January 6, 2008

Spoliation and failure.

Dr. Sanity has hit on the perfect characterization of Islam in history — something that has enmired us in medievalism:
The second story ["The Jews are behind the genocide in Darfur"] is a manifestation of the deep-rooted dysfunction of the religion of Islam, which has mired a good portion of the world in it medievalism. In order to rationalized its backwardness and the failure it has been societally and culturally, the Jews serve as the handy scapegoat on which they can blame all their own societal failures. To do otherwise would mean they would have to question some very basic assumptions about their fantasized superiority.
Consider the consequences of this.

When Islam acts its handiwork is terror, destruction, theocracy, and a desperate clinging to a "legal" system that has the coherence and predictability of a party of drunken, naked teenagers with two loaded shotguns and a piñata.

And witness how it does not act. As I enjoyed the sights and sounds of this last Christmas, I thought how blessed we are with the symphonies, ballets, plays, movies, reverent and irreverent comedy, and, of course, the extraordinary technical advances that bring us this exposure to the West's artistic and spiritual treasures. But where is the Muslim equivalent? Where are the innovation, the free inquiry, the patents, the economic dynamism, the symphonies, the paintings, the statues, the book publishing, and the movies?

There is none of these, only a wasteland governed by oppression, fear, and a fidelity to incoherent, exclusive, and murderous doctrines that congealed in the seventh century.

There is a significant advance in the war with Islam, however, and that is that the synergy of the non-deranged blogosphere has slowly led to a clarity and directedness in commentary and analysis. The tools and deceptions of the European left are instantly identified and derided by ever more people who have "gotten" it about Islam. Its vile nature and history are familiar to more people who have reluctantly turned their attention from more pleasant mental pursuits to trying to understand the landmarks and hazards of a centuries-old swamp.

More and more of us have begun to focus on the rapes, the car bombings, the car burnings, the special zones, the interference with ambulances and fire trucks, the recruitment of minority criminals in jail, the pitched battles with police, the Krazy Kat judicial punishments of stonings, floggings, and hangings from construction cranes, the throat slittings of teenage Christian girls and Jewish journalists, the female genital mutilation, the death threat raised to an art form, the street demonstration signs ("God Bless Hitler."), the use of Western legal doctrines and protections to protect subversion and to intimidate critics, the oppression of women, the woefully uneducated mullahs and imams, the torture chambers and mass burial grounds, the burning of western embassies, the slaughter of people in the World Trade Center, the decades and decades of airline hijackings and mid-air killings, the indiscriminate mortar and rocket attacks on civilians, the intolerance of homosexuality and tolerance for bestiality, creepy Muslim compounds in rural areas, the use of pages from the Bible as toilet paper and churches as latrines, the burning of churches, the attacks on Western soldiers and warships, the attacks on Christian families in the night, the centuries and centuries of Muslim aggression, the refined torments of dhimmitude, the glorification of death, the use of babies as bomb delivery tools, the political assassinations, the relentless pressure on Christians and other minorities to remove themselves from Muslim lands, the Muslim state sponsorship of terror, the disgusting doctrine of death for apostasy, the intellectual insecurity and failure of Muslim societies, Averroes's being spat upon by the faithful in Cordoba, Muslim refugee abuse of Western social welfare systems, the worldwide slaughter of non-Muslims now exceeding 10,000 since 9/11, the gelding of U.S. diplomats with Saudi money, the Saudi funding of the Wahhabi excrescences around the world, the Barbary pirates, the Muslim slaughter in Constantinople, the Koran and Ahadith that call for the murder of infidels and countenance rape and plural marriage, the shia doctrine of najis, the greasy shia institution of temporary marriage, the bizarre shia knife self-flaggelation parades, the Muslim burning of the great library of Alexandria, Saudi hate literature in U.S. mosques, Saudi control over 80% of U.S. mosques, the utter stupidity of Western governments in allowing and encouraging immigration from backward and violent Muslim lands, honor killings, Muslim hatred of infidels, Muslim plans for worldwide dominance, Muslim government toleration of Muslim vigilante groups, Muslim nations' backwardness in every area, Muslim media fakery, Muslim mutilation of dead American soldiers, the alliance of discredited Western leftists with immigrant Muslim minorities, Western governments' betrayal of the Western tradition with hate crime infringements on free speech, and, um, stuff like that.

Did I leave out anything?

I've been blogging for over 30 months now and at the beginning of that period I could not have sat down and written out such a list from memory, as I just did. I am but one of many and — where other bloggers are concerned certainly — I see ever more sophistication and in-depth knowledge being brought to bear. More and more bloggers are coming to reexamine Western precepts and to understand that the blessings of Western civilization do not have the permanence of gravity. Our brothers and sisters around the world are coming to realize that the Western tradition is something that has to be fought for.

Still, inertia, indifference, surrender, fear, and the suicidal commitment to the equality of reformed New Guinea head hunters and Washington University heart surgeons are important influences in this bitter struggle. In foregoing recitation of Muslim failure and pathology, George Bush sees only a religion of peace. And not one of his would-be replacements dares to tell the truth about Islam even at this late stage. Apparently, large numbers of Americans are excited and energized by Mr. Obama's call for us to "come together around a common purpose" (shiver) and Hillary's desire to bring about "change" (joy). Fine. Let us be as One People and change shall be our Watchword.

I am ready for a Date with Destiny.

"The Paranoid Delusions of the Left." By Dr. Sanity, 1/5/08 (emphasis added).

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