In the ongoing struggle between Islam and the West, one important fact is regularly overlooked: one civilization has the will to triumph, but not the way; the other has the way to triumph, but not the will.
Some who dread Islam do not seem to understand this. They think that Islam is an irresistible force to be reckoned with; they see Muslim migrants as hordes of violent men invading Europe; they call on Western men to make a stand, resist the onslaught, save their women and children.
To be sure, this portrayal is historically valid: for one thousand years, Muslims repeatedly invaded and conquered portions of Europe—terrorizing, massacring, raping and enslaving in the name of Allah—and were only repulsed by force of arms.
Today’s situation is far less dramatic and epic; it’s actually quite pathetic. Muslim terrorists, rapists, and ISIS-sympathizers are not entering the West against its will but because of it. In other words, the West is 100% responsible for this “invasion.”
Consider it by analogy. What if zoos began to maintain that it’s a slanderous stereotype to say that lions by nature prey on zebras? Zoos start introducing lions into zebra enclosures. The inevitable happens: although well fed, some lions continue chasing and mauling zebras. Surely only a great fool would blame such carnage on lions—who, after all, are merely being lions—while ignoring those who insist on placing lions with zebras in the first place.
Similarly, those Western policy makers who continue insisting that Islam is peaceful (despite the overwhelming evidence otherwise), and that Muslim immigration is fine (despite the overwhelming evidence otherwise), are 100% to blame when Muslims terrorize, rape, and kill non-Muslims in the West—that is, when they do what comes natural back home.
Still, Western politicians get away with warped policies because the general public—including the average voter—has been bred on warped views. Thus, even as Germans were being overwhelmed by a million Muslim migrants, Dr. Stefanie von Berg, speaking before parliament, loudly proclaimed:
Mrs. President, ladies and gentlemen. Our society will change. Our city will change radically. I hold that in 20, 30 years there will no longer be a [German] majority in our city. …. And I want to make it very clear, especially towards those right wingers: This is a good thing!
Such suicidal words can be spoken and enacted only because voters have been conditioned to accept and support suicidal policies (which of course are dressed up to satisfy Western vanity). If they hadn’t, people like Berg, far from being elected to parliament, would be incarcerated for treason or committed into mental wards.
In the end, the relationship between Islam and the West is understood by the dichotomy of the will and the way. The West has the way—including the military and economic might—to utterly neutralize Islam, one way or the other. Yet it doesn’t even have the will to preserve itself. Ban Islam’s presence from the West—which is doable, provided the will is there—and Islamic terrorism on Western soil ceases. It’s that simple.
Conversely, Islam most certainly has the will to eliminate the West, though it currently doesn’t have the way (minus those ways the West gives it). Historically, for over one millennium, whenever Islam had the way, it always went on the offensive.
Back then, when much of the world was limited to fighting with swords and spears, arrows and fire—back when Islam was on an even footing with its neighbors—untold millions of non-Muslims were slaughtered, enslaved, or converted to Islam. This is seen in the historical fact that the overwhelming majority of territory that today constitutes the “Muslim world” was seized from non-Muslims by great violence and bloodshed.
Western military technology eventually progressed to the point that Islam was left in the dust. Its will to dominate went dormant but remained intact.
Put differently, if Islam was the one to develop sophisticated armaments and weapons of mass destruction, while the West was still using swords and spears, there would be no West to speak of today. Faced before Islam’s three choices—conversion, enslavement, or annihilation—the West would’ve gone the way of the dodo, like many civilizations before it.
Yet here is the free and mighty West, refusing to use its powers—even in the name of self-preservation—while empowering an Islam that openly vows to, and will, subjugate the West, once the way to do so becomes available.
Update: In the context of the topic of this article, commenter WFC points out that Winston Churchill once said:
[I]f you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Prof. L. Wessell says
As I write this comment, I have before my eyes here in Germany a short news clip that pops up as I proceed to enter my “web.de” email account. The news is summary-like and today (April 19, 2016) has to do with the political party AfD (Alternativ für Deutschland / Alternative for Germany). This new party, which is highly focused upon the problematic of Islam, is pillared in the German press, by German politicians and every single party in the German Parliament refuses to enter into any type of coalition with the AfD, i.e., it is excluded from any governmental function, thereby squashing in Germany political resistance to Islam. There is even talk that the AfD is unconstitutional, which implies a possible banning (as has been done to neo-nazi attempts). The treatment of that political party, which just warned that Islam is a danger for democratic freedom, is almost in unison negative to calumny on to hysterical demonizing. The rate of crime (thievery, house break-ins, etc) increased almost 10% in 2015. Rapes take place, often in the camps or housings of the Muslims “immigrants” (not one is legally a refugee as that ended when all entered Europe NOT in Germany), but also of German women (police simply do not report or the news is not carried). The quote that was given by Dr. Stefanie von Berg is somewhat typical of German politicians, and it unusually blunt. I will make immediately a truncated statement about today’s German mind because I hold the root of the German (and Western) NON-resistance to Islam to be rooted deeply contemporary in German culture. But first, I suggest to the reader that s/he turn to YouTube, Ezra Lavant, “Did Merkel ‘just read Germany’s death note?'”, ca 10 minutes. Lavant discusses a press conference where a female German citizen asks Chancellor Merkel about danger due to massive immigration. Merkel’s response, in part incoherent, will shock the reader (and Ibrahim himself would find it to be a confirmation of his views expressed in the above article). Merkel is totally indifferent to whatever damage Islam might do to Germany. Watch the video for yourself!
DNA-Germans are dying out. In other words, demographically the Germans are not reproducing themselves and are headed towards inevitable extinction. The German fertility rate hovers between 1.3 and 1.47 children / woman per year, the mean average age is 46 (i.e., 50% of Germans are older than 46 and 50% are younger), between 2000 and 2011 Germans 18 and younger dropped from 15.2 million to 13 million and I go no further. The demographic DEATH of DNA-Germans is irreversible. Period!!! The demographic death has nothing to do with Germans not having a minimal amount of sex (plenty to excessive would be more accurate), but to a culture where children stand in the way of personal development, particularly for women as women, effectively following feminism, de facto prefer the death of Germany to having children and families and German men has accepted the female separation of sexuality from procreation > families > reproduction of the population.
In my judgment the Germans as a whole simply refuse to face THE fact of demographic death (to get a discussion of the matter going is difficult), repress thought on the matter, stoically accept the death or, as in the case of Dr. Berg cited above, joyfully affirm the death of DNA-Germans and German culture. Germans, indeed, Europeans too (not one European nation is reproducing itself, they are all heading for demographic extinction, ALL), have evolved various ideologies, all of which Pope Benedict rightfully has called a “culture of death”. A “culture”, loosely defined, consists of a system of values (does and don’ts) accepted by the participants of the society and thereby keep the society ongoing. The “CULTURE of death” in Germany is one of telling oneself that, well, ignorance is bliss to it is great we are dying out. My statement here is blunt and short. I will not develop it any more. I would like to suggest to the reader that a “culture of death” has been accepted by Germans such that they are compelled NOT to view Islam (and if Communism were still around) as a danger as “danger”-awareness disturbs the peace entailed in culturally dying. Germans just want get old, live well and disappear. The result ends in ideologies of weakness.
John Magne Trane says
http://www.therebel.media/did_merkel_just_read_out_germany_s_suicide_note
Myomoto Mushashi says
The religion of Islam is purely military in purpose. When you read the Hadith you can find that the writings were written to justify offensive attacks as if they were defensive because the people they attacked did not believe in Islam. This is the rationality of a prison inmate. The words openly show fascist actions, bigotry, and hate for infidels. The method of praying 5 times a day when the loudspeaker tells you to is a way of pulling the entire population into a brainwashing ritual and not allowing to question the writings in the Qur’an and Hadith only reinforces the control that Theocratic
Generals held on the followers. For example, this is what is in the Hadith which was completed through hearsay…. >>> Muhammad is ordered by Allah to fight all people until they worship Allah. “Allah’s Apostle said: ‘I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah.,” (Hadith, Vol 1, Book 2, #24, Narrated Ibn ‘Umar: http://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=2&translator=1&start=0&number=24#24).
(Sura V.32) “Those that make war against God and His apostle and spread disorder shall be put to death or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or be banished from the
country. >> (Quran 5:33). Kill those against Islam: “The only reward of those who make war upon
Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter,”
Elisheva says
Very well stated. Bat Ye’or traces how the EU collaborated with the Arab nations to bring their own civilization down and now the US is following in the same self-destructive path.
Kara says
Brilliant quote from Churchill. Such a shame, the islamization of England.
Maggie Pimm says
At first glance it may sound strange, why is the West losing their will to fight and the best answer lies, I think, in the Saudi money flowing back to the West from Saudi Arabia. This does not happen at no cost; they know it, and it has become their way in penetrating Western society and influencing Western decision making. It is crucial to highlight how Moslem money (from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the like) is distiributed, who receives it, and how it affects Western politics.
BoWhetstone says
the American rednecks are a little bored lately- blacks talk and talk about a race war but seem too spineless to act. just talk.
the necks need muslims to venture out of the safety of the big cities. into the armpits of America where they can and will be winding up in a pottery kiln (after a little shakin and a little tenderizin’)
the big bad jihadists aint got the kahonees – too bad. the necks aint had a good lynching in a long dang time
christianblood says
Happy Easter (Pashka) to all Eastern Rite Christians
both Catholic & Orthodox!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkrAqsgLAV8
Myomoto Mushashi says
Islam and India – The forgotten Genocide
Muslim historian Firishta [full name Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah, born in 1560 and died in 1620], the author of the Tarikh-i Firishta and the Gulshan-i Ibrahim, was the first to give an idea to the medieval bloodbath that was India during Muslim rule, when he declared that over 400 million Hindus got slaughtered during Muslim invasion and occupation of India. Survivors got enslaved and castrated. India’s population is said to have been around 600 million at the time of Muslim invasion. By the mid 1500’s the Hindu population was 200 million.
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True Muslims believe in martyrdom and death. They believe this life is only a test and all that counts is to lay
their lives in the path of Allah. To do so they must hate the non-Muslims and kill them in jihad until they are killed. The Quran says, “the life of this world is only a deceiving enjoyment.” [57:20]
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We often hear Muslim jihadis say, “we love death as you love life.” This formulation is originated at the Battle of
Qadesiyya in the year 636, when the commander of the Muslims, Khalid ibn Al-Walid, sent an emissary with a message from Caliph Abu Bakr to the Persian commander, Khosro stating: “You [Persians] should convert to Islam, and then you will be safe, for if you don’t, you should know that I have come to you with an army of men that love death, as you love life.” Muslims consider the love for death as the proof of faith.
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The Quran says: “…then seek for death, if you are sincere.”(Q.2:94) In another place Muhammad challenged the Jews to desire death in order to prove that they are truthful. Say: “O ye that stand on Judaism! If ye think that ye are friends to Allah, to the exclusion of (other) men, then express your desire for Death, if ye are
truthful.” (Q.62:6)
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If you study the similarities within the history and the spread of the Islamic religion, the religion is a fundamental copy and a mix of the Jewish and Christian religion. The conquest elements are similar to Genghis Kahn. They have not official documented history that can stand up to a real analysis. They have fabricated it as they go along. The Islamic rulers began to conquer the lands for wealth and control, just like any other conquest did before. They did not stop just at Medina. They continued until the 16th century.
Myomoto Mushashi says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo
Islamic Battle Statistics by Dr. Bill Warner
http://www.religionofpeace.com
cash for gold in delhi says
the stupid ideology with only motive to slaught peoples.
Apostille Attestation services says
there is no peace in this, share the blasphemous in the world.