The Next Threat
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When the U.S.S.R. imploded, many essays were written speculating on the topic: "Who will be our next big enemy?" Some talked about how the 21st century was the century of China and China would be our next enemy. Some imagined that the Eurpean Union would swell into a potential rival and enemy.
But China is one of our biggest trading partners, necessary to our standard of living. China needs us as much as we need China. Europeans are our friends and where we love to visit on vacation. Europeans are virtually pacifists and hardly a threat to our country.
Some, (showing a slight improvement in the Vision thing), point to the axis of evil: North Korea, Iran and Iraq. Bush, perhaps believing this story, went to war with Iraq, and rattles sabers at Iran. But the outcome of our victory against the political state of Iraq points out with startling clarity that our real enemy today is not one of these poor, pathetic states in the Mid-East, such as Iran or Iraq.
The Next Big Enemy is not any secular state, but a religion, namely Islam. It is virtually impossible for most in the West to get their minds around the concept that any religion could be evil or an enemy. Religions are all good.
Islam is not a religion in the sense that we normally think of a religion: such as Buddhism or Christianity. Not unlike Marxism, Islam is a Utopian trans-national political movement that sees it's political victory as inevitable and compelled by divine forces. Islam is the only current world religion where warfare against non members (Jihad) is enjoined by the Holy Scripture. Islam is a religion that excuses murder and lies, if done against the "infidel" in the name of Jihad.
It will probably take years for the majority in the West to recognize this threat, because they view the West/Islam dispute through western sunglasses, and look at Islam as some sort of Protestant sect. Most commentators continue to repeat the politically correct formula that the "Religion of Peace" has been hijacked by a few extremists. It will take time for the knowledge of Islam to percolate to the masses. Plus a few more 911 type events and perhaps the nuclear destruction of a city or two. But eventually, people will wake up some time during the 21st century to the true nature of Islam, probably long after I am dead.
Islam is more than a complex theology about the nature of God. Islam is a political blueprint for a Utopian society, and it's adherents believe that their religion calls upon them to overthrow all non Islamic states and replace them with Islamic Sharia law. Virtually any means on the path to this end is morally justified. Enemies of Islam have no rights.
This then will prove to be the true War of Civilizations in the 21st century. And there are some 1.2 billion Moslems (or more) aligned against the decadent, luke warm descendants of those that founded Western Civilization. These defenders seem lukewarm about freedom of thought and quite skeptical of freedom of markets, and only too willing to surrender their minds and bodies to the first intellectual thug who comes along speaking in the name of God (or Allah).
Only time will tell which of these two vast historical movements shall prove victorious. Right now, Islam looks pretty formidable.
bob cat
When the U.S.S.R. imploded, many essays were written speculating on the topic: "Who will be our next big enemy?" Some talked about how the 21st century was the century of China and China would be our next enemy. Some imagined that the Eurpean Union would swell into a potential rival and enemy.
But China is one of our biggest trading partners, necessary to our standard of living. China needs us as much as we need China. Europeans are our friends and where we love to visit on vacation. Europeans are virtually pacifists and hardly a threat to our country.
Some, (showing a slight improvement in the Vision thing), point to the axis of evil: North Korea, Iran and Iraq. Bush, perhaps believing this story, went to war with Iraq, and rattles sabers at Iran. But the outcome of our victory against the political state of Iraq points out with startling clarity that our real enemy today is not one of these poor, pathetic states in the Mid-East, such as Iran or Iraq.
The Next Big Enemy is not any secular state, but a religion, namely Islam. It is virtually impossible for most in the West to get their minds around the concept that any religion could be evil or an enemy. Religions are all good.
Islam is not a religion in the sense that we normally think of a religion: such as Buddhism or Christianity. Not unlike Marxism, Islam is a Utopian trans-national political movement that sees it's political victory as inevitable and compelled by divine forces. Islam is the only current world religion where warfare against non members (Jihad) is enjoined by the Holy Scripture. Islam is a religion that excuses murder and lies, if done against the "infidel" in the name of Jihad.
It will probably take years for the majority in the West to recognize this threat, because they view the West/Islam dispute through western sunglasses, and look at Islam as some sort of Protestant sect. Most commentators continue to repeat the politically correct formula that the "Religion of Peace" has been hijacked by a few extremists. It will take time for the knowledge of Islam to percolate to the masses. Plus a few more 911 type events and perhaps the nuclear destruction of a city or two. But eventually, people will wake up some time during the 21st century to the true nature of Islam, probably long after I am dead.
Islam is more than a complex theology about the nature of God. Islam is a political blueprint for a Utopian society, and it's adherents believe that their religion calls upon them to overthrow all non Islamic states and replace them with Islamic Sharia law. Virtually any means on the path to this end is morally justified. Enemies of Islam have no rights.
This then will prove to be the true War of Civilizations in the 21st century. And there are some 1.2 billion Moslems (or more) aligned against the decadent, luke warm descendants of those that founded Western Civilization. These defenders seem lukewarm about freedom of thought and quite skeptical of freedom of markets, and only too willing to surrender their minds and bodies to the first intellectual thug who comes along speaking in the name of God (or Allah).
Only time will tell which of these two vast historical movements shall prove victorious. Right now, Islam looks pretty formidable.
bob cat
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