Robert Spencer explains that Islam is not a race. However obvious this should be, it's a simple fact that escapes all too many.
Here is yet another indication that, contrary to both the dominant
mainstream and the race/ethnicity-based parties of Europe, the jihad is
not a matter of race, but ideology. The dominant mainstream sees
resistance to the jihad and Islamic supremacism as "racism," while the
neo-fascist parties regard resistance to the jihad as required for the
preservation of white Europe. But if it is all about whites and
non-whites, what of a white convert to Islam like Suleyman Simon
Keeler? The focus needs to be on the destructive ideology people like
Keeler have embraced -- and the fact that he embraced it shows that
talk of race and racism in this context is just a red herring. I've
said it before, but like so many things in this struggle, I'm going to
keep saying them until someone listens and probably after that as well.
A race-based approach to the anti-jihad resistance is harmful in a
number of ways:
1. It's the wrong way to fight the global jihad. The jihad is not a
race, Islam is not a race, Muslims are not all of one race. The issues
between the Islamic world and non-Muslims are not racial. They are
about religious supremacism. Bringing in race just confuses the issue,
and allows jihadists and their de facto allies among the Eurabian
elites to claim that this whole thing is about racism.
2. To form one group for indigenous Europeans, as has been done in several countries, reduces virtually every
issue to the one non-negotiable issue of race and ethnicity,
discourages cooperation, and thus encourages Balkanization, works
against the idea of representative government, and obscures the common
values of Judeo-Christian civilization that are shared by people of
many races and ethnicities.
3. This approach hamstrings and marginalizes the anti-jihad movement. Many people who oppose the Islamization of Europe will never
join with a race-based party to do so. Hugh Fitzgerald and I have often
commented here over the years about the tragedy in Europe: the
mainstream political parties have completely abdicated any
responsibility to deal with the Islamization of Europe, thus leaving
the field open to groups that obscure the issue with racial politics.
4. Many, many people have written here, and will no doubt write
again in response to this post, that the parties that speak of race are
the only ones in Europe that are doing anything to resist Islamization,
and thus they deserve the support of all those who believe there is
something worth defending in Western non-Muslim civilization. I don't
think that is any sounder an argument than the claim that we must
support Hizballah because it builds schools and runs charities when not
lobbing rockets at Israeli civilians. Read more.
Spencer's article gives a recent British example.
Here are some examples of white Americans rallying to the cause of global jihad.
Adam Gadahn
al Qaeda operative known as "Azzam the American"
Coverted to Islam and joined AQ as early as 2003
The first American charged with treason since 1952
John Walker Lindh
American Muslim convert and member of al Qaeda terrorist group
Took up arms against American troops in Afghanistan after 9/11
Sentenced to twenty years in prison
Joel Hinrichs
Blew himself up outside a packed Oklahoma football stadium.
Attended the same Mosque as Moussaoui
Possessed Islamic Jihad materials
America's first suicide bomber
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