It would shock and probably
offend most Americans to learn the truth that the reason they are
here, their power, their affluence and position in the world is
directly because of the Islamic religion and the Arab culture.
That’s right, the very "ragheads" and "Hajis"
(as Limbaugh, Liddy, and some of the others often call them)
that the US is now fighting are directly responsible for the
preeminence and power of not just the United States, but of the
entire Western world in general.
Besides the fact that Western
Civilization began in the area of the Fertile Crescent, also known as
Mesopotamia (present day Iraq), it is as well an historical fact beyond
dispute that it was the learning and sophistication of the Arab culture
that led to many of the scientific developments that would later make
Europe the cradle of science, learning, and advancement. After the
institutionalization of the Islamic religion throughout the Mediterranean
region, the extent of Arab learning and culture was such that European
Kings, Christian Kings, would send their sons and daughters to be
educated in Moslem places such as Cordova and Toledo. Christian Crusaders
coming back from the Middle East told of the richness of Arab culture,
leading to Europeans’ desire for Arab goods, which in turn led to trade
routes between Europe and the Middle East. The resulting wealth created
from that trade with the Arabs led to the ascendancy of power for European
city-states such as Venice and Florence, which became the birthplaces of
the Renaissance in Europe. Arab advancements in navigation, from the
Astrolabe to the compass to the fast sailing ship known as the Caravel
made possible the arrival in the New World of the Europeans. Let’s not
forget, Spain and Portugal, those two powers who held a virtual monopoly
on exploration in the New World for quite a while, were, for 700 years,
held by the Arabs.
What will gall Americans even more,
especially those who call themselves Christian, is the idea that it may be
the Arab and Muslim culture that will be not only the birthplace of
Western Civilization, but the savior of it as well.
As evidenced by the nightly news right
now, there is a war going on. Superficially, it is about things like
"terrorism" and "freedom." There are some who go a step further and blame
oil and banking, not to mention "lebensraum" for Israel. And while all
these things do play a part, some greater than others, the real war here
is between two world views.
During the debates that took place in
the UN between the internationalist cabal led by France, Germany, Russia,
Belgium, and China on one side and the nationalists led by the United
States, Great Britain, (and behind the scenes, Israel,) there was this
"tossing around" of phrases in coded language. The nationalist crowd,
represented in the debates by Colin Powell, spoke of "Old Europe" in a
castigating attempt to portray those opposing the war against Iraq as
somehow backwards in their thinking, as opposed to those in the New World,
who were enlightened and were here to save all humanity against dangerous
men and dangerous ideas. And although we know that the reasons for the
internationalist crowd opposing the war against Iraq had little to do with
anything other than protecting their own business interests as well as
staving off US hegemony in the world in favor of internationalist
hegemony, it did illustrate that there is, at least on the part of the
"coalition of the willing" a desire to do away with that ethos held
by the Old World (meaning the Middle-East) that serves as an obstacle in
building that New World Order that Bush the Elder discussed more than a
decade ago, even if it means seeing the US leading it rather than the UN.
To the "New World," and by default the
New World Order, the Arab/Muslim world is backwards in its values. It
prohibits abortion and birth control. They have large families, as opposed
to the West, where the average family has only 2 children. It prohibits
usury banking, to which the West credits its own economic superiority.
Theirs is a "closed" society (read into this no sodomy, pornography, gay
lifestyle, et al) Theirs is a "cruel" society (read into this-they do not
have people on death row for 20 years) And finally, they will not play the
game the way the market wants it played, meaning, they want a just price
for their only real source of wealth, their oil, instead of giving it away
to the West for a fraction of its worth. In other words, the picture that
has just been painted here is, the Muslim world is now what the Christian
world once was and should be.
One can already hear the roar coming
out of the mouths of many who have not been thinking of this in a critical
way, particularly those well-paid mouthpieces on TV and radio masquerading
themselves as Christians. "The religion of Mohammed is better than the
religion of Jesus Christ?!" No, rather, what is meant here is that the
religion of Islam resembles Christianity more than does the Christianity
of the West today, because the Christianity of the West today isn’t
Christianity at all, but a watered-down amalgamation of New Ageism mixed
with certain common spiritual attributes that, although called Christian,
can be found in almost every known religion. Through decades of
destructive influence and propaganda through media and academia,
mainstream Christianity in the West has been reduced to one remaining
commandment, vague and hard to pin-point which is "be nice."
The fact of the matter is, putting
aside all the other reasons surrounding this war that were enumerated at
the beginning of this essay, what exists in the Middle East, or in The Old
World, as some would call it, is a culture that is still devoted to
principles concerning basic moral values, values that have not yet
surrendered to the corrupting influence of Western media or Western money.
Within the last 50 years, every culture has fallen before this corrupting
power that seeks to enslave all men in such a way that the individual is
reduced to the value of what he produces and what he consumes, and in
pursuit of that method, the individuals behind this program have quietly
but decisively removed every obstacle in their way, be it religion,
culture, morals, tradition, or world view, through the methods of media,
academia, and finance; that is, except the culture encapsulated in the
Islamic/Arabic World.
By the description "Arabic/Islamic," it
should not be understood as solely a "Muslim" thing. The culture existing
in the Arab world is held by both Christian and Muslim alike. There are
millions of Christians, who have in essence the same culture with their
Muslim counterparts in much the same way as most Americans, regardless of
religion, have the same culture. It is those Christians and Muslims alike
who reject these "modern" notions such as abortion, birth control, sodomy,
pornography, usury banking, and "market value" of services and resources.
They still view the family, the traditional family, with all its
traditional roles, as the most important building block of their
society, and they take very seriously anything that threatens it. They
recognize the value of their children, and how dangerous the moral
relativism of the West has become, threatening the stability of society
directly. They recognize that if their children and society as a whole are
subjected to ideas that promote moral decay for an extended period of
time, what will eventually and unavoidably be produced is national decay.
One should consider the fact that the
New World Order has used and is using all its resources and influence to
emasculate and neutralize all opposition to its agenda in the world. The
Catholic Church, once a political power to be feared by presidents and
prime ministers the world over, has been rendered obsolete. Through
mouthpieces such as John Paul II, the New World Order has been openly
embraced, and if at times the church gets a little rambunctious and steps
out of line, well, the NWO crowd merely runs new stories revealing
allegations of pedophilia and abuse. The mainstream Protestant groups, led
by influential people on the television and radio, may talk of the dangers
of the NWO and the secularization of the West, yet still openly embrace
Bush when he pushes through various pieces of legislation that rob us of
our freedoms under the guise of protection from terrorism, as well as the
practice of conveniently "forgetting" about Bush’s caving in to the
pro-abortion lobby in various instances. So, with the exception of a few
pockets of token resistance, there is no one left standing in the way of
the NWO except the Arab/Muslim World.
If by some miracle the Arab/Muslim
world is victorious against this onslaught, and the secular/atheistic
influence of the NWO agenda is reduced to such a level as to allow the
Christian West to regain its foothold where it once stood, it will be
necessary to credit the religion of Islam and the Arab world for not
buckling under in the face of extermination. And it will be we, the
Christian West and Western Civilization, who will be the beneficiaries of
"Islamic Extremism."
Mark Glenn is an American and former high school teacher turned writer / commentator. He contributed above article to Media Monitors Network (MMN).
