JOHN GALT
February 4, 2014
World War III has begun,
and the enemy is not the one we expected. America and the Western world
are facing a danger they have never faced before. Our enemy is not a
government or a country. We are fighting enemies who hate us so much
that they are willing to kill themselves in order to kill us. This war
puts our conventional military forces at a serious disadvantage. There
is practically no defense against this kind of warfare. The enemy is
Islam, and it is waging this war against our civilization. The Quran
teaches its followers:
Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be
unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is their
destination. Quran 9:73
And, if history is any guide, religious wars have been the
bloodiest in human history. The contention that all wars eventually
should end may not be applicable this time. This one is different; with
new generations of Islamists willing to kill themselves in order to
destroy the infidels, it may take generations, centuries, to end,
especially given the high birth rate of the enemy. At this juncture it
is impossible to predict how it may end.
In previous world wars the
winner typically out-produced the loser. During the Second World War
Americans were losing, on average six Sherman tanks for every German
Tiger tank lost. But at the same time, American industry was
manufacturing six Sherman tanks faster than Germans could produce one
Tiger. Americans were producing more bombers than Germans were shooting
down, and that was true for every other piece of military equipment. The
United States, despite heavy losses at Pearl Harbor, not only replaced
those losses in short order but also built a greater and more modern
fleet than that of the Japanese. Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were
facing the unlimited industrial capabilities of the United States,
further multiplied by the unlimited human resources of the Soviet Union.
There was not a chance that the Axis powers could possibly win the war;
they were out-produced and out-manned. The longer the war went on, the
weaker Germany and Japan became.
In our current world war, the strategic equation may not be in our
favor, since the enemies' weapon of choice is a limitless supply of
human bodies. In this "arms" race, Islam will easily out-produce the
civilized world, making our industrial and technological advantages
inadequate. There is no shortage of Muslim volunteers, here in this
country and all over the world, perfectly willing to blow themselves up
for the "cause." Furthermore, the methods employed by the enemy
challenge our conventional definition of victory. If in conventional war
the army loses if it does not win, in the war on terrorism, terrorism
wins if it does not lose. The events unfolding after the demise of Osama
bin Laden are evidence that the armies of terrorists are growing and
that Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are spreading through Africa
and the Middle East to places they have never been before.
Our president and the Left, living in a politically
correct universe, refuse to recognize the magnitude of this danger. They
see appeasement as a panacea and insist that acts of terrorism are
perpetrated by extremists. Islam, they say, is a peaceful religion, and
the majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens-ignoring the fact that
these peaceful citizens celebrated the 9/11
attacks,
from the West Bank to Jakarta to Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Left is
also ignoring numerous reports of imams inciting crowds of hundreds and
thousands of Muslims by calling for the destruction of the United
States, Israel, France, Britain, and other Western countries. Since the
9/11 attacks there have been no reports of a single imam condemning
terrorism. Not one.
In keeping with the ideological dogma, the president's
posture amplifies the Left's delusional position and the common theme of
previous presidents' foreign policy doctrines, that terrorism is
un-Islamic. President Clinton, in an address to the nation on August 20,
1998, said:
Islam [is] the faith of hundreds of millions of good,
peace-loving people all around the world, including the United States.
No religion condones the murder of innocent men, women and children.
But our actions were aimed at fanatics and killers who wrap murder in
the cloak of righteousness; and in so doing, profane the great religion
in whose name they claim to act.
President Bush echoed Clinton in his speech to the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., September 17, 2001:
The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not
what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't
represent peace. They represent evil and war. When we think of Islam we
think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the
world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that's
made brothers and sisters out of every race-out of every race.
But President Obama has outdone them all. He could qualify
for the Nobel Prize for Duplicity in addition to his Nobel Peace Prize
for his performance. In his near-pathological obsession in defense of
Islam, which should come as no surprise given his upbringing, during a
speech at Cairo University on June 4, 2009, Obama displayed a bizarre
and illusory interpretation of facts and engaged in a deliberate
distortion of history
. L
ecturing the crowd, the president of the United States of America stated
that America and Islam
share common principles-principles of justice and progress;
tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. ...Islam has demonstrated
through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and
racial equality. ...The U.S. and Islam share common goals of justice and tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
In his speech at Mumbai's St. Xavier's College on November 7, 2010, he declared that
Islam is one of the world's great religions. More than a billion
people practice Islam and an overwhelming majority views their
obligations to a religion that reaffirms peace, fairness and tolerance. I
think all of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a
few extremists has been distorted by violence.
These words were being said
about a culture in which any member of a family can kill a woman
suspected of having an affair. According to Sharia law, it is the duty
of a brother to kill his sister if she dishonors the family. These words
were being said about a culture that glorifies female
mutilation-cutting off a little girl's clitoris with a dirty razor
without anesthesia. These words were being said about a culture that
hacks off the heads of "infidels" and relegates females to a status
subordinate to farm animals. The president, who has been a strong
defender of women's rights to have an abortion and free contraceptives,
has never raised the issue of the horrifying treatment of women in the
land of Islam. In his 2009 Cairo speech, Mr. Obama actually declared,
I consider it part of my responsibility as the president of
the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam
wherever they appear.
The examples above are not the stereotypes Obama had in
mind, they are simply facts; and about them, he is silent. Disregarding
rational consistency, intellectual honesty, and adherence to historical
facts by proclaiming that the United States of America and Islam "share
common goals of justice and tolerance," the president e
xhibits signs of political intoxication, kissing Islamic tuchis. There is as much harmony between America and Islam as we had with Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan.
This president's proclamations should not deflect us from
grasping the reality that the world is divided into two types of
culture: one where violence is condemned and the other where violence is
glorified. One culture is built on the foundation of liberty and the
pursuit of happiness; the other worships violence and death. One where
success and respect are measured in capital and the other whose virtues
are measured in power and violence.
The president and his leftist supporters maintain that
all cultures are equal and as such are equally deserving of respect and
celebration. That notion may sound noble, but in fact not all cultures
are "born equal." This statement overlooks the fact that the cradle of
freedom and democracy was the Western world, not the land of Islam.
Western civilization, governed by reason and guided by Judeo-Christian
values, discovered science and technology and has subsequently produced a
prosperous and relatively harmonious culture that the rest of the world
envies and admires. The land of Islam, governed by faith, has
contributed almost nothing to the advances of science and culture since
its inception. We do not know whether Obama deliberately ignores these
important facts in an attempt to appease Islam or whether he feels some
inherent sympathy for Islam, or both. In his book
The Audacity of Hope he writes: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." And so he does.
Part II will continue tomorrow
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