“Infidel” Author: The Destruction Of The West By Radical Islam
Aayan Hirsi Ali has a new article in the New York Times entitled “Blind Faiths”, here is an excerpt:
Several authors have published books on radical Islam’s threat to the West since that shocking morning in September six years ago. With “The Suicide of Reason,” Lee Harris joins their ranks. But he distinguishes himself by going further than most of his counterparts: he considers the very worst possibility — the destruction of the West by radical Islam. There is a sense of urgency in his writing, a desire to shake awake the leaders of the West, to confront them with their failure to understand that they are engaged in a war with an adversary who fights by the law of the jungle.
Harris, the author of “Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History,” devotes most of his book to identifying and distinguishing between two kinds of fanaticism. The first is Islamic fanaticism, a formidable enemy in the struggle for cultural survival. In Harris’s view, this fanaticism has acted as a “defense mechanism,” shielding Islam from the pressures of the changing world around it and allowing it to expand into territories and cultures where it had previously been unknown.
With few exceptions, Harris sees Islamic expansion as permanent. Although this point is arguable, he bravely attempts to make the case that the entry of Islam into another culture produces changes on every level, from political to personal: “Wherever Islam has spread, there has occurred a total and revolutionary transformation in the culture of those conquered or converted.”
In describing the imperialist nature of Islam, Harris suggests that it is distinct from the Roman, British and French empires. He views Islamic imperialism as a single-minded expansion of the religion itself; the empire that it envisions is governed by Allah. In this sense, the idea of jihad is less about the inner struggle for peace and justice and more about a grand mission of conversion. It should be said, however, that Harris’s argument is incomplete, since he does not address the spread of Christianity in the Roman, British and French empires.
The expansion of Islam is perhaps more potent than the expansion of the Christian empires (including Rome after Constantine) because the concept of separating the sacred from the profane has never been acceptable in Islam the way it has been in Christianity. The Romans, the British and the French went about annexing large parts of the world more for earthly or material gain than for spiritual dominance. Under these empires, the clergy was allowed to propagate its faith as long as it did not jeopardize imperial interests.
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All the more reason I am glad to see Christianity spreading rapidly in China…..as funny as it may seem China may be what saves western values from Islam some day……of course China might round up the rapidly spreading Christians any day now.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:40 amwell, as far as our expensionism is concerned, it was alltogether an economical and a missionary goal : the people there had to learn that their ancestry was gallic, had blond hair and blues eyes
; they were baptised, some of them got funny names as Fête-Nat.. their sculptures-idoles were burnt by the missionnaries ; though they were works of an original art, that cost millions in Museums nowadays…
But we didn’t kill for faith, rather for rebellion
January 7th, 2008 at 12:10 pmGod, I hope it does not come to this. Why can’t hirsi Ali run for office or something? I would vote for her.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:11 pmA couple major distinctions between how religions spread way back when and now…
1. This is the age of lightning-fast communication. When Islam spread from Arabia through southern Asia to the East, few saw it coming, and fewer still had a clue what to expect. This was Islam’s blitzkrieg. Today, more and more people (Dems excepted) are becoming quickly aware of what is in store if no fight is put up.
2. Warfare way back when was primarily determined by (1) numbers and (2) military prowess. Though both are still very important, modern military technology can make a numerically inferior army victorious, primarily because…
3. Nukes
Oh, we’ll get hit again. And then the two most villified people in North America will be Muzzies and libtards.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:16 pmTo quote John Quincy Adams, “In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust: to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature….Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant…While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.” ~ originally published in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29 (New York, 1830), Chapters X–XIV: 267–402.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:31 pm@RememberOurFathers:
Excellent quote. Since Mo took off for Medina, every muslim has been the enemy of every non-muslim. If they value rationality and friendship with others, they are considered apostates or ‘hypocrites’ by the true believers.
Islam has no redeeming features, beyond it’s incredible resiliancy and propogating aspects, the same which could be said of roaches.
Here’s a great essay:
http://citizenwarrior2.blogspot.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html
January 7th, 2008 at 12:44 pmThank you for posting that!
January 7th, 2008 at 2:29 pmAnd how did Jefferson come to his conclusions on Islam? He read the Koran for himself is how. Therein lies the rub.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or an Arab speaker to decipher the books of Baal. People who educate themselves on the subject are perfectly able to see past all the multiculural-tolerance-Westaphobic smoke screens, and see the false phophet’s minions for what they are: evil incaranate; and the largest threat to the world since Nazism and Japanese militarism.
Jefferson was brilliant in his essay.
If an enlightened 18th century man can figure this shit out, then what the fook is wrong with the 21st century world?
I wouldn’t add Harris’s book to my library. I’ll stick with Spencer, Fitzgerald, Gabriel, Phares, Steyn, Shoebat, Warriq, Bostom, and Caner.
Harris’s biggest failure seems to be that he didn’t even bother to read the Islamo-facist’s playbooks. Looks to me like he has just used the history of Islamo-psychopathy since 9-11 for his thesis and mixed in a little Western philosphy history.
Nice try slick. Try reading the Koran, Sira, and Hadith sometime. Juxtapose that philosophy with the successes Judeo-Christian society and then tell me about alpha males like myself…and why we will fight just as hard as the followers of Baal to keep our freedoms.
The supremecy of Islam is a racist philosophy. It is Nazism on steroids with a false religious component. Those that practice the Judeo-christian ethos are the sheepdogs in Western society. Who better to confront the wolf? Not Chompsky or Wolfowitz that’s for sure.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pmIrony is a remarkable thing, on the right side of the screen, where the ads are, is an ad for singlemuslim.com, I kid you not. It’s right under the ad for Ranger up. I know its a random ad and Pat has no control over it but there it is.
I wonder if western culture will survive it’s suicidal marriage with liberalism. That is the true enemy, liberalism/socialism seeks to destroy America as we know it as well. And if they do in part by getting cozy with Islam than so be it in their minds.
This upcoming presidential election is so important.
January 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pmBashman:
Thank you for alerting your readers to this article. Very wordt while, passed it on to others.
Keep up the good work - your posts are being read.
January 8th, 2008 at 2:09 am