This is an eclectic collection of articles/blogs that range from erudition to nescience, from absolute greatness to incredible idiocy.
That one person could wander through so many subjects, and have insufficient knowledge on some of them to even write on the subject is only fascinating in the abstract, for there are serious subjects in here that demand far better information and knowledge, as well as analysis and opinion. It is unsubstantiable opinion, above all else, that rules this book and his second book,
How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)
, and that do a great deal of damage to the serious knowledge that is require to make great decisions.
He argues that most of the casualties in our Civil War came after the South had lost, i.e. after Gettysburg. How could the South know that Sherman would be so successful, and that his success would elect Lincoln instead of McClellan in 1864? If no Sherman's march, McClellan wins, and the South is independent still today. So, to let Spengler critically analyze anything is to sprinkle vapid and shallow on the subject. Spenglers time machine is broken, and his crystal ball is opaque.
Spengler criticizes Robert Spencer, and I presume, silently, others, for "pointing to the violent passages in the Qur'an." He also points out that Christianity and Judaism have a violent past, pointing to Dueteronomic injunctions, Charlemagne and the Saxons, and the Cathers.
By Spenglers analysis, Mein Kampf was a silly little book that inspired no one. A few idiots almost accidently, just because, wiped out 6 million Jews, and started the bloodiest short war in human history. For Churchill to have used Mein Kampf in his attempts to arouse the British in the 1930's must have been foolish. Just because Hitler said what he was going to do, put it in writing, and spoke about it constantly, and then actually did his best to live up to his own statements, must have been an accident. We needed to analyze each and every Nazi individually, because there were so many wonderful, peaceful Nazis that everyone wanted to have one for their neighbor. Its not the Nazi beliefs, ideals and values, it s how individuals acted.
So, every Jew should be Moses, and have the Levites kill those that aren't true believers. Every Jew should wipe out their friends of another tribe, like Americans, just like they did with the Midianites, just because they are not Jews. Wiping out all the other tribes, Ammonites, Moabites, Gileadites, Caananites, etc., etc., could be horrid., but even if one assumes the worst, as Spengler must believe, rather than that these folks all lived in irremediable sin, the point is that all the folks that the Jews were commanded to kill and conquer are all dead and gone. This was circa 1500 BC to 1000BC. Jesus came along 1000 plus year later and preached "turn the other cheek". Muhammad came along, 600 years after Jesus, and Allah preached Sura 9.5, "Kill the Unbelievers wherever you find them..." It's like Islam went back in time to before Abraham, and preached to just fight endless wars with endless slaughter everywhere with everyone, forever.
The folks that Allah and Muhammad command to be killed and subjugated, are Christians, Jews, Polytheists (Hindus, Buddhists, etc.), atheists, in general all non-believers. We are all still around. Moses and Joshua weren't commanded to kill everyone in the entire world through to today unless they converted to Judaism. If that was the case, the Jews in David and Solomon's time would have gone to war with Egypt, and everyone else, forever, as the Wahhabis (Salafists) did from the time they were founded. The Wahhabis are also still around.
Perhaps apocryphally, after WWII, a concentration camp survivor was asked what he had learned. He said, "If someone says he want to kill you, believe him." So now, if someone's god says he want to kill you, maybe, just maybe, we should pay some attention to that.
We, the Western World, said, after World War II, that if someone wrote a book, and someone followed the commandments of that book, then we needed to act like we should have in 1932, or 1935, or 1937. 20-20 hindsight vision is easy, applying this to the future is difficult, but the book is the Qur'an, the author is Allah, or Muhammad, and the followers are Muslims, or Islamists or IslamoFascists, or IslamoNazis.
Winston Churchill was right about the Nazis, and ahead of his time. Winston Churchill was right about Soviet Communists, and ahead of his time. Churchill was right about the IslamoNazis, and ahead of his time by our standards.
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries... The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property<either as a child, a wife, or a concubine must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men....but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith."
Christianity, by its most basic precepts, the New Testament, is, if anything, a pacifistic religion. Turn the other Cheek, etc. There is nothing within Christian teachings that made Charlemagne kill Saxons if they didn't convert, but there is in the Qur'an for Muslims to act so, as they did in Afghanistan and India, as well as throughout every land they conquered. It is called the Hindu holocaust for a reason, and it killed 10 to 15 times as many Hindus as Hitler killed Jews. The Islamists arms were so tired of beheading Hindus, 100 million Hindus later, that they informally admitted them to the Sura 9:29 "People of the Book" category, and allowed them to live in submission, paying the Jizya, just like Coptic Christians in Egypt today.
Certainly the Crusades were a valid Western Civilization response to 400 years of unrelenting Jihad, but it was a perversion of Christianity, an incorporation of Islamic rules, temporarily, just to be able to survive, that made it a Crusade.
Emperor Heraclius, circa 622AD, started the first "Crusade". He couldn't convince his soldiers that this was a civilizational survival fight against the Persian Sassanids. Therefore, he commandeered the Churches riches, put them to great civilizational surviving secular work, and perverted Christianity to make this a Holy War against the Zoroastrian fire worshippers who were out to destroy Christianity. He was also a great trainer of men, a great general, and a great leader. He needed more, and the Holy War fervor gave him that. Without such, the empire would have vanished. Choices are choices, and Heraclius chose survival, rather than extinction.
Edward Gibbon, author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, believed that the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire had a great deal to do with the continued decline and fall. He believed that Christianity sapped the vitality out of folks and turned them into lambs for the slaughter. He is partially correct.
Matthew 10:34 is the most violent verse, by far, in the New Testament. "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I came not to send peace, but a sword.". The only other real world violence is on the Mount of Olives when Jesus re-attaches the ear that a sword, misused, cut off. Just because some folks perverted Christianity, while other folks followed the Jihad perfectly does not make Islam and Christianity comparable.
Of all the Terrorist attacks since 1970, minus the Tamil Tigers, one or two have been by Jews, one or two have been by Christians, and 10,000 plus have all been by Muslims. The Muslims shout Allahu Akbar, i.e. they are following the commandments of Allah and Muhammad. The Christians and Jews do not do it because God told them to do so, they are just sick people.
It took centuries of theological debate before Christianity rationalized self-defense, articulated as "just war". Jihad almost became the sixth Pillar of Islam, and Islam is the single bloodiest political ideology that has ever stalked the earth, killing more non-Muslims than the entire 20th century killed, period.
I have read Mein Kampf. I have read 8 different translations of the Qur'an. The Center for the Study of Political Islam states that the Qur'an has, quantitavily over twice as much hatred for Jews in it as Mein Kampf does. They say the Qur'an has qualitatively, infinitely greater hatred in those passages than Mein Kampf does. My analysis, before I ever heard of the CSPI, absolutely agrees with them. There is also far more, and far greater, hatred of Christians and other non-Muslims in the Qur'an than there is for untermenschen in Mein Kampf.
Spencer points out the evil that is the Qur'an so that non-Muslims can understand the level of hatred that Islam has for them, and the ill treatment that is in store if Muslims become a functional majority in a Western Civilization culture. For Goldman to criticize Robert Spencer is very unbecoming, and does a great deal of damage to those of us that are trying to save the world, and the USA, from Islam.
The Crusades were a perversion of Christianity, but Jihad is true Islam.
So the USA went on Crusade, a Crusade in Europe, in WWII, in the words of Dwight Eisenhower. But when George Bush used the same analogy after 9/11, ie a USA Crusade, not a Christian Crusade, he was chastised with lies by the Islamists and their apologists, like Bill Clinton
But, Islam can go on permanent Jihad and that's just Ok with almost everybody. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the current head of the Muslim Brotherhood, has stated: "The civilizational-jihadist process...is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and `sabotaging' its miserable house...so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." Hitler never said anything better!
Spengler criticizes Obama endlessly, and that is all great, but he says he is not a Muslim. How would Spengler know? I would suggest reading my reviews of the two books,
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
and
The Audacity of Hope Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
, by Barack Hussein Obama.
"China poses no strategic threat to the United States".
I presume he is talking about Taiwan!
American military estimates and wargames show that as the world is currently turning, China will be able to successfully deny the US access to the Western Pacific, forcefully, by the early 2020's. Nice, hegemonic military buildup, China!
They are serial currency manipulators, eating us for lunch, riding us hard, and putting us away wet every day! China kept our P-3 in early 2001. They support Iran and its nuclear program as they do with North Korea. They were an enormous aid to Pakistans' nuclear bomb and missile programs. They block every UN vote we support. They are buying up 100% of the critical mineral rights and supplies around the world. Nickel, Magnesium, the rare earths, everything you need to build electronics, hi-tech devices, and all kinds of military stuff. Their desire is to be the OPEC of the world for all of this stuff, to our great demise. And they are making great progress. If there ever is a shooting war, it will have to be a short one, for our military industry won't be able to make squat with zero materials. They are constantly running cyber attacks on the US, our government, industrial, and military databases and systems.
A Christian China will be not be our friend any more than Christian Nazi Germany was!
China poses a clear and present strategic threat to the United States!
On balance, this book has done far more harm than good. It should be consigned to the ignorant and foolish trashbin of history.
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