One of the enduring puzzles of this terrible war has been the make up of our enemies. Sure it is easy to understand why the Islamists hate us and want to destroy everything associated with our civilization, we stand in stark opposition to their entire world view. Not because we are not willing to allow them to have their religion but because to practice their religion they must have the sort of total control that is best compared to Guyana and the Cult of Jim Jones (ht Pedestrian Infidel).
Even if we were to allow them to totally control small bits of territory inside of our countries that will not be enough, because the example of freedom will still surround them. This is absolutely unacceptable to cults since it provides a constant reminder to those who are in the cult what the normal world looks like. France has only one choice in the battle for France they must win, compromise will be just another word for losing. The Battle for Europe again hinges on the bravery of the French and whether they can win the second battle of Tours .
No amount of compromise will sate the hunger for privacy that Islam desires. They simply cannot allow their followers to witness how the other side lives. So no matter how big an area the French cede control over to the Muslim thugs, temptation will still surround the area. It was no coincidence that Jim Jones brought his cult to Guyana, the isolation from temptation, from witnesses who could declare as Salmon Rushdie has with Islam, that what the cult stands for is corrupt was essential for his cult to survive.
Jim Jones sought to find isolation knowing he could not overwhelm a large country, he sought to isolate his cult not by converting everyone to his view but by hiding from witnesses. Islam, perhaps because of the victories it gained early in its history, believes that expansion to overwhelm those who stand in stark contrast to its lifestyle is the most effective way to not only further its religion but to safeguard its followers from the sort of examples that would lead them to question their beliefs.
In that observation the reason for the alliance between the communists in this country and the Islamists made itself evident. Both Islam and the Communists work harder to keep people from leaving the “religion” than they work to keep the infidels out of the religion. Witness the Berlin Wall and the efforts the Communists went to in order to prevent witnesses from leaving, machine guns, barbed wire and a terrible secret service. Then consider how hard they worked to prevent the evidence of the outside world from penetrating the lies they told their own people. And yet with such strict control over those who left and information that came in they had absolutely standards for those who would come to them.
Both Islam and the Communists are allies against us because both of them need the same sort of world to exist in. They need a world in which United States does not provide a constant example of the failure of their philosophy. They need a world where our movies, music, books and most importantly our philosophy can no longer penetrate their lies. The Communists understand that if we defeat the threat from Islam that their hope of defeating us will vanish. They have hitched a ride onto the only group with an even remote chance of winning. Our defeat is such a fantasy of both groups that neither of them have considered what to do with the other after victory.
So then we understand the power of bringing Democracy to Iraq. We are injecting a powerful counter example into the very middle of Islam. While President Bush talks a moderate line in regards to Islam he aims a dagger straight for the heart of it. If the hypothesis that Islam is similar to a cult is correct then it is obvious that Islam cannot survive openness. President Bush quietly has brought light into the Middle East. He is a much more serious radical than even I gave him credit for.
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More reports on the Second Battle of Tours from No Pasaran
UPDATED Michelle jumps back in the game with both feet and her usual seriousness, you can bet that she isn’t sitting around worried about blaming Muslims for the Second Battle of Tours.
UPDATED November 30, 2005
Scott Burgess from the Daily Absolution does some terrific work uncovering the absurdity of Madeline Albright offering soothing words about a murderous band of terrorists known as the Muslim Brotherhood. This leads into more posts by Scott who is doing some of the best work out there regarding the threat that Islam poses to the West.
He has brought to our attention the “Plan” of the Muslim Brotherhood for the total conquest of Islam over the globe. Sounds absurd doesn’t it? But then its conceivable that most of the nutcase philosophies that have in the past seeked domination over the earth sounded a bit crazy before they really got some steam behind them. Hitler, Stalin, Mao weren’t your run of the mill next door neighbor types. Scott offers his look at the plan in two parts here and here.
Other posts of mine on the subject of Islam
Islam threatened by modernity…or not. A Response to Mr. Fukuyama
Islam never to blame…Paris Riots
The Second Battle of Tours and wishful thinking…
Paris Riots or how Nazi Germany managed to sneak up on us all!
This is a hopelessly naive view of the Second Battle of Tours
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