Islamists and the West

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Jun 19, 2008 at 16:55

This is an interesting assessment. In his on-line video "What the West Needs to Know About Islam" Robert Spencer featured several politicians including Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and George Bush portraying Islam in a positive light. He moves to correct these statements throughout the video by explaining that historically, Islam has been a religion geared towards conquest and expansion. I would argue that these concepts take an even greater importance than the Five Pillars, even today.

The reality is, we are our own worst enemy when it comes to fighting the Islamists. I have no problem with conflict resolution, it does seem to have some results in Afghanistan with some of the Taliban switching sides (though I wonder if they were really at heart or bullied and blackmailed into it).

However, political correctness and appeasement are essentially tied together. To be politically correct IS to appease, more or less.

Whenever you appease others by denigrating yourself (as white-guilt liberals do), you lose all self-respect. Therefore, why should anyone else respect you ?

I think that the real reason why political correctness and appeasement are so prevalent in the West is that we have had over 60 years of peace, with the exception of very isolated terror attacks. I have to be blunt here, but unless you were a victim or knew victims, these attacks probably left you with a dry mouth for a while and then you just went on with your life. Full-scale wars that last years on end and involve a massive, visible foreign feels quite different. It really shouldn't.

This is where Islamists are exploiting their advantage. They are testing the fences our defenses like the raptors did in "Jurassic Park." They have been at war with us for over 60 years, it's just that it has mostly taken place in the Middle East, up until about 15-20 years ago.

This is because the Qu'ran describes two basic military strategies: The near and the far. After the defeat of their Axis Allies in WWII, the Islamists send scouts to the USA to observe this nation. At this point, all the Islamists seemed to know was that when the USA entered the war, the tide turned. One Egyptian noted about the Americans that they spent a lot of time grooming their lawns.

The Islamists, now getting funding from the gradually increasing oil economy sparked by European redevelopment and the classic affluence of 1950's America, decided that they would make attempts to foil Western interests in the Middle East first. That's why we saw 2 wars fought with Israel and the killing of the Egyptian president in the 1980's.

In the 1990's, it was clear that the Islamists decided to invoke the far strategy, and that meant attacking the West. In the words of Osama bin Laden: "The time has come to attack the Americans in their homeland."

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