I love to draw cartoons and poke fun at Islam. I agree with Ali Sina at FaithFreedom.og: ridiculing evil is a good strategy. As Sina puts it:Why mock Islam? Because it is therapeutic! Mocking is a very powerful way to convince those who are unwilling to think to do it. Shame is a great motivator.
But opposing this evil is not all fun and games. The many bloggers who have joined this fight know that, in a few decades, the West will be mortally compromised and weakened if things do not change. Islam is not a religion as much as it is the new totalitarianism, replacing Communism and Fascism as the next challenge to freedom and peace. So what can the average citizen do? Where do you start? How can you help?
I asked all these questions a year and a half ago. I decided to start by educating myself as to what Islam is and what it teaches, and to understand, if possible, Islamic hatred and violence against the rest of mankind. I went to Amazon and searched the book titles, and bought a copy of the Quran and two books on Islam. The two books were "Sword of the Prophet" by Serge Trifkovic and "Onward Muslim Soldiers" by Robert Spencer. I read "Sword of the Prophet" first, and was disturbed and disgusted to learn how evil Muhammad actually was. I had no idea how many people he robbed, murdered, raped and enslaved. I quickly learned that Islam was just as bad as 9/11 led me to suspect.
After reading Spencer's book, I next found "Prophet of Doom," a book you can download free from the web (see my link). Craig Winn, the author, was scalding in his criticism of the religion, but backed up everything he said with references to Islamic scriptures from the Quran and the Hadith (those are the holy books of Islam - more about them another time). In fact, Winn takes the reader on a tour of the Quran and the Hadith and covers most of them. He gives a lot of history of Arabia and how religion evolved there, of Muhammad's life and deeds. Winn gives a lot of background and insight into what happened and why. An added pleasure of reading "Prophet of Doom" is that it is often hilarious - Winn seems to agree with the use of humor as a weapon, and he wields this sword with great skill.
After that, I started ordering many more books on Islam and began learning as much as I could. I am currently reading William Muir's scholarly work "Life of Mahomet," published in 1861.
I am now more informed than most Americans about Islam, its history, its teachings, its ideology. There is no doubt in my mind that Islam is evil and must be destroyed. If it is not destroyed, it will continue to kill, oppress and enslave millions of people. I am dedicated to helping in that effort however I may.
After informing yourself, the next step is to help get the word out. We have to awaken the populace at large to the danger. Next, we have to elect politicians who understand it and are willing to work for the longterm preservation of the West with its freedoms and pluralism.
Movements are forming and growing, such as the Blue Scarf revolution in Europe and Canada. People of all walks of life are joining together to educate themselves and to form coping strategies. Whether you are Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, straight or gay, man or woman, you have a major stake in the outcome of this fight.
A major obstacle that stands in our way of progress is leftist philosophies such as cultural relativism and political correctness. Both of these errant ideologies suppress unpleasant truths and are based on the false premise that all cultures and religions are equal. They are not. At least one, Islam, is murderous and violent and oppressive in the extreme. Help us fight against it in peaceful, lawful ways. Organize, speak out, resist and defy this evil!
I understand your intent, and to that extent I agree. My only hold back is in the methods proposed.
ReplyDeleteHere's my position. I believe in a cosmological truth that says "what you resist persists.". I have studied it, and found it to work, just as it implies.
Therfore to "replace", rather that resist would be my methodology, to create the opposite, as in the qoute used in an other comment about creation being the opposite of war.
So, given your last sentence in this post, we are at the opposite ends of the same battle. (not opposite sides)
Given that we agree to disagree, and I have spoken my thoughts, I must allow you to "carry on".
Gary
Gary, that's a good point. Resistance could be futile without a plan to replace Islam with something better. But what? For me, it could be a better religion: Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism. Or better still, a pluralistic, tolerant democracy where all nonviolent creeds can peacefully coexist.
ReplyDeleteWe can't really hope to destroy Left dhimmi fascism in favor of nothing but clear reason and human decency. It's not tangible. Those who abandon one ideology pick up the next, Carlos, fro example, sitting in prison in France, is not any longer a Maoist Left terroist but is a crack-pot jihadi terrorist. He'll move on to something else if time alows, something equally disgusting. In that, he and others like him are like my dog who will happily gnaw a stick he's going to give me, and my dog will want to give it to me, he wants to drop it at my feet so I'll toss it for him again; but there are times he just can't let go, and if I pull it out of his mouth he bites down and will not give in; and to snap him out of his resistence I have to offer him something else, regardless of what it is. so it is with Muslims and Left dhimmi fascists: they need something else to cling to.
ReplyDeleteMy ungenerous feeling at times is that these people will never rise to the companionable level of the average dog but they are part of our world, and we must do for ourselves what good we can by living in some harmony with them as well as we can. If we have to replace their savageries with something stick-like in exchange, then all to the better even if we look at it with contempt for ourseves.
Will, for example, Iranians abandon the stick of Islam for the bone of Zoroastrianism? I'm supportive of the attempt. And so on.
The problem we face in dealing with Muslims is that they cannot engage in this kind of discussion. They have no dialectical grasp. There is only the sunna, the one way that is unvarying. Even the best of their intellectuals are only masters of lies, deception, and obfuscation: taqqiya. We cannot reason with them. Those with whom we can reason are not Muslims but apostates. When they cease to submit and begin to think, then they are not Muslim but Men, not the slaves of Allah but Human beings again. There is no real compromise possible for the Muslim.
The Leftist, he might be a different story, being committed to some absurd and phantastic variation of pseudo-morality dreamed up in the opium dens of the academy, and yet still able to think in terms of trith and possiblilities rather than of amoral nihilism and personal certainities.
Mostly I find my approach being the strict avoidance of Muslims and Left dhimmi fascists; aviodance because there are many already among us already who are the half converted and the quietly desperate who need only a call to come to the light of reason and decency. Those few among us who know the works of Muir are the voices who call to the many through the night and the fog and bring them forth.
Rather than attempting to save all we must try to save those who can be saved.
Above I've likened Muslims and Leftists to dogs. It's a fair analogy so long as we don't lose sight of their innate Humanness. To retain that vision we must retain our own sense of Humanness. We cannot allow ourselves to descend too deeply into hatred of the creed than caninises people: we cannot allow the Left and their primitive proxies to madden us to the state whereat we exterminate them. If they will not let go of our legs, then we must act with rational reason in measured response till they do. Polity and civlity have ends, and we must know where so we can act within them ourselves. That is to the good of all.
"Rather than attempting to save all we must try to save those who can be saved."
ReplyDeleteDag, thanks for your usual thoughtful and learned analysis.
I absolutely agree with you. We can't save everyone, so let's focus on those who can be.
I stand with renewed hope!
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I can't speak for the replacement of islam, almost anything short of Thugyism or an Aztec blood cult would be better. As to the how, I've thought long and hard and I agree with Dag, they can't be reasoned with. Only force will work. Removing one of the 5 pillars of islam should do the job just fine, say the hajj. No hajj, no more moslems. And this is probably exactly why they hate and fear the west so much and why Iran or any islamic country is hell bent on getting nuclear weapons. As a deterent as much as to use them. After all, Mecca is their one greatest vulnerability.
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