Thirty-seven
years ago, Time magazine dedicated its cover to “Islam, The Militant Revival,” and published a lengthy article, “The World of Islam,” in which John A.
Meyer wrote, “We want to examine Islam’s resurgence, not simply as another
faith but as a political force and potent third ideology competing with Marxism
and Western culture in the world today.” It was April 16, 1979.
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The editor,
Marguerite Johnson, penned the cover story because “the Iranian revolution has
made it especially important for Westerners to understand the driving energy
and devotion Islam commands from so many.”
Senior
editor John Elson indicated that “Islam has been frequently misunderstood,
partly because so many people have tried to apply terms from Christianity and
Judaism to it.” In writing this article, the editors have attempted to draw a
picture of Islam for what it really is, “a way of ordering society.”
According to
Time magazine, there were 750 million Muslims and 985 million Christians in
1979, a large group ready to assert the “political power of the Islamic way of
life.” The people of Iran apparently voted overwhelmingly to create an Islamic
republic, the nation’s first “government of God,” as Ayatullah Khomeini
declared.This theocratic and freedom-stifling government replaced, after one year of revolution, “a dynastic autocrat who dreamed of turning his country into a Western-style industrial and secular state.” Changing a westernized society into a government by religious mullahs was described as “a new dawn for the Islamic people.”
Time
magazine quoted the Cairo’s magazine Al
Da’wah (The Call): “The Muslims are coming, despite Jewish cunning,
Christian hatred, and the Communist storm.”
And it came
to pass - the Muslims are really coming, by the millions, invading Europe and
America, welcomed with open arms by a senescent and suicidal Europe ruled by
technocrat elitists who are only interested in failed multi-culturalism, their
power, control of the emerging tower of Babel, and their bank accounts.
Time
magazine described the revival of Islam in the 70 countries around the world, reflected
in the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, unchanged for 14 centuries; this alleged revival
took place among the young who desired sharia law, burkas, hijab and other
forms of enslaving women to their half-person status, genital mutilation, and harsh
punishments in cases of rape, divorce, adultery, and abortion.
Time magazine
assumed that this alleged revival had taken place for decades because “Islam is
no Friday-go-to-mosque kind of religion. It is a code of honor, a system of law
and an all-encompassing way of life.” This resurgence was inspired and fueled by a “quest for stability and roots,” a deep-seated hatred for Western values, and “the population explosion in those Islamic nations where birth control is little practiced.”
Marvin Zonis
is quoted that “Islam is being used as a vehicle for striking back at the West,
in the sense of people trying to reclaim a very greatly damaged sense of
self-esteem. They feel that for the past 150 years the West has totally overpowered
them culturally, and in the process their own institutions and way of life have
become second rate.”
“Islam is a
political faith with a yearning for expansion,” said Marguerite Johnson. And
the history of its expansionist desires is quite telling, an expansionism that
necessitated the Christian Crusades in order to regain territories occupied by
Islam.
Arabs raided
and conquered many lands and their traders carried Islam with them; the Persian
Empire, the Byzantine Empire, North Africa into Spain, the Middle East,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, the black tribes in Africa
south of the Sahara Desert, were all forced into submission and conversion to
Islam. Time magazine added that, “On the Indian subcontinent, in Southeast
Asia, in Africa and the Pacific, millions of Muslims were under colonial rule.”
Time
magazine remarked that “Islam is frequently stereotyped as unmitigatedly harsh
in its code of law, intolerant of other religions, repressive toward women and
incompatible with progress.” No mention is made of the Koranic quotes which
advise their faithful to kill the infidels.
Salem Azzam,
then Saudi secretary-general of the Islamic Council of Europe, was quoted as
saying that seeing this Islamic resurgence in a negative light is nothing but a
“return to colonialism – indirect but of a more profound type.”
Other Muslims
and their defenders claimed that “Islam is not monolithic, that it is
compatible with various social and economic systems, and that far from being a
return to the Dark Ages, it is wholly consonant with progress.” The reality is
that the Taliban had oppressed and regressed a thriving Afghan society.The “war refugees” from Syria, who have invaded welfare-generous European countries and are raping and pillaging the host societies, have gravely affected the very tolerant and multi-cultural nations who foolishly invited them in with open arms.
Devout
Muslims are described in this article as opposed to the “materialism of the
West and the atheism of Communism.” But they welcome “individual initiative,
respect private property, and tolerate profits.” But moderation and “communal responsibility”
are most important. Usury is forbidden but interest is allowed if used for the “common
good.” Community and the common good are communist tenets. A zakat
of 2.5%, levied against individual assets, was allowed for the benefit of the
community.
A devout
Muslim objects to the evils associated with modern life but enjoys everything
free that the west must provide, such as welfare, housing, TVs, cell phones,
cable, cars, electricity, A/C, etc. The Time article stated that Islam objects
to “liquor factories,” to the “breakdown of the family structure, the lowering
of moral standards, [and] the appeal of easygoing secular life-styles.” But
Muslims “are demanding the best of the West: schools, hospitals, technology,
agricultural and water development techniques.”
Devout
Muslims, no matter where they live, are required to abide by Sharia Law, “the
path to follow.” The consensus of Islamic scholars in charge and the deeds and
sayings of Muhammad become an “all embracing code of ethics, morality and
religious duties.” It is thus a complete control of one’s life.
Once entrenched
in the western civilization, Muslims start chiseling at its foundation in an
effort to turn it into Sharia-compliance; everything that made western schools,
hospitals, agriculture, military, and technology great in the first place, will
be replaced with what is approved by the Islamic theocracy.
No matter
how the media spins Islam then and now, Sharia Law and our U.S. Constitution
are not compatible. Moral relativism and tolerance to the point of ignorance will
result in national suicide.
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