THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 114, June 18, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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ISLAM: THE POWER OF "NO"
By Alan Caruba
THE MASS IGNORANCE, BACKWARDNESS, CORRUPTION, & OPPRESSION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST: ISLAM AS
THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM & WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- ISLAM'S CONTINUING RESISTANCE TO & REJECTION OF
ANYTHING THAT SMACKS OF MODERN CIVILIZED BEHAVIOR -- THE ONLY PEACE THAT ISLAM OFFERS THE WORLD:
COMPLETE SURRENDER & SUBORDINATION TO ISLAMIC DOMINATION, OR THE PEACE OF THE GRAVE -- THE POPULATION
OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST HELD IN THE GRIP OF A "RELIGION" SPREAD BY THE SWORD & MAINTAINED BY INSURING
THAT ENLIGHTENMENT OF ANY KIND IS FEARED & DESTROYED -- THE NEED FOR AMERICA & THE WEST TO EFFECTIVELY
COMBAT THE ISLAMIST TERRORISM THAT WOULD BRING TO US A DARK AGE RULED BY ISLAM
FULL STORY:
Slowly, ever so slowly, it is beginning to dawn on Americans that anything we attempt to do to entice the Middle East into
the 21st. Century is likely to meet with defeat because its Muslim population, held in the grip of brutal men and a brutal
theology, remains impervious to the possibility of peace, of freedom, of individual liberty.
What they are especially good at is saying “No.” They have been saying no to anything that smacks of modern civilized
behavior for a very long time and that resistance has been largely tolerated in the West because (a) the Islamic Middle East
sits atop a lot of oil and/or (b) the inhabitants of this region are oppressed by their fellow countrymen.
What did Americans know of the Middle East? Not much and mostly gleaned from movies like “Lawrence of Arabia” and
from whatever films and television shows might depict. Long after World War II, the Middle East did not have a high
priority on our attention. Our scant knowledge came from headlines about assassinations and wars. There were historical
events like the independence of Israel in 1948 following one of the great horrors of the last century, the Holocaust.
The same United Nations decision to grant sovereignty to the Israelis was extended to the Arabs in the area, granting them
territory on which to build a Palestinian nation-state. The Arabs said no.
Instead, they immediately attacked the new nation of Israel and were defeated. Would they now accept terms granting them
a nation-state of their own? No. In 1967 the Egyptians, Syrians, and Jordanians massed their troops and, this time, the
Six-Day War was an overwhelming defeat costing them vast tracts of land, the Golan Heights, the Sinai desert, East
Jerusalem, the West Bank.
What was their response? The defeated Arab nations convened a conference from which they issued their now-famous
Three No’s: No to peace with Israel. No to recognition of Israel. No to any negotiation with Israel.
Israel’s response has been to negotiate at every opportunity. The Israelis negotiated with Egypt and returned the Sinai.
They negotiated “land for peace” with Yassir Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Front in Oslo, Norway. TheIsraelis were
rewarded with the infamous Intifada that escalated into a series of suicide bombings. Finally, the Israelis built a high wall
between themselves and the Palestinians in Gaza. These days the wall is breached daily by mortars and rockets that
continue to rain down on towns adjacent to that hellish place.
The Israelis withdrew from southern Lebanon, occupied to avoid constant shelling of Israel's northern cities and towns,
hoping that would bring peace. No. That ultimately led to more shelling and a short war in 2006. The Israeli failure to
destroy Hezbollah last year was hailed as a great “victory” by the Arabs.
Earlier the Israeli government had unilaterally withdrawn from the Gaza strip, literally dragging their own citizens who lived
there from their homes. Surely that would secure peace? No.
That led to a civil war between Hamas, whose entire political platform is the destruction of Israel, and Fatah, backed by the
U.S.A. in the vain hope that Fatah might negotiate peace — at last — with Israel.
Americans began to pay attention when, in 1979, the “Islamic Revolution” in Iran led to U.S. diplomats being held hostage
for 444 days. What kind of nation takes people hostage these days? An Islamic one. And what kind of people
commandeers four jet airliners and fly them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon? Muslims.
The root cause of strife in the Middle East is not Israel, a tiny nation with about six million inhabitants -- one that is
surrounded by twenty-two Arab nations with 300 million people. Even if Israel did not exist, the root cause of the terrorism
and wars is Islam, the “religion of peace” embraced throughout that fetid, backward, cesspool of corruption and oppression.
What the Arabs of the Middle East offer is what Islam offers, only the peace of the grave if nations and men do not bow
down to their threats and violence. It is the power of “no.”
The global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000 -- 20% of the world’s population, as compared with the global
Jewish population of 14,000,000, i.e., about 0.02% of the world’s population.
If one looks at Nobel Prizes awarded since 1910, one Muslim earned a prize in literature. Among the four awarded a Peace
Prize were Egypt’s Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat, who was assassinated for negotiating the return of the Sinai, and Yasser
Arafat, who never brought a moment’s peace to the Palestinians. Two Muslims received prizes for medicine. Two Muslims
have received a prize for economics. By contrast, the list of Jews receiving Nobel Prizes in all categories takes up several
pages.
Which world do you want to live in?
Compare Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, Khartoum, or Mogadishu with any of cities of the West. Part of the world is insane,
held in the grip of a “religion” spread by the sword and maintained by insuring that enlightenment of any kind is feared and
destroyed. It is a world in which tiny children are taught to embrace murder and death.
Americans cannot understand such people. Americans cannot understand that the Islamic practice of deceit and war is
deemed critical to the expansion of this “religion.”
America and the West are at a crossroads of history. The terrorism that would return us to a dark age ruled by Islam must be
resisted.
We can begin by supporting Israel, by supporting our troops on the front lines of wherever the conflict takes them, and by
affirming the power of “Yes,” the power that flows from freedom and liberty.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
Israel & the Arabs -- The Israeli-Arab Conflict
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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International Politics & World Disorder:
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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