free speech. You either have it, or you don’t. Period!

The Islamic world is a backward one. Illiteracy rates are high. This, of course, explains their unenlightened understanding of the world, their lack of sophistication, their lack of appreciation of the finer things of life; and their ‘holding on for grim death’ to their past. But the more they hold on to their past, the less likely they are to prosper and advance.

Because we have allowed so many Muslims into the West to satisfy the needs of business and commerce, it is likely that they will drag us down with them into the abyss, into the dark, superstitious world they inhabit.

The West needs to wake up NOW. We all need to open our eyes and see what is happening around us. We need to put a stop to this very worrying trend. Whatever steps are necessary to stop the approaching wave of darkness breaking around us, we have to take. Our children will not thank us if we do not.

The difficulties we are in with Islam can be likened to a snowball rolling down a steep hillside: the further it rolls, the more snow it gathers and the bigger it gets. The bigger it grows, and the faster it rolls, the bigger will be the ultimate disaster! That 'new dark age really is dawning!


©Mark Alexander