There is a new mood in the land.
Political correctness is changing people’s attitudes to many things, including
Islam. Political correctness is, in many ways, a middle class phenomenon.
People, especially the middle classes, either do not wish to be seen as
politically incorrect, or, because new laws have been passed, they are afraid
of being so. Political correctness and the politically correct laws that have
been passed can only help Muslims living in the West. Muslims are being
empowered in our societies like never before, and are being empowered ever more
as the months pass by. The changes taking place are subtle but sure. They are
going on almost unnoticed.
Because of the backing given
Muslims by political correctness, if one dares to criticize Islam, Muslims cry
foul and accuse that person of being phobic – Islamophobic.
Interestingly and disconcertingly, this political correctness doesn’t seem to
work the other way around. It no longer pays to tangle with Muslims!
It goes without saying that if
this trend continues, then it can only greatly help the Islamic cause.
Unwittingly, we are helping Muslims on their way to getting on top. Will laws
soon have to be passed to protect the non-Muslims in society? Or will this
unbalanced trend go on unabated?
Political correctness is a
particularly powerful tool for Muslims in the West. It is a movement and mood
few have the courage to go against. It makes people fearful of speaking out –
fearful of falling foul of the politically correct laws that have been passed
to protect minorities.
Whilst there is no doubt that
political correctness has helped many minority groups gain in strength, it does
have a downside: it prevents us from protecting our own culture. In the face of
a powerful culture such as Islam, this is a weakness for us indeed. It puts at
a disadvantage our own kind in our own countries. What future is there to be
for the indigenous population? How are we to protect our own kind? Moreover, in
a country such as the United Kingdom
with its growing Muslim population and therefore growing clout at the polls,
all parties are out to court the Islamic vote! Conservatives, Liberals and
Socialists alike offer no route for the ‘Christian’ British to protect
themselves. It is worth asking ourselves one simple question: How much
protection is afforded a Christian in a country such as Saudi
Arabia? There, Christians can be, and are,
arrested for praying in the Christian manner! They do not have equality with
Muslims in a court of law. Indeed, their position is akin to that of a Muslim
woman’s – their power to act as a witness is half that of a Muslim man’s! It is
all so one-sided.
If Islam were a benign, spiritual
force, a power for good, then it would not be such a problem for us in the
long-term. But it is not. Islam is anything but benign: it is a powerful,
political movement with ambitious objectives. A worldwide movement with the
ambition of establishing Allah’s kingdom on earth! It wishes to beat adherents
of all other religions into submission: into the submission of the one true
almighty God. Each state will then become the tool of religion – theocratic,
restrictive, dominant, and based on Koranic law, Shariah law. That
day will be a dark day for the world. It will mark the dawning of a new dark
age! Adulteresses and gays, infidels and the non-compliant will be killed in
Allah’s name! Democracy, free will and free speech will be relegated to the
dustbin of history! Only Islamic opinions will count. The whole world will bow
in submission to Allah, in the direction of the Ka’aba.
Jerusalem, one of the three most
important cities in Islam will be under Islamic jurisdiction. Christianity and
Judaism, and all ‘lesser’ religions will have been vanquished. It will be a
dark day for humankind!
If you feel that all this is
far-fetched, then wait and see! Whoever would have thought that the Communist
world would have fallen so quickly and so dramatically? When it fell, it was
generally thought that a new world order was in the process of being
established on earth. There would be peace and prosperity and unity for all.
Just a few years later, we can now see how wrong we were.
The world has been lulled into a
false sense of security. Momentous events such as the tearing down of the
Berlin Wall overshadowed the dangers that lay ahead. We are only now coming to
the realization that our optimism was misplaced. We are being rudely awakened!
And the rude awakening is that Islam is becoming the next bête noire – it is taking the place of communism.
Communism was a political system,
pure and simple, though it was in many ways like a religion for its adherents.
It was not, however, draped in the clothes of a deity. Indeed, a deity was
anathema to it. But this, of course, made communism a much easier target for
the West. Communism was seen as the total enemy of the West. It stood for all
that the West did not: equality for all, lack of diversity, lack of choice, the
political power of the communist élite, a low
standard of living, sclerotic growth in the economy, and lack of political
freedom to name but a few characteristics. The whole system went against
everything the West stood for. We disliked it so much that it was easy and fair
game to be criticized by all but the few.
Islam is different. As well as
being a powerful political movement, it is a bona fide religion too. The West has fought long and hard for
religious freedom; so it is far more difficult for us to criticize a religion
that is not our own. It is even more difficult to stop someone practising his religion. Anyone who were
to try to do so would be liable to the charge of discrimination, and Westerners
do not like to be accused of that. Add to that, the power of political
correctness, and further add to that the reluctance of people to fight for
Christianity, and we find that we have boxed ourselves into a corner – a corner
that will be difficult for us to get out of. Where are we going to find leaders
willing to criticize another religion, and where, even if we found such people,
are we going to find the people willing to follow them? As I write, it would
appear that this is the start of the end game for the West! Is it to be
downhill all the way for Islam now? Have we created the very conditions for
Islam to overshadow us – conditions that Muslims could only have dreamed of
some decades ago?
With political correctness and
the law on their side, and with people afraid to criticize Muslims and Islam,
it is difficult to see how this movement will not be able to steamroller us all
into a very much weaker position indeed. Crying Islamophobia
will only