Man has colonized the whole planet. We change the planet, and it is actually in our power to ruin it. Our numbers are huge—perhaps larger than the amount of stars in our Milky Way galaxy (3-100+ billion). Our societies and cultures now rub against each other (sometimes with deadly results), they overlap, and our technology has facilitated massive interconnectivity on planet Earth. Men from the Arab world are able to come here to pit their primitive politicoreligious culture against our modern secular culture to kill thousands of us. We, in turn, are able to do the same. If we were an unjust people, we could literally obliterate their entire society. But we are not.

In an ideal world, men everywhere would take advantage of the wondrous tools and knowledge of the times we live in to spread peace, prosperity, and health. Man is hardly an ideal being, though. Men of backward and violent ideologies have availed themselves of the very technology that their culture has prohibited them from producing themselves, to lash out at the societies which could. President Bush has stated the obvious in reminding us that "On September the 11th, 2001, America learned that vast oceans no longer protect us from the threats of the new era." The world is small, evil is now highly mobile, and open societies are especially vulnerable.

Here in the Great Satan™, we have a society which is free, pluralistic, and open. It's the opposite of Saudi Arabia, North Korea, or any other closed, totalitarian state. Ironically, though, our freedoms lend themselves to being used by our enemies against us—on more than one level. The obvious one is that wicked men, like the nineteen Arab/Islamic terrorists who killed almost three thousand of us on 9/11, can easily gain entry into the United States and blend into our population, to strike us at will. The amazing technology, which our largely secular academic and scientific establishments make possible, too often falls into the hands of our enemies and is used in campaigns aimed at dismantling that fertile, intellectual social climate. Also making use of American freedoms to undermine them are the self-hating, anti-American, leftist ideologues who perform all manner of mental gymnastics to find common cause with our enemies against us. Two decades ago, the brutal communist regimes around the world were the darlings of left. Today it is Islamofascism and jihad.

These people of the modern left have the fire of the true believer burning in their hearts, fueled by a hundred years of flawed social science à la Franz Boas, Margaret Meade, and B.F. Skinner. They live in the imaginary world of the blank slate and the noble savage. A world of relativism and a condescending blanket assessment of any non-white people as inherently repressed, aggrieved, and pure—untarnished by the callous, destructive avarice of imperialistic white European culture. This bizarre worldview, contrary to liberal democracy, leads to a balkanization of all the world's peoples through the folly of multiculturalism. When the left insists on all cultures being of equal merit and value, this leads to a fundamental collapse of norms, values, and guidelines by which to measure members of the global community. Moral equivalence and moral relativism, in essence, lead to a hopelessly confusing nihilism of amorality. In a rational and moral world, we must be free to reasonably and ethically make firm judgments about right and wrong—even when it offends people.

I'm not looking to pick on the left. The right has its fringe of scary people too. Some are hoping for a race war in the U.S. to establish white supremacy. Others have expressed an unsettling willingness to see millions of innocent people in the Arab world incinerated in nuclear fire. Still others would turn America into an isolationist state, ignoring the many people in the world we may help, and build healthy, mutually beneficial alliances with.

However, these loopy people on the far right have very little influence, if any at all, in shaping domestic and foreign policy in American politics—conspiratorial leftist delusions notwithstanding. It's a different story with leftist zealots. They are ubiquitous and effective in executing small, incremental steps that they hope will remake American freedom and American character to suit their weird utopian fantasies. Unfortunately, they've met with no small amount of success. They passionately devote great amounts of money, manpower, and time to such worthy activities as: removing crosses from county seals, defending cop-killers, endeavoring to annihilate God in all areas of American life, impugning our military at war overseas, and their latest crusade: promoting Islam as a Religion of Peace™, in their alliance with Islamosupremacists against everyday America.

Now that communism is in its death throes, the America-hating left needs a new monolithic totalitarian movement hostile to American-led Western liberal democracy. You won't find a better candidate to fill that role than Islam. Islam is the ultimate totalitarianism. It's a complete, top-down, obsessive-compulsive consumption of all aspects of society and the individual, whose needs and wants are subsumed by the overarching program of ever-expanding submission to the leader. God is the leader, and violence and murder keep the "peace." Islam's sole purpose is to subject all of mankind to God's will (as understood by Muslims), irrespective of any cultural, national, or ethnic considerations. Conquest of the planet for God, through force of arms or otherwise, is Islam's endgame—the universal implementation of brutal seventh century politicoreligious laws in the modern age.

So it's really no surprise that America is the principal object of hatred for devout Muslims. And for leftists, the fact that most Muslims are of an exotic non-European background, they perfectly fit the archetype of the noble savage. They are the ideal victims of the left's vision of an evil, materialistic, racist, and imperialistic America. Plus, their unreformed and unenlightened faith obliges them to hate us so much that the idea and act of killing us en masse is religious ecstasy—a formidable enemy indeed. If they would bother to study the fundamentals of the death cult they so fervently defend in their efforts to tear down the U.S., our leftist friends might realize that their heads too have a place on Islam's chopping block.

We don't live in a perfect world. There are cultures, religions, societies, and governments that are superior to others. To acknowledge this has nothing to do with racism, intolerance, or hatred. To ignore it does. Islamic culture and the Islamic faith are backward, repressive, dangerous, and hostile to human rights and liberty. If Christianity or Judaism had never undergone reform and enlightenment, they too would inhibit real peace, progress, and positive change for all mankind. We here in the West are not innately superior to Muslims or to any other people. We have simply embraced a way of life which fosters respect for the individual, pluralism for the immigrant, and peaceful integration for all who love freedom. It doesn't make us better than anyone, but it surely makes us better off than those living under the tyranny of man or God.

The multicultural useful idiots of Islam on the Western left suffer from both a paralysis of reason and a stultified ethos which automatically presupposes that anyone who criticizes Islam must be a hateful, xenophobic bigot. They assume that such a person derives some sort of perverse enjoyment from finding fault in ones fellow man, as if it is somehow satisfying to face the fact that an entire popular system of belief is antithetical to so much of what is good in this world. This topsy-turvy thinking is dangerous. It immediately sets up barriers for Muslims who are dying—too often, literally—to effect some beneficial change in their totalitarian religion, and for those of us in the West who would love to help them. When bitter leftists make the honest criticism of Islam in public discourse into a thoughtcrime, it is an erosion of our precious freedoms and an erosion of hope for millions of Muslims who silently scream out for an end to the fourteen centuries of suffering and death in Allah's name.

There are plenty of universals across all human societies. Anthropologist, Donald E. Brown put together an excellent list of more than two hundred of them in his book, Human Universals. We have far more in common than we do in opposition. Race means nothing. Ethnicity means nothing (outside of ethnic pride and heritage). Culture and societal structure mean a lot, and can sometimes lead to epic conflicts that kill people on a grand scale and leave an imprint of lasting hatred on the human soul. It's a small world now, and cultures can no longer exist exclusively of each other, with the occasional war to bolster group unity. We have to learn to get along, and that means honestly acknowledging those who are not willing to compromise in the endeavor of coming together as one in respect and peace, while appreciating our differences. Western liberal democracy is the best leveler of disparate cultures, integrating different peoples into a free and working unity, while preserving their cultural and ethnic identities. In the best of all possible worlds, there is no room for the intolerance, hatred, and totalitarianism exemplified by the leftist/Islamic agenda.

The utopias of leftist true believers and Islamosupremacists have never existed and never will, because the bondage of tyranny is inimical to the finest and most noble heights of man's nature. Idealists, however, cannot appreciate that life is better lived in reality.
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originally posted at Clarity & Resolve