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Islamists Change Their Approach And Seeing Success
A German politician arguing the question of whether to admit yet more Afghan nationals cited official government statistics regarding the crime rates, especially rape, committed by these migrants. Under German censorship laws, she has now twice been found guilty of illegal hate speech, fined thousands of euros, and been given a criminal record, simply for stating government-produced facts.
The United Kingdom, once a bastion of free speech, is now moving toward ever stricter speech restrictions. Meanwhile, prosecutors reluctant to anger Islamists ignore grooming gangs preying on young women.
In the US, pro-Palestinian protesters broke into a graduation dinner at the home of the Berkeley law dean, screaming and chanting. No disciplinary measures were taken against the perpetrators, but the dean’s wife was accused of racism and Islamophobia. A civil rights investigation was launched against her.
Although most Americans are not fully aware, Islamist influences in our culture have become much more pronounced in the last few years. Islamists are still committed to the transformation of Western society into a universal Muslim caliphate. Such is Allah’s will. “Submission” (to Allah) is a translation of “Islam.” Time is not of the essence, but success is considered inevitable.
In the past, the never-ending effort to convert or kill unbelievers was carried out mainly through acts of terrorism. Islamists physically attacked crowds, beheaded civilians, and hijacked planes, hoping to intimidate the infidels.
Western democracies responded with measures sacrificing personal liberties for security, which worked to stymie the high-profile attacks. In the 2016 election, terrorism was the second-rated concern for Americans, slightly lagging the economy. By 2024, Islamic atrocities didn’t register in the polls.
But as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Muslim and prominent advocate for international women’s rights, pointed out in the Hoover Digest, it would be a mistake to conclude that we defeated or even made any progress against Islamist jihadism. Instead, elements within Islam who argued for more gradual methods of subversion from within prevailed over those favoring frontal assaults.
Agents of radicalization have built up large networks of operators in the US and other democracies. They identify and radicalize subjects vulnerable to Islamist messaging. Their emphasis now is to concentrate on converting one person at a time. One institution, one professor, and one community are influenced to reject all thoughts of assimilation and instead join an exciting international movement to change the world.
The Islamists are seeing much greater success with their new strategy. Social media, including TikTok, are especially effective at spreading such messages among the uninformed, often using the language of our historic civil rights movement. Few of the new converts to Islamist wokeness can offer any information on the Gaza “genocide” they protest.
The Internet is being diverted from its former free-speech ideals into a regime of surveillance and censorship. Islamists have successfully infiltrated not only mosques, but universities, political organizations, and immigrant groups. Unassimilated immigrants and young males, particularly, make ready targets for conversion to Islamism.
The shifts in public opinion resulting from this propaganda campaign are becoming felt. The pervasive rise of virulent antisemitism among the young, especially on college campuses, and the tendency to attribute all social wrongs to Western influence should ring alarm bells. It’s not just the kids either. Teamsters Union members were recently videotaped at their Chicago headquarters learning to chant “death to Israel” and “death to America” – in Farsi, no less.
Islamists have also been able to use our beloved legal protections, unknown in their jurisdictions, against us. The meaning of “Islamophobia ” has been changed from an irrational dislike of Muslims to virtually any unfavorable fact or opinion, no matter how justified. Thus, even as they despise and condemn us, Islamists have an all-purpose shield defending them from any criticism, including that of their trademark terrorism.
Islamists seem to possess the mindset that their time may have come. The West is weak and vulnerable, with many no longer believing their ideals are worth defending. Western Europe is trending toward Islamist-inspired policymaking with regard to speech and law enforcement.
In the US, these threats are more distant, but the trends are ominous. Islamists are content to play the long game. For now, they are gaining ground.
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Good post, Mr. Patterson. We could use an editor for your title.
Islamism is an ally of convenience for the Left, as they are reliable enemies of Western Civilization. So long as our civilization is torn down, the Left doesn’t much care who does it.
Anti-Semitism and general anti-Israel propaganda is useful because:
Yikes. Ricochet staff, @ejhill, please fix the typo in this main feed post heading. Crimenutely.
“beloved legal protections”?
https://deepnewz.com/britain/london-man-arrested-metropolitan-police-chanting-yisrael-chai-public-rally-a4a18958
Michael, do you really think so? I think there are some people who are anti-Semitic without being Marxists. Arabs for example.
In the United States, and the West broadly, I see anti-Semitism as being overwhelmingly in service to a Marxist agenda. I’m sure there are exceptions, but those exceptions prove the rule.
I don’t like seeing people on the Right fall for this, as it is a means of infiltration and subversion. This is similar to how the Right fell for Marxism in the form of Feminism, making “common cause” with them. The result was for many self described Conservatives to spend decades mindlessly spouting Marxist agit-prop, thinking they were defending traditional social mores.
The reverse is true, too. The interesting question—and we may live long enough to watch the answer play out, wahoo!—is what happens when one side or the other wins.
My money is on the Islamists—they’re more disciplined. They have more babies. They do not mentally or physically emasculate their males —indeed, masculinity is exalted, something both young men and (though secretly) women find appealing. Once leftists realize they can’t find meaning and satisfaction by dying their hair a “new” color, or puncturing or tattooing themselves in the last remaining morsel of unaltered flesh, and when they tire of the disorder and emptiness their own leftism has created and seek a Handmaids Tale style refuge, the Islamists (whose society in fact provided Atwood with the model for her novel) will be waiting.
Remember when the newly all-Muslim (male) Dearborn city council took down the rainbow flag? And the lefty white woke women were bewildered: But we voted for you!
A certain share of people don’t fall for it, and never will. If at some point the crazies put themselves out of business by not having children, the rest will still exist, and probably still be having more than replacement numbers of children. If that maintains, then the population starts to increase again.