Remarkable statement from Egyptian President Sisi

Egyptian president, AbdelFattah el-Sisi made some fairly remarkable comments last week. He acknowledged that Islamic 'thinking' is antagonizing the entire world. I'll paraphrase that to say it is Islamist ideology that is antagonizing and threatening the entire world. Islamists seek to expand the dominion of Islam to all people of the Earth, through violent conquest, subjugation or forced conversion. Non-Muslims, dhimmi, have no rights under the Islamists. There can be no peaceful co-existence with this sort of ideology. There can be no civilized society, as we know it, under this ideology. President Sisi is a military dictator, but he has spent enough time in the West to know that the two cultures cannot coexist peacefully. He attended the U.S. Army War College. He has had close ties with the US military. He may not be a good guy, but he knows what a war between the West and the Muslim world would be like. He also knows that his most immediate threat is the Muslim Brotherhood, which is using Islamist ideology in an effort to bring down his government. Maybe it's self-preservation or just a desire to keep the gravy train of the US-AID-funded Egyptian government running. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that for the first time a leader of a Muslim nation has acknowledged that Islamist ideology is a real problem for all Muslims.

There are millions of Muslims living peacefully in the United States. Most have learned to coexist peacefully with their adopted culture. This proves that, at some point in the future, peaceful coexistence between Muslims and other religions will be possible. But it isn't going to happen if the Islamists are allowed to drive Muslim culture. That's the problem. Islamism is definitely driving all Muslim culture at the present time. The liberal multicultural appeasers tell us all the time that Islam is a religion of peace and that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are peaceful. That can be argued, but it is a false argument. It is rare that any major political or cultural movement (make no mistake; Islamism is not a religion; it is a political movement that uses religious justification for its actions) involves a majority of the population. The Nazis were not a majority of the German population. The 1917 communist revolution was not driven by a majority of Russians. A motivated, vocal minority often drives cultural change. The more violence that minority is willing to use the more impact they will have on the course of events. By any standard, Islamists are religious fanatics. They are not just willing to use violence, it is an integral part of their ideology. Add to that the religious element. Apostasy is punishable by death in Islam. As the Islamists proclaim themselves to be the guardians and protectors of 'true' Islam, it is natural that they would accuse any Muslims who oppose their goals or methods as being against Islam. This has been seen over and over throughout the Muslim world for the last two decades. Since 9/11, the vast majority of people killed in Islamist terror attacks have been other Muslims. They were killed for being the wrong type of Muslim. The Wahabbi Sunnis, who are at the heart of the Islamist movement, have declared the Shia, Kurds, Ahmadis, Yazidis, Sufis and other sects to be apostates. Tens of thousands have been murdered at the hands of the Islamists. It is not hard to see why it is so rare for most Muslims to speak out against the Islamists. That silence in the face of Islamist aggression is effectively the same as support. That silence must end if there is ever to be any hope of peaceful coexistence between the Muslims and the rest of the world. They must speak up against the Islamists and the imams who support them. President Sisi's recent comments are a good start. Whether his words have any lasting effect remains to be seen. He may have signed his own death warrant.

I don't think that a military dictator, even in as influential a country as Egypt, will be the one to lead the Muslim world to moderation and peaceful coexistence. It is going to come from westernized Muslims. Muslims who practice their faith as equals among other religions in the western nations will be the ones who lead the way to peaceful coexistence. The benefits of classical western liberal thought will take hold among these Muslims. It will be spread by the internet, social media and popular culture. It won't happen quickly and it won't be easy. And it definitely won't happen if the western nations continue pursuing destructive multicultural policies. We need to be inclusive and bring these Muslims into our culture. We must teach them the benefits of our freedoms. We must be proud of our culture's achievements and expose our new citizens to them. The worst possible thing we can do is to encourage them to keep their culture after arrival in our nations. That has been done throughout Europe and it has been a resounding failure. Muslim live in Muslim ghettos; separate, isolated and given no reason to adopt the culture of their new homes.

The threat of Islamists, to the west and Muslims, will not go away anytime soon. It will never go away unless westerners and Muslims fight against it. Appeasement will not work. It is nothing more than slow surrender.

Progressive Government, Islamists and Freedom of Speech

In 2006 the Western Standard, edited by Ezra Levant, published the Muhammed cartoons. Mr. Levant did this as an affirmation of his right of free speech as a Canadian citizen. He published the cartoons as an act of defiance against the intolerant Islamists who had threatened violence against any media outlet that dared to insult their prophet. He did this because so many media outlets in the western world chose to appease the violent Islamists, rather than stand up for their rights. He did this to oppose the de facto imposition of sharia law on Canadian citizens.

Ezra Levant publicly debated his actions with a Saudi Islamist imam named Syed Soharwardy. Levant wiped the floor with the imam; showing him for the intolerant, grievance-mongering bigot he is. Following his embarrassing performance, Soharwardy did what every Islamist living in a western nation does. He used the laws of his adopted home in an attempt to silence his critic. Soharwardy filed a complaint against Ezra Levant with the Alberta Human Rights Commission; a kangaroo court used to compel acceptance of liberal multiculturalism ideology on Canadians.

What followed in Levant's fight against the Alberta HRC complaint was one of the most impassioned defenses of the freedom of speech I have seen in recent memory. Watch these clips of Ezra Levant during a hearing before the HRC, as he explains the true meaning of freedom of speech to a government drone who is trying to compel him to issue an apology to the Islamist, Soharwardy.

This should be everybody's response to Islamists who try to impose their values, culture and sharia law on us. They have come to OUR countries. Why? I assume to escape the 7th Century craphole they came from. They are looking to escape the tyranny, poverty and absence of opportunity that plagued their homelands. Newsflash; your Islamic homeland was a craphole in large part because your religion kept you mired in the 7th Century. Don't come to our civilized nations and expect us to change our culture to accommodate you. You want a glorious Islamic caliphate? Fine. Stay in Syria. Don't bring it here and don't expect us to change for you.

The West's Response to Terrorism

Let's just be clear on this. Today's Islamist terror attack in Paris was an attack on the fundamental freedoms of speech, expression and religion that are at the core of civilized western society. The savage barbarians who committed this act hate us because we do not submit to their religion. They hate us for the freedom that we enjoy. The intent of this attack is to make us fearful of exercising our rights and thereby forcing our silence and acquiescence.

In the coming days there will be many who will do just that. They will say that Charlie Hedbo was offensive and that they brought this on themselves. These people will cite a litany of supposed offenses committed against Muslims as an attempt to explain the attack. These people will advocate submission. They will tell us that we should not practice our freedom for fear of offending Muslims. I say this because these people have done exactly that after every Islamist terrorist attack since 9/11. Following the al Qaeda attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Barack Obama stood before the UN in 2012 and said that "the future must not lie with those who slander the prophet of Islam". He counseled limiting our freedom of speech so that we do not offend a backward and violent culture that has not yet learned to live in the modern, civilized world. More of this appeasement will come.

The Death of the Rule of Law

President Obama is not enforcing federal law. The Administration has drastically reduced border security and enforcement of immigration law. He is going to wait until after the mid-term elections to grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens; an action he has no constitutional authority to take. He is waiting until after the election, because he knows this is opposed by the American public and the Democrat Party will suffer electoral loses if he does it prior to the elections. Obama is effectively granting citizenship to millions of illegals in exchange for their votes in future elections.

The president has established a pattern of behavior that threatens the very foundation of our entire system of constitutional government. He has used the institutions of government to attack his political enemies. He picks and chooses which laws he will enforce, depending on their political consequences. This is the soft tyranny that precedes the fall of constitutional rule and representative government.

Congress creates the laws of our land. The President is the chief executive officer of the government and is tasked with the execution and enforcement of those laws. The judiciary rules on the constitutionality of the laws. Pretty simple and straight forward. That is the system that the founding fathers created to ensure that powers of government are distributed among the three branches. This distribution of powers, along with other features of our constitution, is supposed to prevent any one individual or group from amassing too much power. The founding fathers did this knowing the corrupting influence of power. They new that tyranny was always a threat and that only if the people and the government stayed true the Constitution could it be kept at bay.

Well, here we are after 125 years of progressive attacks on the Constitution. The courts have been packed with progressive judges. The clear limitations that the Constitution placed on the power of government have been eroded almost to the point where the Constitution means nothing. Progressive jurists have reinterpreted the Constitution to create justifications for laws and actions that directly contravene its original intent. We have a president who openly and willfully violates federal laws that will hurt his political aspirations. He does not carry out the duties of his office as demanded by the Constitution. And what of the Congress? The Democrat-controlled Senate is complicit in the lawlessness and the House of Representatives is so consumed with fear and self-interest it refuses to act against any of these constitutional violations.

So I have a simple question. If those in government are unwilling to abide by laws and the Constitution, why should we?

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It's time to pull your heads out of the sand.  Appeasing them won't stop them from killing you.  They don't hate you for what you say, write or draw.  That hate you for your beliefs.  They hate that you exist.  The only way they will even tolerate you is if you submit to Islam and adopt their beliefs.  Even then they will never trust you.  And why should they?  If you would compromise what you believe just to save your sorry ass, you are untrustworthy.  You are a coward.