Between the Left and Islam, Can the West Survive?

 Andrea Widburg has noted that the West in general, and the United States in particular are under attack from two sources: the Left and Islam. She lays out her case at the American Thinker in a post entitled 21st-century Armageddon: Across the West, something evil this way comes. Each "religion" is using the other.  The Left is using Islam as its military wing and as foot soldiers, in addition to terrorist groups like Antifa.  Once in power, the Left plans to dispose of the Muslims.  Widburg's money though is on the Muslims.  For its part, Islam is using the Left's open borders and immigration policies to further its conquest of the whole world. Again, once they are in power, the godless Left can be disposed of.

For almost 2,000 years, the Christian faith has been the backbone of Western society. Growing from the Jewish Bible, the Catholic Church shaped Europe. Eventually, both the Catholic and Protestant faiths found their way to the New World, carrying with them the Bible and European values.

Although imperfect people often used Christianity for bad ends, it was still the moral force that led to a world where its respect for the individual led to unparalleled prosperity for all, along with previously unimagined safety and rights for women, children, and other vulnerable people.

Over the centuries, Christianity faced down Islam, which emerged from the Arabian desert in the 7th century. Unlike Christianity, Islam is doctrinally a religion of conquest. Christ advocated persuasion through words and deeds. It was human rulers who added conquest to the mix.

By contrast, the Koran, which represents the unchallengeable words of Mohamed, the “perfect man,” mandates that Islam’s believers strap on their swords (and, today, bombs and guns), and go forth and murder people into “submission.” It has a special animus for Jews, since they offended Mohamed by refusing to accept him as their messiah, but it’s very clear that, eventually, all must yield to its violent dictates.

Let's stop right there for a moment and note that we are actually talking about two very different gods, here. The God we read about in the Bible, YHWH, is the Christian God. Jews and Christians both worship YHWH. While He is no pacifist, he also does not condone murder, either on a personal level, or state sponsored. So Christian jihad is not in the cards.  Persuasion is.  At the same time, he insists on self defense and thus condones "just war." The Muslims' idea of convert or die is anathema to Him. By contrast, the god of Islam sanctions all sorts of behavior that YHWY finds abominable including pederasty, rape, stealing, murder and I could go on. I think it is fair to call Islam Satanic.

Just as Satan apes God, so Sharia is the ape of the just law of God. But Sharia is just a bunch of tribal rules writ large. Rape, raiding and murder of other tribes was just the norm in ancient Arabia, and these were rewritten as something you now do for your god. How great is that? And if you raid, and rape, and kill enough, you get 72 virgins who are ever new, and you will never tire out. How great is that? Islam is obviously a false religion, but its promise of infinite sex in the next life is enough to get men to kill and be killed.

Europe’s love affair with socialism started with the French Revolution, which was the antithesis of the American Revolution. The American Revolution enshrined individual liberty derived from a Biblical creator; the French Revolution was a ferociously anti-religious statism. The American Revolution created the most successful nation in history, a success Americans freely shared with the rest of the world. The French Revolution created...um, modern France.

Marx and Engels took socialism to the next level. They believed that an all-powerful state would eventually fulfill people’s material needs, allowing them to become their own gods, freed from the limitations of Biblical morality—a morality expressed in the Seven Noahide laws, the Ten Commandments, Jesus’s teachings, and Paul’s ministry. In the modern era, people are also being told that their state-derived god-like status will relieve them of the burdens of human biology itself.

Socialism, however, did not create Paradise. In the 20th century, it created 100 million dead in concentration camps, gulags, killing fields, battlefields, and the black hole of chronic poverty, starvation, and tyranny. It has never worked. But the true believers did something very clever: They gained access to the West’s media and education systems. And so, despite socialism’s unending list of failures, it has an equally unending source of acolytes.

All together, the United States is under extreme attack from Leftists, who advocate for criminals, illegal aliens, unlimited abortion, drug gangs, and on and on. Add to that we have now within our borders, indeed within our Congress itself, Muslims who advocate for the destruction of our laws in favor of their tribal laws. Can we survive? Ultimately, it is all in God's hands. Let us hope to be worthy of being saved, because we can not do it ourselves.