Method behind cartoon-bashing madness: incremental submission

Submitted by Dave Loev (United States), Sep 21, 2006 at 21:17

Islamist violence designed to silence all criticism of their policies is the same technique employed by all totalitarian fascist movements, such as Communism and Nazism. In absence of tradational armies, Islamists utilize an ancient but effective technique of "incremental submission", which is currently enabled by Western softness and pacifism.

In a war, a side that wants peace the most is the loser, hence sympathyzers of Islamic terror who call themselves "pacifists" are effectively collaborators. Note that Islamists themselves are free to engage in the worst kind of hate-mongering propoganda directed against all other religious groups.

The nature of the "incremental submission" technique, employed by Islamists, is both simplistic and effective, as has been demonstrated by submission and gradual conversion of the Middle East Christians to the self-proclaimed "Uber-Religion".

Success of any brainwashing/indoctrination system is predicated on manipulating emotions of the "unwashed masses", and gradually developing automatic emotive responses to dogma/ideology, based on fear and self-sensorship. Any group (eg., religious, ethnic, political) that accepts being systematically smeared and humiliated in the public sphere by its opposition will be eventually viewed with contempt, eventually eliminated (few exceptions do exist). As we have learnt from recent history, if the same set of lies is repeated over-and-over again, with passion, while opposing views are silenced by violence, the masses will believe anything...

Current pacifism of most Christians/Jews is Islamists' greatest weapon, for it causes self-sensorship to avoid violence. Unless this trend is reversed, it will gurantees that Christianity/Judaism will be viewed by the next generation with contempt, while Islam is viewed with respect/fear/admirations - regardless of their blood-thirsty policies. Elitist media and most of academia are Islamists' greatest allies, for they play along with their totalittarian gameplan with near-perfect unison.

It appears that the only force that can stop Islamo-fascists are Islamists themselves, because they are their own worst enemies - as have been the Nazis and Communists before them. Regretfully, the price of eventual victory over the latest wave of totalitarian ideology will be much higher than it needs to be, due to wishful thinking delusions of the Western "intellectuals".

Sincerely,
Dave Loev

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