The Western State of Mind

Submitted by Tracy W (Canada), Dec 27, 2006 at 15:45

Based on our experience during the second half of the 20th century, I'm somewhat skeptical about using military means to defeat an idea. It didn't work in Vietnam, or Iraq, or Afghanistan. In the case of the Soviet Union, that power simply collapsed on its own, and in the case of China, it morphed from a Marxist tyranny into a capitalistic one

There should be exceptions, of course, where there are military or terrorist attacks on non-Muslim countries. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict proves day after day that a peaceful, democratic solution is unworkable and really unwanted by the Muslim majority.

In the meantime, it's necessary to use all possible ideological means to break into the cult-like brainwashing that goes on in Muslim societies and to actively counteract their media war against Israel and the West.

It is also important to use economic and financial tactics whenever possible. We urgently need to develop alternatives to oil, although unlikely considering how oil interests have tentacles reaching deep into Western countries higher places.

However, we are not even using the most basic alternatives to at least slow down this takeover by Islam, such as a moratorium on Muslim immigration to the West, doing away with multiculturalism, and so on. They have been mentioned frequently on this website already.

There is a very big obstacle that hasn't been tackled yet and that impedes any progress on our part. That is the Western state of mind that allows this takeover to take place. It's nowhere else more blatant than in Israel, where a state of passivity and dispiritedness keeps the population from marching into the streets and demanding the resignation of their inept government.

There is a sick self-hatred in the West, particularly in well-educated people, that is blind to the horrors committed by Muslims but focuses solely on comparatively lesser sins of the West. Academics, writers, journalists, they are all falling victim to this sickness. Where is their objectivity, their sense of justice, their sense of self-preservation? This is not normal behaviour. Something is very wrong here.

I have read many good ideas, such as Mr Pipes', on how to confront and defeat the threat of Islam, but I'm still waiting for a diagnosis of this sickness that is like the proverbial wrench thrown into the gears. It's hard to accomplish anything as long as we have not diagnosed it and fixed it.

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