Is Islam The New Communism?
17th September 2010
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, makes an obvious analogy explicit.
With separationism not an option this side of some great politico-cultural upheaval, presumably we are stuck with having Muslims among us in quantity. Is this so bad? In the approved political liturgy of today’s West, the chanted response here is: “Most Muslims are moderate and law-abiding.” I suppose that is true, but when was history ever driven by the passive “most”? Most Russians in 1917 were not Bolsheviks. Come to think of it, most Arabs in A.D. 622 were not Muslims.
Islam is worse than Communism, because it is longer-established, religion-based, and not as economically suicidal. And we still haven’t beaten Communism, as a look at our own Democrat party and its policies makes plain. We’re in for a Long War, and we’d better get buckled down to it.