When Pope Benedict deplanes in Great Britain, he should probably wear a gas mask, and keep it on all through his visit. Sure, it might mar his public appearances, making the Vicar of Christ seem even more alien than he already does, on an island whose sense of national identity was formed in large part by its rejection of popery for potpourri. Just for fun, I think that Il Papa’s first remarks to the Prime Minister, wheezed through the gas-mask, really should be: “Luke . . . I am your father.” That might even tickle poor Christopher Hitchens.
Why should the pope wear protective breathing gear? To preserve his good health and sanity from the Pink Cloud of “human rights” unanchored in any responsibilities that hangs over the island from Cornwall to the Orkneys — and which pumps energetically from every bodily orifice of Prime Minister David Cameron. The leader of that kingdom’s once-great Conservative Party has worked energetically to remake it in the image of Tony Blair’s New Labour, whoring after strange gods such as “multiculturalism” and “diversity,” two postmodern euphemisms for national suicide.
That same Cloud hangs thick as incense around the archbishop of Canterbury. It billowed skyward when he squinched up his furry face to embrace sharia law in Britain, and it leaks out from under his skirts whenever he reassures Britons that when Islamic clerics call for universal Islamic law and for “death to the unbelievers,” what they really want is tolerance and peace. Like laughing gas at the dentist, the Pink Cloud eases the pain. It blurs your thoughts about the drill and the blood, and reminds you that everyone else is really just like you. Orthodox Muslims may think that they favor honor-killing, female genital mutilation, polygamy, jihad, and second-class citizenship for “unbelievers.” But if you grant them all their political demands, and speak to them in a calm, reassuring voice, they will in time come to see that all they really want is a good, starchy meal, a pint of decent ale, and a football match on the telly. They just don’t realize it yet.
I’ve huffed this cloud myself, eager for reassurance that implacable enemies of the Western way of life — with all its flaws, damn it, it’s ours — are in fact, behind their henna beards, just folks. I’ve read endless paragraphs of anaesthetic blather emitted by the Catholic B.S. Generator on the subject of Islam, by liberals who view Muslims as ersatz Mexicans wearing differently shaped hats, and by conservatives who fantasize that someday imams will help us round up and behead all the abortionists. Such daydreams can lull anyone into a mellow, alpha-brainwave, second-joint-in-Southern-California stupor, which can last for up to 20 minutes — after which you’ve forgotten about the whole question of Islam engulfing the cradle of our civilization, because you’re Googling the latest Lady Gaga video.
I’ve argued elsewhere, echoing the great Russell Kirk, that most of what is wholesome in American culture and politics descends directly from the English love of liberty. But that heritage long pre-dates the reign of Elizabeth I, with her secret army of priest hunters, laws preventing Catholics from teaching their children the Faith, and racks for torturing housewives for the “crime” of attending Mass. Our American liberties, as even the anti-Catholic David Hume recognized, date back to the papist Saxons, whom the recusant J. R. R. Tolkien brought back to life in the form of the Riders of Rohan. Through one of the ironies of history that remind me of God’s snarky sense of humor, it took the rebellious Puritans, clinging to these liberties against the encroachments of tyrannical Anglican kings, to preserve them in an age when absolutist monarchs were reviving the pagan privileges of Roman emperors and trampling over subsidiarity and Catholic common law.
All of this determines how our children will live and the causes for which we should be willing to die. But all of it will be washed away very soon in a human flood if Cameron has his way and Turkey is admitted into the European Union. As I warned here just two weeks ago: “Because in the EU residents are free to move about, resettle, work, and collect welfare benefits, every single villager in impoverished Anatolia would be free to pick up and move to Paris. Or Dublin. Or Rome.”
Why should other Europeans let Turkey become, all at once, the largest state in the E.U.? Here’s how Cameron explains it: Orthodox Muslims are becoming increasingly powerful in Turkey, ripping away large chunks of that country’s secular constitution, imposing more aspects of sharia law on the country’s hapless religious minorities, and hardening the country’s line against Israel. In other words, the country is reverting — after an 80-year Jacobin detour—to its roots as a hard-line Islamic state . . . the same country that invaded, conquered, and enslaved a third of Christian Europe. How do we stop this? For Cameron, the answer is to “anchor” Turkey more thoroughly in European values — by granting Turkey all its demands. The West tried such a strategy in 1938 with Hitler and in 1945 with Stalin, motivated by the same cringing terror at facing the truth:
Not everyone wants the same things we do. Some people are willing to kill and die to impose their worldviews on us, and if we’re not willing to risk our lives fighting back, then we will be their slaves. And we will deserve it.
If cowards like Cameron have their way, today’s Irish, Italian, and German children will grow up to face an ugly set of alternatives: Go out with a whimper, and live as cringing serfs in their own countries, or rise up and act like Saxons.
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In all this talk about the great Muslim horde upon the doorstep of Europe (and in the house, too), we also must remember that Europe can’t be expected to defend itself if there isn’t anyone left to man the barricades.
Perhaps acting like Saxons could include actually having sex that produces children?
If Europeans don’t start having more kids, it doesn’t matter what else happens.
The Israelis certainly don’t go in for any of that diversity business and they don’t kid around about it. They have recently charged a Palestinian man and convicted him for having consensual sex with a Jewish Israeli woman in an office several hours after the two met. He was accused of and convicted of rape because he told the woman his name was Daniel instead of his given name, thus having sex under “false pretense”. I think his prison term will be three years or so if I remember correctly. Some people think it has more to do with the races of the participants than anything else, but it is surely one sure way to discourage that type of “diversity” from taking place.
I lived in England for three years, and saw first hand how far the Church of England has fallen. Parish churches being converted into discos (Really, no kidding!), great cathedrals nothing more than tourist attractions, and a pervasive, snarky, anti-religious (except for Islam!) pall over the whole country. The only bright side was Saint Benedict’s Catholic Church in Cheltenham, which I attended whilst living there. The pews were filled, people stayed after Mass to socialize over tea and cookies, and there was a robust education program for children and adults. So take heart! the protestants may be on their last legs, but the Catholic Church is alive and well in the UK!
I take no joy in the decline of the English. They are our brothers and to see them cowering to Islamic bullies is very upsetting. In the movie “Zulu”, a force of about 150 Brits holds off over 4,000 Zulus at Roarkes Drift with rifles, bayonets and a lot of grit. The movie is based on a true story, and martial adventures are far from the greatest glory of a nation, but suffice it to say, the current crop of Brits are nothing like their forefathers at Roarkes Drift, Waterloo, Trafalger, etc.
Sooner or later, we are going to have to fight the Muslims again, as we did before at Lepanto and elsewhere. I fear that our “Metro-sexual” young men are not up to the task.
The english have a big problem.They dont know who they are. Empire gone, devolution for scotland and wales plus the whole “Rule Brittania”thing left in tatters huddling in the shadow of history, and many say rightly so.How do or how will they deal with or comprehend a muslim identity in all its confidence that will seek to assert itself in the religious and politcal sphere? “To thine own self be true” What you dont know who you are any more??
“Not everyone wants the same things we do. Some people are willing to kill and die to impose their worldviews on us, and if we’re not willing to risk our lives fighting back, then we will be their slaves. And we will deserve it.
If cowards like Cameron have their way, today’s Irish, Italian, and German children will grow up to face an ugly set of alternatives: Go out with a whimper, and live as cringing serfs in their own countries, or rise up and act like Saxons.”
Amen Amen Amen!
I’m sorry if my following comment detracts from the article, but I’m thinking that it would be worse for us Catholics, Americans, and Westerners to live under a new age totalitarian marxist regime than under a Islamic fundamentalist government. At least the latter doesn’t hide its true motives behind a fog of pseudo-Catholic euphemism like “compassion, fairness, equality,” etc.
I’d choose the slave-ish life of a Catholic in Islamabad, over the more insidious anti-intellectual, pseudo-spiritualist masquerade of an Obamaland. In the former I know who my brethern are.
Great article Doctor!!!
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(P.S., remember how last fall you gave me a copy of “The Grand Inquisitor”? Well, my many siblings (including one still in gradeschool), have been reading it this summer. Yeah, I know you would rather that they had bought their own copies; sorry
Thanks for everything
Wherever English went they created political problems. Plea to admit Turkey to EU is another attempt to mess up Europe while glorious England will be left to prosper as an island nation.
I have seldom read such an ugly and hate-filled piece of xenophobia. The “ideal” of the “Saxons” approach to dealing with the orcs is just too eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s approach to dealing with the Jews. I doubt that the God of love, the God who said “those who live by the sword will die by the sword”, would approve.
Samuel sez: “I’d choose the slave-ish life of a Catholic in Islamabad, over the more insidious anti-intellectual, pseudo-spiritualist masquerade of an Obamaland. In the former I know who my brethern are.”
And you’d also experience oppression the likes of which I don’t think you really appreciate. Say what you will about “Obamaland”, you’re still relatively free to live in peace, and that includes practicing your faith. But the Islamic takeover, with its institutionalized dhimmitude and constant threats to your person, your family, your property – I’d be surprised if anyone would really choose this over an overly-permissive, post-Christian society that merely makes fun of us for maintaining belief in God.
“And you’d also experience oppression the likes of which I don’t think you really appreciate. Say what you will about “Obamaland”, you’re still relatively free to live in peace, and that includes practicing your faith. But the Islamic takeover, with its institutionalized dhimmitude and constant threats to your person, your family, your property – I’d be surprised if anyone would really choose this over an overly-permissive, post-Christian society that merely makes fun of us for maintaining belief in God.”
Jason, by ‘Obamaland,’ I’m referring not to the present situation of our country, but the end towards which the Radical Left in our country want to take us. Perhaps it would have been more clear had I said, “I’d rather live under a sultan than a Stalin.”
Dhimmitude is certainly a wretched way to live, but I think it is not as Satanic as living under a Lenin, Pol Pot, Hitler, etc. And the Obama is striving his hardest to follow in their footsteps.
This is a Christian site???
I have seldom read such an ugly and hate-filled piece of xenophobia. The “ideal” of the “Saxons” approach to dealing with the orcs is just too eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s approach to dealing with the Jews. I doubt that the God of love, the God who said “those who live by the sword will die by the sword”, would approve.
Ann , July 28, 2010
Ann, the mindset of people like you is exactly the reason why Civilization and the Church have been being dismantled for the past 200 years. Your kind are Lenin’s “useful idiots” who will never realize what is happening until the day your children are drug out of your home by their hair. You are the “vegetable” for whom Aristotle says instruction is impossible.
Thank God, Ann, that there are people like Zmirak who are willing to devote their lives to the war for civilization so that people like you can live in your little cocoons of ignorance.
Wake up.
Dear Ann,
Thanks for clicking on the “Saxons” link. I urge all readers to do the same. To avoid needless scandal, please review what I wrote:
“If cowards like Cameron have their way, today’s Irish, Italian, and German children will grow up to face an ugly set of alternatives: Go out with a whimper, and live as cringing serfs in their own countries, or rise up and act like Saxons.”
Notice that what I’m trying to AVOID is the awful choice between surrender and civil war. A moderate dose of political courage and truth-telling today would prevent it coming to that choice…just as steadfastness in the 1930s might have averted World War II, or rendered it a short and surgical conflict between a rump Germany and England, France, and Czechoslovakia. No Auschwitz, no Hiroshima, no Eastern Bloc, would likely have ever existed. I’m calling for minor surgery today (sober, steadfast resistance to jihad) to avoid either a cancer death or amputation 30 years hence.
But yes, given that ugly choice, I hope the Europeans would act like Saxons, as the English did in 1940. Do you wish they’d rolled over and played dead?
John, while I do value your intellect and admire the writing style (with an amazing ability to pull together obscure references that puts Dennis Miller to shame), I still have to say that it seems you are painting all Muslims in an unfair light. They are not ALL people who see things differently and want to kill and die to impose their will on us. Sure, there are some, and we should be watchful, but what you say is overstated. Islam is 500 years behind Christianity, and yes, their heels are dug in even further than our hierarchy. Still, they will eventually realize that they are bashing their own head against the wall of history, and as much as people hate to see the word: progress.
most of whom are wonderful caring people – but here is the difficulty – they are not speaking out with a coherent and concerted unity on the evils of violent jihad and sharia law…and because the violent minority are vocal and organized they get the lions share of media and law changes which England is now experiencing – Sharia law is now invoked in English courts – on a limited basis but still recognized = this is extremely troubling…Add to this the fact that they are still a culture that values children (a good thing, which western cultures should take note of frankly), they are reproducing at an extraordinary rate in Europe and will have overtaken population hegemony within fifty years from now…which is to say that as a group our Muslim brothers and sisters will have a much larger voice than they do now in legislative, economic, and military matters….
It is not hatred which drives John Z’s essay but reality based concern – concern that when we raise the voice of reason over real practices – we will be silenced by a false compassion that refuses to hear the bell weather of danger even when it clanging in their backyard – We must speak out and give our moderate Muslim friends the courage and the backup they need to speak out as well..
In world comprised of only militant secularists and lackluster Christians, the Christians would win by default – they’d still outbreed the secularists, who invent bizarre new reasons every day to rationalize their selfish refusal to breed a new generation. First it was overpopulation and scarcity. Then it was global warming and reducing their carbon footprint. Now a philosopher named David Benatar argues that since the sufferings of a human existence outweigh the pleasures, it is unethical to bring new life into the world. Google his name if you don’t believe me.
At the most basic level, the Muslims at least have healthy life drives. But that is what makes them more dangerous opponents. And it is better to live under a system in which proselytizing legal and has a chance at being effective, as opposed to one in which the penalty for both it, and conversion from Islam to another religion, is death.
Secularism as a way of life (as opposed to a political principle where it has some benefits) is a paper tiger, a self-defeating, nihilistic culture that can’t perpetuate itself in a typically human way – look at the Soviet Union, look at the birthrates all over Eastern Europe. Communism would have entered into a demographic death spiral even if centralized planning hadn’t failed. Cultural secularism’s strength in the West is nothing but an illusion generated by a set of post-war global conditions that have now all but disappeared as well as the weakness of Christians. But that makes it safer to co-exist with for the moment than Islam.
One of the best lines in the LOTR clip is one that’s barely heard and most people miss: “Forth! And fear no darkness!”
Given a choice between Secularists who mock me, and Jihadists who try to kill me, I think I’ll take the Secularists.
Austin,
The thing is the Secularists have also been given a choice and they have chosen the Jihadists over you.
I read your article over on Catholicity.com, so I had to come by your site and comment.
I haven’t been to England since 1999, and so I haven’t seen for myself the changes that have taken place. I fear for England, and for the rest of Europe, if they don’t WAKE UP and see what is happening to them, particularly with regards to Islam. It was a huge mistake to let so many of them in-now they want to impose things like Sharia law.
Where is the courage of Englishmen, such as those who fought at Waterloo and Trafalgar? Where is the steely determination to NEVER GIVE UP, as Churchill said in 1940? Are there any ‘manly men’ among the politicians, or are they only concerned about OFFENDING PEOPLE, and yammering on about ‘diversity’ and ‘multiculturalism’? [two of my 'pet peeve words'] Where are the Churchills of today’s England? Where are the Wellingtons and the Nelsons?
I’d rather fight like a Saxon if I saw Moslems taking over my country-and I’m an AMERICAN! LET THE MOSLEMS GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM! LEAVE US ALONE!
Michael21- thank you for what you said to Ann. I am so sick and tired of having to be ‘wimps’. We are members of the Church MILITANT for a reason!
Melinda T-Pray tell, where are there ‘moderate Muslims’? No such thing. Moslems-I use the ‘older’ spelling-don’t want to live with Christians-much less Jews-they want to ENSLAVE US, or worse still, KILL US. Remember 9/11 in the US! Remember 7/07 in England! Or have we forgotten?
Some people might think I sound like a racist, and maybe this comment won’t get posted. I don’t care…I’d rather stand upright and die for my Faith and my country than cower and live a slave! I want to see ‘real leaders’ who will call ‘em as they see ‘em, and be NOT AFRAID TO DO SO! And ‘to heck’ with ‘political correctness’!
Over the centuries, we have had to fight the Muslims in Spain, the Balkans and elsewhere. It looks like we will have to again. Unfortunately, we do not seem as tough as our ancestors. I don’t like what I see ahead.
Tolkien was a convert (albeit at age
rather than a recusant.
John Zmirak’s article is essentially a rant; so I may perhaps be excused for casting my comment in the same form:
The point of what Aldous Huxley called the great Manhattan Projects of the future is to make people love their servitude. Sixty years later, in Europe and to a lesser extent the US, there is no denying that those projects (aka human resources management) were a resounding success. People do not just love their servitude, they demand it as their fundamental human right. There was no Muslim immigration when Huxley wrote about the “science of happiness.”
The same people (“politicians and participating scientists”-Huxley) who master-minded the Manhattan Projects of the Future sent soldiers to the Muslim countries but generally failed to achieve much success. They did militarize basically tribal societies, though, leaving a trail of dictatorships (as they did in other parts of the world). Now the rest of the world is sending workers (and some loafers too) to our shores, and we are supposed to see them as a threat? A threat to what? Not to a Christianity that has become politically irrelevant in the West, if only because even most of its remaining practitioners there are clueless about the words of Jesus Christ, to say nothing about Christian theology. A threat, then, to Western values? Which are what? Catch-as-catch-can? Unrepresentative representative democracy? Subsidy-driven politicized science? Unsustainable debt based on fiat money? Change we can believe in because it promises more servitude?
Oh yes, immigrants without a fat bank account are a pain in the neck: Muslim immigrants in Europe; Christian Hispanic (Mexican) immigrants in the US; whatever-immigrants in whatever-land.
Sixty years after Friedrich Nietzsche declared God dead and Christianity a slave morality, Friedrich Hayek rose to fame with a little book, “The Road to serfdom”. No Muslim in the sights of either of these gentlemen! But, anyway, freedom went out the same door as Christianity. However, as Huxley noted, sexual freedom makes up for the loss of all other freedoms — that, after all, is the summation of human servitude (correction: emancipation) European-style.
David Cameron is a buffoon, but there is such a thing as the cunning of history. Muslim immigration may (I say, may) awaken Europeans to the question whether they want to be Muslims or Christians, or merely continue to love their servitude.
Europeans invented the State and tried to live by it; isn’t it fitting that they should perish by it?
Rants are less effective when they are precious and pretentious. Nothing in Frank’s comment addressed anything I wrote, but it did give him a chance to mention that he has read SEVERAL books. Duly noted.
Frank, Give Dr Zmirak a break. Read one more book, unless reading a general overeview is beneath your consideration…and that is The Crisis of Civlization by Hilaire Belloc. Your wrap about choosing life or death for the West is actually addressed by Belloc (in agreement with you. It’s sobering analysis may be a softer style that Zmirak and palatable to you. But the same points. I sense it’s the style you really object to. But then it’s not to far from yours.
John’s concerns and style are to my taste and sparks every congregation I share it with. I especially like your turn of phrase of living and dying by State. I will use it.
Fr. B.
“Frank, Give Dr Zmirak a break. Read one more book, unless reading a general overeview is beneath your consideration…and that is The Crisis of Civlization by Hilaire Belloc.”
I would add Europe and the Faith, The Crusades and The Great Heresies. Belloc predicted a clash with Islam 80-90 years before it happened, and he feared that a Western Culture that abandoned Christianity would be unable to win that clash.
“I still have to say that it seems you are painting all Muslims in an unfair light. They are not ALL people who see things differently and want to kill and die to impose their will on us. Sure, there are some, and we should be watchful, but what you say is overstated.”
Rich, your optimistic view overlooks one critical fact — the tidal wave of Saudi money supporting the spread of the most extreme interpretation of Islam.
The problem with some of you is that you have a need to hate. You need an enemy the way you need food and water. I’m with Ann. This is an absurd, xenophobic, anti-Muslim hate piece. Al Qaeda is not normal Islam. Al Qaeda is composed of political as much as religious extremists. When you paint all Muslims with the same broad brush you are guilty of prejudice. There is a clear schoolboy fantasy of being the good guys beating up on the bad buys here. To fulfill that schoolboy fantasy, you have to have a bad guy so you can feel good. As Ann says, the psychology here is the same as that which afflicted the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. The Nazis needed a scapegoat. Their fear and hatred of Jews stemmed was a projection of their own sense of inadequacy. Y’know,, if you didn’t hate and fear the Muslims, you’d find someone else to dump on. This hatred binds you. Without it, you’d probably start fighting amongst yourselves because you have such a high need for conflict. Ann is not being a wimp in stating the truth. Some of you guys have a high need for conflict, persecution complexes, and immature Walter Mitty fantasies of omnipotence. Grow up, already!
“This is an absurd, xenophobic, anti-Muslim hate piece. Al Qaeda is not normal Islam. Al Qaeda is composed of political as much as religious extremists.”
Al Qaeda is the Wahabi version of Islam, and that is the same version of Islam being financed by the Saudis. As far as your reference to “political extremism” goes, you apparently do not understand that Islam is both a religious system and a political system.
Tell you what Matthew, why don’t you go to Mecca and start walking around waving the Bible and calling on the Saudis to convert to Catholicism? Since you believe there is nothing to fear from Islam, I am sure you will be fine.
Dr. Zmirak,
Spot on.
IMHO, the surge in Islam is God’s chastisement for us. We in the West have preferred cheap grace, pleasure and ease to a life of discipleship (I myself had fallen into this error.) We have fattened ourselves on usury, consumerism and worst of all contraception. God is using people who do not practice usury and still welcome children as he used the Babylonians of old on Judah.
The ignorance of Westerners is our civilization’s most expensive commodity. What I find most disheartening is the dangerous ignorance of people of good-will, such as Ann and Matthew. They say that we fervent Catholics and patriots are motivated by hate and bigotry, but what really motivates us is love. Zmirak and most of the people here understand exactly what this love is, even if we quibble amongst ourselves over the intellectual niceties. But sadly, too many people are poisoned to deathly extremes by the all-encompassing atmosphere of the institutionalized evils of Liberalism/Modernism.
Pax.
No, Ann, this is a “We have to save ourselves from the Islamic Barbarians” site. Christians aren’t wimps, you damn fool. You go ahead though and submit yourself to the Moslems, ‘k? Don’t forget to put on the Black Hefty Bag!
And as for “Paranoia” – go take all your cliche buzz-words/phrases and put’em where the sun don’t shine, you stupid jackass. Muslim are you? Muslim Apologist are you? It shows. Here’s a little Jihad verse for you to chew on:
“Kill non-Muslims wherever you find them. Lie in wait and ambush them, seize and capture them using every stratagem of war.” – Qur’an 9:5
Islam is nothing but 7th century AD Fascism/Nazism. And we have EVERY RIGHT AS HUMAN BEINGS to protect ourselves from the mass-murdering Mohammedans and their “Kill the Infidels” Jihad ideology. EVERY RIGHT. I’m anti-Muslim the same as I’m anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi. I’m anti-Islam the same as I’m anti-Fascism and anti-Nazism. Catch my drift? It’s moral and right to hate and despise Islam for the supremacist, totalitarian, genocidal, 100% intolerant hate-filled ideology that it is, invented by a mass-murdering psychopath pedophile polygamist fake prophet Warlord. Muhammed is simply an earlier Hitler, and his mass-murder of the Jews (and Christians) in 7th century AD Arabia is the first Holocaust. Islam sucks. Islam should be abolished. There is going to be a WW3 – West v Islam. Within the next twenty years.
Zmirak: Glad you’re not “huffing” anymore. I don’t see how you did in the first place as it’s so obvious what Islam is and what it’s followers are and what they want – World hegemony, and the concomitant annihilation of anyone who doesn’t convert:
“Fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it Allah’s.” – Qur’an 8:40
We must save ourselves from the over-breeding (you aware of their demographics??) Islamic Barbarians before it’s too late. As it was too late for 6 million Jews and others’ only 80 years ago.
You removed my 100% correct comments, Zmirak? (2 comments)
Last time I ever read you or your publication.
Maybe “paranoid”, had better start studying the truth about islam,,
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
http://www.jihadwatch.org
LAN ASTASLEM!!!
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Ban me! Great! Except, you don’t have to, Goodbye. Will never read Zmirak or this censoring publication again.
Visited England recently and I must say the the culture of England, its history its values and its pubs are in great danger.
Don’t be so naive to think that muslims wish the same as you. Give it another generation or two not more and England as we know it today is HISTORY.
Anything worth having is worth fighting for. If you think women’s rights, gay rights, minority rights and most importantly free speech is not important then yes you are right and there is nothing worth fighting for!
To study islam is to know its many dangers to any and all modern societies!
To quote the great Winston Churchill!;
Ann
Muslims live by the sword. Fact. They need no provocation. Fact. If we do nothing in response we’ll die by their sword. Fact. Happens every day. Fact.
Perhaps you feel morally secure (or maybe superior) in your stand to go quietly into the night, to not lift a hand in the defense of self, loved ones, country and/or way of life. You have a right to that decision… Or do you? While it may be true that we have no obligation to live as/by our ancestors’ example, and the extent of our obligation to our contemporaries is arguable, our obligation to the future generation(s) is absolute. Their ability to choose to live as they wish, to argue what their obligations to their peers are (indeed what peers they may have), to exist at all lie with what we “decide” today.
Hmm. Maybe we do have a duty to our forebears. They fought, bled and died to ensure the freedom of their future (us). It seems incumbent upon us to continue that tradition.
Civilization can still be saved from the jaws of barbarity… I hope that is a fact.
For me the bottom line with Islam is this little fact: Mohammed murdered thousands of people whose only crime was not accepting his message. (To appreciate the enormity of this statement, just re-read it, substituting “Jesus” for “Mohammed”.) This fact cannot be denied by Muslims, because it is supported by the Koran and all their sacred writings. Instead, they will mutter something about self defense. Yeah, sure! Mohammed self-defended his way accross Arabia the same way Hitler self-defended his way accross Europe. Anyway, Jesus gave us His ideas on self defense. When Jesus was arrested, He knew He would be tortured to death. Even so, He told Peter to put up his sword.
Islam is NOTHING like Christianity because Mohammed was NOTHING like Jesus, and, by extension, Allah is nothing like God. Islam is a violent, expansionist religion, which did destroy two thirds of Christendom within 100 years of Mohammed’s death.
I don’t know what the solution to Islam is, I leave that to wiser heads. I do know that we, as Catholics, must understand that there is a problem, and we must develop some kind consensus about it.
In 1874, during speech to the U.N.; Former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne gave a warning to Europe, and hence to the western World: “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” Europe: Welcome to the new world! America: We are NEXT!
The snake and the wolf reached a river bank one day. Both needed to cross to the other side. “I can’t swin, will you please carry me?”; said the snake to the wolf. “Not in a million years!”; said the wolf. “I promise I won’t bite you.”; said the snake. After much pleading and sweettalking from the snake; and believing the snake’s reasurances, the wolf carried the snake across. Right at the edge of the opposite side, where the snake’s safety was a sure thing, the wolf felt a sharp, stinging pain. “You BIT ME!”; yelled the wolf. “You KNEW I was a SNAKE all along!
There’s a lesson here. You can’t ‘create’ a church and an enduring moral civilization out of horniness for Anne Boleyn.
I don’t know if you have noticed it but across Europe things are stirring and people are awakening to the Muslim threat and this awakening is taking the form of Nationalism. Now, perhaps you don’t like the direction this awakening takes. However nature abhors a vacuum and the nationalist parties, the BNP in Britain, the PVV in Holland, the Front National in France and many other Nationalist organisations are getting increasing shares of the votes. The PVV has been asked to form part of the government in Holland as it is the largest party and remember Holland was once the most permissive of societies in terms of PC/Multicult. Ordinary people are looking around at thier societies and seeing thier cities turned into third world ghettos. There is a growing realisation that the ruling elite have sold the ordinary working class/middle class down the river and have in the process betrayed thier own countries, this is called treason. The realisation that the P/C, Multicultural experiment is in the process of destroying native values, traditions and any sense of community is also taking root. There are, no doubt people on this site who will scream “Nazi”, “Fascist” etc. It should be noted that these ephitets are a far cry from the truth and just parrot the media etc.For instance go to the BNP Website and read the constitution and aims and objectives, there may well be things there you don’t like or disagree with but its a far cry from being Fascist – unless of course you are a Liberal/Marxist/Anarchist. I challenge the the detractors of Nationalism and Nationalist parties to put forward an alternative and they cannot and have not. All they do is cry in thier beer about how awful things have become (for the most part). There are of course exceptions to this and sites such as Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch, Gates of Vienna and Frontpage Mag are examples. The ruling elites, Church, Media, Government, Civil Service, Police, Educational system, Financial system in Britain and in most parts of Europe are contaminated with an ideology that is inimical to Western Society. They can offer nothing but more of the same. They are in the process of allowing the Islamification of Europe with horrific consequences for that generation who are now in thier 20′s and for thier children, my daughter is Jewish and in her 20s I fully expect her to be caught in the middle of the coming civil war and unfortunately she is oblivious to the problem. Here lies the problem; the change that is needed to stop Europe from being destroyed is nothing less than revolutionary. If things are allowed to continue as they are then there will be massive civil conflict. There are pressures building up which cannot be defused by the usual outlets and the financial crash, mass immigration, poverty, unemployment and the ongoing destruction of public services will contribute to this. Time to take sides Ladies and Gents – time is getting short.
With or without Turkey – the EU is being Islamised. Secular politicians remain indifferent to the prospect of an Muslim majority Europe – as birthrates indicate it will become. And what alone will resist this seemingly unstoppable encroachement?! The return of the Catholic state again. Support a Catholic State for the UK please!
Catholics should read IOTA UNUM by Romano Amerio in which he traces the rejection of Communism by Pius XII as anathema to Catholic faith and tradition, and the collapse of Catholic social teaching, after JOHN XXIII.
On page 261 he relates an important point,
It should be noted that when an ideology expounds a view that it will never concede anything to a particular group or authority, we have a very grievious situation, in exactly the same way Hitler stated before he came to power that he would “kill the Jews” or that Islam expounds that it will have no partners in it’s “political religion”, targeting all other faiths as heresies.
Meanwhile on the way to these objectives Communists and Islamists will have identical aims which they share support, and Catholics and Christians may form alliances as well In the same book Romano cites:
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If we look at the changes which HERE and NOW society has brought about, we see that Catholic social teaching is the worst affected and ignored, especially with regard to the Family, it’s is also misrepresented in all forms of media.
From the Prophetic Books
Is 2:4
In days to come, The mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills. All nations shall stream toward it
“in those days, and at that time” vs. “In days to come”
In Sahih Bukhari, the most canonical of hadith collections, Muhammad said, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.” Various other canonical hadiths attest that Muhammad called for death to those who leave Islam. That’s why even today all the schools of Islamic law prescribe death for apostasy from Islam.
Here’s a link to the hadith at the University of Southern California hadith database: http://www.usc.edu/schools/col…09.084.057