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Radical Muslims on the Move Barrett Kalellis At long last, Americans are beginning to wake up to the threat of radical Islam inside our own country. As Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said during a recent congressional House debate, "We are at war with a group of militant Islamists who hate us and who hate much of the rest of the world." This matter-of-fact observation raises the question of how do we deal with the Muslims already in American society. While not all Muslims have been radicalized, significant numbers are sympathetic to jihad, and Islamic sacred texts are contradictory to almost everything that Christianity (and most of Western society) stands for. Large numbers of Muslim immigrants and their offspring remain unintegrable in Western European cities, and since their birth rate is three times that of the non-Muslim natives, experts predict that Europe will be Islamicized in about 50 years. When this happens, expect to see a radical shift in the culture and laws of these countries. This pattern is also currently playing out in Indonesia, Africa and in many other parts of the globe where Muslim populations are growing. In these regions, Muslim-inspired attacks are becoming commonplace, and isolated Islamic violence and plots are on the rise in the U.S. In America, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, the number of Middle Eastern immigrants has grown nearly eightfold from 1970 to 2000, and is expected to double again by 2010. This could have significant long-term repercussions for the U.S. and our Israel foreign policy. Story Continues Below
In 1970, roughly 15 percent of Middle Eastern immigrants to the U.S. were Muslim; by 2000, almost 73 percent were. Although accurate figures are difficult to obtain, scholars have placed the number of Muslims in the U.S. between 2 and 3 million. Considering that Islam is a totally foreign culture and belief system to this country, an increasing Muslim population places the U.S. on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, America historically has been a beacon for individual freedom of speech and practice of religion. On the other, the fog of know-nothing multiculturalism — which presupposes that all non-native beliefs and customs have equal validity — has caused Americans not to question Islamic political ideology, which could have disastrous consequences for American society for years to come. In the 18th century, the Founding Fathers guaranteed constitutional protections for individual religious beliefs, since there was relatively little difference among sectarian Christian practices. But what if a religion appeared that maintained a political and ideological supremacy in its central teachings and actively sought to dominate or eliminate other beliefs and behaviors? Would not chaos and strife ensue? Americans are ignorant about the history of political Islam — from the president and his advisors, to the U.S. Congress, to the media and the man on the street. We are just as ignorant about the doctrine of Islam, an ignorance that is hurting us everyday in our foreign policy around the world. While Judeo-Christian ethics insist that we should treat others as we would like to be treated, Islam only teaches that a Muslim should not lie, cheat, kill, or steal from other Muslims. Muslims, however, may lie, deceive, or kill an unbeliever if it advances Islam. The Quran, along with other Islamic traditions, declares that nation-states have no validity, only the nation of Islam; that the world is divided into Muslims and infidels (unbelievers); and that infidels must either be converted, subjugated or killed. Muslims believe that these are direct commandments of Allah, as revealed to Muhammad, and cannot be changed in any way. Fourteen verses in the Quran emphasize that a Muslim can never be a friend to an unbeliever. Since the seventh century, history empirically has proven that wherever Islam becomes dominant, other religions, states, and personal freedoms are crushed in the name of furthering an Islamic state, where Muslim tyrants or clerics rule and Islamic sharia law is imposed upon the population, which has no individual rights. Islamic politics, ethics and logic cannot be part of Western civilization. Islam does not assimilate — it dominates. There is never any "getting along" with Islam. Its demands never cease and they must be met on Islam's terms: submission. But what of Islam the religion? The Five Pillars of Islam are what Muslims do to avoid Hell and go to Paradise: Pray five times a day, charity to Muslims, pilgrimage to Mecca, fasting, and declaring Muhammad to be the final prophet. These are ensconced in a radical system of laws for social control, many of which involved the oppression of women. First, Americans should heed this warning: For over 1,400 years, political Islam has annihilated every culture it has invaded or to which it has emigrated. Although annihilation may take centuries, once Islam is ascendant, it always prevails. The host culture simply disappears. And today, the signs are everywhere that Islam is on the march once again.
Barrett Kalellis is a Michigan-based columnist, writer, and pundit for NewsMax.com, whose articles appear regularly in various local and national print and online publications. He can be reached at kalellis@newsmax.com. Editor's note: Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
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