Posted by
flagwaver on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 4:20:14 PM
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Peanut butter and jelly; sugar and spice; government and spending. Some things just go together, and no matter what you try you can’t separate them—they are forever linked.
Take communist economic theory and politics, for example. I had a professor whom I greatly admire try her best to split the two apart, attempting to separate the one from the other. Try as she might, she was not able to convincingly isolate communist economic theory from communist political practice; she just refused to acknowledge that the one flows from the other and cannot be split. You cannot have an economy based on government domination of the means of production, the schedule and amounts of produced materials without having a government that, almost by necessity, dominates all parts of society. And this type of set up invites--- almost demands--- a government that is authoritarian at best and totalitarian at worst. But like the good liberal that she was, my professor could not let go of her delusion that a communist economy could work, if only attempted in the right place by the right people. You see, it is not the system or theory that is fatally flawed; it is the people attempting to implement it that have the problem.
We now face the same dilemma with the liberals in our midst that refuse to see that there is no distinction between ecclesiastical Islam and temporal Islam. They attempt to convince themselves and the world around them that the religion of al-Islam is different from the political aspect of the religion. Nothing could be further from the truth; like communist economic theory and communist political theory, religious and political Islam is one in the same. They are inextricably linked.
When Muhammad founded Islam c.622 A.D., he had no illusions that political power was to be exercised apart from the religion of al-Islam. Islam was to be the religious order of the region, spread by the blade of the sword if necessary; it was also to serve as the foundation of government in the areas where it predominated. The Koran and the Sunna from the start set out the rules governing both the social and communal life of Muslims; the Shari ‘a law has been a part of Islam from its founding.
What is perplexing is that liberals of all stripes continue to attempt to separate the two; they continue to delude themselves that the religious Muslims are not the same as the practitioners of jihad and the implementers of Shari’ a. It would be easier to split an atom with a butter knife than to split political and religious Islam from one another. There can be no separation of the two as they are one and the same—and the quicker our liberal friends realize that, the better off we will all be.
Once the liberals come to grips with the fact that Islam does teach the subjugation of all nations to the house of Islam, that it does preach jihad to it’s followers, that it is backward facing, that it is hostile to all religions, and that it does preach dhimmi status for all non-Muslims we can get about the business of defeating this threat.
When the liberals realize that they would likely be the first to be taken care of by a Muslim caliphate because of their support of homosexual rights, sexual license, and all manner of immorality maybe they will get on board for the effort to defeat an enemy that has sworn our destruction.
Because the only way we will be able to fend off the increasing attacks of the practitioners of jihad, to defeat our mortal enemy, and to secure our own future is to stand together. We have to be united in common cause for this to work, and for us to ultimately prevail in this war we find ourselves in. We have to be strong, united, and resolute.
We must be one thing above all.
Indivisible.