Why Don't More People Get It?

I can't understand why more people don't realize that as long as Islamofacists exist in significant numbers, and they do, we are on an inevitable collision course with them. And if we continue to dodge and weave that confrontation through the illusion of what's politically correct, we only give them ground upon which they are more than happy to advance.

For most of its existence, the Third Reich had less of a presence throughout Europe, only securing that through lightning advance with military precision. The enemy we fight today does not move that way ... it creeps. But it is moving, always moving, looking to advance a cancerous agenda of intolerance and unrivaled hate.

It is not going to go away, to roll up with the credits of some action movie in which the good guys always win. And the more we appease, the more we compromise our values, beliefs and principles to those who would strip us of them completely if given the chance, then the less and less good we really are, if the principles upon which this country was founded represent the mark.

If you only read one thing tonight ... read this.

Victor Davis Hanson -- The great wealth and leisure created by modern technology have confused some in the modern age into thinking that history is linear. We expect that each generation will inevitably improve upon the last, as if we, the blessed of the 21st century, would never chase out Anaxagoras or execute Socrates — or allow others to do so — in our modern polis.

Comments

[ViVi]

I am SO with you on this. I made this comment elsewhere but it bears repeating. I say we pull out the big guns and pull the trigger. Nothing good can come of this denial.

1. Whoever started this religion of peace crap? How absurd that is.

2. I've been thinking these things since the Pope said that Islam is not capable of reform. Of course it isnt--it's based on the Koran, which is interpreted strictly and literally--and that is NOT subject to change. Just like Christianity is not really reformable either in its purest essence, a belief in Christ as the Son and Savior and means to everlasting life. That probably sounds absurd to non-Christians; nevertheless, it is the fundamental belief and common denominator of Christians, and it isnt subject to revision.

So, NO, it is not surprising to me what is happening, not at all. Islamists are acting as they should act as Islamists, and 'we' will never change that. It happens that it doesnt fit well with the rest of the world, and action will have to be taken inevitably to curb the violence. The unfortunate truth is it isnt just behavior that has to be eradicated--it is the ideology (religion)of Islam. Until that is recognized and accepted for what it is, there will be no solution.

That being said, I am speaking of Islam as it is enforced or practiced violently. There are certainly a great number of Muslims who worship Mohammed non-violently. In my mind the two are different religions, if you will. They just happen, at this time, to share the same name.

[Lone Pony]

Thanks Dan. I needed to read this tonight.

[Bullgator]

The liberal establishment seems surprised by the aggressiveness of the Islamofascist movement, and as usual, seeks appeasement. Don't look now, but history is poised to repeat itself.

Very few in the West remember that while Chamberlain was proclaiming "Peace in our time", Hitler was warming up his tanks for the blitzkreig. And such is the power of denial and the inertia of beaurocracy that even after Poland fell, Chamberlain held on to power. It took the invasion of France for the liberal establishment of that day to face the truth, and by then the British army was being forced into the sea. And all this happened with someone as great as Churchill warning them of the danger every step along the way.

The leaders in the West need to wake up. These people do not want appeasement. They do not want "dialogue". They do not want Western journalists to undergo sensitivity training. They want them to DIE !!! They want to convert the world and kill anyone who disagrees. And it will happen (again), if we let them.

[Phoenix]

I agree with Hanson, but I think he leaves out an element that our modern high-tech age has dumped on us all. Information fatigue. For sure the people he speaks of sitting back believing in that 'linear' progression of history are out there basking in ignorance, but more and more people are soaking up so much information that it's hard to keep it all straight much less grasp this 'new' awareness that our current enemy is a force almost beyond comprehension. The old thing used to be 'know your enemy', but in this new fight, our enemies' system of belief and system of values is outside our box of reality. We are fighting people who kill themselves for 72 virgins? Who think that free will, free thought, free expression is some kind of sin. Other enemies wanted something we had, some corporeal entity. This enemy wants our souls to burn in hell. It's bad enough that 9/11 blew us out of our complacency, but to absorb and deal with an enemy motivated by hatred sourced from a mystical realm is .....well...almost incomprehensible. I think people hear so much from all-day news channels that deliver for our entertainment every viewpoint from mystics themselves to the Hansons and Krauthammers who do spell it out even when we still find it hard to believe. The fatigue of sorting it out is real.

In a way, people don't want to get it. Who can blame them, after all. It is like a bad fairy tale with mystics and monsters invading our reality. I think some of the utterly violent hate forced on us by having to accept that something incorporeal is driving madmen to kill us is making many of us weary and wishing this really was a fairly tale.

I might believe in God if it weren't for religion. But for now, nuke 'em.