Useful Infidels
So, the mass-murderer and unwashed cave-dweller, Usama Bin Laden, has today released another one of his hateful tapes. Well, today I have started my blog, and here is my first offering.
The freedoms many of us take for granted are under threat from a belligerant and intolerant ideology; the term Islamofascism has already been coined to describe it. Recently, we witnessed the grotesque and violent overreaction in many parts of the world to the cartoons of Mohammed published in Denmark. And it is a sad fact that we have become almost accustomed to the almost daily acts of terrorism, violence and intimidation carried out throughout the world in the name of Islam. Some people have begun to realise the grave threat posed by militant Islam, but many others are in a state of denial about the true state of affairs; this applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims. There are even those from the left wing of politics who apparently sympathise with the aims of the Islamists and because of their hatred for the United States have adopted the immoral and ultimately ruinous principle of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'. They foolishly and dishonestly claim that the present dire situation is caused by the so-called Palestinian problem or is as the result of American foreign policy. The truth is that it has nothing to do with the supression of Muslims in the world but everything to do with the jihadis desire to force the entire globe to submit to their terrible and intolerant belief system. In some Western liberal circles, it is considered to be a mark of sophistication to express contempt for the USA and Israel whilst suggesting that it is America, not militant Islam, which is the problem. These 'useful infidels', to modify Lenin's 'useful idiots' expression to describe non-communists who unwittingly helped the Bolshevik cause, are actually also viewed with total contempt by the jihadis who have nothing but loathing and hatred of liberal Western ideas, not to mention other non-Muslim cultures. After all, we have witnessed what these Islamofascists do to sympathetic non-violent Christian peace activists in Iraq: they behead them.
And speaking of Bolshevism, Fascism and Islamism in the same breath, it is no perhaps no coincidence that militant Islam combines neatly all the qualities of Bolshevism and Fascism: the 20th-century's two ideologies that sought to thrust themselves on the unwilling through terror and violence. In this respect, it is perhaps worth considering the following insightful words written in the 1920s by Bertrand Russell following his famous visit to the Soviet Union:
"Mahommedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world ... What Mahommedanism did for the Arabs, Bolshevism may do for the Russians".
Fortunately, Bolshevism ultimately failed, but not before extracting a heavy cost in terms of lost lives and untold misery. The same can be said for the 20th century's most terrible ideology: Fascism. But what of the 21st century? Can the rational and civilised world stand up to, and overcome, the challenge and threat of Islamofascism? For all our sakes I hope it can, but first of all it has to acknowledge the that the problem exists.
The freedoms many of us take for granted are under threat from a belligerant and intolerant ideology; the term Islamofascism has already been coined to describe it. Recently, we witnessed the grotesque and violent overreaction in many parts of the world to the cartoons of Mohammed published in Denmark. And it is a sad fact that we have become almost accustomed to the almost daily acts of terrorism, violence and intimidation carried out throughout the world in the name of Islam. Some people have begun to realise the grave threat posed by militant Islam, but many others are in a state of denial about the true state of affairs; this applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims. There are even those from the left wing of politics who apparently sympathise with the aims of the Islamists and because of their hatred for the United States have adopted the immoral and ultimately ruinous principle of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'. They foolishly and dishonestly claim that the present dire situation is caused by the so-called Palestinian problem or is as the result of American foreign policy. The truth is that it has nothing to do with the supression of Muslims in the world but everything to do with the jihadis desire to force the entire globe to submit to their terrible and intolerant belief system. In some Western liberal circles, it is considered to be a mark of sophistication to express contempt for the USA and Israel whilst suggesting that it is America, not militant Islam, which is the problem. These 'useful infidels', to modify Lenin's 'useful idiots' expression to describe non-communists who unwittingly helped the Bolshevik cause, are actually also viewed with total contempt by the jihadis who have nothing but loathing and hatred of liberal Western ideas, not to mention other non-Muslim cultures. After all, we have witnessed what these Islamofascists do to sympathetic non-violent Christian peace activists in Iraq: they behead them.
And speaking of Bolshevism, Fascism and Islamism in the same breath, it is no perhaps no coincidence that militant Islam combines neatly all the qualities of Bolshevism and Fascism: the 20th-century's two ideologies that sought to thrust themselves on the unwilling through terror and violence. In this respect, it is perhaps worth considering the following insightful words written in the 1920s by Bertrand Russell following his famous visit to the Soviet Union:
"Mahommedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world ... What Mahommedanism did for the Arabs, Bolshevism may do for the Russians".
Fortunately, Bolshevism ultimately failed, but not before extracting a heavy cost in terms of lost lives and untold misery. The same can be said for the 20th century's most terrible ideology: Fascism. But what of the 21st century? Can the rational and civilised world stand up to, and overcome, the challenge and threat of Islamofascism? For all our sakes I hope it can, but first of all it has to acknowledge the that the problem exists.
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