Fitzgerald: They needn't worry over much
March 22, 2007
A few questions.
A few questions.
Are Muslims anywhere in the West now working in the passport-issuing services?
Are they working in the immigration and naturalization services?
Are they privy to plans for investigating fraud that might allow fellow Muslims to remain in this or other Western countries, or allow them to bring in plural wives, or in other ways fiddle the system?
Muslims are taught that the world is divided between Believer and Infidel.
Muslims are taught that the world is divided between Believer and Infidel.
They are taught that they have a duty to participate, always collectively but sometimes, as well, individually, in the Jihad. That is the struggle to remove all the obstacles of Islam that remain anywhere, and ultimately, to ensure that the entire world comes under Islamic rule (even if some non-Muslims are left alive, subject to the Shari'a or Holy Law of Islam, which provides the legal framework for the treatment of non-Muslims under Muslim rule).
It is not a choice that Muslims can take or leave. The duty of Jihad is so central to Islam that it has been called by some the Sixth Pillar of Islam. If it is not always and everywhere apparent, that is because many people are naive and assume that the only form that Jihad takes is that of the bomb and the gun.
Not at all. Jihad includes use of the "wealth weapon." It includes the use of "pen and tongue" -- that is speech, that is propaganda, and by propaganda one means propaganda on behalf of Islam to spread it among others, or to defend it from those who would too critically, and in too well-informed a manner, examine its doctrines and its practice. It includes, therefore, the well-financed campaigns of Da'wa all over the West. It includes the well-financed campaigns to build mosques and madrasas and other Muslim institutions, including such organizations as CAIR and concolorous groups that are designed to put up obstacles to every attempt by Infidel peoples and governments to defend themselves, however haphazardly and mildly (and to date all efforts have been most mild, most haphazard), against a very clever, and tireless, and creative enemy. That enemy will never stop, and cannot possibly stop -- because Islam directs Muslims never to stop until they have achieved the final goal: a world under Islam, a world where, everywhere, Islam "is to dominate and is not to be dominated."
A failure of imagination, based on an underlying failure of intelligence and knowledge, explains much of the Western world's helplessness and seeming hopelessness. Damage to morale of the West has been done by measures undertaken that are the wrong measures. These measures are directed at the wrong goals, and squander enormous resources. They also damage morale, not least among the subset of the population (the people who go into the Army, the Reserves, the National Guard) and their families, in what is clearly an effort based on the naive notion that:
1) this is a "war on terror" not a war against all the instruments of Jihad
Not at all. Jihad includes use of the "wealth weapon." It includes the use of "pen and tongue" -- that is speech, that is propaganda, and by propaganda one means propaganda on behalf of Islam to spread it among others, or to defend it from those who would too critically, and in too well-informed a manner, examine its doctrines and its practice. It includes, therefore, the well-financed campaigns of Da'wa all over the West. It includes the well-financed campaigns to build mosques and madrasas and other Muslim institutions, including such organizations as CAIR and concolorous groups that are designed to put up obstacles to every attempt by Infidel peoples and governments to defend themselves, however haphazardly and mildly (and to date all efforts have been most mild, most haphazard), against a very clever, and tireless, and creative enemy. That enemy will never stop, and cannot possibly stop -- because Islam directs Muslims never to stop until they have achieved the final goal: a world under Islam, a world where, everywhere, Islam "is to dominate and is not to be dominated."
A failure of imagination, based on an underlying failure of intelligence and knowledge, explains much of the Western world's helplessness and seeming hopelessness. Damage to morale of the West has been done by measures undertaken that are the wrong measures. These measures are directed at the wrong goals, and squander enormous resources. They also damage morale, not least among the subset of the population (the people who go into the Army, the Reserves, the National Guard) and their families, in what is clearly an effort based on the naive notion that:
1) this is a "war on terror" not a war against all the instruments of Jihad
2) Islam is essentially okay, and most Muslims are just fine, and it is only "extremists" who have "hijacked" or otherwise "misused" a "great religion" who are the problem, and that therefore the only thing to worry about is the absence of "freedom" in the Muslim countries
3) we need not concern ourselves with demographic changes or campaigns of Daw'a because, you see, Islam is essentially just one more "religion," and all "religions," as Bush can tell you, deserve our respect...
posted by jillosophy at 3/22/2007 02:58:00 PM
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