More information is coming out about the influence of Hesham Islam on his boss at the Pentagon. On two occasions, he convinced him to schedule meetings that contradicted US policy. One of them was canceled when the State Department found out about it.
“The [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Well, I suppose we should give the Islamists credit, they have a clear cut goal, and they are working to implement it. Our government officials, on the other hand, don’t have too many clear cut goals, except to keep the money flowing into their budgets.
DB, I think we are like the typical blinkered girlfriend of an abusive boyfriend. Usually the boyfriend is very honest about his shortcomings.
The girlfriend thinks that she can “change” him.
That’s what we think about the Islamofascists.
My solution is simple: if the Islamicists want all the protection, etc., we tell them fine. We’ll do that…just as soon as Christians are given precisely those rights in Saudi Arabia.
Whoops!
Good point, Eric. Reciprocity seems like a reasonable place to start.
The Saudi’s et al enforce conformity, and they probably see that as one of their strengths. We enforce multi…CULT…uralism, so the Islamists just need to elbow their way to that table and they are half way towards their goal.
When the FBI puts someone undercover in the Hell’s Angels, they have to carefully train them ahead of time, or else the undercover agent runs a high risk of ‘turning’, of adopting the Hell’s Angel creed as their own. I don’t think Western societies are careful in this way. We almost do the opposite: we give our critics a large voice, we often urge people to look at other cultures to define themselves. My local school district seems to interminably have Native American days. I’m thinking, “why are we celebrating a failed culture? Why don’t we have a Bill Gates day, or a Warren Buffet day?”
Isn’t this great news?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7232661.stm
But of course we Westerners don’t understand…the nuances of this.
Brrrr.
The UK has become a nation of sheep. Their national anthem should be changed to “Baaa!!!”
Fools.
I hear the sound of surrender settling over the British Isles.
What is the quote: “They do not need to take from us by force what we give up willingly”?
There was some poem I remember reading when I was younger—I don’t remember the author, though it sure sounds like Auden to me—that ends with “..I hunger for your blame…”
That is Western Civilization, these days.
Actually, this is a better reply to this asymmetrical view of Islam than I could ever write. It is WELL worth your time to read…
http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/rogerkimball/2008/02/07/who_will_rid_us_of_this_troubl.php
I read that piece this morning. Apparently, it is being played over and over in Muslim countries. No wonder his churches are empty. A Newport Beach Episcopal church has been battling the diocese for control of their church for several years.
The replies to that piece were pretty good. I liked this one:
>>Not all civilizations and moral codes are sufficiently civilized to merit our praise and comradeship. The American and the Australian, the British and the French, the post-WWII Japanese and the South Korean: These societies differ but uniformly attain that level of civility which merits the respect due to equals.
The dog’s breakfast that is the Arab world, on the other hand, rises scarcely a hair’s-breadth above the tribalism of central Africa or the Amazon basin, and while the people enslaved therein merit our pity and our civility and our kindness when we deal with them as fellow men, they should rightfully encounter scorn and negation when they approach us as representatives or evangelists of evil ideologies and practices.
This is moral clarity. It is what Rowan Williams so entirely lacks. It is what the majority of the political class of the United Kingdom apparently lacks.
There may still be time to find and sack the university professors and schoolmasters and bureaucrats who’ve drummed politically-correct (and civilizationally-suicidal) nonsense into the heads of each of the last few generations of leaders. If this happens, the United Kingdom may yet pull back from the brink.
We have our own problems with education. I think it is the recently (and poorly) educated who will give us Obama as president.
>>>>No wonder his churches are empty.
Some motivations of religious leaders are curious. I have known a few missionaries, and they have seemed more interested in validating the culture of their hosts than spreading The Good Word. It would seem this Rowan Williams character, the Archbishop of Canterbury, would show some interest in growing his Church, of maybe converting some Muslims to a better way. But he seems happy to preside over a decline.
The mainstream churches are empty while fundamentalist churches are packed full. See a trend ?