1 Oct 2007
Jason Pappas

 

First rate!

 

One of the reasons I’m not too upset over the lack of time to write on my blog is the sound and level-headed reasoning found here.

7 Oct 2007
Martin Penn
Brava, Mary Jackson. Couldn't agree more. As a regular reader of John Derbyshire's usually robustly conservative writings I felt some of his comments on Islam were disappointingly glib and frivolous. This barbaric religion really is the most dangerous thing we in the west have to face. Plus, the danger is not only the aggression of Islam itself but the complacency of fools in the west who surrender to it, make excuses for it and even defend it. Derb is no fool but in this case he deserves to wear the dunce's cap you've made for him.

7 Oct 2007
Norman Berdichevsky

Great article - wonderfully put and thanks for the reference to "Muhammadism".  I agree with you that we should fear the islamophobes as much as the anti-Semites. As a veteran anti-anti-Semite, I am glad to join the ranks of the islamophobophobes .

Norman  Berdichevsky

9 Oct 2007
alfred
Mr. Derbyshire's pusillanimity in the face of the Muslim menace lost its shock value long since. And this latest eructation of his challenges neither thought nor opinion of aware persons.

However, one may engage the imagination, contemplating his thrill of discovery and grinning self-congratulation at his invention of "Islamophobophobia."

Pathetic.

2 Dec 2007
David Donald

I do not think I have ever read a more accurate and succinct

elucidation of the moral and cultural problem with Islam.

                                                                             Sincerely DD

26 Jun 2009
Hesperado

"As an ideology, Islam promises an economic, political, social, and religious utopia when the world finally submits to Allah and the rule of Shari'a law. The Islamic objective is to have all aspects of a nation's culture and institutions undergo gradual Islamization to yield an Islamic state patterned after Shari'a Law."

It gets even worse than this description:  Islam is also intensely and fanatically and literalistically eschatological.  And so, the world conquest that is in their blueprint is an imperative not only for imperialistic expansionism, but also in order to usher in the Last Days, the Judgement, and the subsequent finalization of Creation in the disposition of all Unbelievers in Hell and all Believers in Paradise for eternity.

While of course this particularly dynamic is not monolithically pursued and obsessed about, it is, due to the far higher degree of fanaticism and literalism in Islamic culture, of great additional danger as an added impetus to their already deranged lust for domination -- astronomically worse than the dangers of apocalypticism among certain "fundamentalist" Christians which many atheists and liberals spend undue time and energy worrying about.

15 Apr 2010
EscapeVelocity

You hit it out of the park.  

I am not an Islamophobe, I am anti Islam.   And because Muslims are the carriers of the ideology, I am anti Muslim.  Just as I am anti Communist....not just anti Communism.  Without Muslims, Islam ceases to be problematic.  Not that genocide is the answer, but get rid of Muslims from the West and they become much less of a threat to our liberties and way of life, peace and tranquility.   Islam (and Muslims) should be contained in the areas where they are already a majority.  And the walls put up to protect us from the aggressive violent hostile totalitarian supremacists.