I was told recently, in no uncertain terms, that I know very little about Quebec politics, a shortcoming I unhesitatingly admit to. My only reason to delve into Quebec politics of late, albeit superficially, was to congratulate and encourage Pauline Marois for what I perceived was her courageous defence of Quebecois culture as it exists in Quebec. I had no idea at the time that her political party, the Parti Quebecois, had previously marched shamelessly down the streets of Montreal waving Hezbollah flags during the recent war between this Lebanese terrorist group and the Israeli Army.
How imprudent of this zealous Quebec politician and the PQ not foreseeing then that the religious ideology of this terrorist group very much corresponds with the ideology of those Muslims who today want to extirpate a beautiful Quebecois culture and replace it with an egregious culture now being interpolated into this country under the auspices of a Trudeau era multiculturalism. How sad that this zealous politician has no inkling that the religiously inspired aggression she now becomes so fearful of is the same religiously inspired aggression the PQ (and the Liberal Party and the NDP) brazenly supported when publicly excoriating the State of Israel on the streets of Montreal.
Pauline Marois is about to discover first hand either the inexpedience of those non-Muslim politicians who acquiesce to the demands of Islam's litigious ambassadors, or likewise the inexpedience of those who do not. As the ancient proverb so succinctly advises, "He who rides the tiger can never dismount." My deepest hope for Pauline Marois and the PQ is that they realize in time that friendships with Islam's terrorist organizations will never strengthen nor prolong the life of Quebecois culture in Quebec and that, in fact, such friendships can only guarantee the death and demise of Quebecois culture.
But this aphorism applies to the rest of Canada too. If politicians and Christian and Jewish religious leaders continue to approach the expansionist issues of Islam and its attendant violence by exculpating and apologizing on behalf of the religion of Islam proper, which I consider to be the primary source of all Islamic terrorism and sectarian violence, nothing will change for the better. We will be no further ahead than we were the morning of 9/11. This warning holds true for the entire Western world. We must begin to accept that the religion of Islam is quite unlike Christianity and Judaism. Contrary to what mentally abject pluralists like Christiane Amanpour may proclaim, Islam's tenets and shibboleths, by reason of their uncompromising and malefic propensities, do not merit the respect commonly afforded Christianity and Judaism.
This is a religion who's Shariah Law, a barbaric code from the 7th century prescribing stoning and amputation as implemental of its justice, is advocated by Islam's champions as compatible for a Western society whose courts and their magistrates are even now debating what should be condoned as humane jail terms for convicted murderers, who incarcerate DEA agents as a reward for apprehending foreign criminals in the very act of perpetrating their crimes. This contradistinction is lost on those noetic fools (many of them self-proclaimed "experts on Islam") who insist that the religion of Islam and its adherents-violent and otherwise-are simply misunderstood by those of us who refuse to sophisticate such obvious contradictions into ecumenical oblivion. These same insane pluralists can forgive Islam its tendentious violence and bloodshed, but those of us who have grown anxious about such religiously inspired manifestations they label as Islamophobic and racist. This inverse morality designates the perpetrators as victims and the victims as perpetrators.
If only we would look deep enough and long enough into the issue of Islam the religion, we would discover that this same inverse morality is a consequence of the subnormality of Islam's barbaric 7th century shibboleths in relation to the imposed misapplication of them to Western cultures. During the process of apologizing for the religion of Islam by rationalizing about its tendentious violence-to the point of blaming every Western democratic nation as the cause of this same violence-certain obtuse defenders of religious pluralism and a majority of the academia have created a societal imbroglio eerily similar to those that existed within the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany: Those who discern and expose inconvenient truths are punished with public condemnation while those who propagate the prevarications enforced and advocated by the academia and the state are deemed its wise men. As has already gravely infected Europe, sadly, the same "torpor" has now infected North America. Oriana Fallaci wrote that this is "the disease that last century made Fascists even the Italians who were not Fascists, that made Nazi even the Germans who were not Nazi, that made Bolsheviks even the Russians who were not Bolsheviks, and that now transforms in traitors even those who would not like to be traitors. It is a deadly plague, the fear. A disease which, fed by opportunism and conformism, hence cowardice, leads to more deaths than cancer. It is a disease which unlike cancer is contagious and strikes all those who are along its road. The good and the bad. The intelligent and the stupid. The honest and the dishonest." North America is now not only infected with the same disease, we have likewise invented no antidote. Instead, as Ms. Fallaci noted in dismay, "We have lost our passion."
C.P. Cavafy wrote, "Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen." I consider as wise today only those who are brave enough and honest enough to gauge the religion of Islam as insalubrious and unfit for mankind. It is only thoughtless egalitarians who would constrict us into believing that baseless anti-Jewish hatred is to be equated with what I maintain is the Western non-Muslim citizen's legitimate and totally rational apprehensions about Muslims and the religion of Islam. After all, as I have noted before, wherever Islam has taken root in the world, there looms also, whether latently or otherwise, its attendant violence and anti-Jewish hatred. I believe the average Western non-Muslim's apprehensions about the Muslim predilection for violence are neither unfounded nor irrational. Their fears are not indicative of any kind of phobia, but are, conversely, suggestive of the fact that humanity's most courageous are, as seems always to be the case, the rebellious and the non-conformists.
"Not many people get to see in their lifetime a civilization coming to pieces before their very eyes, like a supernova." - David Solway, Canadian poet
Michael Devolin
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