Why is Islam so feared and derided today?

“Muslims [today] are hated, not for their vices, but for their virtues.”
Reprinted from WORLD VIEW NEWS SERVICE
Written by Ian Buckley

Professor Hugh Kenner – with whom I had the honour of corresponding shortly before his death – considered that without its poets the world would have already have long since succumbed to total exhaustion.

More practically, perhaps, we can view religion as playing a similar
valuable role in preserving traditional societies, and maintaining
higher values than the almighty dollar. But not all faiths have ‘what
it takes’ to resist the trend towards a world turned into a counting
house on top of a rubbish dump.

Indeed, both Judaism and the Protestant variant of Christianity are
implicated, more or less, in the rise of capitalism. Additionally,
traditionalist Catholics believe that their Church is now a shadow of
its former state, having virtually self-destructed after Vatican II.
While Eastern Orthodoxy and even Japanese Shinto play their honourable
part in resisting the rush towards a porno-trash non-culture, it is
pre-eminently Islam that is the biggest stumbling block in the way of
the New World Order.

In the first place Islam is a profoundly and genuinely democratic
faith, as opposed to the `democracy’ of fakery and computerised
trickery that characterised the election of Bush and Bliar. Following
on from this, Muslims also hold true to economic democracy in the form
of the prohibition of usury. Though now abandoned, this was also once
a doctrine of the Christian Church. Such a fundamental point is, to
say the least, unappreciated by the false prophets of globalist
capitalism, always on the lookout for fresh lands to reduce to a bland
and hence profitable mass – or mess.

When Muslims, like those `extremist’ Iranians, reject the societies
(perhaps non-societies might be a better term) of Britain and the US,
are they really wrong to do so? Or are they just being sensible in not
wanting a taste of the growing gap between rich and poor, the drug
addiction, the sleaze, the corruption, the social breakdown, the urban
gun crime and trash TV that more and more characterises these two
countries today?

Significantly, terms such as Ummah and Dar-al-Islam are more or less
untranslatable, indicating a degree of cohesion and comradely
brotherhood that those outside the Arabic and Muslim world can barely
understand.

Though few of us realise it, we in the West are spoon-fed a bogus view
of reality: the truth only comes out in peripheral areas. Times,
Telegraph and Observer dribble on and on about the wonderful EU
constitution, or how we must ‘democratise’ Iraq. However in the
travel sections of such papers you can still read the occasional
comment on the wonderful hospitality to be found in Libya or Syria, in
spite of everything that happened in recent years.

Apparently, tourists there can find themselves being invited, after a
passing acquaintance with a citizen of those ‘evil’ countries, to stay
and eat in private homes. Just try doing that in New York or London!
As Gavin Maxwell wrote of his stay in pre-Saddam and pre-American
Apocalypse Iraq :

‘Throughout our journey I was struck by the boorishness of Western
hospitality by contrast with that of the Arabs. If a stranger rings a
doorbell in Europe, he must produce some very good reason before he
can get into the house at all, much less eat there as a guest; yet in
the lands where there are neither doors nor doorbells the stranger is
not asked the reason for his presence, and to hesitate in setting food
before him would be shameful.’

The anti-Islam crowd often pipes up that some Muslim countries, most
notably Saudi Arabia and Iran, have a harsh judicial code,
particularly for errant women. While there is – of course – a kernel
of truth in this, I would suggest that Western countries should get
their own houses in order before interfering in the affairs of other
countries. As comparatively recently as the 1950s it wasn’t unheard of
for women to receive capital punishment in Britain and America on
highly dubious evidence of murder, when their real crime was
‘immorality’. More recently, President Bush laughed about the
execution of Karla Faye Tucker.

Today in Blair’s blight land, the single largest category of female
prisoners consists of the ‘desperadoes’ who have failed to pay their
TV licenses. Additionally, the high suicide rate across the entire
penal system means that the official view that Britain has no death
penalty is somewhat flawed to say the least.

As is clear from the Last Sermon of the Last Prophet, true Islam has a
civilised attitude towards woman, unlike the misogyny that disfigures
a significant amount of Judaic (and Christian) thought:

‘O People, it is true that you have certain rights with regard to your
women, but they also have rights over you. Remember that you have
taken them as your wives only under Allah’s trust and with His
permission. If they abide by your right then to them belongs the right
to be fed and clothed in kindness. Do treat your women well and be
kind to them for they are your partners and committed helpers. And it
is your right that they do not make friends with any one of whom you
do not approve, as well as never to be unchaste. ’

Muslims will have to face the fact that they are hated, not for their
vices, but for their virtues. The normal mind to a large extent rebels
against such a novel thought. As with the true story of what really
happened on September 11th, the average person has a mental block when confronted by the perverse, amoral wickedness implied by ‘hatred of
virtues’.

Most know or at least intuitively sense that two massive towers
couldn’t really have been destroyed by a pair of Boeing passenger
aircraft, but prefer not to contemplate the awful truth.

As for actual as opposed to fabled ‘Muslim terrorism’ – not that I
agree with the dubious practice of coupling faith allegiance to
terrorism – has there actually been any? There was the attack on the
USS Cole, of course, but can one really describe suicidally brave men
in motor-boats versus a huge floating leviathan as ‘terrorism’? Other
incidents such as Achille Lauro and the Munich Olympics have more than
a whiff of the agent provocateur about them.

America today, in line with its stultifying decay, hardly produces any
new contributors to the world of thought. Though scarcely comparable
to Mencken or Brooks Adams, the present-day philosophic duo of Beavis
and Butthead have it right: ‘People are STUPID’.

Yes, people are stupid, especially modern Britons or Americans. They
are pleased to accept assessments of one of the world’s great
religions from various self-interested parties with an axe to grind – from tame professors run by the intelligence agencies, to
fundamentalist ‘Christian’ Zionist nutcases who want to bring on
Armageddon.

The Prophet Muhammad whom they ignorantly deride was in actuality – by
the standards of his time and ours – an extraordinarily humane man.
One interesting fact that is seldom brought out today is that many
thousands of Western Europeans are direct descendants of the Last
Prophet.

As for Muslims and Arabs in general, they can take some small comfort
from the words of Beregond, the soldier of Gondor, in Tolkien’s Lord
of the Rings: ‘We have this honour: ever we bear the brunt of the
chief hatred of the Enemy.’

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