The Fall of Islam, Phase I: Overreaching

WC has written an interesting essay at The Gathering Storm. Basically, his concern could be summed up as this: Islam is infiltrating, subverting and undermining the world, and might succeed if the Muslims don't get impatient or overly confident. In other words, we might sleep through our own downfall, unless they wake us up with their violence. He draws some interesting comparisons to World War II; an excellent essay, well worth the read.Similar essays could also be written, for example, making a comparison with the threat to the Free World from communism. In communism's heyday, just a couple of decades ago, I remember having the same feeling that America was just sleeping through her demise. We used to count the number of countries that had gone communist; none had ever returned. Within a decade of that, communism collapsed.WC ends his essay with the question, whether Islam will, out of impatience or overconfidence, "reach for the gun", thus getting our attention in time for us to save ourselves. My answer is that Islam 1) will, 2) already is, and 3) can't help but do so.Let me address first of all why I say that Islam already is overreaching.The conduct of Islamic immigrants in the People's Democratic Republic of Sweden (actually, the description of the situation makes Sweden sound more fascist than communist, as if that made a big difference) is quite appalling. The blogger Fjordman tells us of an "Immigrant Rape Wave in Sweden", where Islamic immigrants brutally gangrape women that they identify as not fellow Muslims. The Islamic immigrants explain away their behavior in various ways, generally along the lines that the victims were asking for it, that the victims should conduct themselves in a manner that doesn't invite attacks, that raping Swedish girls isn't really a crime, and so on. The underlying connection is to Islam, which in my opinion is not one of the world's great religions, but is really the world's biggest political movement/cult; as Fjordman explains the logic of the perpetrators:Western women are not so much regarded by most Muslims as individuals, but as "their women," the women who "belong" to hostile Infidels. They are booty, to be taken, just as the land of the Infidels someday will drop, it is believed, into Muslim hand. This is not mere crime, but ideologically-justified crime or rather, in Muslim eyes, attacks on Infidels scarcely qualify as crime.It has gotten so bad that a kind of chastity belt is now making a comeback in Sweden; it allows a woman to prevent being actually raped, although the violence and other elements of the sexual assault may still be a threat. The situation in neighboring Norway is not too different, where authorities are reportedly covering up a tremendous increase in the numbers of sexual assaults there. In both cases, the politically correct political elite of the countries refuse to even acknowledge before what I can only characterize as "their subjects" that there is a problem. Consequently, women get victimized by assuming they can go out alone and will still be safe, just like they have for years; the governments, media and academia of the two countries seem to be in silent agreement not to permit mention of the problem, so a woman does not know there's a problem until she or someone she knows gets attacked. Similar crime waves tied to Islamic immigrants have been noted in recent years in other western European countries, most notably rioting in France.Of course, it is difficult to overlook the attacks on the United States (9/11), the United Kingdom (London, 7/7) and Spain (Madrid, M-11 or 3/11); western readers may not be familiar with the terrible ordeals faced by people on the other side of Europe, and may wish to read about the Beslan school hostage crisis for starters.The key point to all this is that Islam already is waking us up with its violence.Of course, this could hardly be described as a conspiracy or as some kind of centralized, coordinated assault. Rather, these are the decentralized acts of people who share the same worldview; the criminals and terrorists have all been reading the same "playbook". A detailed analysis of the Koran is beyond the scope of this essay; I will examine it in future essays. For now, suffice it to say that when these people murder, rape, pillage, plunder, and commit piracy and terrorist acts, they are doing exactly as their prophet Mohammed did, and exactly as their prophet Mohammed told others to do. Their religion is rooted in violence; while there are many decent people who are Muslims, while there are Muslims who disavow and condemn the violence and terror, while there are movements in the Islamic world to reform Islam, the Islamic deck is stacked against peace, since the Koran itself was written by violent, hateful people to justify, promote and evangelize hatred and violence.Although I haven't really proven my third assertion, that Islam can't help but to overextend itself, I think a rational examination of Islamic history will show that it has been one of continuous reaching for more and more until it gets forcefully stopped and driven back. This has been addressed elsewhere (see The Gates of Vienna, for example); the reader may do some research on the subject as well. Once the third assertion is accepted, that Islam can't help but to overextend itself, my first assertion logically follows that sooner or later (sooner in my opinion) it will.With that background in place, it seems to me that the United States in particular, and the Free World in general (i.e., that part of the world that is not in "submission" to the "will of Allah" as interpreted by Allah's self-proclaimed representatives here on Earth) is in a situation remarkably like the situation the West was in at the beginning of the 1800's dealing with the Barbary Coast pirates in the Mediterranean.In an article at FrontPageMag.com entitled America's First War on Terror, author Andrew G. Bostom discusses the history of the struggle between the Islamic pirates from North Africa and the young United States.Briefly, U.S. shipping was the target of unprovoked attacks by Islamic Pirates. At first, America responded by paying protection money, or tribute, to the regimes that supported the pirates, and by ransoming back captives. Then, however, America decided to deal with the pirates militarily. America was winning militarily, but opted for a negotiated, diplomatic settlement that undercut the battlefield victories. America lost interest, especially as the War of 1812 came up between the United States and Great Britain. Immediately after the War of 1812 ended, however, a renewed American interest in dealing conclusively with the threat from the Barbary Coast pirates led to a military expedition that was successful. More importantly, this time the battlefield successes were punctuated, rather than undercut, by diplomacy where the United States essentially refused to budge as America, having demonstrated military superiority, dictated terms of peace.It is this theme that I now pursue.WC essentially raises the question of whether or not the Free World will sleep through its demise. As I explain above, Islam is unable to let us sleep through it; Islamic jihadist ideology is unable to contain itself; Islam will wake us up. True, certain enemy leaders are cunning and crafty; Osama Bin Laden is patient (this is mentioned in an article about the nuclear weapons that Bin Laden is alleged to have since 1996), and, if he alone were calling the shots, WC's concerns would concern me as well. However, not all of the Islamic "Holy Warriors" take orders from him; even those who do may not be able to control themselves (I will make another unsupported statement here that Islam is very much a cult of "immediate gratification"). Besides, Bin Laden is no "spring chicken"; if he survives America's wrath and other things, old age will still get him in the not-too-distant future. No matter how you cut it, you are left with Jihadis that can't wait and don't think they should have to -- after all, Allah has already given them the victory!So, not only do I not believe we will sleep through our demise, but, as I pursue the Barbary Coast theme, I will tell you exactly where we are.The attack on 9/11, and other events, are rousing America and others to the threat of Islam. Like America after the victories at Tripoli in 1805, America and the West is giving away the gains of our battlefield victories in Afghanistan in 2001. The situation in Iraq looks quite hopeless to many in the America, and accusations of American misconduct regarding detainees, coupled with ongoing agitation of the "dhimmis", are causing us to take our eyes off the ball, in much the same way that the War of 1812 gave the Barbary Coast pirates a brief respite. It will probably take a new attack to really clarify the picture for the West. America, as "the Great Satan" will likely be the target of that attack; the attack might very well be the nuclear weapons that Bin Laden is believed to have.When America gets hit again, worse than before on 9/11, America will go after the terrorists with renewed clarity of purpose, and will score some resounding victories. When that happens, America will once again become a beacon of liberty to the Free World, and many of the Western European countries will find their citizens emboldened and demanding action on the part of their dhimmified governments to follow up on America's successes. There could be tremendous civil unrest in some Western European nations as the peoples there retake their countries from an increasingly out-of-touch internationalist elite.The "Caliphate" is overreaching.I close here repeating some of Patrick Henry's words, which I quoted in the first post of this blog (exchange the word "Boston" for "Mecca and Medina"):Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God Who presides over the destinies of nations, and Who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.Matt 15:13 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted."
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