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Chapter Two: The Appeasers
Mr. Wallace opines that America is making the same mistake that the Allies made with Nazi Germany prior to World War II; that is appeasement. (15). The Allies did not match the Nazi Germany military buildup and were not prepared for war. (15).
The author reasons that Islam, like Nazi Germany, both 'preach a supremacy doctrine'. (15). Both movements favour a totalitarian system. Dissidents are killed and the Jewish people are opposed in both movements. (15). The appeaser is working from a weaker position, whereas the bully, by being appeased, can become strong enough to defeat the appeaser. (15-16).
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I can agree that Quranic Islam is seeking to dominate other worldviews.
Declared War? November 20
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I reason that because of this very faulty State/Religion government model, Jihad/Holy War can easily be at times interpreted and implemented with varied degrees of force and coercion. This has been done throughout the history of Islam.
Critics have pointed out that much of the Qur'an has open-ended verses in regard to Jihad meaning that they are not necessarily restrained to an historical context. Radical forms of Jihad and aggressive martyrdom could be conceivably reasonably interpreted within today's Islam, for today's world.
Mr. Wallace does have some reasonable concerns...
However:
Nazi Germany was a national, political, movement under one umbrella.
Islam is a worldwide movement under many umbrellas.
My work has documented that those such as the Islamic Supreme Council of America, officially take a more moderate position in regard to Jihad/Holy War, claiming it was and is for primarily defensive purposes. Will there be a large enough, and more importantly powerful enough combined Islamic political and military force to overthrow the Western World, including the United States?
At this point in history, I state there is not and this seems doubtful to occur any time soon. Frankly, Islam is not even in what I would consider one of the four most powerful political, military blocks in the world. Those being:
The United States of America
(Western democracy)
Western Europe
(Western democracy)
Russia
(Semi-presidential federation via CIA)
The People's Republic of China
(Communist state via CIA)
CIA
I am not intellectually persuaded or convinced that any united form of Islam will challenge one of these power blocks, any time soon. Some may reason that Western Europe will fall to Islam, but will its Muslim residents be more like radical Islamists or liberalized, secularized Muslims? This is not certain enough to formulate the likely rise of an European Islamic Empire.
Time will tell...
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