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ChronWatch, CA
Oct 15 2005
Is the Caliphate Threat a Real One?
Written by David Litvak
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Editor, The San Francisco Chronicle
Your dismissal of President Bush's ascertation that our adversaries
intend to create a `radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to
Indonesia' is not surprising. Whether you approve of President
Bush's handling of the present conflict in Iraq or not, that
statement is a matter of fact. No sane person would want to see the
religious wars that tore Europe to pieces in the 16th and 17th
centuries reenacted today but this is precisely what is happening in
Western Europe, in the Russian Federation, in Indonesia, in China in
Thailand, in the Philippines, in Nigeria, in the Sudan and other
points. Our enemies, and we are their enemies, have time and time
again stated in clear and precise terms that this is a holy war and
they mean to win it.
These past 60 odd years the West has been on the defensive trying
(ineffectually) to keep Islam at bay and Islam has been on the
offensive their declared aim being to convert by armed force the
infidels except the Jews whose eradication from this planet has been
(with Europe's quiet acquiescence) pronounced, save young Jewish
maidens destined to be parceled out to the harems of the faithful.
It was in 1915 that the Caliphate (aka the Ottoman Empire) decided to
exterminate her Christian-Armeni - an subjects (1.6 million by
conservative estimate) and incidentally, showed their Germans allies
the proper way to conduct genocide; and on Sept 9th, 1922 in the port
of Smyrna they butchered Armenians, Greeks and Jews, sparing neither
age or sex, to the tune of 100,000 plus..
It was shortly after - wards that Turkey, now a secular republic
expelled all the Greeks from Anatolia where they had been living
since the days of the Greek city-states.
War does indeed make strange bedfellows. The Caliphate's allies,
Germany, Austro-Hungary & Bulgaria, Christian nations all, made no
attempt whatsoever to help their co-religionists. In 1915, Germany
had several division stationed in Mesopotamia who could easily have
stopped that slaughter, but the only nation to protest that holocaust
was the United States but as she was, military speaking a nullity,
the protest was simply ignored.
As an aside, when the Turks had finished butchering the Armenians and
were about to start on the Jews (thanks to the Balfour declaration),
the Germans stopped them. Go figure.
But Islam as a whole went on the offensive in 1947 when Britain (then
still Great) abandoned her imperial responsibilities when she allowed
India to slide into anarchy, 700,000(?) of her subjects brutally
mur - dered and tens of millions driven from their homes in a state of
beggary, a calamity for which Mahatma ("give us chaos") Gandhi that
apostle of non-violence, must share the moral responsibility together
with Lord Louis Mountbatten of Britain & Mohammed Ali Jinnah of the
Muslim League and, incidentally, helping to usher in the first of the
religious wars that are even now raging all over this planet and
which finally came to these shore on Feb. 26th, 1993.
In all these religious wars, with the exception of Northern Ireland,
Islam has been the aggressor.
One item amongst dozens should suffice. In the 1960s Islam exploded
in both Indonesia as well as Malaysia in righteous wrath against the
Zionist-Imperial Infidel, but as there were no Jews and very few
Westerners to kill, the Chinese had to play the role of the victims
and butchered they were in the tens of thousands, and now that the
U.S. once again has moved against Jihadistan, the Chinese may very
well be called upon to act again as victims.
In the Western world new mosques are going up every day; everywhere
where Islam rules, the syna - gogues, some dating back to Babylonian
times have already been shut down and such churches that are still
open are on sufferance.
Equally, wherever Islam has seized power all the Jews have been
expelled from territories where they have been living since
Babylonian, in some cases Assyrian times, and such Westerners that
are still there are either diplomats, journalists or Western
renegades selling their expertise to Islam.
In the West, every major and many a minor university has at least one
chair devoted to Islamic studies every one of which are staffed by
Islamic scholars. How many Islamic universities have departments of
Western studies? And how many (if any) of them are staffed with
Western scholars?
On September 11th, 2001, when New York & Washington were successfully
attacked, (Islam 19, Infidels 2,977), the Arab Street went delirious
with joy and not just in the Middle East but also in all Islamic
enclaves in Europe. And how did the West respond? The opinion- &
decision-makers fell all over themselves in their haste to explain
Islam to the infidels, to the point that His Holiness, the Pope, the
President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Britain went
to the Mosques, and assured us and more important, themselves, that
this is not a religious war. Unfortunately, the other side insists
that this is a religious war and that they mean to win it.
Islam tried three times, Poitiers, 732, Vienna 1588 & 1683, to
conquer Western Europe by force of arms and each time they were
turned back - just. But now, there is no need for Islam to march for
the third time on Vienna, nor burst once more across the Pyrenees for
the enemy (is there a more appropriate term?) is already within the
gates. Europe is and continues to be inundated by a tidal wave of
asylum-demanders & illegal immigrants none of whom bother even for an
instant to hide their venomous hatred of the West and all it stands
for; and the governments of Europe are paralyzed by
political-correctness, inertia or sheer moral cowardice to stop that
invasion.
In France, a junior minister admitted, that the government was afraid
that their local Muslim population might have gone on a jihad should
France have decided to join the United States in going to war with
Iraq or any other Muslim nation. For the time being, the French
government tries to deflect the jihadists by throwing them their
Jewish citizens as a sop, but it is only a matter of time before the
holy warriors get tired of torching synagogues and kosher shops and
turn their attention to churches (as happened once already in
England) and wine & pork shops. (Anybody noticed how 'quiet' the
Arab Street has become since Jonathan put on his hobnailed boots and
kicked butt?)
In Holland Islam has achieved that critical mass of 10%--and a 10%
minority full of passionate intensity & burning with fervor to spread
the word can always achieve mastery over the apathetic 90% who have
lost faith in their institutions and traditions; aided and abetted by
Islam's useful idiots, the European intelligentsia (God, what a
hateful Russian word) who in their relentless culture war against the
West are doing invaluable service to ensure Islam's victory by making
the West lose trust in their institutions, denigrating her
accomplishments and making them ashamed of their past. (Treason of
the intellectuals?)
I In Britain, what the Spanish, French & Germans tried to
do and failed; Islam succeeded and did so with - out firing a shot.
There are now places in Britain where the Queen's writ no longer runs
but Sharia rules. This loss of sovereignty was amply demonstrated in
1988 when the ruling Ayatollah of Iran issued a death sentence
against one Salmon Rushdie the author of the Satanic Verses. The
Muslims of Britain made it quite clear that the pronouncement of an
Iranian cleric took precedence over the laws of Britain (which goes
some length to explain why Britain had to drop the 'Great' from its
title). Then, of course there is the bombing of the London subway
system on July 7th & 21st of this year to which the local press
responded in its usual fashion of spending more ink agonizing over
the fact of a possible backlash by the dhimmitudes against the
faithful (none yet recorded) then on the victims of that foul deed.
In Spain a government was dismissed from office and the
reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula is well on its way.
And how has Europe responded to these and other threats? The
European Parliament has recently passed legislation that will make a
letter like this a criminal offence both to the writer as well as to
the re - cipient should the latter fail to alert the authorities. In
Germany, the dominant power of the European Union, this is known as
Anmeldepflicht.
Postscripts
-o- What would have happened had Islam won the battle of Poitiers
(and it was a dammed close thing)? Let Edward Gibbons (1737-1794
author of The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire tell it in his own
inimitable way:
A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles
from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition
of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of
Poland and the Highlands of Scotland: the Rhine is not more
impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might
have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.
Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the
schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised
people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.
-o- Although Islam was stopped cold at Poitiers and Vienna, she
conquered and held in subjugation for several hundred years present
day: Albania / Bosnia-Herzegovina / Bulgaria / Crete / Cyprus /
Greece / Hungary / Montenegro / Portugal/ Romania / Serbia / Spain /
and that's just in Europe.
-o- Although Islam promises every hour on the hour to slaughter Jews
wherever they can be found, the principal victims of their righteous
rage to date have been: Christians (2 millions minimum) / Buddhists /
Hindus (700,000?) / Sikhs / Muslim (Shiites vs. Sunnis) Jainists /
Parsis / Pagans / Animists / etc. etc. etc. with Jews at the end of
the line. Islam does not discriminate; it is an equal opportunity
killer.
-o- It is a perfect indicator of the time we live in that the leaders
of the West: political, scholastic, ecclesiastic, and above all, the
pontificators of the Fourth Estate simply cannot bring themselves to
face, let alone to state the obvious fact that the West is
immeasurably superior to Islam. Harmony in music / perspective in
painting / painless surgery / the eradication of many diseases that
had plagued mankind throughout the ages / the abolishment of slavery
/ the harnessing of electricity, of steam and oil / the principles of
flight, including into outer space / of photography / household
plumbing (let us pay homage to the lowly Western plumber for it was
he, not the medical profession, who banished cholera, dysentery &
typhoid) / telephone, television & the computer/ the list goes on and
on. Further, the universal languages of the arts & sciences are:
English, French, Italian & German all Western tongues. The proof of
the pudding is in the eating. Islamic students go to Western
universities in their tens of thousands, very few Westerners attend
Islamic universities save for religious studies.
ChronWatch, CA
Oct 15 2005
Is the Caliphate Threat a Real One?
Written by David Litvak
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Editor, The San Francisco Chronicle
Your dismissal of President Bush's ascertation that our adversaries
intend to create a `radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to
Indonesia' is not surprising. Whether you approve of President
Bush's handling of the present conflict in Iraq or not, that
statement is a matter of fact. No sane person would want to see the
religious wars that tore Europe to pieces in the 16th and 17th
centuries reenacted today but this is precisely what is happening in
Western Europe, in the Russian Federation, in Indonesia, in China in
Thailand, in the Philippines, in Nigeria, in the Sudan and other
points. Our enemies, and we are their enemies, have time and time
again stated in clear and precise terms that this is a holy war and
they mean to win it.
These past 60 odd years the West has been on the defensive trying
(ineffectually) to keep Islam at bay and Islam has been on the
offensive their declared aim being to convert by armed force the
infidels except the Jews whose eradication from this planet has been
(with Europe's quiet acquiescence) pronounced, save young Jewish
maidens destined to be parceled out to the harems of the faithful.
It was in 1915 that the Caliphate (aka the Ottoman Empire) decided to
exterminate her Christian-Armeni - an subjects (1.6 million by
conservative estimate) and incidentally, showed their Germans allies
the proper way to conduct genocide; and on Sept 9th, 1922 in the port
of Smyrna they butchered Armenians, Greeks and Jews, sparing neither
age or sex, to the tune of 100,000 plus..
It was shortly after - wards that Turkey, now a secular republic
expelled all the Greeks from Anatolia where they had been living
since the days of the Greek city-states.
War does indeed make strange bedfellows. The Caliphate's allies,
Germany, Austro-Hungary & Bulgaria, Christian nations all, made no
attempt whatsoever to help their co-religionists. In 1915, Germany
had several division stationed in Mesopotamia who could easily have
stopped that slaughter, but the only nation to protest that holocaust
was the United States but as she was, military speaking a nullity,
the protest was simply ignored.
As an aside, when the Turks had finished butchering the Armenians and
were about to start on the Jews (thanks to the Balfour declaration),
the Germans stopped them. Go figure.
But Islam as a whole went on the offensive in 1947 when Britain (then
still Great) abandoned her imperial responsibilities when she allowed
India to slide into anarchy, 700,000(?) of her subjects brutally
mur - dered and tens of millions driven from their homes in a state of
beggary, a calamity for which Mahatma ("give us chaos") Gandhi that
apostle of non-violence, must share the moral responsibility together
with Lord Louis Mountbatten of Britain & Mohammed Ali Jinnah of the
Muslim League and, incidentally, helping to usher in the first of the
religious wars that are even now raging all over this planet and
which finally came to these shore on Feb. 26th, 1993.
In all these religious wars, with the exception of Northern Ireland,
Islam has been the aggressor.
One item amongst dozens should suffice. In the 1960s Islam exploded
in both Indonesia as well as Malaysia in righteous wrath against the
Zionist-Imperial Infidel, but as there were no Jews and very few
Westerners to kill, the Chinese had to play the role of the victims
and butchered they were in the tens of thousands, and now that the
U.S. once again has moved against Jihadistan, the Chinese may very
well be called upon to act again as victims.
In the Western world new mosques are going up every day; everywhere
where Islam rules, the syna - gogues, some dating back to Babylonian
times have already been shut down and such churches that are still
open are on sufferance.
Equally, wherever Islam has seized power all the Jews have been
expelled from territories where they have been living since
Babylonian, in some cases Assyrian times, and such Westerners that
are still there are either diplomats, journalists or Western
renegades selling their expertise to Islam.
In the West, every major and many a minor university has at least one
chair devoted to Islamic studies every one of which are staffed by
Islamic scholars. How many Islamic universities have departments of
Western studies? And how many (if any) of them are staffed with
Western scholars?
On September 11th, 2001, when New York & Washington were successfully
attacked, (Islam 19, Infidels 2,977), the Arab Street went delirious
with joy and not just in the Middle East but also in all Islamic
enclaves in Europe. And how did the West respond? The opinion- &
decision-makers fell all over themselves in their haste to explain
Islam to the infidels, to the point that His Holiness, the Pope, the
President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Britain went
to the Mosques, and assured us and more important, themselves, that
this is not a religious war. Unfortunately, the other side insists
that this is a religious war and that they mean to win it.
Islam tried three times, Poitiers, 732, Vienna 1588 & 1683, to
conquer Western Europe by force of arms and each time they were
turned back - just. But now, there is no need for Islam to march for
the third time on Vienna, nor burst once more across the Pyrenees for
the enemy (is there a more appropriate term?) is already within the
gates. Europe is and continues to be inundated by a tidal wave of
asylum-demanders & illegal immigrants none of whom bother even for an
instant to hide their venomous hatred of the West and all it stands
for; and the governments of Europe are paralyzed by
political-correctness, inertia or sheer moral cowardice to stop that
invasion.
In France, a junior minister admitted, that the government was afraid
that their local Muslim population might have gone on a jihad should
France have decided to join the United States in going to war with
Iraq or any other Muslim nation. For the time being, the French
government tries to deflect the jihadists by throwing them their
Jewish citizens as a sop, but it is only a matter of time before the
holy warriors get tired of torching synagogues and kosher shops and
turn their attention to churches (as happened once already in
England) and wine & pork shops. (Anybody noticed how 'quiet' the
Arab Street has become since Jonathan put on his hobnailed boots and
kicked butt?)
In Holland Islam has achieved that critical mass of 10%--and a 10%
minority full of passionate intensity & burning with fervor to spread
the word can always achieve mastery over the apathetic 90% who have
lost faith in their institutions and traditions; aided and abetted by
Islam's useful idiots, the European intelligentsia (God, what a
hateful Russian word) who in their relentless culture war against the
West are doing invaluable service to ensure Islam's victory by making
the West lose trust in their institutions, denigrating her
accomplishments and making them ashamed of their past. (Treason of
the intellectuals?)
I In Britain, what the Spanish, French & Germans tried to
do and failed; Islam succeeded and did so with - out firing a shot.
There are now places in Britain where the Queen's writ no longer runs
but Sharia rules. This loss of sovereignty was amply demonstrated in
1988 when the ruling Ayatollah of Iran issued a death sentence
against one Salmon Rushdie the author of the Satanic Verses. The
Muslims of Britain made it quite clear that the pronouncement of an
Iranian cleric took precedence over the laws of Britain (which goes
some length to explain why Britain had to drop the 'Great' from its
title). Then, of course there is the bombing of the London subway
system on July 7th & 21st of this year to which the local press
responded in its usual fashion of spending more ink agonizing over
the fact of a possible backlash by the dhimmitudes against the
faithful (none yet recorded) then on the victims of that foul deed.
In Spain a government was dismissed from office and the
reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula is well on its way.
And how has Europe responded to these and other threats? The
European Parliament has recently passed legislation that will make a
letter like this a criminal offence both to the writer as well as to
the re - cipient should the latter fail to alert the authorities. In
Germany, the dominant power of the European Union, this is known as
Anmeldepflicht.
Postscripts
-o- What would have happened had Islam won the battle of Poitiers
(and it was a dammed close thing)? Let Edward Gibbons (1737-1794
author of The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire tell it in his own
inimitable way:
A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles
from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition
of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of
Poland and the Highlands of Scotland: the Rhine is not more
impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might
have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.
Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the
schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised
people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.
-o- Although Islam was stopped cold at Poitiers and Vienna, she
conquered and held in subjugation for several hundred years present
day: Albania / Bosnia-Herzegovina / Bulgaria / Crete / Cyprus /
Greece / Hungary / Montenegro / Portugal/ Romania / Serbia / Spain /
and that's just in Europe.
-o- Although Islam promises every hour on the hour to slaughter Jews
wherever they can be found, the principal victims of their righteous
rage to date have been: Christians (2 millions minimum) / Buddhists /
Hindus (700,000?) / Sikhs / Muslim (Shiites vs. Sunnis) Jainists /
Parsis / Pagans / Animists / etc. etc. etc. with Jews at the end of
the line. Islam does not discriminate; it is an equal opportunity
killer.
-o- It is a perfect indicator of the time we live in that the leaders
of the West: political, scholastic, ecclesiastic, and above all, the
pontificators of the Fourth Estate simply cannot bring themselves to
face, let alone to state the obvious fact that the West is
immeasurably superior to Islam. Harmony in music / perspective in
painting / painless surgery / the eradication of many diseases that
had plagued mankind throughout the ages / the abolishment of slavery
/ the harnessing of electricity, of steam and oil / the principles of
flight, including into outer space / of photography / household
plumbing (let us pay homage to the lowly Western plumber for it was
he, not the medical profession, who banished cholera, dysentery &
typhoid) / telephone, television & the computer/ the list goes on and
on. Further, the universal languages of the arts & sciences are:
English, French, Italian & German all Western tongues. The proof of
the pudding is in the eating. Islamic students go to Western
universities in their tens of thousands, very few Westerners attend
Islamic universities save for religious studies.