A Rationale for Ideological Passivity?

Submitted by Ron Thompson (United States), Aug 24, 2014 at 20:54

While I agree with the title that this declaration of a Caliphate will bring more trauma, I don't agree with the implication that, because this and any successor Caliphates, with their shining hope of a world ruled by one Perfect Faith and one man who is a Muslim in the image of Mohammed (the Perfect Man) are doomed to failure, that Therefore the West has no positive necessity to act - that this bloody and traumatic drama will play itself out while we sit on the ideological sidelines.

Because of the peculiar appeal of millennial hopes and dreams - after all Christianity easily survived over a thousand years of the Dark Ages it helped to bring on, including the incredible trauma of the Black Death which killed over a third of its adherents - I believe there is no reason to expect we can just stand aside ideologically, without confronting the belief system of Islam that has produced this hunger for a Caliphate.

We're not going to get off that easily. Sooner or later I believe we're going to be forced to face that we have a huge ideological and philosophical struggle against a totalitarian belief system that we cannot evade. However, the remarkable thing may be that this belief system, including the raising of the stakes by the declaration of a Caliphate, is rapidly producing so much evidence in so many places of the horrors that follow Islam-on-the-march, that accepting the challenge and Fighting Back with our minds as well as our weapons may well be a far easier task than so many seem to fear and cringe from.

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