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Jewish World Review
January 13, 2010
/ 27 Teves 5770
Reject Politically Correct ‘Educated Class’
By
Tony Blankley
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Anti-anti-Islamic radicalism is growing amongst Western elites. In the
aftermath of the Fort Hood Islamist terror attack on our troops by
United States Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and the Christmas day airline
Islamist terror attack attempt, it is becoming ever more obvious that
there is a widening gap between public common sense and governing class
idiocy when it comes to spotting Islamist danger in our midst — and
doing something about it.
Against all evidence, it has become an idee fixe in the collective mind
of European and American governments, academe, journalism and foreign
policy establishments that radical Muslims in the West are the victims
of Western bigotry and cultural hostility — rather than, primarily, the
other way around. Dangerously, these attitudes continue to shape both
the premises and procedures of government policies even after nine years
of post-Sept. 11 evidence to the contrary. The slaughtered American
troops at Fort Hood are just among the early few in what will surely
become whole legions of the dead victims of political correctness — if
the public does not soon succeed at overruling the Western governing
elite's unconscionable moral blindness to the malign danger in our
midst.
This willful refusal to look Islamist/Western reality straight-on is
epitomized by a series of recent articles that mostly sneer at even a
discussion of the threat. As one of the constantly named authors of
recent books (along with Mark Steyn, Oriana Fallaci, Bernard Lewis,
Bruce Bawer, Bat Ye'or and Christopher Caldwell) that are alleged to be
guilty of seeing evidence of an Islamist cultural (as well as terrorist)
threat to the West, I thought it might be time to respond.
Among other articles that criticize me and the other named authors are: A Eurabian
Civil War" by British Independent columnist Johann Hari; "Why Fears of a Muslim
Takeover Are All Wrong" in Newsweek by William Underhill; "Eurabian Follies" in
Foreign Policy magazine by former French Foreign Ministry official Justin Vaisse;
and "'Eurabia' Debunked" in Commentary Magazine online, by (the always polite and
thoughtful — an exception to the rule) Max Boot.
My contribution to the oeuvre of radical Islamist alarmism was my 2005
book, "The West's Last Chance," which, by the way, predicted the
terrorist attack in London, Muslim riots in Paris, worldwide violent
Muslim reaction to blasphemous Western artistic representations and the
emergence of growing acquiescence to Sharia law in the West.
It is hard to know whether the authors (and the majority elite opinion
they represent) don't get it, or don't want to get it. For example, on
the question of whether Europe could become increasingly culturally
dominated by Islam as the 21st century unfolds, all the articles
question the demographic projections (which, in my and some other books,
are official United Nations data.). The authors make the triumphant case
that it will be generations, if then, before Islam is a majority in
Europe. (Which is also what I conclude in my book).
What they choose to ignore is the already obviously powerful impact of
even very small numbers of determined people in a host country riddled
with guilt and political correctness. The dead at Fort Hood are
testament to radical Islam's success already at inducing the U.S. Army
to treat an obviously dangerous Muslim officer preferentially. His
conduct — if by a Christian, Jew or atheist —surely would have been
stopped well before the slaughters started.
More dangerous, is the (simplistic and obvious) self-satisfied assertion
that we are unduly alarmed of a danger from radical Muslims in the West
because it is a "myth (that there exists) a united Islam, a bloc capable
of collective and potentially dangerous action. The truth is that there
are no powerful Muslim political movements in Europe, either
continent-wide or at the national level, and the divisions that separate
Muslims wordwide, most obviously between Sunnis and Shiites, are
apparent in Europe as well." (Newsweek, July 11, 2009, William
Underhill.)
Neither I, nor to the best of my knowledge any of the other criticized
authors, have asserted that a caliphate, or anything like it, was likely
to re-emerge. The already present danger — which will only expand if
not checked — is a constant cultural intrusion that will change
adversely the very nature of our way of life.
Radical Islam doesn't have to win elections (or even win street riots)
if they win by intimidation the policies and conduct they seek. For
example, as I warned in my book (and came about in the Danish cartoon
event a few years ago) the threat of radical Muslim violence succeeded
in coercing all but two American newspapers and most European newspapers
from exercising their free speech and press right to publish the Danish
cartoon.
In fact, just a few weeks ago, the cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, was
attacked in his home by a Somali Muslim aroused by the alleged
blasphemy. Shockingly, most European journalistic commentary argued that
Western writers and artists should, for prudence sake, abstain from such
expression.
But it is worse than imprudent for Americans (or Europeans) to give up
freedoms and ways of life that have been defended for centuries by the
martial sacrifice of our ancestors (and current warriors) — and by the
intellectual courage of our writers and artists — just because our
morally feeble, self-proclaimed "educated class" and elites have lost
the will to defend our civilization.
As the American people arise to take back our government and our
property this November, we should also seek out candidates who are not
afraid to oppose such threats to our way of life.
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