Posted by
John Spencer Yantiss on Sunday, November 23, 2008 12:00:00 AM
All the blather and banter between the knee-jerk commentators regarding Doug Giles’s article, “Stealth Jihad: How Islam is Infiltrating Your Neighborhood,” merely helps to conceal the real issues addressed by Doug Giles. Perhaps the caterwauling would diminish if more people would truly read history, research the origins of, not only the U. S.; but Islam, and the long-ago annihilated peoples of northern Africa, which is now populated by those who exterminated them; the Roman Empire; and much more.
There are two ways in which a nation (which actually means a homogeneous people, to wit, a tribe or specific ethnicity), or a geopolitical country formed by the coming-together of two or more tribes or ethnicities (as for instance, the United States).
1) External invasion, which is what happened to the inhabitants of northern Africa (i. e. the Carthaginians, et alia, who were ethnically directly related to the Romans and Greeks). The "peaceful" Muslim Arabs, under the "peace-loving" leader Mohammed, launched the first Jihad for the express purpose of exterminating, or converting at sword point, the infidel, to wit, those who do not believe in or accept Islam.
2) Internal subversion by aliens, legal and illegal (does anyone recognise another issue here?). This is what happened to Rome, or the Roman Empire. "Passive invasion," in other words, illegal immigration or various Gothic, and Slavic peoples, which were ultimately integrated into Roman society against the wishes of most Roman citizens (if you doubt my assertion here, do some real research, not merely reading a couple of history books). Authorities (read, the Emperor and the Roman Senate) essentially gave up on trying to control them (does that sound familiar to anyone?). Rome fell, basically, from within.
Is any of the wise and insightful commentators, contributing the drivel I read, capable of recognising a connection with those two historical processes and what confronts America and the rest of Western civilization? I doubt it. Few there are indeed, who truly know even the history of their own country—that is, in most Western countries. One of the anomalies of the modern world is that the more sophisticated a given society becomes—that is, ironically, “worldly” and material—the less its members really know about themselves, their heritage, and how they got to where they are. No where is this more true than in the most sophisticated portions of Western society, to wit, the MMM (not a perverted sexual practice, but the moronic mainstream media), the entertainment industry, and wealthy liberals [(which, by the way, includes most nationally-elected politicians, since, once they have held office, even for a single term, they have a lifetime pension) wealth in this case being defined as the ability to live comfortably, without fear of ever being out of a secure residence].
Even the non-wealthy (wealthy in the above sense) in most Western societies have succumbed to the influence of those social institutions mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and therefore have a similarly myopic perspective and understanding of who they are, and from where they came. It is an irreducible fact that, if one does not have a clear picture of where one came from, one cannot possibly have a concrete notion of where one is going.