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Miluimnik

Use Google Video Pamela.....You've got 2 hours of airplay and far better quality than U_Tube and their clones.

john jay

pamela:

i just concluded listening to the entire interview w/ bat yeor.

in the main, i found very little to take exception to, and much to be inspired by.

i did find two aspects of her thinking that were discouraging to me, to say the least.

one. i don't believe that any amount of "supportive" or "encouraging" diplomacy on the part of the u.s. will have much impact on preserving france, germany, england, ... , well, hell, the entirety of europe, ... , unless the europeans take their collective heads out of their collective asses, and fight.

i see very little prospect of that.

two. i believe the fight in europe, if it is to take place, (which i doubt, i think europe will slip into a new dark ages very meekly) as well as any "fight" to take place here, will involve physical violence, along the line of previous religious/cultural wars. while i believe this is a conflict over values, ... , religious, cultural, political, philosophical, theological, etc., ... , this conflict will not be resolved by mutual reconciliation and accomodation of values. it will not involve solutions of the intellect or the enlightened spirit. it will be a bitter physical fight between adversaries bent on mutual annihilation, so that the one side which emerges "victorious," will be able to somehow restore and rebuild its values, to preserve its values in the wake of devastating war.

ms. yeor is brave, and she is brilliant. but, i think that she takes the last intellectual refuge left to her in this matter, which offers such dismal prospects to anyone who is willing to think the whole process out, which is recourse in her belief that human rationality can avoiod human disaster, if only people will apply themselves to the problem in good faith.

in this, i believe that she is gravely mistaken.

islam will not be contained by the application of western reason until such time as reasonable islamic intellectuals reform islam from within, into a reasonable entity able to reasonably coexist with europe.

it will not happen. it hasn't happened in the last 1400 years or so, and there is preciousl little happening in the world to reasonably expect that reason will prevail.

and, ms. yeor advances no reasonable hypothesis as to why her faith in reason should prevail, against the weight of history, and ideology, and religious fanaticism and zeal.

forgive me, please, for saying that.

i believe that ms. yeor will come to realize, as the unrest and violence grows in europe, as the dhimmitude in europe grows, and appeasement takes its last gross steps of self abasement, individually and culturally, that her sanguine hopes for change are mistaken.

and, that she will help us formulate the intellectual and philosophical bases necessary for us to defend ourselves as societies and individuals, from this violence which is directed to each of us.

we have the right to exist, as we wish, to exercise our faith and politics as we wish, and we must simply realize that to do so, will require getting dirty up to our elbows.

john jay

p.s. there is one strategy that might forestall the united states being left as the last progressive democracy on the face of the earth.

it is called brutality.

we need to eliminate iran as a regional, and nuclear power. right now. while we can. while we can get close enough to close with our carrier groups to do it.

we need to eliminate saudi arabia as a financial arm of world jihad, which they are.

we need to destroy the military might of syria, which is pitiful in comparison to our own.

we still have time to do this "cheaply," and avoid the carnage war 10 or 15 years from now will bring. we have the power to do it swiftly, and with dispatch, and with the loss of a minimum of human lives.

i suspect we have neither the foresight or the wisdom to do so.

there is indeed, a "bad moon rising."

tazzerman2000

John Jay, we think alike so many times that its sometimes scary :) Well said and I could NOT agree with you more.

As I've stated here many times, Ms. Yeor is a global treasure. Her courage and her voice are needed now more than ever. Her ability to spark discussions and to futher our understanding of our enemies are priceless...

Pam, thanks for the sharing the interview. I'm certain that it was an incredible/milestone type of event in your own life.. You lucky lucky girl you :)

-tm

Thomas Carney

John Jay: I have to agree with you. The ONLY way the West will stop the almost inexorable progression (maybe I should use the word: regression) of militant Islam is for the non-Muslims to fight and kick serious @$$.

After all, didn't the Polish Army in Vienna find Christianity worth fighting for on and prior to September 11, 1683??

It is appalling that the EU, in its draft of its constition, does NOT acknowledge the Judaeo-Christian roots that gave Europe its culture, art, forms of government, philosophy, and way of living?? Today's "post-Christian" (post-Christian=policially correct=PC) Europe did not come into being by itself, nor did it fall from the sky like manna from Heaven. Unless Europe re-discovers its Judaeo-Christian roots, Europe will never recover and will fade, with little or no resistance, into becoming dar al-Islam.

I am an admirer of Bat Ye'or's works. She does a tremendous amount of research in her work. In "The Decline and Fall of Eastern Christianity Under Islam," she devotes the last 1/3 of the book just to the communiques of Western ambassadors to their home countries.

Mega

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Recluse8747

John Jay-

I also strongly agree with your assesment. I believe we are in a simular situation as the Roman Empire of the 7th century AD (or the so called Byzantine Empire if you prefer). By this point in time Western Europe had almost completely decented into barberism while the first waves of jihadists began what would become nearly 900 years of conquest ending in the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

The Romans were not vanquished for a lack of innovation, coinage or military might as they were in fact the only true high civilization of the dark ages in that region of the world. They were defeated because they lacked the will to use all of these things to their full potential against the Muslims.

In the wanning years of the third century BC they were faced with a simular situation. They had faced years of war with the Carthaginians, the Guals and the Greeks, amongst others. The Republic had been exhausted and their military was alomst completely destroyed by Hannibal at Cannae. At that point in time they did not maintain a standing military and in fact had rarely fought outside of Italy. Their opponents, especially the Carthaginians and the Guals, were rightly feared for their cruelty in victory. The Roman state had a choice of either being destroyed or marching into a harsh world and matching, even at times bettering, the methods of those who wanted to destroy them.

What they accomplished was not pretty or timely but Italy enjoyed nearly 500 years of peace from foreign invaders.

The Roman state or the seventh century AD had every advantage over it's ancestors except that it had no answer for the savagery of Islam. The Romans achieved victory over Carthage by burning the city to the ground and slaughtering virtualy everyone within. There's even some speculation that they poured salt over the remains so that nothing would grow there.

I sense that nothing short of doing the same to Mecca would have stopped the jihadists back then and I can't see that Islam has advanced much from the seventh century.

The reality is that we've yet to win a war with the modern 'rules of engagement'. Neither the Civil War nor WWII were won by being nice to our opponents. Incredible acts of cruelty were carried out by our government to defeat the South, the Nazis and Japan. These acts were not made lightly and unlike our opponents, they served to make the world better. Our country was better without slavery. Germany is better without Nazism and Japan is better without Emperor worship. The Middle East and indeed the world will be better without militant Islam. Getting there will not be easy nor will the choices made along the way but the alternative is far worse for both the US and the world. Our nation will not be able to survive the threat of militant Islam as long as the absurd notion of the 'civilized' war dominates our rules of engagements. You can not win the hearts and minds of people much less enjoy the freedoms of a democratic republic when you are conquered by a belief system that does not understand the Western concept of freedom.

Oderint dum metuant

wxjames

Thanks Pamela, great job.
I was fully captured when I first read Bat Yeor's warning of dhimmitude and the EU 'agreement'.
Now, as the fruit ripens, we have an Olmert, and a Brown already among the dhimmis. Bush would rather embrace Latinos than fight left wing media, so we prepare to take measures into our own hands. And we should be of such mind at times when law and order have no moral relevance. I too believe that the west is far too unsure of itself to act with the precision necessary, but I am also of the belief that nuclear weapons will end Islam's expansion, just as they did Japan's illogical Emperior/God beliefs. Little can be expected from stupidity, but to conquer and control the world is way too vast a task for stupid, ignorant, tribesmen.
The problem Islam presents is not the Gordian knot, but a simple problem with self imposed restrictions. The solution will be criticized, and the hero will be scorned as bloodthirsty, but millions can be saved by very dirty methods. The bidding has not gotten that high yet.

C Max

How about adopting Sharia law as a means of retaliation against these alleged "homegrown" terrorists?

After all, isn't it not just a matter of right; but one of obligation, to exact revenge for an attack against your people by killing the attacker or, if not him, his family?

Had these 'brilliant' doctors been successful, their sentence should have been to rot in jail while periodically being asked to review medical records consisting of the autopsies performed on their immediate family members hunted down and killed by the CIA.

After which, they could watch video of the corpses being stuffed into pigskin sacks and buried upside down facing the South Pole in unmarked graves somewhere at the Bob Evans free range hog farm.

bin Laden would have had a tough time if Muhammad Atta and his jerkoff friends knew their wives and children and parents and all their fucking brothers and sisters would have been killed in retaliation for 9/11. My prediction is, none of them would have volunteered.

john jay

wxjames & c max:

you bring a smile to my face, reading your posts.

wxjames: i believe the bidding is extremely high, and if not quite to "the sticking point" by your calculations, very, very, very close to it.

not a very pleasant prospect, islam with the bomb and control of the french and english militaries. lots of muslims in both, and the domestic appeasement to islam an sharia in both countries is frightening to behold. even while their police struggle mightily, their politicians cede ever more power and prerogative to the muslim populations, which are increasingly aggressive and bellicose.

and we shouldn't be too smug in this country. atlasshrugs has highlighted the shocking situation with the mosques and schools in new york, and their direct connections with jihad, and the growing number of "compounds" seemingly devoted to proselytizing and teaching jihad, and even capable of launching operations.

things could tip here, very, very quickly.

our leaders, and our government, does not yet grasp the severity of the problem. if they are not willing to take the steps necessary to protect us, we shall have to.

john jay

john jay

"our leaders, and our government, do not yet ..."

sorry, getting a little rummy, this late at night.

jjay

Jeremiah

Pam, Very good work. Posted about your post.
Recluse, "Oderint dum metuant" -- so on the money. Love it.

Happy 4th, all!

C Max

Actually, there is an urban legend that American General John "Black Jack" Pershing gave Muslims "pigskin blankets" during the Moro uprising in the Philippines.

I'll bet the Moros (who were fighting the same jihad even back then) took it seriously.

The Editrix

"But the people in Europe really were not onboard with this, they didn’t know that this was happening."

As a German born fairly long after WWII who has listened and asked questions to her parents' generation since she was old enough to see what happened, I am asking myself WHAT do you think "the people in Europe" thought was happening to their Jewish next-door-neighbours?

What do you think the people who were released from Dachau or Buchenwald told and what those people who were told told others? What do you think all the ordinary people living in Dachau (an ordinary little market town near Munich) saw?

Why do you think the valiant Danes saved their Jews at the peril of their own lifes if they "were not onboard with this, they didn’t know that this was happening"?

What about the reports of those who managed to escape the extermination camps in the East? What about the train drivers who drove the trains there and saw what happened at the unloading? The extermination of the European Jews was a "secret venture" that needed thousands of people to be performed. Even more witnessed it without protest.

I wonder what makes well-meaning people like you believing in that legend.

And did it ever occur to anybody that the people in Europe and specifically the Germans are now so humbly caving in to Islam because the Muslims might finish what they had to stop thanks to, among others, American efforts? Namely the extermination of the Jews?

Vince

Pam:

This has to be the most profound interview i've seen for a very long time.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR IT.

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