Posted by
Nikko on Monday, August 28, 2006 4:28:45 PM
Some
have made the assertion that Islam was “born in the full light of
history.” That statement is incorrect since “the full light” is but the
reflected glimmer of medieval Muslim scholars, men who themselves were
believers and, therefore, of necessity, apologists.
I am sure
that you have heard it said that “September 11 changed America
forever.” That is a given, but no where do we hear a definitive and
coherent explanation of just what, exactly, changed. What changed,
other than the fact that we Americans were attacked on our own soil,
but for the first time in American history we have been forced to
confront an Islamic militancy that has been assaulting the rest of the
world for almost 14 centuries.
This advice is taken from the article by Michael Medved of August l6, 2006, “Does U.S. Bigotry cause Muslim madness”
“The
best way to respond to aggressive, triumphalist religiosity from the
Muslim community isn’t to insist on more tolerance, or even acceptance,
of Islamic demands; nor can we hope to counteract the allure of
Jihadist ideology with ringing affirmations of easy-going secularism.
Given the deep-seated human hunger for connection with a Supreme Being,
the nearly universal yearning to draw closer to eternal truth, it’s not
possible to beat something (radical Islam) with nothing (secular
agnosticism). In this sense, the United States, with our robust
movement of Christian revival, counts as far better equipped for the
struggle ahead than our European allies where traditional faith of all
kinds (except for Islam) has largely collapsed. Even skeptics and
non-believers ought to welcome the vigor of Christian evangelism as the
most effective counterweight to fundamentalist Islam. If those three
British bomb plot suspects who converted to Islam had instead found
their way to Pentecostal Christianity, or traditional Catholicism, or
the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints, would they ever have
considered killing themselves to blow planes out of the sky?
The
problem with Muslim communities in the US and Europe isn’t that they
face discrimination from their neighbors; it’s that they receive
dysfunctional, delusional teaching in too many of their own mosques.
And the way to overcome that teaching isn’t to demand more respect from
infidel non-believers, but to respond to the Islamic challenge with an
energetic assertion of more positive and productive religious
alternatives.”
This assasination of our American Character
indicates, at least to me, that we need to free ourselves from the grip
of Enlightenment conspirators, secular humanists, who have attempted to
replace our Christian attitude and strength in this country , as they
have in Europe, with a system of morals and philosophy which is, in the
words of Winston Churchill, “as malevolent as Christianity was
benevolent, which, if not arrested would shatter irretrievably all that
Christianaty has rendered possible.” This malignant worldview “has been
the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century.
This worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and the
reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of
envious malevolence, and impossible equality has been steadily growing.”
Some years after the Constitution had been ratified by the
several
States, James Bryce, a British statesman who served as Britain’s
ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913, and a keen observer
of the American Republic and its form of government, Lord Bryce was to
note that,
“America is all of a piece, its institutions are a product of
its economic and social conditions, an expression of its
character.” That is to say that The Republic, its rule by law and
reliance on principles that do not change, is not a cause but an
effect of our national character.