THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 30, February 9, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AMERICA MUST PRESERVE ITS CULTURE
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICAN CULTURE, THE COUNTERCULTURE, & ISLAMISM -- PRESERVATION OF AMERICA'S JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE:
ESSENTIAL TO AN EFFECTIVE DEFENSE OF THE U.S.A. AGAINST THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD & THE INROADS OF
ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- THE FUTILITY OF ATTEMPTING TO PERPETUATE AMERICA'S NATIONAL CHARACTER & SOCIETAL
STABILITY IN THE ABSENCE OF ADHERENCE TO COMMON RELIGIOUS & MORAL PRINCIPLES
FULL STORY:
Throughout Europe and the Middle East, people are dying. Some of them are
non-violent and innocent of any wrongdoing. Yet they die, and buildings
burn, the result of anger against Western Civilization erupting from
outraged Muslims. But, with so much of the West having diligently endeavored
over the years to reach out to this socalled “religion of peace,” how could such
things be happening, and in the name of Islam?
The incendiary event that triggered all of the controversy was the
publication of some cartoons that lampooned Mohammed.
By Western standards, those taking offense to the cartoons have every right
to disparage them. Moreover, within the boundaries of countries where their
religion is dominant (and by its very definition, that dominance is
absolute), they have the right to forbid their dissemination. But clearly,
from the scope and intensity of the recent demonstrations, the protesters
want, and believe they have the right to demand, something much greater.
In essence, they insist that their religious views be forcibly upheld on a
universal basis. And either the governments from whom they are demanding
such enforcement will comply with their wishes, or they will ensure
compliance by any available means.
Consider the significance of such forced religious observance from a people
who collectively yawned, and in some cases celebrated, when, on September 11, 2001, America was
attacked and three thousand of its citizens were brutally slaughtered.
While some notable Muslim authorities offered tepid condolences to the U.S.A.,
their remarks were often accompanied by admonitions to the U.S.A. for its
ostensible culpability in provoking the Islamist terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, on the Arab “street,”
truer sentiments were much more blatantly displayed.
Subsequent to the terrorist attacks, the name “Osama” saw an enormous surge in
popularity among Muslim parents of newborn male children. As PLO leader
Yassir Arafat made a very public display of donating blood on behalf of the
victims, the Palestinian inhabitants of Gaza and Ramallah openly reveled and
celebrated in their streets.
Certainly, nowhere among such people was any display of anger or remorse
remotely comparable to the public outcry now unfolding in response to the
Danish cartoons.
Nor is the Islamic world showing a comparable degree of alarm or disapproval
for the venomous and belligerent reactions to the cartoons. Any protests
among Muslims of the deaths, threats of death, violence, and destruction of
property are minuscule in relation to their unbridled condemnation of the
cartoons.
What, then, can be said about the sympathies and sentiments of those presently
generating so much strife? In short, they prove that they believe themselves
to be granted authority (called by “Allah,” if you will), to determine and
establish immutable standards by which all of humanity must be governed. And
to such standards, no room for flexibility or debate exists.
Europe’s abandonment of the Judeo-Christian foundations of its culture
during the last century has left it devoid of any firewall against the
enormous encroaching pressures of militant Islam. Certainly its insipid and
fanciful premises of “social justice” and post-modernism are no match for
Islamic zeal.
Now, the once-great continent is left scrambling to offer any believable
reason why its institutions and culture should be immune to the prohibitions
of the Islamists. And for the preservation of their future, Europeans have
little more to hope for than the benevolence of an ideology that knows no
such concept.
Though such social and countercultural entities have not been nearly so
successful in America, it is inarguable that they are working diligently to
similarly bring down the stabilizing institutions of this country’s
heritage.
Thus, it is ominously noteworthy that a major portion of the American Liberal Leftist
media establishment apparently remains indifferent to the threat posed by
this global assertion of Islamic law.
Worse yet, many are astoundingly willing to comply with it. To date, few if
any American newspapers have published the disputed cartoons. Yet these same
individuals would immediately sound a clarion call if any Christian
organization were perceived to be flexing its muscles in an attempt to
similarly influence society.
In his farewell address, George Washington emphasized the importance of
morality to the nation’s character and stability, while warning of the
futility of attempting to perpetuate such things in the absence of religious
principle.
So, while America faces internal societal decay from a counterculture that
seeks to eradicate the nation's Judeo-Christian heritage, far more dire consequences
may result. Success of the counterculture may also provide the gaping wound
through which could surge a far more menacing malignancy, a malignancy such as Islamism.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Culture, Patriotism, & American National Identity
Religion, Secularism, & America
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Terrorism & American Homeland Security
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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