In this video, David Wood says of The History of Jihad: “If about 1,000 people in the world would master the content in this book, it would change the course of history.”
Find out why he says this in the video, and be one of those people: get the book here.
barbaracvm1 says
This book proves the lies we have been taught about Islam. Dario Fernandez Morero THE MYTH OF ANDALUSIAN PARADISE.
mortimer says
People will believe if “The History of Jihad” by Robert Spencer is turned into a documentary film with high production values and graphic depictions of authentic jihadism.
James Lincoln says
True, mortimer.
I would gladly contribute a C-note…
Daniel Triplett says
Agreed. Any legal or military action requires broad consent. We must engender such support for doing what needs to be done by honestly and accurately describing the threat and consequence for inaction.
The American People (and Western World) aren’t stupid. If presented with the facts, reason, and logic, they’ll do the right thing.
This will take much more than just presenting the problem. The People must also be offered solutions.
Daniel Triplett says
point being, a broad appeal film is perhaps is the best medium to ignite awareness.
eduardo odraude says
Or if we can’t get a film, maybe someone could turn the book into a graphic novel, with footnotes.
eduardo odraude says
I just went to Bosch Fawstin’s site and suggested it to him, though I’m sure he has enough projects to do already.
GUY LEPAGE says
About 20 years ago have read the history of the Ottoman Empire. It was revealing then, but was not then a concern. Times have changed. I am afraid we are now in a new crusade!!
mortimer says
Guy, it is a crusade of knowledge to introduce accurate information about jihadism.
It is a crusade to convince Muslims that the Koran is of human origin.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, Robert Spencer wrote his book primarily to educate Infidels about the history of Islam, not to “deprogram” Muslims.
In fact, many Muslims are proud of the bloody history of Jihad.
mortimer says
Dear GI, before ISIS was created, PEW found that over 60% of Muslims wanted a caliphate and strict Sharia law. Only 15% of Muslims self-declared as supporting jihadist groups, but that is about one in six. I wonder how that may have changed now because of ISIS.
I know Muslims who love jihad and Muslims who hate jihad-terrorism (because they saw it and know how horrible it is). Worldwide, 35% of Muslims are non-practicing, and in the US, about 40% are non-practicing. About 1/10 of one percent are actual jihadists, but that is 10 to 20 million jihadists. ISIS failed to unite all the jihadists. Many Muslims today are trying to seek the American dream. They don’t want to hear anything about Islam’s violent side and shut out the information. ISIS was real Islam. Some Muslims have been reported saying, ‘If ISIS is real Islam, I don’t want to be part of it.”
Your query brings out a line of questions to ask Muslims: “Is ISIS an authentic return to the practices of Islamic empires destroyed by Genghis Khan and the European imperialists? Does ISIS reproduce authentic, traditional Islam and the practices of Mohammed and of the ‘rightly-guided caliphs’? Do you personally favor a return to something like the Ottoman Empire, Abbasid Empire or Umayyad Empire? What would a modern Islamic caliphate look like?”
gravenimage says
Thanks for your reply, Mortimer. Of course, not all Muslims who reject ISIS are actally rejecting violent Jihad. Many of them just consider ISIS rivals to their own Jihad groups.
Kaos ktrl says
Yes a crusade to make the world safe for sharia. Im not interested in that kind of world .
Jack Cade says
I will be one of the thousand.
mortimer says
I think David Wood has underestimated the number of knowledgeable people required to turn this infowar around. I think we need 100,000 knowledgeable, influential people to correct the fake information that the world is getting about Islam. If the 100,000 knowledgeable persons were academics and politicians, we could inform the general public within a decade.
However, the information war is unequal. We are fighting against many countries investing a combined $1 billion every year to whitewash Islam and suppress the correct information disseminated by small-budget counterjihad outfits.
To be effective, our information has to be simple and clear: 1) Islam is manmade 2) Islam is an imperial political system 3) Islam has a core teaching of bigoted warfare against all disbelievers.
Dedmanawaken says
I think the ‘academics’ who can be proven traitors and the influential elites should be given a choice, prison or pick tomatoes. Good strong common people in the mid tier; proven to be patriots and leaders and managers should be be given the opportunity to serve either in the government or the schools for a period of time something like military service. It will take one generation yo revive the spirit of the dream that was America. I believe that generation is past.
gravenimage says
Sounds like Communist “re-education camps”. Really, civilized people don’t act like this. Those like Winston Churchill set out to prove that Fascism was a threat, not to imprison and persecute the clueless who didn’t yet understand this. Seems that he might have had the right idea…
Isaac Marshall says
Was always thinking of getting this book, definitely getting a copy now.
gravenimage says
Besides being informative–I have a degree in history and still learned a great deal–it is also a beautifully written book.
Hank Mansfield says
The Gateway Pundit blog has a story up in the last few hours, a Catholic priest in Ireland invited a Muslim to pray for relief from the Corona virus during a livestreamed broadcast, and the imam stood at the pulpit singing the ‘Adhan’, which is the Muslim statement of dominance over Christians.
It seems that no olive branch offered to Muslims won’t be used as a switch against them.
Woke Infidel says
Very sad when people in positions of church authority appear so unread. For some, there was a cry of joy for ecumenism, but this, too, resulting from ignorance. (The definition of ecumenical behavior is to promote unity with other Christian denominations – not non-Christian groups.) But, alas, unless I am mistaken, Allah is not one with the god of Christianity. You can tell that he isn’t by his deeds and his fruits.
gravenimage says
Hank and Woke Infidel, that story was covered here:
“Ireland: Catholic priest invites Muslims to Mass, Muslim proclaims supremacy of Islam from pulpit”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/ireland-catholic-priest-invites-muslims-to-mass-muslim-proclaims-supremacy-of-islam-from-pulpit
Hank Mansfield says
I am still frequently coming across people who refuse to believe historical truths and verses contained in Islamic literature. Some recoil from a simple declaration of fact as if it were a physical slap.
Political correctness has saturated the public’s thinking to the point where many are past hope.
Valkyrie says
Thanks for your comment, Hank. I ran into a quote by comedian, George Carlin, which bears repeating here:
“Political correctness is really fascism pretending to be polite”.
gravenimage says
Yes–this is *very* common. I know a lot of people who don’t want to know what Islam is.
RonaldB says
I read the book several times.
One primary lesson is that the Islamic armies had rapid and widespread success once they began rolling. In a few centuries, the Islamic armies overran Africa, the Middle East, most of Spain, and large parts of the Balkans and west Asia. The Muslims overran a large part of India and assiduously persecuted the Hindus.
It was only a very few very close engagements that stopped the Islamic juggernaut. In Spain, only a holdout mountain kingdom of fervent Christians prevented a complete victory. In France, the Muslim armies were stopped by Charles the Hammer at the Battle of Tours. This was the only thing keeping the Muslim armies from a complete overrun of Europe.
In other words, there was a very tangible possibility for Islam to have had an overwhelming military victory that would have completely obliterated the European civilization as we know it from history.
We’re lucky enough to have stopped the Islamic armies. But, there’s a social stigma on saying openly that allowing individual Muslims inside the borders is also dangerous. Islam is treated as just any other religion, just as valid and benign as the religions we know close up. The maddening thing is that the defense is so easy. We don’t have to bomb Muslim countries or cities, or interfere in any way with Muslim governments. We simply have to not allow Muslims inside our borders, and we have complete protection. Instead, we participate in the overthrow of Muslim governments, and integrate our armies with Muslim mercenaries supposedly fighting for a form of government alien to their history and culture. One facet of such interference is there is a constant pressure to bring our “allies” into our country as refugees. By and large, these “refugees” actually share the values of our Muslim enemies.
Terry Gain says
Ronald B
“Islam is treated as just any other religion, just as valid and benign as the religions we know close up. “
……
A religion. There’s the rub.
Can we get the public to support a ban on the immigration of adherents of a particular religion? This is obviously a very difficult sale.
In a nation of laws, Muslims must enjoy all the legal rights that all other citizens enjoy, but we should have no hesitation politely arguing that we do not believe that their ideology is a legitimate religion, even if we are not going to interfere with their prayers to a non-existent diety. We should promote Ex- Muslims as the Muslims we love the most
There is no doubt that the smartest and least expensive way to combat and thwart the advance of Islam is to control Muslim immigration.
You are singing my song concerning immigration. It’s the same song I have sung many times since I first visited the site. If we control Muslim immigration we can stop Muslims from getting to the critical point where their numbers are large enough for them to try to impose Sharia upon us or for them to engage in hostilities.
gravenimage says
Terry, if you read Robert Spencer’s book–as I’m sure you have–you know that people can recognize that successfully fight Islam without pretending that that creed is not a religion. They have in fact done this many times.
Terry Gain says
GI
I read Robert Spencer’s book several months ago. I also studied Edward de Bono 40 years ago. But thanks for your help, which is getting us nowhere.
mortimer says
The denial of jihadism by the Western elites is DEFEATED by Robert Spencer’s ‘The History of Jihad’.
Robert Spencer provides many dozens of concrete historical examples that prove Islam is not a religion of peace. Imperial Islam has attacked its neighbors a total of at least 2,000 times. In the last 200 years, imperial Islam has attacked the United States dozens of times.
‘The History of Jihad’ should be required reading in Islamic history courses and general history courses in all universities.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Terry. I don’t actually think that knowing the truth gets us nowhere, though.
gravenimage says
If only, Mortimer. Unfortunately, those in Islamic studies courses tend to be either Taqiyya-slinging Muslims or else dhimmi tools who want whitewash of Islam.
eduardo odraude says
Terry, yes, but an equally difficult project is to convince the overwhelming majority that Islam is “not a religion.” What you have done is noticed that if Islam is a religion, that creates great obstacles to stopping Islam in the US. Therefore you have decided it must not be considered a religion. But how is that different from a trucker coming to a road he feels he must take and finding a sign that says “no trucks,” whereupon the trucker decides that his 18-wheeler must not really be a truck, he must convince the traffic police it’s really a car, even though it has 18 wheels and carries a couple tons of cargo?
How can Islam not be a religion? Over a billion people believe, do they not, that “Allah” is the one God and that Muhammad is God’s Prophet, and many of those people pray to that “God” daily. Are you saying that those people are thinking “ha ha, I know this is really just a totalitarian political project that has nothing to do with religion, but I’m praying every day to keep up appearances.”
And even if you could do the impossible and persuade the vast majority Islam is not a religion (as if there was any prospect of consensus on what a real vs. fake religion is) that still would not solve the problem. The First Amendment protects not only religion, but all kinds of worldviews.
Furthermore, our whole government is founded, is it not, on the principle that the government shall not make decisions about what is or is not a true or real or valid “religion.” Remember the First Amendment? Get rid of that, and then your plan might be possible. But a US that abandons the First Amendment might not be worth living in.
A politically possible immigration policy should aim for the results you desire but without ever mentioning Islam. For example, perhaps a policy that puts a moratorium on immigration from any nation that does not protect freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Such a policy might have many salutary effects on the whole world.
eduardo odraude says
Terry, let me adjust my above comment to you. If all you are saying is that you think Islam is a false religion, then I agree with you. But if you are saying that the strategy of Islam critics should be to get Americans and ultimately the US government to officially declare that Islam is not a religion, then I think you are probably pursuing a strategy that has few or no prospects — for the reasons I gave in my comment just above.
gravenimage says
Generally agree, Eduardo. And President Trump’s “Muslim ban” has actually done a great deal of good; Muslim immigration was reportedly down 90% even before the Coronavirus outbreak.
Daniel Triplett says
” If we control Muslim immigration we can stop Muslims from getting to the critical point where their numbers are large enough for them to try to impose Sharia upon us or for them to engage in hostilities. ”
By what legal basis would you deny Muslim immigration? If Islam is legal, and there’s nothing wrong with it, then how would you deny immigration?
If you deny immigration, then how would you justify allowing Muslims already living among us to continue practicing and promoting Islam?
Assuming we could erect a 100% impermeable immigration barrier (we can’t), how long before Muslims gain critical mass in America? Or Canada? Or Sweden, France, or Germany? What happens when they do? Are we willing to cede and sacrifice those nations to the Ummah?
I’m not trying to bust your balls. I’m just discussing several of many, many issues left to be resolved in a practical plan for victory. We’re on the same side.
Daniel Triplett says
for Terry Gain
eduardo odraude says
Daniel, I would suggest that immigration policy should not deny immigration specifically to Muslims. Not politically possible that way. Instead, immigration policy, without mentioning Muslims or Islam, should as a sort of byproduct exclude most Muslims. For example, suppose we had a moratorium on immigration from any nation that does not protect free speech and freedom of religion. We’d get much of the result we seek without any specific discrimination against Muslims or Islam.
Daniel Triplett says
eduardo
Didn’t Trump already try that in 2017, with his “Travel Ban” from 9 (mostly Islamic countries), but which ostensibly had nothing to do with Islam? He faced massive resistance from the Left, and his Executive Order was challenged, eviscerated, and delayed through the court system for many, many months.
Such Executive Orders (at least from the GOP) are widely regarded as “racist or xenophobic”. Perhaps this is why Trump has backed way off on his 2015 stance: “I think Islam hates us.” Understandably, the man has a whole lot going on now with the Coronavirus and re-election, so who knows what his true feelings are about Islamic Manifest Destiny, or what he’ll do after JAN 2021?
I propose that a more unassailable long-term plan is to first proscribe (make illegal) the practice or promotion of Islam here in the US, as a model, based on laws already on the books. Then encourage other Kafir states to do the same. Finally, force OIC states to comply (I’ve previously offered long essays about how this may be done).
Plenty of laws already on the books: At a minimum, Islam is “Conspiracy for Murder and Sedition”, along with dozens of other felonies. Every Muslim is a conspirator. The USCONST 1A and “Freedom of Religion” gives neither shield nor immunity to this. We’re not required to tolerate ‘religions’, peoples, nor ideologies who conspire for our extermination. “Religion” is no exception.
We need to go large on the solution, on an epic scale, long-term and permanent. Consider how we’d feel about our own grandfathers had they been silent 1939 – 1945 (ending 1945 only because our ancestors fought and sacrificed, otherwise, the World would look far different now).
Expecting the final result by next Monday isn’t realistic. But I say that our final goal must be the continued criminalization of conspiracies for crimes against America, which includes Islam (Sedition, Murder, …and so many other felonies).
If you and I together invented Islam today, we’d never get away with it. So why are we giving a pass to foreign felonious men 1400 years ago on the other side of the planet?
mortimer says
Response to RonaldB: Islam advanced in the first two centuries of Islam because it attacked soft targets. A worldwide epidemic had decimated the Roman and Persian empires permitting the Arabs to attack under-defended countries. Spain was also under-defended and divided when Arabs invaded. Once Islam organizes itself in a territory, it imposes totalitarian control. When that happens it can take hundreds of years to overturn discriminatory Islamic rule.
Just don’t allow Muslims to take over.
RonaldB says
Actually, if you want to look for a common denominator, you might conclude Islam had the best chance to be stopped when faced with a strong, coherent creed. The Spanish reconquista was done by a fervent Christian sect that expanded its territory systematically over centuries. I would argue that Spain began its subsequent decline by expelling the Jews, who formed the administrative and financial backbone of the Spanish empire.
gravenimage says
Yes–Spain expelling the Jews was an ugly coda to their brave reclaiming of their country from Islamic conquest.
Mo says
We need a program with you two crazy kids together again! (At a proper distance, of course.)
gravenimage says
“If about 1,000 people would master the content in The History of Jihad, it would change the course of history”
……………..
It’s a fine and important book.
Wellington says
I read this book last year and it is a great book. For me there was one caveat (in no way a reflection I want to absolutely point out on Robert Spencer) and it was this: I found I had to put the book down at times after reading a number of pages because the sickening, massively extensive, carnage that Muslims perpetrated through the centuries, as detailed by Mr. Spencer, in the name of their warped religion was just too much to take at times and I needed a break now and then.
God, Islam has wrong written all over it. It’s disgusting. Had been from the get-go.
But yes, this book by Mr. Spencer is an imperative read. No doubt.
gravenimage says
Yes, Wellington–this is a harrowing read.
grey says
1400 years of islam in 5 minutes
gravenimage says
Grey, I consider myself a fast reader, but I wasn’t able to get through this work in 5 minutes.
Terry Gain says
Good comment Wellington, but I would put it slightly differently, to wit: Islam does not have God written all over it. Islam has Allah, the fictional deity created by a caravan robber, sex maniac, and fabulist, or if you prefer liar, etc.
Wellington says
We have no disagreement, Terry, that Allah is fictional or in the alternative (lawyers as you know are addicted to “arguing in the alternative,” especially if the alternative, however unlikely, still validates them in some way) Allah does exist, thus God is a jerk and this is a very creepy universe we live in and our only recourse is to emulate Prometheus defying Zeus.
Yes, even if Islam is the true faith (it isn’t), it still must be rejected by the nobler element of mankind. Islam—NEVER.
eduardo odraude says
Terry, Wellington did not say Islam has God written all over it. Wellington said,
“God, Islam has wrong written all over it.”
gravenimage says
+1
Ange says
Thank you for these, Good listing. For more in the same vein, see mideastbooks.com.
Mike F says
Good morning – could it be that Allah was the name of the moon god? Of course Muslim Apologists will address all the instances of moon worship in the region – but NEVER the reason behind the crescent moon and three stars, prominent around the world on Mosques.
The three stars or knots beneath the crescent on the minarets, represent his three daughters…Islam is the worship satan. Islamic enshrined practices of pedophilia, beheadings, capital punishment for Apostasy, acid in the face, burning alive, Islamic views of ‘heaven’ (where according to Islamic teachings) Allah does NOT live, and men are capable of unlimited sex. The Koranic stories of how Mohammad came to settle on ‘5 prayers each day’ – after lengthy negotiations between Mohammad, Moses and their god? The Koran and Ahadith recounts of convenient ‘revelations’ allowing Mohammad to do certain acts previously forbidden? And the heavenly rewards for Jihadis following their death, all point to a cult.
For all those who claim that Islam does not worship the moon god…simply explain the crescent moon and stars on the staff on top of almost all mosques around the world.
Jake Neuman says
In answer to David go to http://godofmoralperfection.com/new-page-139.htm
EQUALITY OF WOMEN WITH MEN IS THE VERY ESSENCE OF A GOD OF MORAL PERFECTION. (PICTURE IS WOMAN BEING STONED TO DEATH
God created not only our Universe 13.8 billion years ago but 8,000 other universes. The size of these universes are 13.8 billion x 6 trillion miles (distance light travels in 1 year.) For God to be God then He/She/ACDC/ must be Moral Perfection. IF GOD KILLED OR ORDERED THE KILLING OF ANY HUMAN BEING OR ANY OTHER CREATURE THROUGHOUT THESE UNIVERSES THEN GOD WOULD NO LONGER BE MORAL PERFECTION AND THEREFORE NO LONGER GOD. GOD WOULD NOT EXIST.
In these 8,000 universes there is only one book that God authored – the Quran.
TO BE THE WORD OF GOD THEN EVERY WORD OF THE QURAN MUST BE MORAL PERFECTION. IF JUST ONE WORD IS IMMORAL THEN THE QURAN IS NOT THE WORD OF GOD. – NOT ONE WORD IS FROM GOD. IT IS A BOOK OF PURE EVIL. AS YOU WILL READ IF SATAN EXISTS THEN MUHAMMAD IS HIS PROPHET AND ISLAM IS HIS RELIGION.
For Islam To Be From God Not Only Must EVERY Quranic word be Moral Perfection but Every Hadith must be Moral Perfection. Every teaching of Sharia Law must be Moral Perfection.
The Equality of ALL mankind, Equality of Women with Men living in Freedom and Democracy is the Very Essence of A God. Of Moral Perfection.
THE QURAN BEING FILLED WITH THOUSANDS OF IMMORAL WORDS IS THE WORD OF A PSYCHOTIC MANIC KILLER = MUHAMMAD WHO CONDUCTED 60 ACTS OF JIHAD TERROR MURDERING UPWARDS OF 6,000 setting in motion the Islamic Holocaust murdering upwards of 290,000,000 over the last 1400 years and counting. AS MUHAMMAD PROCLAIMED “I HAVE BEEN MADE VICTORIOUS THROUGH TERROR”
What makes Islam and Muslims so disgustingly evil is that they take a God of All peace and love, mercy and goodness and turn him into the evil Allah AKA Muhammad – the Antigod of extermination, genocide, murder, assassination, hate, terror, torture, brutality, rape, child molestation, slavery.
We need to keep repeating this declaration: WHEN YOU BELONG TO AN EVIL IDEOLOGY – ISLAM – YOU ARE AS EVIL AS THAT IDEALOGY WHETHER YOU PERSONALLY COMMIT ACTS OF EVIL IN THE NAME OF THE IDEOLOGY OR NOT. INDEED YOU ARE AS EVIL IF NOT MORE EVILER THAN THE PEOPLE COMMITTING THESE HORRENDOUS ACTS OF EVIL. THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WATCH.
eduardo odraude says
But there are those who sleep, and they may be relatively innocent. You yourself arguably do wrong when you neglect real distinctions.
Martin Slann says
An excellent and readable treatment of what makes islam a death cult and existential threat to western civilization. I read the book months ago. The most important book anyone could read this year.
Carol B. says
I read this book about a year ago; from it I formulated a description of the history of Islam in 7 words:
One bloodbath after another for 1,400 years.
Terry Gain says
Good description of Islam. But don’t fourteen hundred or one thousand four hundred make the total 8 or 10. Asking for a friend.
Mike says
I ordered a copy I couldn’t lay the book down and read it overnight with heavy highlighting. I have re-read the book 3 times over I would say it doesn’t document every massacre, every forced conversion, however, it’s a powerful book that revives the lost history that has been rewritten and forgotten because of its severe atrocities committed.
How can you has a society forget the traitor count Julian? How could you as a Spaniard have no clue of who Peloya and his defendants???? and today as a Spaniard or as a Latin American you look at the Arab world as Culturally close to your culture???
I have shared the contact with as many people as I interact with many feel compelled to read the book because they don’t want to face reality.
This is an outstanding piece of work by Mr. Spencer just like many of his other books. He is my hero and I wish him a very long and healthy life for him to contribute to our salvation as a civilization.
Rarely says
People are very resistant to attempts to convert them to a different religion than the one to which they belong.
In fact it can cause more resentment and damage than benefit.
Terry Gain says
I rarely agree with you. And not in this instance. But you are welcome to try that out on as many Muslims as you wish.
gravenimage says
Rarely, Muslims already resent Infidels, just for being non-Muslim. The implication that Muslims are cool with the Kuffar so long as none of them attempt to share any other faith with them is quite mistaken.
tim gallagher says
I thought “The History of Jihad” was a terrific book. I do think a far larger number of people than David Wood mentions would need to read the book to make a difference. And I also think, as commenters up above have said, that the problem with getting many people to wake up to Islam’s vile nature is that they just will not accept the truth about Islam’s nature. I don’t know why this is, except maybe they have a more peaceful life by telling themselves that, oh, no, there’s really no big problem with Islam, you know, most people are pretty much the same and are OK. The whole PC, wonders of multiculturalism caper. I also think a lot of people don’t have a positive enough feeling about our western civilisation and the very pleasant way of life it has produced, as opposed to the utter barbarism of Islam. Like lemmings heading off a cliff our societies are unless enough of us wake up to the danger that Islam presents. Robert Spencer has done a mighty job trying to wake people up and I wish his books would get out to a far bigger readership.
eduardo odraude says
They don’t want to know for various reasons. Often they think that criticisms and condemnations of Islam are motivated by irrational hatred or by a genocidal drive toward Muslims. And when I read certain comments made at Islam-critical sites, I can understand why people think that. Another reason people don’t want to know is that they are often simply frightened of facing the most difficult realities. They often really prefer to stick their heads in the sand and not see if at all possible. If one is accustomed to look reality in the face now and then, one might not often notice that other people don’t necessarily do the same. I recall when I was a child, my cousin, also a child, stepped on a nail. It went all the way in, the flat head flush with the bottom of his foot. His mother came after him to remove the nail, and in great fear of that procedure he tried to escape from her into another part of the house. He could not bear to recognize that the nail HAD to be removed, that it could not be left there as he seemed to desire. I was younger and in some ways less intelligent than he, and I was surprised that, because the prospect of removing it so terrified him, he seemed to think it might be possible to leave the nail in his foot. I recall a similar event when we as children went to the doctor together and both had to get a shot. My cousin literally tried to run away from the doctor, as if the shot could be avoided that way.
Daniel Triplett says
Excellent anologies
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Eduardo, and I’m sure you are on the right track with what you say. I also have the feeling that quite a lot of people in our western countries are just too nice and polite and seem to never want to criticise a bunch of people, such as Muslims. They’ll make some lame excuse for appalling Muslim behaviours and attitudes. They will maybe criticise their own western societies, but will make some excuse for the Muslim barbarians. At least, here in Australia, you come across quite a few people like that, usually fairly left wing types. I wish everyone would wake when it came to islam, but it’s a slow process, that’s for sure.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Tim and Eduardo.
And Eduardo, I think the example of your relative as a child’s reaction to unpleasant realities is spot on. Many don’t want to know that Islam is a threat, because it is too scary–and then they would have to do something about it.
tim gallagher says
That’s true, gravenimage, a lot of people would have to get more active in fighting against Islam (maybe just by lobbying their politicians and trying to wake them up) if they actually acknowledged the evil nature of Islam. It’s a frustratingly slow process, but I do think big enough numbers of people in our western societies will wake up and we’ll get as tough as Hungary and the Visegrad bloc countries are, which is what needs to happen.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Tim. We can’t give up, though.