REact or institute PROactive measures?

Submitted by trans-parere (Canada), Apr 15, 2008 at 03:27

Non-action is the current political attitude in all democracies toward the authoritarianism that is the heart of Islam as "governing body" for Moslem's. Proactive democratic government has been but aside for the expression of socialist idealism, cultural"ism" and a generic, unfathomable, aura of political correctness.

It matters not if it is Canada, Australia, the U.S. or any country that makes up the European Union. Eventually the people as a whole are going to say enough. We have surrendered our principles and the freedoms and rights of the individual to a totalitarian dictatorship and we will begin to enforce our laws that protect the individual and which serve to maintain our democratic institutions. Enough. This is not religious freedom but, an organised attack on democratic principle and these individuals are not "radical" but, rather traitors to the respective countries they have migrated to with full and prior knowledge that social dictatorship was anathema to our way of life and democracy.

But we can not blame the Moslem's for our lack of action. They are doing what they do and have been for generations taught no better. One only has to spin a globe and point to most any Moslem country to find an enslaved national body unable to care for itself or contribute to the advancement of the world. Most unfortunately, when Moslem migrate to escape such retrograde society they bring that social oppression with them in the form of their "Islamic Councils". The most unsettling aspect of Islam as a social construct is it's need to dictate the daily behaviour of those it has enslaved.

I use the word enslaved because Moslem's are without choice in their world, and my only argument with Islam is that it is predicated on denying choice to those it has absorbed then squandered not as a religion but, as a government.

As citizens of our democracies it is our responsibility to not only maintain and nourish our democracy but, to also protect the victims of social aggression and dictatorship and to not allow totalitarian ideology to take root with in our democracies and especially to usurp those valued principles that have allowed our society to be as dynamic, diverse, and fruitful as they are.

Moslems who choose to live in democratic society need to reform religious Islam to reflect the principles of democracy or be removed from such society that they have come to for that better life they can not have in their native country. Otherwise, they should with out reservation, be treated as traitor to country and judged as criminals for their acts against our society. And not be allowed to hide behind our tenet of religious freedom. That principle of religious freedom is there for everyone and all religions and can not be used as a tool to shoehorn totalitarianism between that tenet and the freedom it supports.

It isn't Christianity or unrestricted childbirth or harking back to some lost culture that will save us from the advance of totalitarianism but, rather a rebirth in the value of freedom and the rights of the individual over the multitude of ism we have allowed to creep into our society and to effect their special interests that have weakened the expression of just law.
One people. One law. For myself it's as basic as that.

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