July 07, 2005
Heart Of Darkness
We must begin by calling Evil by it's name.
Attacks on innocents - men, women, children in busses and trains, going about no business but their own - must remind us of the nature of what is faced by the West. Some feel the notion of the Christian West under attack by the forces of Islamism is an overreaching analysis, or merely reactionary. I would say to any who make such a statement that you mistake Islamism's current short reach with a short grasp.
Militant Islamism has identified the free societies of the Christian West as their mortal enemy. When will the West engage itself with this truth and identify militant Islamism as theirs?
To those who would excuse or justify these attacks as the natural result of Western foreign policy, I would impolitely disagree. Not only does this make a ridiculous logical conclusion that deliberate targeting of civilians is ever justified by any cause, it presumes a logical cause and effect that does not exist. The attacks in London are no more a direct retaliation for British Iraq policy than the attacks on the WTC in 2001 and 1993 were in direct retaliation for any particular American policy.
The Al Qaeda claim of responsibility sheds the neccesary light to see the truth in all of these words:
"O nation of Islam and nation of Arabism: Rejoice for it is time to take revenge from the British Zionist Crusader Government in retaliation for the massacres Britain is committing in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Yes, in this mere text, the great doom of our times is found.
The nation of Islam and Arabism - nationalist, expansionist, and fascist in nature. Islamism and Arabism beyond mere borders. Those who would let their compunctions lead them to argue that Islamist terrorism is merely a reflexive anti-Imperialism need look no further than this broad appeal to pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism, a goal but also a means unto an end. The racial hegemony of Arabism combined with the religious hegemony of Islamism to create both religious and racial fanatacism and fascism.
The justification as revenge against Britain in Iraq and Afghanistan - interesting in light of the demurral from many who opposed the Iraqi war with the argument that Iraq was so totally secular as to dismiss any concerns that Iraq and Al Qaeda would ever find a nexus for action. They also are ignorant of reality. The 9/11 attacks predate our involvement in Iraq. Those supposing that had we just "not been involved" in Iraq, those driven to slaughter the defenseless would have considered another course are burdened with opinion without being burdened with thought.
We finally have the Zionist Crusader - the component that identifies the enemy. It is the Jew and the Christian - the Zionist and the Crusader - who provide the anvil for the Islamists rhetorical and terrorist hammer. The Jew and the Christian, the Western democracies, with their uncovered women who are allowed to vote and endowed with rights equal to men, their religious freedom which includes the freedom to not worship at all, their equal rights for all despite race or relgious sect, it is here that the great antidote to Islamist tyrannical absolutism is found.
And yet, if the West continues to deny the nature of the enemy, if it languishes and treats each act of terrorism discretely without identifying the comprehensive whole, if compunction prevents the West from acting in it's defense...
Then the West will demur, and the days will grow shorter as we willingly cede to the night the fairest hours... as the West allows mosques to be built in it's midst, while churches and temples in Africa burn... as proponents of accomodation and understanding hold forth while those who offer only ignorance and intolerance advantage each... as we insist on couching our language in terms designed not to offend or provoke when unspoken is the nature of our trial and peril... then much will come to pass at our expense, and we may one day find ourselves at the precipice as the sun falls in upon the West and ask -
How did it come to this?
Posted by MEC2 at July 7, 2005 03:53 PM | TrackBack