Wake Up America...Islam is At the Gate

The other day I read this prescient short story by Dan Simmons, thanks to a link provided by Little Green Footballs. I will not spoil the story for you. I found the following passage to be particularly enlightening:

“Let’s imagine,” said the Time Traveler, “that on December eighth, Nineteen forty-one, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke before a joint session of Congress and asked them to declare war on aviation.”
“That’s absurd,” I said.
“Is it?” asked the Time Traveler. “The American battleships, cruisers, harbor installations, Army barracks, and airfields at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere in Hawaii were all struck by Japanese aircraft. Imagine if the next day Roosevelt had declared war on aviation . . . threatening to wipe it out wherever we found it. Committing all the resources of the United States of America to defeating aviation, so help us God.”
“That’s just stupid,” I said. If I’d ever been afraid of this Time Traveler, I wasn’t now. He was obviously a mental defective.“The planes, the Japanese planes,” I said, “were just a method of attack . . . a means . . . it wasn’t aviation that attacked us at Pearl Harbor, but the Empire of Japan. We declared war on Japan and a few days later its ally, Germany, lived up to its treaty with the Japanese and declared war on us. If we’d declared war on aviation, on goddamned airplanes rather than the empire and ideology that launched them, we’d never have . . .”
I stopped. What had he called it? Category Error. Making the problem unsolvable through your inability – or fear – of defining it correctly.

President Bush has made a Category Error. What is worse is that he has persuaded most Americans, even those who support our efforts in the war, to repeat and believe this Category Error. The biggest failure of our war is that we have incorrectly identified who we are fighting. We have been brainwashed into thinking that we are fighting a small group of crazy extremists that have perverted, in President Bush's words, a peaceful and noble religion. This is a costly mistake.

It ignores that fact that Muslims all over the world are growing more extreme and increasingly demanding rights above and beyond any of the constitutional guarantees of the true democracies throughout the world. In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Australia, New Zealand, and numerous other places, Muslims have immigrated and have or have attempted to establish communities that have their own legal systems. These communities are completlely segregated from the culture around them by design. They have no desire to assimilate.

In the United States, planned Muslim communities are springing up throughout the major cities. David Kennedy Houck wrote a very informative piece titled The Islamist Challenge to the U. S. Constitution in the Middle East Quarterly. Regarding one such community in Little Rock, Arkansas, he wrote:

In August 2004, a local planning commission in Little Rock, Arkansas, granted The Islamic Center for Human Excellence authorization to build an internal Islamic enclave to include a mosque, a school, and twenty-two homes.[3] While the imam, Aquil Hamidullah, says his goal is to create "a clean community, free of alcohol, drugs, and free of gangs,"[4] the implications for U.S. jurisprudence of this and other internal enclaves are greater: while the Little Rock enclave might prevent the sale of alcohol, can it punish possession and in what manner? Can it force all women, be they residents or visitors, to don Islamic hijab (headscarf)? Such enclaves raise the fundamental questions of when, how, and to what extent religious practice may supersede the U.S. Constitution.

The planned community is also troubling, Houck writes, because:

The group has foreign financial support: it falls under the umbrella of a much larger Islamic group, "Islam 4 the World," an organization sponsored by Sharjah, one of the constituent emirates of the United Arab Emirates.[5]

He further notes that the emirs of the UAE are known to support radical interpretations of Islam.

The Achilles Heel of American democracy, in fact all democracies, is that it is crucial that we respect the rights of minorities. That is what separates civilized societies from uncivilized societies. It is not an accident that democracies are strongest in nations with Judeo-Christian values. It is a part of our religious heritage to be tolerant and respectful of those who disagree with us. (The cynic will be quick to bring up the Crusades. I say...get over it. The Crusades were a thousand years ago. I am talking about American democracy and 2006.) Our nation has bent over backwards to accomodate diversity and differences of opinion.

On the other hand, this value is not reciprocated by Muslims. Muslims believe they are superior and that Jews, Christians, and any non-Muslim are inferior. I challenge you to read the Koran. Mohammed encouraged his followers to treat non-believers as second-class citizens. In fact, if you want to know what Mohammed's marching orders were for the soldiers of jihad, it was:
1. Kill all infidels until they submit to Islam
2. You may spare the women, but take them as captives
3. Steal all of their property that you can
4. The infidels that submit to your superior status must pay a tax if they refuse to convert to Islam.
5. Infidels must pay a property tax if they are to retain it
6. Jews and Christians count as 1/3 of a man
7. Any other type of infidel counts as 1/15 of a man

I encourage every American and European to read the pronouncements by bin Laden, Zawahiri, Zarqawi and the rest of the leaders of the Muslim world. Their words directly reflect what is written in the Koran and it does not bode well for us. As I have mentioned in previous posts, Muslims do not view the Koran the same way that Christians view the Bible or Jews the Torah. Muslims believe that every single word written by Mohammed is the absolute truth. The Koran is sacred in a manner that westerners cannot even comprehend. The violent, murderous words of Mohammed are just as true today for Muslims as they were back in 700. Our liberal eyes will not permit us to understand this horrifying truth.

Houck discusses this lack of reciprocity on the part of Muslims:

There is precedent of Islamists taking advantage of liberal flexibility to more extreme ends. Canada provides a useful example into how Islamist groups can exploit liberal legal tolerance. In 1991, Ontario, Canada, passed a seemingly innocuous law called the "Arbitration Act."[8] This act permitted commercial, religious, or such other designated arbitrators to settle civil disputes outside the Canadian justice system so long as the result did not contradict Canadian law. Like U.S. authorities are beginning to do now, Canadian legislators decided to give religious groups the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they would still hold national law to be paramount.

After the passage of this act, Muslim enclaves in Canada began the process of instituting Sharia law in their communities. Canadian Muslim women began very vocal protests over this because they had everything to lose if Sharia was implemented. In 2003, the Canadian government rescinded the provision that permitted religious arbitration.

Muslims in the United States have also been busy. As Houck notes:

As the Muslim community in the United States grows, an increasingly active Islamist lobby has submitted numerous white papers and amicus briefs to legislators and courts arguing for the religious right of Muslims to apply Shari‘a law, particularly in relation to family law disputes.[13]

We have a very big problem in the United States. Muslims are using our legal system to grant themselves a separate but equal status. If you were to ask any Muslim if he or she would like America to be an Islamic nation, you would get an almost universal assent. The movement is afoot to radically alter everything that we believe in as Americans. If we sleep too long, we may awaken very soon, as they already are in a suburb outside Dearborn, Michigan, to the sounds of the Call to Prayer. Wake up America...Islam is at the gate!