Send us your comments >> Tim Froehlke, USA: I appreciate the concise and clear summary of the problem in France. I am sad to have to agree with the conclusion of Mr. Pipe. There are two types of people in the world. Those who believe that there is a God, these are like one who wakes suddenly in the back seat of a speeding car. He looks in the front seat and sees someone he trusts driving the car and relaxes. The person who does not believe in God is like a person who suddenly wakes in the back seat of a speeding car and sees no one driving. He not only wants to take control of the car but demands that the government make safer cars as well as safer roads. Seeing no God, he projects himself into the role. People who claim that there is no God can be called secularists. Like an insurance agent, they see the universe as threatening and filled with potential harm. The universe seems scary unless it is controlled and the only tool they see that is available to control the universe is government. In a way government becomes part of their religious system. Since it becomes the source of their provision and protection it becomes viewed almost as a holy temple. They view even a marginal Christian or Jewish leader like a Muslim would welcome a truck load of pigs in Mecca. The god of the secularists is government and the holy work is political activism. When Christians and Jews (all too infrequently) follow their book, the world is a better place (They have a God they can trust). When Muslims (all too frequently) follow their book, the world is a worse place (they have a God they have to appease). Islam is works based. You get to heaven by what you do. One problem with works based religions is that you can never be sure how much is enough. Islam has the feature of guaranteeing heaven to those who die killing unbelievers. One reason that the liberal press does not want an accurate assessment of Islam is that the evil of a demonic religion by contrast points to the value of the Christian and Jewish religion. Since the liberal press are agents of their own religion of secularism, they do not want to elevate anything that would compete with their own faith. Secularism is the religion of man in general and self in particular. They view themselves as evolved beyond religion and having pushed aside Christianity (from which it sprung) so easily, it thinks everything will fall its way with enough education. This arrogance is blinding Europeans (where secularism is the major religion) to the danger of Islam. Their culture is being taken over in front of them and they will never recognize it. The self-appointed liberal elite of America fawn after the elite of Europe and like them welcome Islam, because they feel they will be able to "educate" people away from Islam, just like they did Christianity. Once we recognize the "three way" religious war we are in, it becomes much easier to understand current events. Jorge Ruiz, Spain: Al-France will never accept the problem is with the Muslims. Its the third generation of Muslims and they are still talking about integration. Jihad is already in Europe, and Europeans, as usual, don t want to wake up from their Chamberlainian dream. But Europe is not innocent, at least France, whose right-wing party is the brother party of the Baaz, Syrian fascists and Palestinian terrorists and whose left-wing venerates Islam because its a revolutionary religion ( anti-America, anti-Israel and anti-Western). As the president of Algeria Houari Boum dienne said in the UN General Assembly 30 years ago: Un jour, des millions d'hommes quitteront l'h misph re sud pour faire irruption dans l'h misph re nord. Et certainement pas en amis. Car ils y feront irruption pour le conqu rir. Et ils le conquerront en le peuplant de leurs fils. C'est le ventre de nos femmes qui nous offrira la victoire . That day is today. Stephen Asbel, Media: France has demanded for years that Israel must appease Arab terrorists by creating a new Arab state expected to be called "Palestine." France was among the nations cheering the loudest for Sharon's unilateral handover of Gaza to the Arab Palestinians where Hamas terrorists now have free reign. If France applies to itself the same sense of "logic" that it tries to impose upon Israel, France should see that it has a serious problem with demographic trends that will eventually leave white ethnic French a minority in their own country and conclude that to maintain a viable French state, France will have to "disengage" from those areas with high populations of Arabs and other Muslims. This new 23rd or 24th Arab Muslim state could be called a number of things such as "Paristine" as suggested by Joseph Farah or as someone else suggested, "Franckenstine." Ernest S. Geskin, Florham Park, USA: As usually Pipes gives a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the crises. Comments:
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