Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Gregory Davis.. producer of the feature documentary:
Islam: What the West Needs to Know.
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The facile way in which politicians, commentators, and academics dismiss Islam as a 'religion of peace' indicated to us that there was more that needed to be said on the topic. The Muslim terrorists claim to be doing the will of Allah, while Western leaders insist that Islam is peaceful. The obvious question was: who is right?
There is no a priori justification to assume that peaceful Muslims represent authentic Islam while violent Muslims do not.
FP: How would you interpret the West's illusions about Islam?
Davis:
The West is guilty of the ages-old error of projection, of imposing its own ideas, beliefs, and aspirations onto the other guy. When Westerners approach Islam, they imagine that it is a religion like others that they are familiar with - like, say, Christianity. They see Islam as basically another item on the religious menu available in an integrated world.
What they FAIL to understand, however, is that Islam is decidedly outside the Western tradition and therefore Western assumptions are inapt when assessing it.[...]
the most important aspect of Islam not understood in the West is that Islam is less a personal faith than a social and Political Plan for organizing humanity - really, a system of Government.
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FP: The Islamization of Europe is occurring at a lightning speed. What do you make of it?
Davis:
It is truly astonishing that a civilization as organized and materially powerful as Europe today is voluntarily going to its death. The Europeans could certainly forestall the Islamization of their continent, but so far they have shown no stomach for it. Already portions of Europe's metropolitan areas are de facto Islamic states ruled by Sharia law - the London Telegraph mentioned this the other day with remarkable equanimity.
The Parisian police have admitted that they are in the early stages of a civil war. The negative growth rates of the native Caucasian populations mean that Europe is committing generational suicide while its Muslim populations continue to grow very rapidly. While Muslims in Europe are still poorly organized and outside the conventional halls of power, they nonetheless posses something invaluable that Europe does not: faith. Europe has lost its faith and with it the will for self-preservation....It is a tragedy on a civilizational scale and should be a cautionary tale for those of us in North America.
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Democracy implies some sort of pluralism, which is the very antithesis of a Sharia state. Installing genuine democracy would first require a program of de-Islamization, which would be simply impossible.
The only means of achieving a form of secularism in an Islamic country is through the sort of repression we see today in Egypt, Pakistan, even Turkey.
In Islam, there can be no freedom of religion, freedom of speech, equality of the sexes, or anything that transgresses the highly specific dictates of Sharia law. Any kind of popular movement by Muslims is by nature away from secular, genuinely democratic principles and toward a theocratic, Sharia state.
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Islam and its faithful adherents are trying to Undermine our secular governments with the ultimate aim of replacing them with Sharia. Terrorism is a means to this end as are Islamic proselytizing, fund-raising, lobbying, education, etc. As during the Cold War,
we are under attack from a hostile political ideology that does not operate in the same moral universe as we do. Broadly speaking, we need to develop a program of containment that will operate on all levels of government policy.
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With respect to Iraq, the main problem there was and is our fundamental Misunderstanding of the nature of Islam. There was good reason that someone as brutal as Saddam Hussein rose to the top in that society.
In the Islamic world, the most powerful force is not some universal desire for human freedom but the will of Allah and the example of Muhammad. Until we grasp this overarching fact, our policy toward Iraq and the rest of the Muslim world will be fundamentally flawed.
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Encouraging democratic or popular forces in the Islamic world is to encourage the resurgence of orthodox Islam with all that entails, namely, Sharia and jihad. Rather than democratizing the Muslim world we should be seeking to Secularize it. Contrary to the Western experience, democratization and secularization are not at all synonymous in an Islamic context.
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