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[C]riminals like Zarqawi would be non-stories were it not for the over-arching credo of murderous hatred and revenge that continues to pour forth from spokesmen of "the religion of peace" all over the world. While the West has bent over backward to accommodate Islam and give it its due as "one of the world's great religions," a grim reality is emerging. No matter how many ways the scholars parse it, jihad always turns out to mean murder and destruction. The lessons being taught in Muslim schools are harrowing in their narrowness and hatred. The voices of tolerance in the Arab media and the intelligentsia are weak and rare. And the silence of the "peaceful" imams is deafening.
Ralph Kinney Bennett is a TCS Contributing Editor.
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Schwartz might well darken our screens again but it's becoming harder all the time for him and his lot to pull the shades down on the world at large. Islam is an evil poligion. Only the socialist media and intelligentsia at the highest levels are still lapping up the taqqiya. The rest of us are fed-up.
The question now is "What is to be done?"
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"What is to be done?"
What CAN be done? We have repulsive parasites rasping away at the vital organs of our societies and cultures, breeding as they feed and filling our veins with their excrement. And yet, because we might offend or harm the parasites, we are too tender-hearted to make the necessary surgical excisions.
I don't think democracies are capable of dealing with Islam once it has wormed its way into the body politic. There are neither the mechanisms nor the will to confront it.
Of course if democracy breaks down it will be a different matter.
Is number four a trick question?
I make light of your number four question because it's serious to an extreme degree, and it requires long and serious thought before one may rightly adhere to it as Plan A.
Rational violence is a common cause of a united people. We aren't even close to that or we'd have long ago a genuine state-sponsored legitimate and just war. When the time comes, if it does, then there will have been a lot of talk that will have made us all determined to win. We can't rush in to victory just because we know it's right. The whole of our nations must move more or less together, andit takes years of suffering and self-dubt till such happens. It's frustrating but the alternative is single people and small groups committing criminal acts, which have their places but count me out.
Our dscussion here, oblique though it must be, is important and required for our full dialogue. It could take years.
Even the "magic bullet" of a big attack on the West will only be one more stone on the pile that needs be a mountain of rage before we move. This is the time for educating thosse who will learn. After that we approach attitude and change it by sheer force of numbers til most are ready. It's a long process. This could take years. In the long term its better that way.
I spend some fair amount of time and energy arguing that just war is imperative in circumstances such as those we have today in the Modern West; and I argue further that we cannot simply rest on our current acheivements in the West but that it is imperative that we extend Modernity to the universal world by force; that we embrace the concept of manifest destiny as conducted by my distant relative William Walker and that we pursue our mission in the advancement of elenchus and aporia by arming school teachers who teach lessons of intellectual freedom and the lessons of defending it by arms if need be.
Providing the dubious advantage of intellectual freedom to the individual is not to argue that the individual will accept it or use it wisely, no more so than the opportunities of capitalism make one economically self-sufficient and socailly beneficial. The chance is there, and people do as they will and can.
There are men who, like Socrates and William Walker who will act regardless of the meme of the time and who will succeed or ot according to abilities. We need not wait for our generations to rise up but we cannot either go forth alone without the support of our nations' laws giving us legitimacy. So, I argue that the man of strength and purpose find a place within the matrix of potential where he might rightly act as patrix.
The short version is to meet ones fellows and act within the bounds of legitimate law and common decency to overthrow illegitimacy for the possible good of those who want to take advantage of it. Aid those who would bring individuality and Human freedom to the world, and aid them legally and legitimately regardless of the forces of entrenched privelge and reaction. We assemble lawfully at the public library weekly to discuss our goal of furthering Modernity and Human freedom in Canada. It is subversive. It is revolutionary in our time. And it's, so far, still not against the law. We will change, slowly if slowly, public opinion til a csocial revolution takes place and spreads across the globe, bringing a chance of freedome to those who will take it and defend it. It's war. It's just.
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