Thursday, January 5, 2023

Avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy of doom

 Don Feder says he is not happy because a gloomy reality is advancing against the West with a high birth rate and a sword. It is heralding a doomsday that will become a reality at some point during this century when it’ll happen that more Muslims will celebrate Ramadan than Christians will celebrate Christmas.

 

So, my friend, imagine a Hollywoodish kind of crazed director trying to playout that scene and capture its essence on celluloid. He shows a burka-wearing Muslim woman giving birth to a baby. While Planet Earth appears to be sucked into a black hole, the woman is midwifed by a Christian and a Muslim elders. The first cries out: “Push the baby back in;” the second cries out: “Pull the baby all the way out”.

 

A digital counter hanging on the wall and labelled Christian, displays the number 4 billion. Another counter, labelled Muslim, also displays the number 4 billion. As the baby is at times pulled out, and at times pushed in, the planet is seen approaching the black hole or moving away from it. Simultaneous to that, the Muslim clock shows the tendency to alternate between 4 billion and 4,000,000,001 while flashing  the word “DOOM” depending on the position of the baby.

 

A scene like that must have played in the head of Don Feder when he wrote the article that came under the title: “Islam poised to become the world’s largest religion,” and the subtitle: “It advances with the cradle and the sword.” The article was published on January 1, 2023 in The Washington Times.

 

Relying on demographics, also on current and projected statistics, Don Feder makes a convincing case that within a few decades, Planet Earth will be populated by more Muslims than Christians. But he goes on to say that this will mean the association between Christianity and Western Civilization will dissolve and fade away forever.

 

Where Don Feder fails to make a case, is where he relies on demagoguery to warn that this will be the day Planet Earth will enter its doom phase and perish. Trying hard to make a case that does not hold together, Feder cites a ton of false information — the kind that was injected into the marketplace of ideas over the decades by people whose preoccupation was to serve their own interest.

 

One of the most overstated falsehoods happens to be what Don Feder says is unfolding in Egypt at this time. While the distortion of reality causing the falsehood, is not as exaggerated as what a Human Rights watcher once said — namely that the Christians of Egypt don’t know what’s good for them because they are not taking up arms and fighting — Feder wrote the following: “While Muslims in the West demand tolerance, Christians rarely get it under Islam. In Egypt, Coptic churches are bombed, congregants shot, and girls kidnapped and forced to convert”.

 

It is a blatant lie to say that Christians rarely get tolerance under Islam. To see the extent of the distortion that’s in this quote, we go back a few decades to when the falsehood originated. The first leader to use Muslim extremism to fight an enemy, was the American President Ronald Reagan. It happened when he called on Pakistani and Afghani young men to rev up their religious zeal and fight the “godless” Soviets that had invaded Afghanistan. Reagan paid and armed these youngsters not realizing that when done with the Soviets, they were not going to shed their newly acquired religious zeal nor disappear.

 

Instead of vanishing, having defeated the Soviet Union, the Muslim youngsters began to think in terms of building their own empire by taking down the West. They tried to persuade the existing Muslim countries to join them, but none did. And so, the youngsters concluded that their priority will have to be the conquest of the Muslim countries before going against the West. The most important country to go against was Egypt. With generous help from the Jewish and Western elements who wished to see Egypt ruined, the young Muslims bombed some churches and shot congregants in the attempt to spark a ruinous civil war — which they failed to do. As to kidnapping Christian girls and forcing them to convert, it turned out to be false rumors that never happened.

 

What is noteworthy in all of this, however, is that while the foreign youngsters – who were paid and armed by the Jews and the Americans to start a civil war in Egypt – were engaged in criminal activities, the Muslim population of Egypt came out by the thousands, and formed a human chain around the churches and their Christians congregants to protect them against the foreign criminals.

 

To make one final push at cementing his demagoguery in the mind of the readers, Don Feder asked the question: “What will a world dominated by Islam look like?” and he answered as follows:

 

Under Islam, adulterers are stoned to death and converts to other faiths are murdered. To various degrees, Muslims support Sharia law in Russia, Nigeria, France and the United Kingdom. Despite it being called a religion of peace, a small percentage of Muslims say that suicide bombing is justified when defending the community.

 

Well, like everywhere else, there are crazies in Islam that hold all kinds of views. The important thing, however, is that no extreme law has ever been enacted in any established Muslim nation. As to what’s horrible about “suicide bombing,” it is that it sounds horrible. But it is no different from the Japanese “kamikaze” or the English “self-sacrifice to protect others.” For example, those on 9/11 who ditched the plane that was on its way to the Pentagon, are called heroes.

 

Perhaps tongue-in-cheek, Feder tells what happens when you insult a Christian, a Jew and a Muslim. And boy, he came short when telling about the Jew who, in response, would only write a letter to the editor of a large newspaper.

 

Like hell, that’s only what the Jew will do.

 

In fact, you don’t even have to insult a Jew for him to make sure you’ll be cancelled and robbed of your entire adult life. All you need to do to receive this kind of treatment, is write that Egypt is a civilized country or something like that. And this will cause the Jew to blow his entrails out of his belly while hollering the familiar cry: antisemitism, antisemitism!