A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM

Submitted by Geno M. (United States), Apr 29, 2008 at 20:48

A few preliminary ideas with which few will probably argue.

First, Western civilization is under attack, primarily by variants within the religious, ideological, and political culture of Islam. This attack which is intended to "islamicize" its target takes several forms, most notably jihad and Da 'wa. But it is useful to comprehend that these are but two heads of the same snake.

It is also instructive to point out that at this point in world history the phenomenon is funded in large measure by Saudi Arabia. The second premise is that Western civilization is worth defending. We need to stop apologizing for defending ourselves against an insidious entity that seeks to instill dominance over us and supplant our freedoms with its sharia.

Third and most urgently, time is of the essence. It occurs to me that the most sensible and readily available path for countries wishing to arrest the slide into an Islamic abyss is to deal much more proactively with unrestrained immigration from Muslim majority lands. Think of the Trojan horse analogy and you will quickly grasp the implications of unrestrained Islamic immigration.

The first step should be to halt entirely all immigration from Muslim countries with the possible exception of a few hardship cases, but even those should be closely monitored and restricted. The second step should be to identify all Muslim immigrants who have expressed violent thoughts or articulated hate-filled speech against the Western country within which they are living. Such persons should be collected and, without further ado, shipped back to their native land. If they return, they should be incarcerated and not released unless they agree to be implanted with some kind of permanent monitoring device.

If you think this excessive, consider that in a recent poll, 20% of young Muslims living in the United States were in favor of suicide bombing as a political tool. The final step should be to institute a radical overhaul in the process of immigration. We should institute a zero-tolerance for intolerance. Only persons who are willing to fully integrate into the Western country should be allowed in.

This willingness to integrate should be qualified by proficiency in and respect for the language, culture, laws, customs and other doctrines of the Western country in which the Muslim wishes to reside. Immigration should also be predicated on assurance, in writing, that the immigrant will fully abide by the freedoms noted in the United Nations charter of 1948. No one should be allowed to inflict barbaric savagery on another person with the excuse that it is allowed in Islamic law.

Violators should be immediately incarcerated and/or permanently expelled. If such persons wish to live under barbarism spelled out in Islamic law then they will be provided an immediate exit from the Western country back to the Islamic country from which they came. To sum up, we are the vanguards of our Civilization.

Accordingly, we must cease being tolerant in the face of intolerance. We can no longer allow our freedoms to be used as insidious weapons to dismantle those very freedoms. We must realize that we are at war with an enemy. Our enemy has a name that was chosen by them, not us. Our enemy's name is not radical Islam or fundamental Islam, or Islamism.

As defined by the words found in the holy trilogy of that highly-political faith, the enemy is none other than Islam. The first step in winning any war is to understand the enemy. Read the works of Daniel Pipes, Bat Ye'or, Robert Spencer, Bruce Bawer, Abul Kasem & others. Arm yourself with knowledge. Contact those holding political office in your jurisdiction in order to express your beliefs. Apathy is no longer an option. We can't wish this problem away. We can't pretend it away. We can't euphemism it away. The power to protect our way of life is still in our hands. It is up to us to use it or lose it. The stakes could not be higher.

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