Daniel Pipes lives in a world of fantasy he shaped in his
own mind. He can afford to live this kind of life because he found someone to
pay for his lifelong sojourn in and out a never-ending train of illusions that
take him around the globe whenever he feels like it.
It is that Daniel Pipes has discovered that the docile
taxpayers of America can be made to live in poverty so that he and others like
him, may indulge in a life of opulence and extravaganza.
Daniel Pipes has been at it for several decades, living the
high life at home in America, and traveling everywhere in the world each time
he feels that something is happening out there. Of interest to him are things
like the unfolding of events which might confirm that his fantasies are based
not on fiction but a reality that's struggling to break the shell in which it
is confined, and come out into the real world.
Like the traveler that's sponsored by a silent patron,
Daniel Pipes returns home at the end of each foray to give account of where he
has been, what wonders he has witnessed, and what he makes of it all. His
latest account came under the title: “Poland's Muslim ban,” published on July
1, 2018 in The Washington Times. As indicated in the title of the column, he
spent time in Poland fantasizing about a subject that is close to his heart:
The banishment of Islam; the fastest growing religion on Planet Earth today.
Pipes and those like him, spent nearly half a century trying
to realize that fantasy in America, and they seemed to have come close to
succeeding at one point. But when push came to shove, they got shoved off the
arena by a cyclone of American righteousness they never thought existed. It is
that they were fooled by the programming at Fox News, the network that
dedicated all 24 hours of the day promoting the notion that the whole universe
would bang itself into a more divine place if America's politicians would only
pronounce the two words: Islamic terrorism … and kept repeating them.
Pipes and company believed the Fox propaganda and became
convinced that this kind of talk will trigger a chain of events, causing
ordinary Americans to rise, take up arms and pogrom all Muslims in their
neighborhoods, pushing them out of America or into graves. But when Donald
Trump was elected President and tried to impose a Muslim travel ban, ordinary
Americans rose as predicted but did not take up arms and did not pogrom
Muslims. What they did, instead, was demonstrate, sending to the leaders in
Washington the message that America's sense of righteousness was more powerful
than any lobby instigating religious hatred or advocating war.
But having lost that battle did not dampen the Daniel Pipes
bent to fantasize about the ultimate demise of Islam. He continued to look for
Fox-like trends beyond the borders of America, and thought he found one in
Poland. He went there to see close-up how the process was unfolding. He
discovered a situation so complex and brimming with so much democratic mottles,
he concluded he could not rely on one group to pull off his fantasy in Poland.
But, there was one political party with the right kind of aptitude, he says.
However, it needed coaching to be brought to a stage where it would instigate
religious hatred and advocate war.
Here are his words to that effect:
“Noting all these problems, I maintain that the party should
be educated and monitored, not demonized, so it can learn from its errors while
protecting the country from the potentially existential threat of Islam's
intrinsic drive for power”.
But having tried to do just that for half a century in
America, and having failed to turn the country into that kind of a place, it is
amazing that Daniel Pipes still believes it is possible to find the educators
who would “educate” Poland in his philosophy of life, and do the dirty work for
him while he monitors them from across the ocean.