Certainly, we people who do not adhere to the faith of Islam fear its spread in the free world. And rightly so. Unfortunately, we are being led by craven politicians who either do not understand Islam, are making too much money from the oil-rich Gulf, or are simply too craven to face the threat head-on. The result is there for all too see: Islam is growing apace in the West, and nobody has the courage to do anything about it.
Bush and Blair's ridiculous policy of trying to bring democracy to Iraq is coming to a sad end. They have busied themselves on a mission which was destined to end in failure, while all the while we are losing our democracy at home. I have consistently stated that to try and bring democracy to the Middle East is a grave error of policy and judgment. One cannot bring democracy to a people who are semi-literate (the illiteracy rate in the Arab world is very high), and further, one cannot bring democracy to a part of the world where the 'religion' of Islam prevails. Islam, as I have said so many times before, is totally and utterly incompatible with the Western notion of liberal democracy.
Islam neither understands nor allows the separation of politics and religion. In Islam the mosque and state are ONE. Moreover, in Islam, all power rests with Allah, and filters down to the people via his vice-gerents here on earth, and then filters down further to the people. In democracy, all power rests with the people and filters up to the leader(s). This circle cannot be squared, however much anyone tries.
Instead of trying to bring democracy to the Middle East, where in any case it is considered a Western concept of government to be viewed with suspicion by all good Muslims, it would have been far better and far more prudent for Bush and Blair to have expended their energy ensuring that democracy at home remained safe for future generations.
This has not been done; and this is why we are in the mess we are in vis-à-vis the growing strength of Islam here in the West.
©Mark Alexander
JOKE OF THE WEEK: In a Eid message, Saudi Arabia's king and crown prince urged Muslims to follow Prophet Mohammad's "message of love, forgiveness, mercy, unity and goodness."
WASHINGTON POST: RIYADH (Reuters) - A prominent Saudi cleric said on Monday that Pope Benedict's controversial remarks on Islam came from vexation at the spread of the Muslim faith. Saudi cleric says West fearful of spread of Islam
MIDDLE EAST TIMES: MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- Fear of the spread of Islam in non-Muslim countries motivates attacks on Muslims in the West, the imam of Islam's holiest shrine told worshipers celebrating Eid Al Fitr feast Monday.Mark Alexander
"Did you wonder why this issue is raised every now and then?" Sheikh Saleh Bin Humaid, who also heads the Saudi-appointed Shura (consultative) Council, asked at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, western Saudi Arabia.
He was referring to controversial remarks by Pope Benedict XVI last month in which he cited a fourteenth-century Christian emperor who said that Islam's Prophet Mohammed had brought the world "evil and inhuman" practices "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
The issue "was raised only because the hearts of observers among the adversaries are filled with resentment over the spread of this faith and its overcoming of all borders, barriers, and blocks in all eras and under all circumstances," Bin Humaid said. Non-Muslims fear expansion of Islam, says Mecca imam
5 comments:
Hello Eleanor:
I couldn't agree with you more. But what are we to do about it? The so-called 'leaders' do nothing but acquiesce and appease. They do not have the courage, or the will, to do anything about the catastrophe that is unfolding before our very eyes.
As you say, with even only 5% of the population being Muslim, so many changes have been wrought. One can only shudder about the changes that will be made once the Muslim population soars to even higher levels. We all know that they breed like rabbits!
I despair of the cravenness and the cowardice of our politicians; and I despair of their ignorance and unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
Our civilization is being sold to the highest bidder. In this case, Saudi Arabia and Wahhabi Islam. Ordinary folk do not want this; but the politicians seem determined to foist all these backward changes upon us.
What a bleak future we have ahead of us - both sides of the big pond.
Mark - The fture bodes ill for us all. I can't see ordinary people lying down and allowing this happen. Ordinary people seek rough justice, perhaps the only kind they'll get as you have pointed out: "leaders do nothing but acquiesce and appease".
Saudi Arabia's king and crown prince urged Muslims to follow Prophet Mohammad's "message of love, forgiveness, mercy, unity and goodness."
This would be hilarious if it were not so pathetic. Note first that there is no democracy in Saudi, only a despotic monarchy. And then where is this "message of love, forgiveness, mercy, unity and goodness" written down, certainly not in the Koran. Just how stupid do these desert barbarians think we are? They are disingenuous to the very core -- liars to the core, that is -- and it is about time that we 'pull the plug' on these bloody lying murderers.
The spread of any faith outside Christian belief is being done by our Governments through ignorance and their own fear of knowing that they are incapable of using the powers they have to maintain our own existing and stable system.
Our politicians are craven, gullible, cowrds, and it is they whom we should be afraid of.
We should be afraid of their weakness and incapacity to act like they have a spine.
Instead we watch them behaving like the slugs they so obviously are. Creeping and crawling, slithering and sliming as the World around them slips from their grasping suckers and the people stand in wonderment at these "leaders" dreaming insouciance.
Wake up you backsliding invertebrates.
Mirrorman:
Who could put it plainer than that?
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