It seems to me that the West[1] is undergoing a transformational change the like of which it has never seen before. It might compare with the Mughal conquests or the expansion of the USSR with lower mortality. It is a change wrought by ideologies[2], yet most Westerners seem insensitive to them, or acquiesce without demur. In this journal I aim to act as witness to this unopposed revolution.
April 2024
WHILE ‘LONE WOLF’ ATTACKS CONTINUE at a reduced level (or
less-reported, or nipped in the bud), identifying them as Islamist requires
some reading between the lines. The
recent Sydney attack on a bishop was called a ‘religiously-motivated terrorist
act’ but even though only Muslims carry out such things, one had to look for
witnesses saying they heard Allahu akbar, or mention of their
prophet. A lynch mob formed outside in
a similar reaction to the Irish attack of November 2023, which may show an
increasing trend. Meanwhile, police had
to defend
the terrorist designation against criticism from a Muslim leader who said “Why
are we so quick to jump to a definition of terrorism when religion is
involved?” The conflict here was that the day before a man attacked women in a
mall but was defined as mad, not a terrorist, and the bishop’s attacker was cited
as having “known
mental health issues.” This was
followed by the usual tawriya[3] of “Islam is the
religion of love and peace” from a Muslim
bystander. We may not find out if
the perp was primed to commit such an offence, as a useful idiot in service of
Islam’s policy of retributive subsidiarity[4],
or just someone who read the Koran and acted conscientiously on its demands.
No comment, of course, on the purpose that these apparently random attacks
serve. That is, as a reminder to non-Muslims
that any criticism of Islam may be met with extreme violence. Not every time, but enough to act as ‘intermittent
reinforcement’, sufficient to control behaviour. It’s a remarkably effective tool of conquest.
FIANZ CHAIRMAN advises
Muslims to be careful following the attack on the Sydney bishop. The
indication here is of retribution, an Islamic and Middle Eastern concept, not
Christian or Western. It is an example
of occidentalism, the application of Middle Eastern principles to the West and
the corollary of Edward Said’s Orientalism.
PAUL BUCHANAN IS EDUCATED, ERUDITE AND ARTICULATE, but like so many academics, however much he thinks he knows about Islam he does not understand it. In a recent column he robustly declares that the attack on the Sydney bishop was a hate crime, and not terrorism because it lacked ulterior motive. So I commented that from an Islamic perspective it was punishment for insulting Islam and that the result of this is the same effect as terrorism. That is, the use of violence to bring attention to a political issue, that of insulting Islam, and to act as a warning against repeating it. The list of similar victims is endless, not just the bishop, or Salman Rushdie, Asad Shah, Hitoshi Igarashi, Sir David Arness and MP Mike Freer. I commented as if I were addressing an intelligent and educated person and got a string of abuse in reply – ‘…obsessive hatred…nonsensical self-styled notion …trolling …bigotry …” I learned my lesson - don’t treat people as if they were intelligent, treat them as if they were 14 years old. I rewrote it with the same arguments and Buchanan wrote back, “Your response is a considered one although we shall have to disagree on your conclusion.”
THIS YEAR IS ELECTION YEAR for around half the world’s population. At a local level, politicians must assess the issues affecting their electorates and campaign accordingly. For the most part these are bread-and-butter issues, but demographic changes have brought about increasing references to the Muslim voter bloc. Both Biden and Trump are taking care not to offend them. Writer Benedict Spence commented elliptically on Spiked that ‘most people vote on their own situations. but we have to accept, having admitted a lot of people from parts of the world for whom Israel is an important thing and not challenged it, this is something increasing that the Labour Party is going to have to come to terms with at a local level in certain constituencies in the north and the Midlands.’ The Muslim constituency is a difficult one for politicians to track. In the past, the Left has supported, and been supported by, immigrant communities, of whom the Islamic one coheres most tightly. But ‘Muslims as immigrants’ is changing as more are born in the West, and more leave the ‘economically marginalised’ group as fully employed property owners. There is a paradox, however, in that the Left also supports gay rights and family dissolution and these are anathema to pious Muslims. Civil liberties and rights of free speech were once favoured by the Left but pressure from the Muslim bloc is curtailing them. To some extent this will leave the Muslim bloc bereft of representation, and could, I predict, lead to the creation of Islamic parties in the West.
[1] Principally the Anglophone nations of Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, plus western Europe. Its morality is founded upon Greco-Roman Judeo-Christian principles, aided greatly by civil rights developed and spread by Britain.
[2] For the purposes of this essay, I use ‘ideology’ defined as a set of beliefs promoted by activists with a goal often initiated by a book or scripture (as with Mein Kampf, Silent Spring, Das Kapital, The Holy Koran, Gender Trouble, etc.), maintaining dynamic social movements in current affairs.
[3] Tawriya [tauriya]- the deception of intentionally creating a false impression. It is a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances—including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah—provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a way that is true to him. The authoritative Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary defines tawriya as, "hiding, concealment; dissemblance, dissimulation, hypocrisy; equivocation, ambiguity, double-entendre, and allusion." Also, evasion, from On Taqiyya – Or on How Not to Lie by Qusthan Firdaus
[4] Subsidiarity is the principle that authority to act on any issue is given at the lowest level consistent with its resolution. Islamic doctrine requires revenge to be taken in line with the law of retribution, lex talionis, and there is an obligation on Muslims to carry this out. Islam requires every Muslim to enjoin right and forbid wrong, known in Arabic as hisbah, which is the enforcement of sharia and upholding community morals. Scriptural support comes from Koran 3:110 and the sahih hadith (an-Nawawi 34) “Whoever amongst you sees an evil, he must change it with his hand. If he is not able to do so, then with his tongue. And if he is not able to do so, then with his heart, and that is the weakest form of faith.”
