Political Islam

Paul Scates, who writes some tremendous material for Dakota Voice, sent me this link yesterday.

It's a FrontPage Magazine article on "political Islam" and why most of us infidels just don't get it.

Since Islam has a dualistic logic and dualistic ethics, it is completely foreign to us. Muslims think differently from us and feel differently from us. So our aversion is based upon fear and a rejection of Islamic ethics and logic. This aversion causes us to avoid learning about Islam so we are ignorant and stay ignorant.

Another part of the aversion is the realization that there is no compromise with dualistic ethics. There is no halfway place between unitary ethics and dualistic ethics. If you are in a business deal with someone who is a liar and a cheat, there is no way to avoid getting cheated. No matter how nice you are to a con man, he will take advantage of you. There is no compromise with dualistic ethics. In short, Islamic politics, ethics and logic cannot be part of our civilization. Islam does not assimilate, it dominates. There is never any “getting along” with Islam. Its demands never cease and the demands must be met on Islam’s terms: submission.

The fact that we don't get it (Islam) is why we continue to suffer humiliating defeats at the hands of terrorists, and why we continue to be humiliated in our Middle East dealings. It's because we refuse to understand or accept that we're dealing with people that have a different ethical system.

This explained earlier in the piece:

Warner: The term “human being” has no meaning inside of Islam. There is no such thing as humanity, only the duality of the believer and unbeliever. Look at the ethical statements found in the Hadith. A Muslim should not lie, cheat, kill or steal from other Muslims. But a Muslim may lie, deceive or kill an unbeliever if it advances Islam.

There is no such thing as a universal statement of ethics in Islam. Muslims are to be treated one way and unbelievers another way. The closest Islam comes to a universal statement of ethics is that the entire world must submit to Islam. After Mohammed became a prophet, he never treated an unbeliever the same as a Muslim. Islam denies the truth of the Golden Rule.

This is why the whole "Middle East peace" thing never gets solved. It's also why Americans and Israelis are foolish to negotiate with terrorists. The only way to achieve peace with Islamic terrorists is to wipe them out.

On September 12, 2001, I thought maybe President Bush understood this. But since then, he's proven me wrong at almost every turn.