A New Dark Age Is Dawning
Islam is now busy
establishing itself here in the West; indeed, it is the fastest-growing
religion in the West today. Therefore, the West is in great danger of being
taken back 1400 years to a bygone age, an altogether less enlightened age, a
dark age.
Mark Alexander, Author: The Dawning of a New Dark Age: A Collection of
Essays on Islam
Islam:
The enemy of democracy and freedom!
Until 9/11, the western world was largely ignorant of the religion of Islam, of
its goals, of its aspirations. Indeed, even since 9/11, most people, and that
includes our politicians, would not score very highly in a test of their
knowledge on the subject. It should be obvious to all thinking people that our
politicians are actually unaware, dare I say blind, to the dangers that Islam
will increasingly cause us. It is truly a case of the blind leading the
blind! That means to say, uninformed and unthinking politicians leading an
ill-informed electorate. But folks, this is what we have right now. The same
can hardly be said of Muslims in the Islamic world, though; for their knowledge
of Christianity far surpasses - even though much of their knowledge is quite
distorted - any knowledge of Islam by the man in the street in the West.
As the old saying goes, knowledge is power. But what we often don't hear
uttered is its converse: Ignorance is weakness!
The West is far weaker than it need be because of this ignorance of Islam,
since Islam is our greatest enemy. The greatest enemy since
Nazism and communism. I'll give you some good reasons why this is so.
And none of them - absolutely none of them - are based on hatred!
Islam is the enemy of the West for a plethora of good, solid reasons, and if we
wish to survive as a civilization, we are going to have to bite the bullet and
deal, head on, with the issues these reasons raise. Let us begin...
First and foremost, we are dealing with a religion which does not recognize any
separation of politics and religion, any separation of the political from the
spiritual. For Muslims, life is one coherent whole: the political and spiritual
both meld into one. This has always been so, and always will be. No
reclassification of the religion into two separate parts is possible because of
Islam's very nature.
In Islam, all power rests with Allah, the god of Muslims. The Qur'an, their holy book, is always taken literally. Those
words are considered to be the actual words of Allah. Therefore, none of these
words can be changed, for to change any of them would be tantamount to
tampering with Allah's words. This would be a grave sin in their eyes.
For the same reason that the words contained in the Qur'an
cannot be changed, they cannot, therefore, be re-interpreted either. So do not
hold your breath for any kind of reformation in this religion, because it ain't gonna happen!
In Islam, all power rests with Allah, and it filters down via his vice-gerents
on earth to the people. Hence the great desire among Muslims to restore the
caliphate. Contrast this with the Western model of government!
In the West, the ideal political system is democracy. In democracy, all power
rests with the people, and they exercise that power at the polls. In a
democracy, all power filters in the opposite direction from Islam. In democracy
it filters up; in Islam, down! Herein lies the
greatest barrier to the miscibility of the two worlds: the western world and
the Islamic world!
Without digressing too much here, I should like to add that this is the main
reason why George W Bush and Blair's venture into Iraq to bring democracy there
was a grave error of judgment. How can one bring democracy to a region of the
world where the people who inhabit that region believe that all power rests
with Allah, and where they believe that Allah has prescribed their way of life
for them for then, for now, and for all time?
I would suggest that where such a dichotomy exists, the most sensible and
prudent thing to do would be for us to lead our lives as we see fit, and for
those people to be allowed to live their lives as they see fit. That way, there
would be hope of some peace in this world.
But this is not what we have done. We have done the very opposite of this: We
have entered the Middle East in the hope - the vain hope in my opinion - of
bringing our way of doing things, our way of life, to them; furthermore, we
have allowed millions and millions of Muslims into the West - and at the very
time when Christianity, the religion which underpins the West, is greatly
weakened anyway - which will only give us headaches for the years ahead. Why? Because Muslims who immigrate bring their hopes and dreams and
aspirations with them of establishing Islam everywhere on earth. To
Islamize the world is the main aspiration of the Muslim; and we have seen these
past weeks, the manifestation of aggression in its cause in France. For what
happened in France was in no small part because of the Muslim's desire to
establish Allah's caliphate here on earth. These were the first rumblings, the
first roar of the lion! Expect more of this in the future, as Islam grows
stronger and stronger.
Muslims, by and large, do not respect non-Muslims. How can they? Their religion
does not allow them to do so. Their religion preaches that Muslims are superior
to non-Muslims; indeed, they use the derogatory term infidel for us.
This word to some Westerners might simply mean that they call us infidels
because we are people who do not subscribe to their faith. This, after all,
would be quite logical, since to us it simply means not fidele,
or not true to the faith. But this does not completely describe what Muslims
mean by this term. To Muslims, to be called an infidel is an insult indeed! It
has connotations of inferiority, backwardness, and even uncleanness!
You see, Muslims believe that Islam is the perfection of religion for man for
all time. They call it ad deen al kamal, the perfect religion. People, in their eyes, who
have not yet submitted to the will of Allah, are in a state of pre-Islamic
chaos, a state known to them as Jahiliyyah!
To Muslims, all Muslims, the whole world is classified in two parts: that part
of the world which has submitted, and is therefore in the Islamic state, known
as Dar al Islam, and that part of the world which has yet to submit, and
is therefore in a pre-Islamic, chaotic, jahiliyyic
state, known as Dar al Harb, or the House of
War!
The House of War is the part of the world which has yet to be taken over, and
must at some point be taken over in the future. We, I am sorry to inform you,
are in the House of War. So we can expect anything at anytime.
Some people would ask why we were able to go for quite a long time without
problems with Muslims. The answer to that is a simple one indeed. First of all,
there were relatively few Muslims living in the West, so the ones that did live
here were not powerful. Secondly, Muslims living in the Islamic world were, for
the most part and for many years, poor by anyone's standards. This all changed
with the Oil Embargo of the 70s - a time when the price of oil on the world
markets soared. As a result of this, the Islamic world became rich and
empowered. Money is power; and it talks loudly! In recent years we have seen
evidence aplenty of Islam being on the move. I tell you now: If we do not find
a way of clipping its wings here in the West, we shall lose our democracy, and
we shall be in deep, deep trouble.
So the trouble we will have with Muslims will not come only from without, but
in the future we can expect trouble from the Muslims within. The millions of
Muslims living here in the West will not integrate, because it is not in their
worldview to do so. It is also forbidden them by their very own Prophet
Himself, the Prophet Muhammad. He forbade Muslims even to befriend infidels. He
also exhorted them to kill us. And he certainly told them that they should live
separate lives, and dress and behave differently, so that they could easily
tell themselves apart.
No Western politician is going to be able to change these facts. For facts they
are indeed. Moreover, as Islam will grow here, their numbers will become
greater and greater, and they will be able to use our democratic system to
outvote us and introduce their form of government based as it is on their
beloved Shariah, or quranic
laws! How do you propose we shall be able to stop them? We shall be
outnumbered, and as the outcome of democratic elections depends on the number
of votes cast, we shall be able to do nothing about it! This time will come
quicker than we might think, because so few babies are being born to infidel
families.
The only thing left for people to do, will be to fight. Inevitably, at some
point, civil war will ensue. If the political process fails people, then this
will be all that will be left for them: civil war, guerre civile, Bürgerkrieg,
call it what you will.
But one thing I can assure you, no politicians' sweet talk, posturing, or manvring, will get us out of this one without conflict at
some point in the future.
You see, one of the biggest problems for the West is its devotion to the
concept of freedom of religion. This is a lofty concept and ideal indeed; but
this devotion blinds people to one important reality: Islam is not just a
religion, but a political system also. Indeed, it is more of a political system
than anything else, and it is, in addition, a political system diametrically
opposed to our own. It abhorrs freedom of choice,
freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of anything that we so cherish!
The only thing one is free to do in Islam is become a Muslim, and submit to the
will of Allah!
These two systems are totally immiscible, and unfortunately, we have imported
this immiscibility right into the heart of the West! To our
own great disadvantage, and to the disadvantage of our long term peace and
security. What, I ask you, will the Americans do when the ever growing
Muslim population in America starts wanting to tinker with the Americans'
beloved Constitution? When Muslims will see their way clear to supplant the Constituion with Shariah law?
Questions like these are the ones we should be grappling with NOW. To wait
until the time comes would be foolish indeed.
Wake up to the harsh realities of life in the twenty-first century! We've got
some collective thinking to do if we wish to save ourselves from darkness!
Perhaps we shall, indeed, be forced to think about having to re-classify Islam
as a political system first and foremost, a political system immiscible with
our own, and one whose advance needs to be forestalled. This may be one of our
only sensible alternatives. Since to give complete, unhampered freedom to Islam
to grow here in the West is tantamount to digging our own graves!
İMark Alexander