Back to the real world

I feel motivated to move on to more pressing matters than my mere existence destroying, as I actually heard on National Geographic special last week, "healthy" glaciers. A scientist, who studies glaciers with binoculars and relies on personal anecdotes, said this is so, as he made believe he was a lone researcher on an Alaskan shore.

Perhaps, my motivations are being directed to the larger, more direct threats of primitive thought by increasing political activity, such as Mrs. Clinton's socialized, undefined, single-payer medicine plan where we will go to the DMV for forced medical care, or Obama's comment that he appreciates American entrepreneurial spririt, but capitalism has really hurt the middle class {those guys who work five month just to pay taxes.]

It is disturbing that candidates do not understand economics or the enumerated powers concept of the U.S. Constitution, but what the hell they are only politicians. Although it is nice that Mr. Obama granted his appreciation, my current interests lie in far more important matters than trying to see through the fog of pseudo socialists.

Rather than deal with the ongoing absurdity of the election/OJ/Spears season, let me turn to Maajid Nawaz. You can Google him or here is a BBC article.

I point out Mr. Nawaz as an example of the danger in the world that Americans seem unable to discern even after 911, Cole, Lebanon, WTC I bombing, blown up jet passengers, and dead Olympians. Mr. Narwaz is an earnest person who, living under the open freedoms of Britain, found himself as a young member of the Party of Liberation, Hizb ut-Tahir. That membership earned him four years in an Egyptian jail for spreading the ideas of the party in that country.

In jail he met Moslem scholars who explained to him that his beliefs, those of the Party, were contrary to the Q'uran. Since returning to Britain, he has defected from Hizb ut-Tahir.

Let me note some keystone assumptions from the Party, from the NYT 9/12/07, (which I picked up in a restaurant, so don't think I actually feed the enemy of western civilization.)

The group, started by a Palestinian judge, believes that a world caliphate must be brought about through whatever means possible. The group believes the first thing to do is is take over the current Moslem countries "even if it means killing millions of people." Such beliefs, Nawaz noted, began in the 1950s.

Nawaz was a successful young recruiter having created a cell of 10 in England, then recruiting 5 more in Denmark.

This former radical is a third generation Pakistani in England. His mother is a banker and his father a retired engineer. Growing up he thought of his religion as a "backward village religion," yet he was radicalized as a young man by a Party member who preyed on his identity conflicts - is he British or Moslem?

When he returned from the Egyptian jail he told his party, "I can't do this anymore." He is not sure of what they will do regarding his defection, but true believers generally like to kill their turn-coats. The group espouses non-violence, but operates in cells! I wish Mr. Nawaz luck.

A quote from a mission statement by the boss of the group:

...For over fifty years Hizb ut-Tahrir has continued on this political path despite the most violent of provocations . We have never advocated re-establishing the Caliphate in Britain but do strongly criticise capitalism and liberal democracy because of the perennial attempts to impose these systems upon the Muslim world, whether by force as in Iraq and Afghanistan, or by coercion attached to aid, loans, political and diplomatic pressure. [Their web site HERE]

I am sure there are many in those "liberal democracies" who avoid criticizing the group. After all it is politically correct to defend the rights of those who want to destroy you. This is especially true if they also hate Mr. Bush. As the Arabs say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In a previous blog, I quoted Carlos the Jackal who expressed the same reasons for using Islamic terrorists as a tool to spread socialist revolution, as though they could control a jihad.

Britain is catching on as there is a movement afoot to ban the group. We don't do that sort of thing, here, after all the U.S. is one of the few places left, as the Russian joke goes, where the Communist Party is legal. It is good not to "ban" any group, as that creates a sub rosa enemy; it is also good to trust in Allah, but first tie up your camel.

My bottom line is that all the white noise of politicians, talking heads and the NYT is of no use. There are things a leader can do, but the increasingly socialist West will not permit leaders to survive in tact. We like the kumbya approach to dealing with world events. If everyone wears crocs, the there will be no more war.

So, what is left is that ordinary people need to understand there is a battle of cultures, of beliefs and logic, afoot and that we are unarmed. We do not even understand our own system, having abandoned the study of civics and social studies. Why, some people think the states have granted to the federal government the power to create a national health system and no critic mentions this weird view! Our understanding of federalism has been purposely muddled in pursuit of national socialism for many years.

We need to understand there is an area to meet Islamic people and work out differences. If they, at least, saw that we are trying to figure out their problem and clear up any major miscalculations, that would help. Of course, they are right that our culture celebrates deviant behavior, child hookers, casual marriage, and self-absorption, so that will be a major problem. Perhaps, we can agree we need to fix ourselves, but that we believe spiritual repair comes from within, not from the sticks of the Taliban.

Short of engaging Moslem individuals, via media especially, the Islamic Governor Deans will continue to fan the embers of fear, hate, and ignorance in order to take control of their criminal enterprise.

It is on the grass-roots level of mutual education that we can avoid a field of battle, that we can suck the power away from the demagogues. Then again, we can't seem to even see them in our own country. We are in big trouble and everyone is looking in the wrong direction.