The Threat of Islam
This is a video that seeks to demonstrate the consequences of allowing Islam to make inroads into a nation. It presents examples of civilizations whose populations are some percent Moslem (e.g., 5, 10, 25, 50 percent) and the social effects associated with each percentage. A critic could accuse it of being long on drama and short on explanations, but, nevertheless, it's an effective and, I think, an essentially accurate presentation.

I do have to fault the video's producer for having only shallow philosophical understanding, however. The narrator states that Islam is not a religion, that instead it is a way of life. But this is in fact a definition of any complete religion. If you understand the Truth, you'll realize that a person who believes he knows it will understand that you cannot compartmentalize Truth. You cannot say, "I'll be a Christian in church on Sundays but not when I do business." In fact, anyone who understands Christianity deeply will realize that it addresses much of what Islam does; it just prescribes different behavior.

Also understand that the elements of society mentioned in the video have to be organized and governed by some values. Call them Islamic, Christian, Buddhist, secular or Fig Newton values, but they are values nonetheless. And, at the end of the day, the distinction between "religious" and "secular" is largely a false one. For there really are only two kinds of ideas: True ones and untrue ones. If God exists, than the idea that He does is true, and that is the only thing that matters. And if an ideology is invalid, such as communism, calling it secular doesn't in any way mitigate its invalidity.

Anyway, I can't do this subject justice here, but suffice it to say that the problem with Islam isn't that it's a way of life. It's that it is a relatively dark way of life -- much like secularism.

Comments

[Philip France]

This is downright fightening. Islam is not a religion. It is a political ideology.

I have heard Selwyn speak that the greater problem is the West's embrace of multi-culturalism. He is absolutely right-on. Michsel Savage is yet more succinct: Liberalsim is a mental disorder.

Islam is incompatible with Judeo-Christian culture and heritage. Where it does not accept this and assimilate, it must be purged.

What if Islamofacists succeed in subjugating the West? Well, while certainly uncomfortable and less-than-desirable, I could easily grow a beard and fake my prayers five times a day. But if one of these insects attempt to perform a clitorectomy on my daughter or if they try her in a Sharia court for flirting with her boyfriend, I will not permit this without a violent struggle.

The problem with us clear-headed Americans is that we tend to preach to our own choir while the lunatic Left blasts the less-informed with massive media campaigns and blocks us out by refusing to even consider our counter-intuition.

Islam has been a radical and violent ideology since its inception. Their spread has been prolific and remarkably unopposed since the 7th Century. In the words of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part I: "This war stops now".