So here’s the thing people, the
blind elephant in rooms all across the civilised world.
We need to talk about it.
We all know that some of our
family and friends are very uncomfortable with the truth about Islam. But we
know of course that they are in fact well-meaning people – people we would call
good and ordinary, trustworthy decent citizens. They want to believe the best
of others no matter who they are or where they are from. They look for the good in people and it
is ingrained in them to do that. That is an integral part of the tolerance we
have developed in Western Society.
They are just trying to survive
in the modern world, stay healthy, pay the mortgage, love their family, put
food on the table and have a bit of a holiday from time to time. That’s
reasonable of course – we all want that. They don’t want to hear about the bad
stuff on the planet – because they can’t see it from their house. That may seem
a bit simplistic but … it is a
fact. For them – a terrorist attack is a thing on TV - a story they don’t want to read in the
paper – something that the “ghouls” at work want to talk about but will be
forgotten soon. It is something
that affects other people in another country. Oh they will get a bit upset if
it comes to their country or their city – but they are sure it will sink into
history in weeks at most. What of Islamic terrorism? In their world-view it has
nothing to do with local “nice” Muslims - it’s the bad Muslims – the extremists
– the radicals who do the bad stuff – in fact maybe they are not really Muslims
at all because how could that be.
But there is a serious and
confusing problem confronting us here. These friends of ours are making their
judgment of Islam from their experience of the muslim shopkeeper down the road
or the hijab wearing quiet woman in the public office, (who has her job as part
of affirmative action.) They find it impossible to equate these “nice,”
“peaceful,” people they meet on a more or less daily basis through the ordinary
pleasantries of human interaction, with the global islamist ideology that has
the widely declared, unobscured intention to destroy Western Civilisation. So
that shopkeeper and that young woman are like a global social camouflage embedded
in our society, who because of the crime of political correctness, can very
effectively obscure the reality of the Islamic threat. Those “nice” muslims are the cloaks of
respectability over the depraved atrocities perpetrated in the name of their
religion.
We also know a lot of our friends and relatives don’t want to
hear about it – they want to avert their gaze, turn a blind eye and give the
whole business a pass. The problem is too big, too horrendous, too
unbelievable, too crazy to come to terms with. So they react to those of us who
do want to talk about it and make them aware – as part of the problem. They
cannot understand why it is important to you.
Well - we can see what’s coming –
so we are part of the problem.
We – the people who can actually
see it clearly – who are trying to warn them - are part of the problem. We –
are the crazy ones. The Islamic menace is growing right across the planet – can
be seen clearly every day in all newspapers – on all TV News and when we say we
have deep concerns – we are the crazy ones. But we are in good company. In the
1930s Winston Churchill was trying to warn the world about the rise of Nazism –
and he was shouted down. Really – read the history. It is classic “shoot the messenger” stuff.
The foolishness of our political
correctness and ordinary human decency has played right into the hands of an
ideology that is in fact more sinister, more insidious and more dangerous and
inhumane that either Communism or Nazism.
So as I see it there are two really
important issues here:
The first is how to make our
politically correct and generally decent friends acquaintances and family see
what is happening.
The other is what is going to
happen with the nice Muslim shopkeeper.
You need an answer and I don’t
think I have it – but this is what I think might help:
- · Inform yourself – know your subject – keep up with the latest – double check your facts.
- · Connect with people who can help you to be effective.
- Don’t name call and insult other opinions. Just be calm and try to dismantle them in a constructive way.
- · Get a few effective and undisputable slogans and use them (calmly) all the time.
- · Don’t be crazy. Be polite to the people who try to shut you down because they can’t help it. They are reacting to their conditioning and they have a whole range of slogans developed over many years to fall back on.
- · Don’t put yourself in a position where you are totally outnumbered because you can’t win and it will make them feel like winners when you are shut down. YOU - will look like a looser .
- · Make sure that you check your facts before you tell them anything - because offering up something that is incorrect will just be the leak that lets all the air out of your argument.
- · Be the sane one in the discussion. Of course you feel a sense of urgency – but you have to be more sane than sane. If they can label you as crazy they make you ineffectual.
- · Hook up with the internet in a way that is not extremist.
- · Never talk about doing violence because that will negate all the other bullet points.
- · Never go and do them violence because that makes you no better than them.
- · Don’t associate with crazies who cannot see the wisdom in these bullet points because you will be tarred with their brush.
- NEVER give up
So what about that “nice” muslim?
Ignore him. There is no
point in getting into confrontations with him because in the modern day politically
correct mindset – YOU WILL BE WRONG.
In the absence of an answer I will say this. Islam is
growing in confidence and power every day. We know it and they know it (but our friends don't get it.). I
believe they will act soon because they will not be able to contain themselves.
When they do – the game will change so radically that a storm will sweep over
the planet that will astound our good and decent friends. Be prepared – because
they will beat a path to your door.
You will see.
More on this soon.
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