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[–] alexmark [S] ago
I am tempted to view Islam not as a different, albeit primitive, culture but as an entirely different species, truly alien as, by its own words and actions, it daily reinforces the rationale behind my xenophobia.
Even now in the second decade of the 21st Century the crippled minds of the Imams, Mutawas, Ayatollahs and Mullahs continue to slide like cold sludge through an endless night, embalmed in unremitting hostility towards any thoughts of a sunrise that might manumit their slaves or preclude their misogynist, deviant brotherhood from gathering more.
Depressing though this situation may be, it need not have been this way. In the 12th century Islam was approaching the apogee of its power and influence where, by adopting, integrating and codifying the sublime achievements of the more sophisticated, less aggressive cultures it had conquered, it led the world in the arts and sciences. It was then that the Imamate, growing fearful at the thought of intellectual progress, rose in ferocious defence of the dogma that sustained its power base, initiated a ruthless policy of orthodoxy spearheaded by the Arab cleric Imam Al-Ghazali, and began to close down this infant Renaissance.
Al-Ghazali championed revelation over reason, predestination over free will, and by the time his campaign was brought to conclusion roughly two centuries later, it had silenced and then eliminated all of its creative artists, scientists and philosophers. The last great Muslim thinker, Abd-al Rahman Ibn Khaldoun, a Persian, whose seminal work in the field of optics was two hundred years ahead of Isaac Newton, died in the 14th Century as the last of his kind.
With the purging of these heretics — the guiding lights of the Umma’s tentative human progress — Islam returned to barbarity, condemned to a future of backwardness and humiliation, consumed by a feral hatred for and a driving need to eliminate all those who refused to retrogress with it.
Have no doubt about it, intellectually and politically both those bearded demagogues who publicly harangue us and their brothers-in-arms, the shaven, smartly suited, so reasonable peddlers of harmony who infiltrate our Legislatives and Executives pleading innocence and victimhood — these are two faces of the same coin. They are the same bitter tyrants as ever, unenlightened and uncompromising, continuing their divinely ordained policy of subjugation or death… be it our death or theirs they care not, because Paradise awaits them merely for even trying.
We must all understand that the Umma will never deviate from the course it has set. It cannot do so, for if it did it would no longer be ‘Islam’ and there would be no Paradise for them to enter through the portal of Jihad, no perfect life beyond this real but imperfect existence they are so incapable of sharing.
“Why?”, you may ask. “Why do they persist in this madness, here, where we outnumber them by such a large margin…well, at the moment, anyway?”
I can only answer that even after decades of exposure to Islam, in its failed homelands as well as here, my Eurocentric mind still struggles to comprehend such a pointless, brutal way of life. I can only suggest that the principal reason they do what they do, to each other and anyone else within their sphere of influence, is because they actually believe that their Prophet’s instructions to carry out eternal Jihad until the whole world submits came direct from their God, and His cause cannot be denied Him.
The second reason, one which I am very sure of and which I consider by far the most seminal, is that Islam sees us as a rich orchard full of fearful, soft fruit ready for the picking — and they may well be correct there.
Simply stated, whatever their weird and infinitely dangerous construct is, it must not be permitted to do to us what it did to its own… ever, however high the cost. So, as the Bard might well have put it had he not been so preoccupied with the deserving fate of Lawyers, has the time come for us to ‘Remove all the Islamo-Clerics’?
In view of what the future holds for us, of course, the answer should be a resounding ‘Yes!’ But in the real world where necessary action remains constrained by bleeding-heart progressives who have lost the will to live, we will just have to attempt a gentle process of ‘education rather than eradication’.
Whatever that may mean.
[–] altident ago
Do you think Israel has nuclear weapons?