Islam is world’s primary threat

Plenty of threats face mankind.  There’s global warming to be concerned about, there’s poverty, there are dangerous diseases and so on.

Two threats particularly concern me, because they directly threaten civilisation. Civilisation is, of course, important to quality of life. It is fragile and it has taken centuries to build. If it goes, a lot of people go with it. These two threats are decadence in the West and rise of Islam.

Islam is a quasi-religious political ideology that would happily address this first problem by converting us all, but the system itself is based upon myth, bad reasoning, suppression of curiosity and primitive notions of morality.

The same may be said of the Bible, of course. Liberals seem to think they are enlightening people like me when they announce this to “combat” my concern over the Qur’an – but the only reason I don’t mention it is that it is old news and largely irrelevant.  They are not observing the big picture. The Bible is indeed based upon the same principles, but Christianity is much further along the curve than is Islam. In many European countries it is now largely ignored. It still (wrongly) has its privileges but it’s just considered a sort of quaint side-show. People dressing weirdly, not getting married, coming out with platitudes – they’re ignored. That’s great – that’s the way it should be.

There’s the radical Christian right in America, but even they don’t have the same relish for death that Muslims have. And another key difference: if one of them kills in the name of their religion you can be sure many others will condemn that. We might even be glad of the Christian right in the medium term, because in many European countries atheism has sadly (and completely unnecessarily) gone hand in hand with apathy and decadence. We might rely on these people – who at least believe in something, and something less dangerous than Islam – to bail us out. Of course I am not excusing their ludicrous superstitious beliefs, merely asserting them to be the lesser of two “evils”.

James Kirchick discusses the difference between the Christian fundamentialists and Islam, saying:

“Speak of the disproportionately violent strain in Islam to a “progressive” person and you’ll be met with sneering recitations of millennia-old Christian crusades or Jewish settlements in the West Bank. As for conservative Christians’ contemporary political endeavors, lobbying to ban the teaching of evolution in schools or forbidding same-sex marriage simply does not threaten society in quite the same way as the genital mutilation of young girls or the bombing of the London transit system.

I happen to support a legal regime that would, in Bill Clinton’s famous words, keep abortion safe, legal and rare. I hold no brief for the religious right, and its views on homosexuality in particular offend (and affect) me personally. But it’s precisely because of my identity that I consider comparisons between so-called Christianists (who seek to limit my rights via the ballot box) and Islamic fundamentalists (who seek to limit my rights via decapitation) to be fatuous.”

The Christians can be dangerous. But it’s written into the Qur’an to convert or kill infidels – and Islam, often characterised in evolutionary terms as at the “stroppy teenager” stage, is spreading fast, getting the rights it demands and threatening the otherwise relatively civilised cultures who willingly act as its hosts.

Christianity was on the decline, at least in the UK. Let’s not see it replaced with this – because if that does happen we’ll find ourselves thrown back into the Dark Ages. And then, believe me, matters such as global warming and the plight of whales will be the last things on your mind. You’ll be more concerned with whether you’re allowed to even think freely.