Wednesday.....Culture.....A Planned Deception

It's common to see at least one blurb on the back cover of a current events book that says something like, Every American needs to read this book. The writer of the blurb obviously has a passion for the message within and expresses his support of it in such a way. I read the blurbs before I read the inside covers and the many book recommendations in this blog show that I, in this very limited way, choose the same path of encouraging people to read. Unfortunately we don't read what we should or as often as we should. Compounding the problem, many Americans get their information from the entertainment industry supplied mostly by liberal Hollywood, and we get our news from...well...the media!  I'm going to recommend another book here and...every American should read it. I'll modify that a little bit and say that the topic needs placed on the front burner of political discourse in America! If it is, the disadvantage we labor under now will disappear.  The prevailing opinion in England, America and the entire West is this, that Islam is a tolerant and peaceful religion and that it is the radical fundamentalists within it that are causing the problems. It is not necessarily that the statement is false but rather that it is so short, so radically incomplete and so deceptively crafted that the strategy behind it takes preeminence over the statement itself. With the different interpretations of Islam, the enormous numbers of people represented and the diversity within those multitudes, there may not be a single statement that can address the issue. The information that we have available to us is plentiful but it is only recently being disseminated among Americans and the mainstream media has yet to even vaguely address it and when it does broach the issue, it gives selective representation and ultimately whitewashes the problematic areas which are many and greatly unsettling. The book I bring to you here is The Grand Jihad, How Islam And The Left Sabotage America by Andrew C. McCarthy. The radicals are there, as well as the moderates, the problem being that the scholars, the clerics, the propagandists and the proselytizers are primarily from the radical element. An additional problem and a topic of this book is that there exists a movement and a strategy by those who have usurped the description of moderates when in fact they are part of a sophisticated plan to woo the American government, media and people into a false sense of security as they establish a beachhead in our nation. It was long ago recognized that what was necessary, what was decided upon and what has been in progress is a taking advantage of the freedoms and liberties of the West. It was necessary to work on two fronts with two very different methods. Today we, with the aiding and abetting of a grossly ignorant media, split the two religiously conjoined forces, worry about only one, address only one, combine the two "moderate" elements, giving legitimacy to the one that is anything but moderate. Many Americans subsequently learned about the Wahhabist element and thought it information enough to discern the problem, and that was that. The more culture invading element, every bit as desirous in seeing Islam attain hegemony in the world, settles in, establishes enclaves that teach, segregate and often  financially support the militant element. They seek sympathy as discriminated pilgrims all the while very proficient at using and abusing our liberties, which they would never otherwise incorporate, into a cultural entity that increasingly demands modifications of our laws to accommodate theirs. Some European countries, England and France included, have come to the unfortunate realization that a major problem has developed and are trying to alter their immigration policies, yet both countries have large portions of their population, taken in by the strategy, and consequently they protest the government's proposed policies, often nullifying the efforts. The Left enters prominently into this equation as Mr. McCarthy spends considerable time tying the two ideologies (Islamist and the Left) who differ but will use each other for their own ends as long as they can as he writes The moderate masquerade enables them to make common cause with the radical Left in one big, "progressive" campaign for "social injustice." McCarthy, in admitting there exists a truly moderate Islam that occupies much of the world, a moderate Islam that is also under siege, cautions that Our primary objective must be to defeat militant Islamists who attack us at home and abroad, and (my emphasis) to shield ourselves from other Islamists who seek to undermine our freedoms in more sophisticated ways. Numerous Islamic terms such as dawa, siyash, zakat and the Ikhwan  are explained in detail in the book. A course in Islam, a full-orbed dissection of the entire religious movement, both moderate and radical, is needed, drastically needed, in our nation today. On the connection between the radical militant and faux moderate McCarthy writes that an environment where people..."freely" embrace Islam (as they describe the intimidation)...is achieved by violence "only if violence is necessary"...On that score, of greater significance than actual violence is the "effect" of violence, not terrorism, but terror...The effective communication of the message enables the Islamist to achieve his ends without resorting to violence to exploit the atmosphere of intimidation created by the terrorist. One organization after another that we hear of in the news, usually described of as a charitable, student or cultural entity, is investigated as to its origins, who influenced it and what its stated goals are. If Americans understand this alone, discernment on this entire issue will increase. Islam's history of its origins along with recent history is detailed and we see a picture of Anwar Sadats who waged the same battle being thrust upon the West today. And then came Barack Hussein Obama. In what is a mini-book of it own Obama is shown, not as a Muslim, but as one whose sympathies emanating from family history, anti-colonialism and Leftist ideology, make him an asset to both Islam and the Left. Is it divisive to seek a national discourse complete with documentation from both sides? Is it Islamophobic to seek clarity? Is it religious intolerance to rally around the rights of and favorable presentation of the the practices of true moderate Muslims while exposing the machinations of the Islamist? The American creed is inclusive, diverse and tolerant but it's foundations of liberty and freedom are exclusive when challenged by tyranny, deceit and intolerance.