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day, it hasn't been much of a day." -- John A. Wheeler
PROVIDING SUBSTANTIVE COMMENTARY ON THE
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
Foggy Days In London Town
“I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over number
10 Downing Street, but over the whole world.” --- Sheikh Oman
Bakri Mohammed, one of Britain’s many outspoken Muslim
radicals, in an interview with Reuters after the second wave of
recent terror attacks in London.
So, if the Shiekh here ever has his way, Islamic
fundamentalists will one day be striking the Union Jack and
replacing it with a banner representing the forces of
backwardness, ignorance and intolerance--or, as he put it, “the
Islamic flag.” That’s a day most Britons should definitely
dread, however unrealistic it might seem to them at the
moment. On the other hand, given the concurrent decline of
Christianity and the climate of extreme multiculturalism that
has run wild in Britain in recent times, is it altogether
implausible?
In his interview, the Sheikh went on to suggest that as long
as Muslims are being killed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq,
attacks on Britain might continue as, you know, a simple
“cause and effect” kind of thing, not that he personally justified
any of it, of course. The problem with the logic of the Shiekh
and the cause-and-effect suicide-bombing drones is that most
Muslims die at the hands of other Muslims, not Britons or other
Westerners.
Take Afghanistan, for instance. Before the magnificently
medieval Taliban were ousted, they weren’t executing non-
Muslims down at the ol’ soccer-stadium-cum-death-arena,
they were executing Muslims who failed to obey every Islamo-
fascist stricture the Taliban cared to lay on them.
Or take Saddam Hussein as another example. He may be
responsible for the deaths of more Muslims than any other man
currently alive, not for the furtherance or glorification of
Islam, but because of his power-mad attempts at becoming top
dog on the heap of malevolent Arab despots.
But only when some Western power steps in to try and stop
the madness after it begins to have its negative effects on the
civilized world do the madcap imams and ayatollahs of
intolerance get their beards tied up in knots. And who could
blame them, really, for being so frustrated? The last seven or
eight centuries of Islam haven’t exactly been a cakewalk.
Let’s just go ahead and say it. For centuries now the West
has been in ascendancy and Islam has been in decline because
Western ideas, culture, technology and just about anything else
you can think of have proved superior when it comes to human
progress. Islam went from being one of the world’s premier
civilizations to perhaps being the world’s most degraded and
perverse civilization, culminating in the mainstreaming and
glorification of one of the most heinous human acts possible,
the suicide bombing of innocents.
Under such circumstances it must be hard to be a glass-half-
full kind of Muslim. It’s been a downward spiral that would
make that of the most self-destructive rock star look tame by
comparison. And now, Britain, which has certainly had its
share of self-destructive rock stars, is paying the price.
John F. Kennedy once wrote a book called “Why England
Slept.” It was an account of European events in the ’30s and
how England’s unpreparedness for war actually helped lead to
WWII and made it much more difficult to win after it did
come. Someone could write another “Why England Slept”
about England’s more recent dalliance with extreme
multiculturalism which allowed Islamic fundamentalists to
infiltrate the country while the happy-headed gurus of
diversity and tolerance sat around congratulating themselves
for their extraordinary enlightenment.
One suspects that after the events of the last few weeks, the
attitude of most Britons is, if this is enlightenment, you can
have it--just give us our country back. And do something about
all the tinhorn, terror-inciting ayatollahs that have set up their
little shops of horrors in London and elsewhere, having
despicably taken advantage of British hospitality.
In other words, Britons may finally be coming around to
saying, Hey, it’s the extreme multiculturalism, stupid. That’s
what led to four British Muslim boys being brainwashed by
Islamic fundamentalism in their own country. Somewhere
along the way, some Islamo-fascists that were allowed to run
wild in Britain for the sake of enlightened diversity got a hold
of those boys and did a number on their heads.
They must have been convinced to forget about their own
culture, British culture, and the civilizing influence it has had
the world over and instead to get in touch with the close-
minded ideology of their Islamic/ethnic roots where dissenters
and infidels are beheaded or blown to bits by cowardly surprise
attacks. They must have been encouraged to get down with
that part of their heritage that keeps a huge swath of the planet
locked up in poverty, backwardness and despair. Someone
must have seductively intoned to them, C’mon, man, Islamic
rage is all the rage here in swingin’ Londonistan.
The radical sheikhs, imams and ayatollahs -- and even the
crackpot socialist mayor of London, Ken Livingstone -- love to
rattle on about British troops in Iraq and/or Afghanistan being
the primary cause of the terrorist strikes in Britain. But you
never heard a peep out of that zoo crew when Iraq was
positively overflowing with mass graves full of Muslim corpses,
all put there by Saddam Hussein and his Baathist henchmen,
the latter of which are now carrying on the glorious
“insurgency” to try and make sure Iraq remains a Baathist-
controlled charnel house forever.
Don’t buy their argument. There is no rational reason why
four Muslim boys, British born and bred -- “totally aware of
British life and values,“ as John Stevens, ex-Metropolitan
Police chief of London, put it -- would be so upset by Britain’s
ongoing contribution to the fight against the
Baathist/fascist/Islmamist insurgency in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle
that they would kill themselves and shred innocent fellow
British citizens in the process. They were gotten to through
appeals to their religion and ethnicity. It’s the extreme
multiculturalism, stupid.
As multiculturalism has risen in Britain, Christianity has
been on the decline, seemingly due to lack of interest. Islam is
now Britain’s fastest growing religion, purely because of
immigration so far, but that will change as new generations are
born and raised. It is not inconceivable that Britain could be
majority Muslim before the end of the century if something
doesn’t change.
The amusingly ironic upshot of this would be that the
extreme multiculturalists are busily and thoughtlessly
painting themselves into a corner. Think about it. If one
extrapolates into the future a bit, the logical conclusion of a
scenario where advantage-seeking Muslims insidiously exploit
the West’s obsession with extreme multiculturalism is . . . no
more multiculturalism! That’s because since Islam itself has
no tolerance of other viewpoints, when it becomes the majority,
you can stick a fork in all the tolerance grandiloquence. It’s
back to the tenth century, baby.
But who can believe that stiff-upper-lipped Britons would
ever let this happen? Prior to 7/7, most of them appeared quite
content to live in a country that had shrunk from the greatness
of its former civilization-spreading empire to a socialistic
nanny state whose leaders had become pathetic milksops to
extreme multiculturalism in order to exorcise themselves of
historical guilt over colonialism, etc. The empire may be dead
and gone, never to return, but I daresay the vast majority of
Britons will no longer be willing to let their leaders slide on the
latter part of the above characterization.
They may well understand now that while London can be a
foggy town, nothing gets any pea soupier than the imbroglio of
Islamic fundamentalism that has been allowed to congeal in
the very heart of Britain’s extreme multicultural community.
On 7/7 they heard the first blast of an otherwise long silent
foghorn. On 7/21 they heard the second and there will likely be
more to come.
“I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over number
10 Downing Street, but over the whole world.” --- Sheikh Oman
Bakri Mohammed, one of Britain’s many outspoken Muslim
radicals, in an interview with Reuters after the second wave of
recent terror attacks in London.
So, if the Shiekh here ever has his way, Islamic
fundamentalists will one day be striking the Union Jack and
replacing it with a banner representing the forces of
backwardness, ignorance and intolerance--or, as he put it, “the
Islamic flag.” That’s a day most Britons should definitely
dread, however unrealistic it might seem to them at the
moment. On the other hand, given the concurrent decline of
Christianity and the climate of extreme multiculturalism that
has run wild in Britain in recent times, is it altogether
implausible?
In his interview, the Sheikh went on to suggest that as long
as Muslims are being killed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq,
attacks on Britain might continue as, you know, a simple
“cause and effect” kind of thing, not that he personally justified
any of it, of course. The problem with the logic of the Shiekh
and the cause-and-effect suicide-bombing drones is that most
Muslims die at the hands of other Muslims, not Britons or other
Westerners.
Take Afghanistan, for instance. Before the magnificently
medieval Taliban were ousted, they weren’t executing non-
Muslims down at the ol’ soccer-stadium-cum-death-arena,
they were executing Muslims who failed to obey every Islamo-
fascist stricture the Taliban cared to lay on them.
Or take Saddam Hussein as another example. He may be
responsible for the deaths of more Muslims than any other man
currently alive, not for the furtherance or glorification of
Islam, but because of his power-mad attempts at becoming top
dog on the heap of malevolent Arab despots.
But only when some Western power steps in to try and stop
the madness after it begins to have its negative effects on the
civilized world do the madcap imams and ayatollahs of
intolerance get their beards tied up in knots. And who could
blame them, really, for being so frustrated? The last seven or
eight centuries of Islam haven’t exactly been a cakewalk.
Let’s just go ahead and say it. For centuries now the West
has been in ascendancy and Islam has been in decline because
Western ideas, culture, technology and just about anything else
you can think of have proved superior when it comes to human
progress. Islam went from being one of the world’s premier
civilizations to perhaps being the world’s most degraded and
perverse civilization, culminating in the mainstreaming and
glorification of one of the most heinous human acts possible,
the suicide bombing of innocents.
Under such circumstances it must be hard to be a glass-half-
full kind of Muslim. It’s been a downward spiral that would
make that of the most self-destructive rock star look tame by
comparison. And now, Britain, which has certainly had its
share of self-destructive rock stars, is paying the price.
John F. Kennedy once wrote a book called “Why England
Slept.” It was an account of European events in the ’30s and
how England’s unpreparedness for war actually helped lead to
WWII and made it much more difficult to win after it did
come. Someone could write another “Why England Slept”
about England’s more recent dalliance with extreme
multiculturalism which allowed Islamic fundamentalists to
infiltrate the country while the happy-headed gurus of
diversity and tolerance sat around congratulating themselves
for their extraordinary enlightenment.
One suspects that after the events of the last few weeks, the
attitude of most Britons is, if this is enlightenment, you can
have it--just give us our country back. And do something about
all the tinhorn, terror-inciting ayatollahs that have set up their
little shops of horrors in London and elsewhere, having
despicably taken advantage of British hospitality.
In other words, Britons may finally be coming around to
saying, Hey, it’s the extreme multiculturalism, stupid. That’s
what led to four British Muslim boys being brainwashed by
Islamic fundamentalism in their own country. Somewhere
along the way, some Islamo-fascists that were allowed to run
wild in Britain for the sake of enlightened diversity got a hold
of those boys and did a number on their heads.
They must have been convinced to forget about their own
culture, British culture, and the civilizing influence it has had
the world over and instead to get in touch with the close-
minded ideology of their Islamic/ethnic roots where dissenters
and infidels are beheaded or blown to bits by cowardly surprise
attacks. They must have been encouraged to get down with
that part of their heritage that keeps a huge swath of the planet
locked up in poverty, backwardness and despair. Someone
must have seductively intoned to them, C’mon, man, Islamic
rage is all the rage here in swingin’ Londonistan.
The radical sheikhs, imams and ayatollahs -- and even the
crackpot socialist mayor of London, Ken Livingstone -- love to
rattle on about British troops in Iraq and/or Afghanistan being
the primary cause of the terrorist strikes in Britain. But you
never heard a peep out of that zoo crew when Iraq was
positively overflowing with mass graves full of Muslim corpses,
all put there by Saddam Hussein and his Baathist henchmen,
the latter of which are now carrying on the glorious
“insurgency” to try and make sure Iraq remains a Baathist-
controlled charnel house forever.
Don’t buy their argument. There is no rational reason why
four Muslim boys, British born and bred -- “totally aware of
British life and values,“ as John Stevens, ex-Metropolitan
Police chief of London, put it -- would be so upset by Britain’s
ongoing contribution to the fight against the
Baathist/fascist/Islmamist insurgency in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle
that they would kill themselves and shred innocent fellow
British citizens in the process. They were gotten to through
appeals to their religion and ethnicity. It’s the extreme
multiculturalism, stupid.
As multiculturalism has risen in Britain, Christianity has
been on the decline, seemingly due to lack of interest. Islam is
now Britain’s fastest growing religion, purely because of
immigration so far, but that will change as new generations are
born and raised. It is not inconceivable that Britain could be
majority Muslim before the end of the century if something
doesn’t change.
The amusingly ironic upshot of this would be that the
extreme multiculturalists are busily and thoughtlessly
painting themselves into a corner. Think about it. If one
extrapolates into the future a bit, the logical conclusion of a
scenario where advantage-seeking Muslims insidiously exploit
the West’s obsession with extreme multiculturalism is . . . no
more multiculturalism! That’s because since Islam itself has
no tolerance of other viewpoints, when it becomes the majority,
you can stick a fork in all the tolerance grandiloquence. It’s
back to the tenth century, baby.
But who can believe that stiff-upper-lipped Britons would
ever let this happen? Prior to 7/7, most of them appeared quite
content to live in a country that had shrunk from the greatness
of its former civilization-spreading empire to a socialistic
nanny state whose leaders had become pathetic milksops to
extreme multiculturalism in order to exorcise themselves of
historical guilt over colonialism, etc. The empire may be dead
and gone, never to return, but I daresay the vast majority of
Britons will no longer be willing to let their leaders slide on the
latter part of the above characterization.
They may well understand now that while London can be a
foggy town, nothing gets any pea soupier than the imbroglio of
Islamic fundamentalism that has been allowed to congeal in
the very heart of Britain’s extreme multicultural community.
On 7/7 they heard the first blast of an otherwise long silent
foghorn. On 7/21 they heard the second and there will likely be
more to come.