11/9/2007: Commentary: Ideologies-Multiculturalism A Plus for Islam:
Slowly Destroying Our Culture:

Part of the reason that the West is having so much difficulty grasping
how to both completely understand and properly address Islamic
terrorism is the context in which the so-called war on terror is
playing out. That context is a broader clash of ideology that
encompasses far more than a clash of civilizations.

There are three major ideologies competing for influence in the World
today - Secularism, Christianity and Islam. All three ideologies have
internal divisions and there are other competing, relatively minor
ideologies that add to the overall complexity.

Part of the problem the West is having in resisting Islam and in
recognizing the degree of the threat posed by Islam is the culture war
between the Secular Left and the vestige of Christian culture
remaining in Western society. This cultural war between these Western
ideologies is acting much like the conflict between the Byzantine
Empire and the Persian Empire in the Seventh Century. It is making
both vulnerable to Islam.

In addition to the culture war in the West, the Secular Left has
developed an ideology with beliefs that have become so strong that
they act much like religious belief. Those beliefs are deeply
affecting resistance to advancing Islam. One of those beliefs is
multiculturalism. At its best, multiculturalism has some great truth
to it. It has taught Westerners to appreciate that which can be
appreciated in other cultures and to accept that which is acceptable
in other cultures. Multiculturalism at its best has helped offset a
natural tendency toward unbridled xenophobia.

At its worst, however, multiculturalism has created a situation
wherein all facets of other cultures must be accepted -- no matter how
malevolent -- at risk of great penalty to those who refuse to do so.
That penalty for unorthodoxy is ostracism and the label of bigot or
racist for refusing to accept any and all foreign cultures and
religions as equally worthy.

This dark side of multiculturalism results in the West's refusal to
take an appropriate stand against Islam. The Secular Left, for
example, makes excuses for Islamic treatment of women and other
intolerant behavior that it would condemn with violent ferocity if
exhibited by Westerners. Multiculturalism makes some Westerners refuse
to even admit that Islam raises serious dangers. It forces many to
claim that Islam itself is not to be feared. Multiculturalism acts
much like the Aztec mythology that led the Aztecs to believe the
Spaniards were returning Gods and which allowed the Spaniards to
obtain a strategic advantage before the battle lines were ever drawn.

Multiculturalism is having the same effect on Western culture. It is
allowing Islam to make major inroads into Western culture and it is
hindering the fight against Islam. In fact, it is hindering the
recognition of exactly what the enemy is and what drives the enemy. So
much so that we are fighting a war on terror and not a war on the
religion that drives that terror and which will continue to drive that
terror until it is contained. By the time Westerners realize the
degree of the mortal threat presented by Islam, they may well find
themselves in the same untenable position as the Aztecs.

Even the suggestion that it is Islam that threatens peace and safety
and that it is Islam that we must contain causes many Westerners to
cry "bigot." Such a suggestion, you see, is like a heresy to an
ideology driven by multiculturalism.

It is the interplay between the cultural war and the threat of Islam
that may well cause catastrophic damage to the West. Islam should be
easily contained by the West given the West's vastly superior
technology and resources. But to hear many Leftists describe the
current state of affairs, they fear Christianity more than Islam. They
perceive George Bush as far more evil than Osama bin Laden. They see
the United States as the greatest threat to World peace and they
search far and wide for intellectuals like Ward Churchill and Noam
Chomsky to tell them why that is so. Many Leftists are so steeped in
anti-Western belief that they see the events of 9/11 as a Western
conspiracy. Such disunity is allowing Islam to continue to advance
into parts of the West where it has never had any prior significant
influence. It is simply the nature of the advance by immigration,
propaganda, and disinformation that has changed.

Islam has advanced because of ignorance and oil money. Left-leaning
Secularists seized control of a large segment of Western education
and, therefore, dominate much of the formal public education that
occurs in the West. These Leftists use control of the education system
to advance multiculturalism. They have either willingly or deceptively
played a role in the re-writing of the history of Islam such that many
Westerners have no idea how much destruction and horror the religion
has historically caused. Ask many Westerners when Islam and
Christianity first came into conflict and many will ignorantly and
adamantly swear it was when the "evil West" attacked "peaceful
Muslims" during the Crusades. Leftists ignore or rationalize the
hundreds of years of assault on Europe and other civilizations by
Islamic invaders leading up to the Crusades.

Many Westerners are repeatedly spoon fed every possible criticism of
Western culture that fertile minds can imagine, but any negatives
about other cultures are often ignored or rationalized. In fact,
negatives of other cultures are even blamed on Western culture. Ask
Noam Chomsky and he will tell you that what went wrong with Islamic
culture occurred as a result of Western Imperialism. As Bernard Lewis
has pointed out, Noam Chomsky seems oblivious that something else must
have gone wrong to allow the West to become so relatively strong that
it could, after centuries of nearly being overwhelmed by Islamic
invaders, now dominate the Islamic world. To many Leftists, Noam
Chomsky is the foremost expression of political morality and
enlightenment in the West. The irony that foreign tyrants such as Hugo
Chavez that express a rabid hatred of the United States find Noam
Chomsky equally appealing seems not to faze them.

In all fairness, the political Right is at least as blameworthy as the
Left for the massive transfer of wealth to the Middle East in exchange
for oil. That wealth has given the Islamic world the financial
wherewithal to spread Islamic doctrine worldwide. It was nothing more
than ignorance as to the nature of Islam that allowed such a massive
wealth transfer to occur with little, if any, understanding of the
long-term implications. In fact, even when the undisputed evidence
revealed that the oil wealth was funding radical Islam within our own
borders, very little was done to stop it. Even worse, very little can
be done to stop it without amending the Constitution. The First
Amendment of the United States Constitution is being used as a weapon
against us to shield the spread of an ideology that expressly seeks to
undermine our society and the very First Amendment that allows its
advance. Leftists will never allow an amendment to the Constitution
that would allow anyone to halt the spread of radical Islamic doctrine
even though the values advanced by the Left seem quite at odds with
Islamic doctrine.

In summary, all attempts to contain Islam and resist the terrorism
caused by Islamic doctrine takes place in the context of a Western
cultural war. Leftists seem more interested in continuing to fight
that cultural war and to treat encroaching Islam as a weapon in that
cultural war rather than uniting with the vestiges of Christian
culture to defeat an enemy that is a mortal threat to both Western
belief systems.

It is not necessarily that all Leftists are ignorant as to Islamic
doctrine, many choose to ignore the threat for a variety of reasons.
Many Leftists seem to believe that they must deny the reality of Islam
to avoid fanning the flames of war or to avoid betraying the
principles of multiculturalism.

Leftists can no more admit that multiculturalism taken to its extreme
is dangerous than can Muslims admit that Jihadist doctrine is immoral
and dangerous. Both groups are slaves to their ideology and beliefs.
While the West fights a war on terror, the cause of that terror
continues its assault on Western Civilization not only unopposed, but
welcomed as a desirable addition to the multicultural mix. This is
true despite the fact that the overwhelming evidence in Europe reveals
that when Muslim immigrants become sufficiently strong, they will oust
most other cultural influences and most non-Muslims from any area in
which Muslims predominate and they will not only not assimilate, but
will seek to turn their host culture into a part of the Islamic world.

The evidence reveals that some Muslims will also terrorize the host
culture. This is not to say that all Muslims will participate. Most
will not do so. But a significant enough percentage will and the rest
will, perhaps inadvertently, act as a shield to hide and legitimize
that portion that will seek to destroy us.

How long will it be before, for example, no non-Muslims will even dare
venture into all or part of Dearborn Michigan? When it happens do not
think for a minute that Leftists will recognize their error. Rather,
they will claim that it is poverty, racism, bigotry, discrimination or
some mix thereof causing the problem and that, you guessed it, we can
solve the problem by implementing the Leftist political agenda.

Many Leftists have such a rabid hatred of Western culture that has
been indoctrinated into them and indelibly imprinted on their psyche
that many of them no longer seem to even believe that Western culture
should be preserved. If anything, they seem to have a vision of what
Western culture could become that is worth preserving.

Leftists seem as destined as Fifth Century Romans in the western half
of the empire to experience the destruction of their culture by a less
advanced culture and for many of the same reasons.
Our democracy can only withstand so much Islamic influence. We will
either stem the tide of Islamic influence or our culture will either
disappear or become so altered that it will be unrecognizable. It may
take fifty years or it may take five hundred years, but it will happen
if we do not alter the course we are on.