Cynicism, uncertainty, and fear are the insignia of the culture which they (liberals) are still dominating by default. And the only thing that has not rusted in their ideological equipment, but has grown savagely brighter and clearer through the years, is their lust for power—for an autocratic, statist, totalitarian government power.
_ The New Fascism: “Rule by Consensus,” _
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 209.
In full accordance with Ayn Rand’s prediction we are living now in the Age of Fear. This is best expressed by the popular catch phrase that became the motto of our times: “better safe than sorry”. For the rational person this formula simply means that one should take precautions in order to avoid clear and present dangers. However in the modern society of unreason this expression became an equivalent of faceless, unsubstantial fear. Such a fear could be alleviated only by omniscient omnipotential and omnipresent entity which previously was known as god and now as all-protective semi-totalitarian government. From the days of Hobbes and Machiavelli the power lust autocrats knew only too well that the best way to keep the populace at bay is to install the baseless fear in their minds. After this simple transplant procedure the government can do whatever it pleases with the people in order to protect them from GM products, passive smoking, cell phone radiation, global warming and the conquest of the West by the Sharia Law. 177 pages of the report “Sharia’s threat to America” are devoted to this single goal- to scare people half-dead, to make them to believe that they may find themselves under heavy boot of Sharia law faster than one can say shahada, that tomorrow all the people in the West will wake up in the “brave new world “ ruled by Islam. And why should we believe it? Because Omar Ahmad, founder of CAIR had stated in 1998 that:
“If you choose to live here [in America]… you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam. Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
_ While a fictional interpretation of Islam is used to filter the reality of the Muslim world and its undercurrents, the West and America in particular will be compromised and ultimately overthrown…” _
Observe that he never mentioned by what means less than 1% of American Muslim population can overthrow the mightiest State in the world. A rational person would regard such a statement as silly wishful thinking, another story taken from the “Thousand and one night” book. However, reason became very scarce commodity in the West.
Chapter 8 of the report states:
"The growth of Muslim populations in the West augurs the inexorable spread of shariah into Western societies — less by violence than by dint of natural procreation, unchecked immigration, and the incessant demands of an aggressive minority that refuses to assimilate. Logic should tell us, then, that the growth of shariah in the West threatens Western-style liberty: threatens freedom of expression, freedom of conscience and upends religious and sexual equality. [p.130]
“In fact, by manipulating perceptions at the national strategic level about the nature of shariah, the enemy can actually exercise profound influence over the nature and adequacy of the defense mounted. That is most especially true of actions needed to contend with the Muslim Brotherhood’s stealth jihad – even though we know its avowed purpose is aimed at “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands.” {p.133}"
In other words-be scared, be very scared! Fear paralyzes mind. Nobody asks or answers the question how the tiny minority of Muslims could ever overtake Western democracy? How they “exercise profound influence over the nature and adequacy of the defense mounted.”? By what means? The similarity of this report with the “Protocols of Zion’s Elders” is overwhelming. Their common denominator is a paranoid fear of conspiracy. And, as in the case of “Jewish conspiracy” the populace demand actions. They demand to ban and to banish, to restrict and to deport, to close Muslim institutions and in general to treat all Muslims as like as they forfeited all their rights. The statist government would be only too happy to show compliance.
The words of Thomas Jefferson “
…that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry, that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence, by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages, to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right…”
mean nothing to them.
If global warming doesn’t provide sufficient excuse to eliminate the last remnants of Western liberties, then Sharia “ threat” definitely does. Sharia indeed may overtake the West, but only by default, that is-if the West driven by irrational fear will forfeit its freedom.