Many articles and books have been written, and many scholars of Arabic and Islamic history have spoken about the genocidal xenophobia seemingly hard-wired into the Koran and, as a result into all Islamic nations, particularly Arab ones. President George W. Bush prompted considerable research and rebuttals by reading a statement terming Islam “a religion of peace.” Many heard in this further confirmation that the internationalists within the NSC and, abroad, in Whitehall and the EU were hastening the disintegration of their own lands in favor of a world government.

This may be true; Islam may be nudged to shift toward the siren appeal and wealth of the West. Enabling jihadist impulses as the antithesis to the West’s thesis of constitutional democracy leading to the synthesis of a multicultural World Order may be achieving success. Whether this leads to global fascism, corporate socialism in “regional federal unions” (the phrase is Stalin’s) or to grounds for genuine peace and humane freedom remains in the balance. But messages unheard for many decades or more are emerging from Muslim writers. We should hear them and reflect… (more…)

For two weeks fifteen British navy personnel received intense media coverage. Iran paraded the prisoners before cameras for rehearsed apologies (achieved by duress) which created outrage in America and even in Britain. Since the British were close to but apparently not in Iranian waters their abduction was an act of war (recall the Barbary pirates) and their treatment violated international laws protecting prisoners. But England’s fellow EU states, obligated by law to come to her defense, looked away. Their commerce with Iran, principally Germany whose $6.2 billion in bank-credits backed ultimately by German tax payers supports German corporations in Iran and covers Iran’s trade deficit with Europe left their governments indifferent to the prisoners’ and to the issues at stake. Eurabia strikes again.

Perhaps this is part of the wages of the vague war on terror. Are we at war with Iran? Their leaders often say that they are at war with us while our leaders engage in an extended diplomatic process of obscure design. It seems that what Joseph Conrad called “the flabby weak-eyed pretending devil of rapacious and pitiless folly” has struck again. (more…)