Our Posturer-in-Chief has no grasp on the reality of radical Islam’s goals. He apparently believes that Hamas and Al Qaeda and the growing number of contagious madrassas are merely a miniscule fraction of the whole of Islam, a tiny cadre of loosely associated extremists. Rather than confront the demented idealogues who would bomb us, or shoot us, or behead us, and defend ourselves against the hatred, the violence, the destruction they plant and nurture, he prefers to handle them as minor irritants guilty only of misdemeanor annoyances against reactionary American hotheads who deserve the annihilation they preach.
He seems locked into the idea that if the burr under their saddle were removed, they would all return to their traditional existences as nomadic traders trekking the trackless sands of East Africa and West Asia carrying exotic spices, hand-woven carpets, goat cheese, and dates across borders in exchange for out-of-date rifles, watches, trinkets, and beads.
Toward that perception’s becoming real, he is perfectly willing to kick Israel to the curb (along with his maternal grandmother and that pesky Constitution thingy) and allow thugs and lunatics to spew their vile rancor and malevolence into the waters the next generation will have to drink from.
He just doesn’t get it. For some reason he is unable to comprehend that although a great majority of the world’s Muslims aren’t particularly interested in blowing up things or murdering Jews or destroying the Great Satan, they’re not much inclined to stop those who do. In fact, the nearly one billion who would call themselves “moderate” will quicker align themselves with fellow worshippers of Allah and Muhammad than with the corrupt and sinful Westerners who mostly follow no god at all.
The whole idea of Islam, in fact the word itself, means “obedience.” It is a global imperative, and the duty of every true Muslim is to offer Islam to the infidel and then slay him if he rejects it. Jews, Copts, Catholics, Baptists, Buddhists, Hindus, and everybody else are potential enemies, threats to the goal of total submission, obstacles to the establishment of a world order based on the Qur’an and Shari’a law.
In that aspect, Muslims are raised very much like hive insects, trained from infancy to blindly obey the rules of the queen. They learn to read by memorizing the Qur’an, and all that they experience in their formative years is filtered and shaped by some bitter cleric’s interpretation of carefully selected surahs.
In an anthill, for example, all is driven by hormones issued by the queen. If she sprays a hormone on a worker which identifies it as dead, the other workers will pick it up and throw it on the dead-ant pile, whether it’s actually dead or not. If it gets up and walks away, not being dead after all, they’ll simply grab it and throw it on the dead-ant pile again. It’s a chemical imperative which overrides any and all other impulses in their tiny little ant brains.
The same happens with Muslims. If the local imam, or the regional mullah, or an important ayatollah declares a fatwah, no alternatives exist: the fatwah must be followed. It’s the same mentality as the hajj: each Muslim MUST, if he is physically able, go to Mecca and mill around in a trance, circling the Qa’aba and muttering memorized excerpts from a long-dead drug addict’s hallucinatory garblings.
The book declares that the god of Muhammad gave Islam to mankind as the final edition of the true path, that it is for all mankind for all time, and all other options are negated and void. Muslims can no more deny or disobey that edict than a bee can refuse to bring nectar back to the hive for the good of all.
The ultimate end will justify all means employed in its achievement in the Muslim mind. Beheadings, revolutions, combat, atomic weapons, economic warfare, lying, stealing, cheating . . . all is fair in establishing the global caliphate. Negotiating, bargaining, compromising, cooperating . . . all are useful for short-term gains, but completely expendable in the long term. Deals made can be broken in the name of Islam; compromises can be reversed; bargains recalled; and negotiations terminated. Stalling for time through semantics or overt lies while upgrading yellowcake to weapons grade material is good in Allah’s sight so long as the end product is used to smite the enemies of Islam.
Our Kumbayatic Apologist-in-Chief could see that only if his speechwriter scrolled it up his teleprompter. The concept is too simple, too clear, too real to get past the paranoid filters and Chicago mentality of his I’m-too-cool-to-fail mindset.
He cannot hear the laughter of the Kims, the Ahmadinejads, the Assads, the Sauds over the siren call of his legacy lullaby. He cannot see the danger of Islam’s insect mentality, lost in the ripples of his Narcissus pool. He cannot understand that world leadership and political campaigning are not interchangeable synonyms, and that speechmaking and socialism do not produce strength and wealth.
The Great New World Experiment is about to collapse into rubble because the democratic process has finally selected a government which cannot see the jungle for the ferns; which fails to understand that Islam wants only conquest, not cooperation; which believes that the people exist to serve it, not the other way around.
